The Peoples Voice. (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 50, Ed. 1 Friday, July 10, 1896 Page: 1 of 8
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Hikokk the law was written down with
PUMNMHI or with I en ;
Before the law made citizen*. the moral
law made men.
Law stand* for human rights. but whea
it faiUtho e rights to give.
Then let law die. my brother, but let hu>
man beings live.
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"Our Republic can only exist
so Long as its citizens respect
and obey their self imposed laws."
Labor T.s The Parent Of Capital, Encourage Labor, and You Build Up Capital
VOL 4.
NORMAN, CLEVELAND COUNTY OKLAHOMA, FRIDAY. .11'LY10, 18%.
NO 50
FAltMKK JONES' VALKlMCTOItY.
'11/ELL, durn my cats, by gorry, if I ever knew afore
" How many friends the farmer's jot, and still a gettin' more!
I was out the uther uight tu hear the goldbug Harvey speak,
An' atter he had talked awhile I tell you I felt meek,
I've said some awful things about that rotten goldbug crew,
But, Dan, by jingo, it seems they live tu work for me an' you.
It seems if 'twernt for chaps like us, they'd let the hull thing go ; *
An' it's jes' to save our farms an' sich, they work for honest dough;
'I hey say that old Democracy has been our truest friend,
An' that she's goin' to slay by us clean tu the bitter end,
An' that she's alers been fur dough that's safe an' shore an' sound,
An' swear by all that's holy that silver should be free;
Thet ever since Methuselah monopolized old age
It's been the leadin' policy of every noted sage;
Thet Madison an' Jefferson an' clear on down the line,
Would come out every 'lection year an' cut a monkey shine;
An' talk about the panic as 'ml come as shore as fate,
If they ever changed the dollar from its old time honored weight;
An' then tell how each honest chap with silver on the brain
Is try in' fur to save this land with all his might and main,
An' says that old Democracy has stood the test for years,
For each faction uses that 'ar words tu wake the hoodlum cheers.
An' so there's not a party, Dan, but loves us fit tu kill.
They've alers stood beside us, an'll stand beside us still,—
But I've somehow been'a learnin', in spite of all they say,
With 'sperience for my teacher, an' it don't pan out that way;
An' I've about decided when the leaders can't agree
Thet thar's devilish little showin' fur a simple chap like me.
Besides the grand old parties, thet hev stood by us so long,
Hevseen the poor grow weaker, an' hev seen the rich grow strong;
An.' they've howled "give us protection" fur the manufacturin' clan,
An' we'll let the laborer whistle an' do the best he can.
I've been forty years a waitin' fur them chaps tu help me through
An' by gosh. I'm goin' to quit 'em, an' I think you'd better, too,
Fur I tell you 5-cent cotton makes a mighty sorry crop—
An', Dan, dad gast my buttons, ef I ain't done turned a Pop.
If So, Why So ?|
Have the leaders of the Republic,
an party been wilfully, maliciously
and feloniously lying to the people
for the last twenty years when they
contended that the Republican par-
ty was in favor of the restoration of
the coinage laws as they existed pri-
or to 1873, or has the Republican
party changed its position on this
paramount issue of the century? If
the party leaders were lying when
they claimed to be for the double
standard, how can any honest man
associate with such an unscrupulous
band of conspirators against the
rights of the people? If the leaders
of the Republican party were telling
the truth with regard to the position
of their party and the party has
changed front, why did they do so?
What reasons have they assigned
for the change? Why is gold mono-
metallism better today than it was
in 1892? Has anything occurred in
the meantime to show the beneficial
effects of the gold standard? On
the contrary, was there ever three
years in the history of this country
as disastrous as have been the three
years now last past? It is true that
the Republicans in the two houses
of congress aided Mr. Cleveland in
his nefarious work of robbing the
people of a circulating medium and
loading the country with debt, but
their action was in contravention of
the declarations of the party in its
platforms since the crime of 1873
was perpetrated. We call attention
to the fact that the party this time
in convention assembled has en-
dorsed the act of John Sherman in
smuggling the mint bill through con-
gress demonetizing silver; and has
also endorsed Cleveland's raid on
the treasury in 1893, whereby a
panic-stricken people were forced
to repeal the only law which recog-
nized silver as money and endorse
the infamous act of 1873.
The Republican party stands be-
fore the world declaring that its
bimetallic doctrines were false, de-
claring that Sherman was right in
demor izing silver, declaring that
Cleveland was right in producing
the panic of 1893 and in compelling
congress to repeal the purchasing
clause of the Snernian act, declar-
ing that Cleveland's policy of load-
ing the country with debt in time of
peace to maintain the gold standard
is a cardinal principle of the Re-
publican party. Do the leaders of
the Republican party think that the
American people have changed?
Every verdict for the last twenty
years which the people have record-
ed by their votes in presidential
campaigns has been in favor of the
double standard. The combination
of monopolists, of national banks,
of the press, with Wall and Lom-
bard streets have now thrown off
the mask and proclaimed for the
single gold standard. Will the peo-
ple reverse their judgments solemnly
rendered for the last twenty-five
years because the conspirators and
stock jobbers who control .Vail and
Lombard streets have thus decreed?
Time will tell.—Silver Knight.
The Pronperlty McKinley Prom-
ixe*.
The sphinx has spoken. Hanna
has allowed McKinley to open his
j mouth and pray for the good old
I times of 1892. It is remarkable that
he should refer to the very year in
j which the people repudiated Mc-
Kinleyism, kicked goldite Harrison
out of the White House, and were
j so utterly disgusted with things that
j they returned to the Stuffed Prophet
of Buffalo as "the dog is turned to
1 his own vomit again, and the sow
that was washed to her wallowing in
the mire." The following are some
of the things which occurred in the
year to which McKinley points as
the goal to which he would lead all
the people he can humbug :
In 1892 there were 10,270 business
failures in the United States, with
liabilities of 5108,595,248. In 1893,
before the McKinley law was re-
pealed the business failures num-
bered 15,508, with liabilities of S382,-
Most of these failures are
by the mercantile agencies ascribed
to "disaster." What disaster? The
foolish and almost criminal attempt
of Harrison and McKinley to make
a single gold standard and a high
protective tariff go hand in hand.
In the same year to -vhich Mc-
Kinley looks back so lovingly and
regretfully, 1892, there occurred
1,298 strikes, affecting 5,540 estab-
lishments, throwing 206,671 men out
of employment, all caused because
men could not get living wages un-
der McKinleyisni.
One of these struggles of laboring
men to get a fair day's wage for a
long day's toil was the Homestead
strike, during which the brother-
workers of those whom McKinley
now attempts to delude were shot
down like dogs by Pinkerton's Re-
publican hired Hessians.
Wheat fell to 69^0, the lowest
price until then since the war with
the exception of one day during the
panic in August, 1887, when it
touched 66f^c. The export price
of cotton was 8.7 cents, the lowest
price until then since the war. This
is the record taken from the United
States reports of the year 1892,
which McKinley calls prosperous.
—Silver Knight.
The Debtor Class.
With this nation, scarcely a hun-
dred years from its birth, and its
boasted equal rights for all, and its
carefully worded and eloquent Dec-
laration of Independence and the
purpose to keep clear of the oppres-
sion and war of the old dead nations
of Europe, it sounds strange to hear
such expressions as the "creditor
class," the "debtor class," and
"poor," etc., to the end of the chap-
ter. Every poor vain speck of dust
called a man, if he gets hold of a
solemn and self-sufficient air, and
talks about the "upper class."
Hums says:
Uphold that poor « 'er labored wight, so abject,
inunn mikI vile;
He a brother of Him earth to give him
lease to toll,
Ami ttee hi* haughty fellow worm, the |k or
petition spurn,
Unmindful, though h weeping wife and help-
Icsm offa^ilng mourn.
One fact above all others is be-
fore us. With only 120 years of
national existence on the richest and
most favored spot on earth for a
great people, witlnjincomparably the
greatest resources for wealth of any
equal territory on earth, we are con-
fronted with the fact. We have over
90 per cent of our population in the
debtor class, largely forced there by
laws framed in the benefit of the
creditor class and that they might
get rich, for what are the mud-sills
in the ages of the vastly rich aris-
tocrats of the day, but to help them
get rich? What rights have they in
the question which rich men are
bound to respect? What rights have
they to question the dictates of
Wall street? Why not bow down at
once to the gold platform and like
true slaves obey their masters?
We, the bankers, are turning the
world's immense business on a pivot
of gold, and now come the silver lu-
natics and want to enlarge the foun-
dation, and give the people a
chance, when all is confusion, look
out there you are going to break the
the machine and smash our gold
idol into a thousand atoms. Let
debtor class arise and act and think
and vote their convictions. Never
mind any past party lines, break
loose and be free. You have as
good right to your opinion as any
other man. Don't be deceived.
Don't be "educated" by lies and
sophistry to vote any ring of gold
politicians into power again. God
demands justice for the poor and
oppressed. Stand firm, and truth
and peace and prosperity will pre
vail once more. Don't be alarmed
over the cry about a fifty cent dol-
lar; any dollar is only worth what
the law says it is. All cheap talk is
dishonest sophistry.—I. M. Aikin, in
Industrial News.
The editor of the State Capital I not make some of those eastern
should mail a few copies of his pa-
per to Senators Teller, Duboise,
Cannon, and other Republican lead
ers, who have interpreted the St.
Louis platform to mean aCcontinua
tion of "the present gold standard,"
and consequently have bolted the
party. We have no doubt in our
mind if they could only see Greer's
elucidation of the Republican mon-
ey plank, they would see as clearly
as he does that the said plank means
bimetallism, though it says "the
present gold standard." It is time
a man with an X ray should bt un-
able to discover any bimetallic
meaning in the St. Louis platform;
but the X ray has not the penetrat-
ing power of Frank's instinct. The
editor of the Capital knows that the
people of this territory are for bi-
metallism, and unless they can be
made to see that the Rep. platform
means bimetallism it is, "Good bye,
Katy, close the door," for that party
in this territory, and it makes Greer
shudder to think of it; hence his de-
termination to have a bimetallic
construction put upon that platfoam
in this territory, although the men
who wrote the platform took par-
ticular pains, in the wording of the
same, to see that no bimetallic con-
struction could be placed on it.
It is amusing to hear the fellows
who have just got their eyes a bit
open howl at Populists for not fall-
ing down and worshipping the Dem-
ocratic party because it has declared
in favor of silver. They don't want
any "division of reform forces!"
They do not remember how Demo-
crats denounced and rotten-egged
reformers for asserting there existed
a conspiracy to enslave the people,
during the campaigns of 1892 3-4-5.
Populists cannot endorse the Demo-
cratic party, no matter what its
platform or whom its candidate,
and if they do it will repeat the his-
tory of the greenback movement,
which was taken in bv smocth plat-
forms and plausible old party lead-
ers advocating its principles until
the party was disorganized and dead,
and then laughing at their dupes.
Mtn who believe in the Democratic
party, after its infamous record of
Cleveland and other idols, who re-
fuse to join a party whose prin-
ciples it pretends to favor while op-
posing them in the past, are not re-
formers. They are chaff blown
about by every wind. There can
be no fusion of Populists and Dem-
ocrats with honor. If Democrats
believe in reform let them vote for a
reform party. It they don't, it
proves that they prefer McKinley
to reform, and if they get McKinley
and four years of "the existing gold
standard" prosperity, I think they
will have time and conditions very
conducive to crediting the men who
have stood for reform against all
odds, with having some knowledge.
There is no reform in such men as
Bland, Teller, Boies, et al. They
want no change except free coinage
—a mere putting things back to
years ago, when capital exploited
labor just as to-day.—Appeal to
Reason.
The Times-Journal man says that
it was Flynn's hard work that put
the Free Home bill through the
house—and the house was beastly
Republican. If it takes hard work
to get a free home bill through a
Republican house, the Republican
party is certainly not very strongly
in favor of free homes. As a mat-
ter of tact, it was Tom Reed, and
not Flynn, who secured the passage
of the bill through the house. The
free home bill was as dead as an
Egyptian mummy in the house until
Reed heard from the territory. We
are informed as soon as Reed
learned that the delegates from this
territory to the national convention
were for him, in case he should need
them, he told Flynn he would recog-
nize hitn and they would put the bill
through. This political move se-
cured to Flynn his renomination;
but it is most too transparent to
palm off on the settlers of this
territory as a good and sufficient
reason for re-electing him.
The Republicans of this territory
are trying to break into the Populist
henroost to steal the free home
rooster to put into their flock of
bantams. In 1892 the first free
home league in this territory was or-
ganized by Col. Crocker, a Populist.
To a Populist belongs the credit of
organizing the first movement
against the Republican laws that
compel payment for homestead
lands in this territory; and a Repub-
lican, had he the sensitiveness of a
cigar sign, would blush when mak
ing the assertion that the Republic-
ans are the original free homers in
this territory.
moneybags hide out.
The voter with a memory for past
promises or a reverence for antiquat
ed declaratious will miss them in
the Republican platform of 1896.
He will miss the striking truths and
emphatic denunciations against "un
just discriminations and excessive
charges" of the railroad corpora-
tions. He will miss the sympathetic
plank demanding a national bureau
for labor and supporting the eight-
hour law. In fact he will miss
those planks which really made Re-
publicanism a power and gave it the
strength of victory. Leaders have
changed and monopolists usurped
the functions of statesmen. The
partyism of the Republican hosts is
pledged against the labor which cre-
ates the country and should control
it, and enlisted in the cause of mil
lionaires and monopolists. — Mc-
Master's Weekly.
"An international agreement for
the larger use of silver is an irrides-
cent dream," says the Globe-Demo-
crat, of St. Louis, the leading west-
ern Republican newspaper. And
the Republican platform, on which
Dennis Flynn stands (when sober
enough to stand at all), demands
that we continue the present gold
standard until an international silver
agreement is secured !
Cleveland has secured an endorse-
ment from the Republican party,
and is indifferent as to what action
the Democratic party at Chicago
takes towards his administration.
The eastern goldbugs threaten the
country with one of the worst pan-
ics in our history if the free coinage
agitation is not stopped. The peo-
ple of the south and west have been
enjoying panicky times in a more or
less virulent form for the last thirty
years, and we miss our guess if the
next big panic in this country does
It must be comforting news to
the Republican farmer of,j this
county who is selling his oats for
2}4c, corn for 16c, and wheat for
40c per bushel, to be informed by
Republican politicians that the tar-
iff on these commodities, which is
20 cents a bushel, adds 20 cents to
the price. If it was not for the tar-
iff on these articles, he would have
to give A. B. about per bushel
to take his corn ! Oh, no, the tariff
isn't a humbug ! It enables the
Oklahoma farmer to dispose of his
oats and corn without paying any-
one something to take them ! The
tariff on hay is only #2 a ton, and
the price of hay is not high enough
to cover expense of shipping it to
Chicago from this county. Mark
Hanna should raise hay, and other
farm delicacies, instead of talking
tariff.
child from the clutches of the gold
standard bear would be foolish, in-
deed, if they turned it over to the
Democratic hyena. Like the emis-
saries of Herod they seek the child
to destroy it, not to nurture and
worship it.
Mr. Claphtni, living west of town,
shipped a carload of hay to Chica-
go, and it only cost him the hay and
#1.85 to get somebody up there to
to take it. Had it not been for the
ti per ton tariff on hay, he doubt-
less would have been forced to send
a $28 check along with the hay to
have had anyone at Chicago touch it.
I'he ex- county officials of this
county are now having their trial.
They have been longing for it a long
time. By paying the shortages rej
ported by the committee they might
have had the worry off their hands
some time ago, and from the way
things look now they might have
also saved costs and attorneys' fees,
Before the St. Louis convention,
the editcr of the State Capital ad-
mitted, thiough the columns of his
paper that the Republicans could
not, on a gold standard platform,
carry a single county in the terri-
tory. In view of this assertion we
are not at all surprised to find that
the editor of the Capital is using
nearly all of his space in trying to
convince his readers that the na-
tional Republican platform means
bimetallism. To admit that it
means a gold standard would be to
concede that the Republicans will
not carry a single county in the ter-
ritory. For once in the- history of
the Republican party, its national
platform on the money question is
too specific, too plain, to admit of
a bimetallic construction. It is
painful to see Greer squirming so,—
but the directions say, Take it.
We see local Democrats who less
than three months ago were radical
gold standard men, talking silver
with every one they can get to listen
to them. They would feign try and
make people believe they had al-
ways been free coinage men, when,
as a matter of fact, they have al-
ways been nothing, and out of
nothing nothing comes. Their chief
characteristic has atways been a
strong scent—after the pie counter.
They would be Populists were it not
for the fact that their hyena-like in-
stincts are too well known to the
members of that party. The Peo-
ple's party is composed of men pos-
sessing convictions of their own,
and poll parrots wearing pants are
soon recognized.
In nearly all the silver states of
the union the People's party was first
or second in the race two years ago
and the Democrats were third. The
People's party made its campaign
on the financial question, while the
Democrats worked the ' tariff." In
view of these facts it is supreme im-
pudence on the part of the Demo-
crats, to charge Populists with per-
fidy because the latter refuse to vote
for a free silver Democrat on the
Democratic ticket. The People's
party, after rescuing the free silver
Called to Meet in (iutliiie, Au-
Kiist 4th and 5tli, IStKl.
To the Populist Committeemen
AND voteus of oklahoma.
By the authority of the Territorial
Central Committee, I hereby call a
convention of delegates from the sev-
eral counties of Oklahoma to meet in
the McKennnn Opera House in
GUTHUIE, AUGUST 4th AND 5th.
For the purpose of selecting a Terri-
torial Committee consisting of one(i)
member from each county in Oklaho-
ma.
For the purpose of nominating a
Populist Candidate for Delegate to
Congress, and for the organizing and
establishing of ail necessary commit-
tees for the vigorous prosecution of a
congressional campaign.
Tile apportionment as fixed by the
committee is one (!) delegate from
each county and one (I) delegate for
every 7i votes and major fraction of 75
votes cast for Hon. italph Beaumont
for Congress at the general election of
1894.
It appearing that the congressional
vote of Washita County did not fairly
reflect the strength of the party in
that county as shown by the election
of several oouiity officers, 1 delegate is
added making live (5) delegates to be
elected from Washita county, subject
to the action of Territory convention.
On this basiB the representation will
stand as follows:
county. VOTK 114 no. delegates
Beaver
Blaine
Canadian
Cleveland
Day
D
G
Garfield
Grant
Greer
Kay
Kingfisher
Lincoln
Logan
Mills
Noble
Oklahoma
Pawnee
Payne
Pottawatomie
Washita
Woods
Woodward
73
474
f-
95a
27
108
161
1014
1025
soti
976
144.1
1137
1406
17
548
1204
<88
188T
1018
198
1415
140
12
14
o
a
8
15
15
12
14
20
16
20
17
8
18
15
5
20
3
Totals 16,774 251
In harmony with the above, the
Chairman of the County Central Com-
mittee of each and every county will
proceed to cause their respectivecoun-
ties to select the apportioned number
of delegates and an equal number of
alternates at such times and places as
in their judgment seems be t suited to
their convenience, allowing for suffi-
cient time for such delegates so elected
to arrange for attending the Territor-
ial Convention.
It is further recommended that each
County Central Committee as newly
organized, or that the above mention-
ed County Conventions, do select a
member of the Territorial Central
Committee who shall embody a good
degree of activity, political sagacity
and moral and social standing, which
name shall be reported to the Terri-
tory convention in the making up the
working committee for the next two
years.
Leo Vincent
John K. Furlonq, Ter. Ch'rui'u,
Secretary.
Cutbrie, Juue 13, 1896.
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