People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1895 — Senator Peffer’s View. [ARTICLE]

Senator Peffer’s View.

Senator Peffer, in an interview with the Washington Post, says: “I take it that the republicans will elect both a president and house of representatives. Then their troubles will begin. They will soon be in the same predicament of the present administration. A breaking up is sure to come; it may be we will see a collapse of both the old parties before 1900. A great deal depends on the action of the incoming congress. I think it quite possible that legislation will be passed withdrawing the greenbacks and treasury notes from •circulation and funding them in a bond

Issue. If such a policy Is to be pursued. the sooner it Is effected the better and the sooner will the voice of the people be heard. In a few years more the conflicting elements in the old parties will separate for all time. About 75 per cent of the democrats who believe in free silver and equal treatment of both metals will break away from their plutocratic gold-standard coadjutors in the east About 25 per cent of the republicans will do the same thing. These seceders will go over en masse to the populists. It’s easy to predict what will be the result. The populists will come into control in every branch of the government and it will be administered in the interest of the people and not of the Shyiocks and speculators.”