The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-08-28
AN INTERESTING LETTER.
Gov. Waite of Colorado, gives an
Account of Politics in the
South.
THE GROWTH OF POPUL1SM-
THE CAUSE GAINING
EVERY WHERE.

EVERY WHERE.
NV Dear Donnelly-I have just returned
from Texas where was two weeks, and
come back much encouraged. Our
friends and some Democrats there say
that the state is surely to vote Populist in
1896. There will be no election there
this fall, but discussion goes on and 'con-
verts" are daily being added to our
church "of such as shall be saved" The
silver question has divided the Democratic
party in Texas into two most bitter and
irreconcilable sections. 1 do not think
the Southern Democracy will divide on
the silver question next year, or that there
will be any distinctive silver Democratic
party in the South. Reagan and that clan
OF leading Democrats will work hard to
tional and state, for silver; but will fail
because the administration Democrats
have the machinery, patronage and mon
ey. When defeated inside the party lines
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will surrender and take their medicine"
but the rank and file Democrats are al
ready coming over in shoals in Texas and
other Southern states to the Populist par
ty. Another thing that is having pow,
erful effect in the dis.ntegration of the
Southern Democracy Is the war which
Tom Watson, Cyclone" Davis and other
Southern xUo6inO in
camp of the enemy, answering and prov
ing, too, that the present so-called Democ-
racy is bastard bogus affair, and that
the true Jeffersonian and Jacksonian De-
mocracy is embodied in the Omaha plat
form.
l was greatly encouraged by circum-
stance narrated to me by Davis and which
occurred last November in his congress
sional district. 1t is conceded by we'll
informed men in Texas that "Cyclone'
was elected to congress by about
1000 majority, but the returns
were doctored and the man was
counted out. After the election and
figured result, an old hardshell Baptist
preacher in one of the counties of that
congressional district came up to the
county seat and made the election officerA
arEttle speech about as follows: "You all
know me. l have lived in this county
10 years, was in the confederate army,
and never voted anything but the Demo-
cratic ticket; but you know, and know,
that the Populists ticket was fairly elected
In this county at the last election; but has.
been counted out My son was a candi-
date on the Democratic county ticket and
you have made out his election cert:fi-
cate. He Is. herewith me today to notify
you that he knows, and you know, that
he was not elected, and he refuses to ac-
cept the office. You may have degrees
in larceny, but know of none. A man
who will steal votes is just as wicked
as II he stoleta horse, and give you due
notice that from now on we shall vote tho
Populist ticket"
God bless the hardshell Baptists!
heard another case which to me is of
great interest, as another proof of the
d.sintegration of the Southern Democ-
racy. A gentleman at Sherman or
Greenville originally came from Georgia,
and is now leading Populist in Texas.
One Of his old Georgia friends visited
him only few weeks ago. He is Dem
ocrat and from Tom Watson's district.
"Well," says the Texan to his Georgia
friend, chow are matters politically in
Georgian" co." replied the Georgian,
I'VE counted in Gov. So-and-So" (meaning
the present Democratic governor of
Georgia), and we counted out Tom Wat
son.
Indeed" said the Texan, land now, my
friend, would like to have you give me
your private opinion of that way of do
ing business?"
''Well," replied the Georgian, s'to tell
you the truth, am ashamed of it! and it
is fact today in Georgia, that all the de-
cent Democrats, on account of these very
outrages, arepeaving the Democratic par
IT,"
God is not only good, but He has i'm.
planted In the mind of man an eternal
principal of justice, more reliable and en-
during than the everlasting hills.
Another thing which encourages me in
my Texan trip, was the perfect unanim-
ity of the Populists in that state against
any and all shapes Of fusion. They all
swear by the Omaha platform, all de-
mand the free-coinage Of silver, at 16 to :;
but by no means consider that the butt
end of the money question. They de-
mand the greenback and the abolition Of
banks of issue. The "solid South" at
last is broken. With this hitherto i'm
pregnable< fortress Of Democracy stormed
the Northern Democracy must soon dis
solve. Hence it Is the most sumblime
nonsense to talk of fusion with the flag
ends Of a moribund organization! Yours
truly, DAVIS H. WAITE,