Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1894 — Is Populism Drifting Towards Anarchy? [ARTICLE]

Is Populism Drifting Towards Anarchy?

Editor Republican:—On last Sunday evening, according to the daily papers, John Swinton addressed a Peoples Party meeting, arid amongst the other things he said “It is not improbable that the next President of the United States may be a Populist.” He said “ New York is the most despicable city in the world.” Whj/ is it that this has always had a bad reputation, so far as progress of liberty and the rights of men * arefconcerned?

In the Revolutionary war it was the last city to be cleared of the tories; in the civil war it was the hot-bed of secession and in the present conflict for the emancipation of labor and the recognition of the rights of men it is a thousand years behind London. There is more misery in New York to-day, than in any city on the globe. Why do not the people rise? • , We have as our President a fat butcher. No butchery by any im» -penial leader was ever greater or more brutal than that which Grover Cleveland caused to be done by national troops in Indiana and Illinois. Why do not people vote themselves out of purgatory? I say to-night to oppressed and down trodden humanity of this country, vote yourselves, the plunder ot the Vanderbilts and the Goulds.”

“Are the workingmen crazy? It, would seem so. With the power of voting themselves anything and everything in the world, I suppose they will walk to the polls as* usual and vote to continue in a slavery that is worse than death. God help them this winter for it is going to be one of awful distress.” He suggested the name of Gov. Altgeld for Populist candidate for President in 1896. It is said that the speeches of Hon. Philip Rappaport were about as rabid as they well could be. Is the Peoples Party drifting into communism and anarchy? It looks like ity Do patriotic, home loving and God fearing people accept such doctrine? If they do they will soon have more than a Debs Insurrection.

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“how can we face the people AFTER INDULGING IN SUCH OUTRAGEOUS DISCRIMINATIONS AND VIOLATION OF PRIVCIPLE?” —Cleveland’s letter to Wilson on the Senate bill.