The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-10-27
BRYAN A POPULIST.
WILL SERVE HIS COUNTRY UNDER
THE PEOPLES PARTY BANNER.

, The Eloquent Young Nebraskan Declares
Himself In q Ringing speech-How tho
Two Old Parties Are Ruled In Nebraska.
There win Be Hard Fight.
The Nonconformist's Lincoln CORE
spondent furnishes the following inter-
esting account of the Nebraska conven-
ton and the brave stand taken by Con-
gresham Bryan which has caused con-
siderable comment throughout the coun-
try:
The two old party conventions are over. The
Populist cause in this state is several thousand
votes stronger than before they were held.
Such machine rule and corporation domino
ton were never before witnessed, even in this
machine cursed state. Among the Democrats
the would be postmaster was the great mogul.
In the Republican convention the railroad cap
per was omnipotent.
The Democratic convention turned down
W. J. Bryan and Endorsed the administration.
It was done by q decisive vote-nearly three or
four to one. There were very few in the con-
vontion who did not admire, who did not al
most worship the brainy young orator from
the First district. But word had gone out from
Washington that the administration must be
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omceholder rushed in to represent the Demo-
cratic remnant, and it was done.
But after being defeated and insulted all
day by this gang Of craven towards it finally
same Bryan's turn. All day the galleries and
the crowd had been calling for him. At last
on . FREQ silver resolution he took the plat
form. Trembling with pent up indignation.
speaking with more than usual vehemence, he
gave that convention q castigation which no
person present will ever forget. It was short
speech. but more was hardly ever said in fewer
words. Among others occurred these SEN
fences: r.
IF l am wrong. will 60 down, and all tho
Endorsements and laudations in the world can
not keep me from it. But if am right, time
yet in spite of all of yoa."
Here is another:
If the Democratic party chooses to go with
Grover Cleveland to the gold standard, you will
have to 60 without me-"
And here is the most significant Of all:
IF by your actions you make it necessary,
will 60 out and serve my country and serve my
God under some other banner and under some
other name than that of Democrat"
All three of the state dailies the next morn
ing announced that Bryan had left the Demo-
cratic party. That is about the way we size it
up out here. Bryan has left the Democratic
party, and with him have left about 10000 to
AUsOOV OCuCI OoulOCIAI0, WHO 0x0 hooking IN
droves to the Populist camp.
The majority against Maxwell in tho Re-
publican convention was hardly so decided as
that against Bryan in tho Democratic, but it
was decisive enough to do the business and it
was decisive enough to knock few thousand
more votes into the Populist column.
Chief Justice Maxwell has standing as a
jurist all over the nation. But he dared to
stand out for his honest convictions; he dared
TO declare that 9 set of thieves had no right to
be state officers of Nebraska, and for that &C
ton the gang Of railroad cappers and ward
politicians that run his party defeated him for
q nomination. Old and venerable, he thought
Republicanism today meant what it did in tho
days Of Abe Lincoln, and that mistaken idea
caused his downfall. The Republican machine
has no use for honesty in the supreme court
Every man who ever dared to rise above par
tisanism into the realm of justice while sitting
upon that bench has been mercilessly slaugh-
tered in the succeeding Republican conven-
ton. 1t was so with Reese: it is so with Max
well.
There Is one mistake that our people have
fallen into before this year that they must now
avoid. 1t is overconidence. We have no walk
over. We have the hardest kind Of q fight.
The Republican nominee is personally q strong
candidate. The whole railroad force is massed
against US. The administration Democrats will
support the Republican nominee. We practi-
eyed forces to overcome. And when any Pop
ulist imagines that we can walk over this DOW
srful combination without the very hardest
work and without getting every voter to the
polls he will find himself terribly mistaken.
The Populists of Nebraska must win this
fall And in order to win they must waken
up. Judge Holcomb is not going to elect him
SELF The state central committee is not going
10 elect him.
The people must elect him, and in order to
do this every Populist must work night and
aAy until the close of the polls.
J. A. EDGERrON.
Following is an editorial from The
Nonconformist on the subjects discussed
in the letter of it's correspondents:
The administration Democrats are making
progress downward very rapidly in Nebraska
Look at this table of votes:
Dem. Rep. Peoples. Pro.
1894 0Oh52 1O0 l2S 4 C1N OIo0