Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 3, 1900 Page: 3 of 16
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Thursday, May 3, 1900.
SOUTHERN MERCURY
A
pie's party now and henceforth is an
independent organization, that its pur-
pose is to drive from power the two old
parties which have ruined the country,
and to write upon the statute books
of the nation the great principles of
the Omaha platform. Never were our
chances for success more flattering and
never was there less chance of get-
ting what we want in the old parties.
The Populists are progressive and if
the combined wisdom of its member-
ship says other and still more advan-
ced principles should be added to our
platform it will be done, and there is
no occasion for any other new party.
The name may be changed, it may be
necessary to do this, certainly it is in
some states, but it will not be a new
party. It will be the same old flag
of reform, hoisted and unfurled to the
breeze almost a quarter of a century
ago. Raise the noble bamer high in the
air. Millions of people are loking for
it.^Voice.
* ONE WHO KNOWS HIM.
At one time Senator Allen was held
by all Populists in highest respect.
They were proud of him and delight-
ed to name him as an illustrious advo-
cate and defender of Populist princi-
ples. They had confidence in his lead-
ership. But a change came, a remark-
able change; and few Populists of the
present time regard him with feelings
of respect.. He has fallen from his
lofty pedestal, and those who once al-
most adored him now speak his name
in bated breath and tones of sorrow.
Why this change has come it is need-
less for us to say, as men of his own
state, men who have been perfectly fa-
miliar with him for years, have told
the world.
The following from the pen of J. K.
Stevens, of Nebraska, will be read
with interest:
There lives at Madison a man whom
tradition says for many long years
drew his chief inspiration from the
Republican party. Upon the bench as
a judge he is reputed to be conserv-
ative almost to a fault. As an office
seeker, or office holder, and manipula-
tor of the People's party for promo-
tion of his own (political aspirations,
he is said to be a hummer, a regular
Jo-dandy, from away back. He first
became known to fortune and to
fame in 1892, when he drove the first
nail into the People's party coffin by
effecting fusion with the Democrats in
twenty-third Nebraska legislature and
thus secured for himself the position
of United States senator for six years.
In 1898 the corn crop in the state went
Republican so far as the legislature
was concerned, and he resumed his
seat with the judicial woolssack by
grace of the man from Boone. But a
year later, several hundred erring far-
mers, with a zeal worthy of a better
cause, petitioned the governor to send
him back to the senate, and no doubt
they believe to this day that it was
done in consequence of their action;
and were I to tell them otherwise, most
of them would entertain red hot
thoughts of my immediate exterminar
tion.
Months ago the second fiddlers an-
nounced that this man must be elected-
ed by the coming legislature to anoth-
er term of six years in the senate. Al-
len is not and probably never was a
Populist in any true sense of the word,
even though he may think he is. He is
a Democrat, pure and simple, by every
instinct and practice, and after seven
years of opportunity in the federal con-
gress, if he has ever accomplished one
single true Populist reform, or made
any particular effort to secure the en-
actment into law of any of the great
principles of our party, I have failed
absolutely to note it, and will thank
him or any other man to point it out.
His practices have been largely those
of the bulldozer, and his efforts have
been chiefly directed toward fusion
with old moss-grown Democracy, all of
which practices and efforts are subvers-
ive of the tenets and cardinal princi-
ples of the People's party, and such be-
ing true, it follows as a logical sense
that he has done more than any other
man within the whole domain of Ne-
braska to destroy the farmers' party
and to defeat the objects and purpos-
es for which its organization was
brought about. That, too, "at a time
when the star of its destiny was shin-
ing as a beacon light half around the
world, and was giving light and hope
to millions of homes where poverty
and cruel want waged merciless
strife for the mastery. To defeat the
political objects for which a few thou-
sand old farmers may have banded
themselves together and to even rend-
er odious their organization as such,
may prove an easy task to the wily
politician. Such achievements have
been accomplished before. To even
lead well disciplined soldiers into the
camp of the enemy by their command-
ing officers, is sometimes possible, but
there comes a time when cool, calculat-
ing thinking, thinking, is done; when
it is a battle of life or death to keep
the gaunt form of the wolf from the
broken window pane; when the wife
and children, clothed in rags, are in
absolute want—think you, then, man
will not
Loathe you with his bosom
And scorn you with his eyes?
Taunt you with his latest breath
And despise you till he die?
" Whom the gods would destroy they
first make mad." It is a part of the
history of all ages that sordid ambi-
tion culminated in a rebllion in heaven
and Lucifer, the chief captain, was
hurled over its celestial battlements to
the depths of the darkest and deepest
hell.
Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve fa
vored men of earth, chosen by the
great Economist himself, and deemed
worthy to walk with God, betrayed his
benefactor into the hands of the ene-
my through an ambition which knew
no redeeming trait, except it be that
he straightway went and hanged him-
self.
Benedict Arnold was once respected,
honored and esteemed by all men, and
attested his loyalty to his country's
cause with his blood upon more than
one battlefield; but ambition enveloped
him in its slimy embrace and he lived
a life of shameful remorse, and died
an outcast, without home or country,
despised, shunned, and abhorred by
men.
Ambition knows no limits, brooks no
restraints, and like the deadly upas
tree, withers and blights by its scorch-
ing and deadly fumes all animate na-
ture that comes within its domain. In
the main, the history of the ages is a
history of crime so damnable as could
only emanate from fiends and devils,
yet men whose hands were red with hu-
man gore believed they were obeying
God's will by deluging the earth with
fraternal blood.
Through the lapse of centuries and
by means of the evolution of the ages •
man apipears to have ascended to a
slightly higher intellectual and moral
plane, and finds confronting him to-
day the stern necessity of constant
economic, social and ethical reforma-
tion. In matters of political economy
or civil government, no functionary
owns or should control the masses.
They should control and dictate his
policies at all times. But when this
can no longer be done, his services
should be dispensed with. Just think
for an hour what is meant in this
country by the phrase^-" a government
for, of, and by the people"; and ask
yourself then, as an honest man and
intelligent citizen, have we such a
government? If not, why not?
Now, dear brother, don't hide in the
brush, because in my next letter I
shall begin here and shell the woods,
and you may get behind the wrong
stump.—J. K. Stevens in our Prairie
Home.
ment. Judging the future by the past
we can hardly see how the Echo man
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WON'T WORK.
The Enid Voice (Okla.) seems to
have a virgin and a vigorous intuition,
for it gets at the fusion matter with
surpassing accuracy. In speaking of
the late fusion convention held at
Enid it says: "The Populist territorial
convention, called for the purpose of
electing six delegates to the National
Populist convention, which meets at
Sioux Falls, May 10th, met this morn-
ing in the opera house. The purpose
of the Pop National convention is to
play the first E string to a second fid-
dle in the nomination of Bryan in the
hopes of rushing in on President Bry-
an for the loaves and fishes at his dis-
posal; then again they will attempt to
persuade the democratic convention to
swallow their candidate for vice pres-
ident." Great scheme the fusionists
have under their hat; but it wont
work we fear. Democrats themselves^
can occupy all the space around a pie
counter and kick the face off the fu-
sionists that are under the counter on
all-fours attempting to gather up the
crumljs."
This convention was not all one
way, for, the true Populists, moved by
the spirit of honesty and truth, did
just what loyal, good men should al-
ways do. They rose above the illusions
of pie counter politics and boldly de-
clared for manly and faithful adher-
ence to principle and political morality
and did a noble thing, separated them-
selves from the workers of iniquity,
preferring to perish, if need be, in the
way of righteousness rather than ban-
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All applaud the sagacious remarks of
the Peoples Voice so forcibly set forth
in the following: "The editor of the
Enid Echo thinks tha
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