Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1891 — AS IMMATURE POLITICAL MOVEMENT [ARTICLE]

AS IMMATURE POLITICAL MOVEMENT

The platform of the People’s Party shows that it is chiefly nn expression of discontent, not a marshalling of intelligent forces for a definite purpose. Conspicuous

citizens, statesmen, familiar political leaders, and profound constitutional lawyers unitecMn the formation of the party. But the late Cincinnati Convention contained no prominent citizen, nobody who can be called a leader or a representative of anything but dissatisfaction, and a vague hope of something better than the existing situation. It' proposed nothing which was apparently “thought out jor which at once commends itself to the average good sense of the country. The movement is evidently immature.- — Harpers? Weekly. * Y