People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1897 — Where Theory and Practice Join. [ARTICLE]

Where Theory and Practice Join.

Editor Pilot:—l received a copy of. you paper, The People’s Pilot. The editorial, “Factional Populism.” is all right. I hasten to endorse it. It is too early to commence fighting over policies. I firmly believe that a majority of us will do (when the time comes to act) just what is best for us to do. We will be guided by national conditions at the time. Our middle- of-the - road friends are mistaken. They have lost the road and taken to a byway. The middle-of-the-road is now, and has always been, at that point where principle and policy meet, or where theory and practice join. The great body of democracy is now ready to help us put our money theories into practice and there are a million Populists anxious to have them do so. We are in the middle of the road. Yours truly, Andrew Shearer. Frankfort, Kan., Mar. 14th.