Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-11-13

| Asked if he believed Governor llllman
would co-uVrratr with the Populists If he
| should be cIr;.1rd 20 the senate, Mr.
| PETER ruo!rl that he could not say, as
| Governor Ti!,NAn never outlined MS IN
| tentiOnS in ihai respect lie called atGen-
ton to tn fact tha5 Mr.. lrby, who was
supposed TO share the political views of
Governor FiiInan, had remained in the
| Democratic ranks. STILL" he added,
| "the time nl!,st sooa come when all Dem
oorats Believing Us Gilman and Irby do,
must ally themselves openly with the
| Populist party. The eastern Democrats
are to all inrcnts and purposes Rcpubli-
| cans, and Democrats of the Tilman-Irby
| stripe cannot long remain i'll the same
| party organization with them"
| The senator declined to discuss the ques
ton OF the probable organization of the
senate, aftss March T. by the Republicans,
with the aid of such Populists who had
affiliated with the Republican party be
fore they became Populists, further than
20 saw that the time was too far distant to
speculate upon this, and in a general way
TO a remark that if the time should come
when the populists should hold the bal
anca of power in the senate II have n
doubt they will exercise that power con-
tipuouSly i'm | wisely" he said.
G;ewar. ycntilates :.is Views.
Senator Stewury OF Nera Ia was less
! Guarded than senator ;'etfer i'll speaking
of tic assumption that certain Of the Pop
ulist senator's would aid the Republicans
in tine organization OF the senate. He says
| alphabetically that, so far as he is con-
celncd, he viii enter into no coalition
with either OF the old parties to secure the
organization.
Il cont care" he said, (which of the
old parties controls the machinery of the
senate There is no advantage to us to be
| Iaincd hy Il combination with either the
| Rcpublicans OF the Cleveland Democrats
We don't care for the few patry Offices
there are to be bestowed, and could not
afford to sacrifice our independence as Il
party for them.
$50 far as am personally concerned, |
don t care whether they put me on any
| committee or what they do with NE, SO
| long as am entitled to my seat in the
senate and can get into the chamber In
fact. =" he added, growing emphatic, Il can
raise more hell when entirely free from
| such obligations than when bound BY
them
Thc senator says that he thinks the
| Popuiisls will be able to exercise Il moro
potent influence by
II Keeping Entirely Aioof
from and entering into no entan@iing
alliances with either of the old parties
and it is his opinion that this is the policy
which Will be pursued by tho third party
| in the senate, and that he will advise that
this policy be pursued.
He thinks there is no doubt that when
She test comes senator Jones will be
found acting in full harmony with the
| Pupulist senators, and that # Governor
Tillman should be chosen to succeed SEN
ator Butler he will also be found in the
| PopUlist column, as will also the two sen
ators tc be chosen from North Carolina
This would give the Populists eight SEN
atoss, as against ~ Republicans and IS
Democrats, after the 4th of March.
"The only ground he said. in conc!u-
sion, con which he should be willing to
unite with the Republicans would be on a
platform pledging that party to a free sill
yer policy. | do not want any halfway
measures, such as the coinage Of American
product, as should know that whatever
was promised would be nothing but a
trap. / do not propose to be caught with
anything less than a compliance with our
complete demands"
A letter From Wilson.
In "A letter to the New York Press, Will
Gam l. Wilson gives his views of the
causes Of Democratic defeat in the recent
elections. After declaring that Il i
neither a desirable nor IA dgnificd thing
Sor member of Il defeated party TO at
tempt TO explain his OWE or his party's
defeat, he says:
"None the less, however, & Is the duty
of the Democratic party after such a re-
verse to make deliberate, honest and Un-
sparing scrutiny into the causes and
forces which wrought its overthrow and
into the condition upon which it may re
gain its ascendeney with the American
people.
1.-THE greatest of all there sceccs was the
severe industrial depression that for year
or more past has hardened the Tot and
made anxious the lives of large section
of our people. Hard times is an enemy
before which no political party in America
has ever been able to make successful