People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1896-09-04

from the race Tor the Vlco PiosA"0noy
were received with silent contempt
or often ridiculs.
FLUSHED with the first enthusiasm
of the campaign and blinded by
mushroom illusions as to Mr.. organs
popular strength, Mr.. Jones, OF Ar
kansas, aud his advisers could see IN
M. Watson's dual candidacy only a
useless and annoying incumbranee
to party success, and his suggestions
of union on fusion electoral ticket
were rudely repulsed by the Arkan-
sas Senator with the comment that
he and the Southern Populists gen.
orally could ego to the Negroes
where they belong" The POpulist
National committee, headed by MIR.
Butler, of North Carolina, remained
equally deaf to Mr.. Watson.a appeals,
and even failed to notice Mr.. Jones'
pointed insult to its vice. Presidential
candidate, while Populists leaders in
certain Western States fastened to
nullify the action of the St. Louis
convention by openly indorsing full
Bryan and Sewall electoral tickets
Then came Mr.. Bryan's ''invssion
of the East" the chilling frost OF his
Madison Square Garden failure.
The effect of this dismal fiasco was
quickly seen in the changed relations
of the motley political forces behind
the Reputation canvass. The mis-
fortunes of the Nebraska Boy Ora
tor have boen, in fact, the masking
of the Boy Orator from Georgia; for
from the day of that first decisive
check to their effervescent candidates
triumph ant progress the Tillman-A Alt
geld managers have gradually seen
the real control of the fusion cam
paign slip from their own fingers IN
to those of Mr.. Butler and his Popu-
lists lieutenants. The humble North
Carolina Senator, who month ago
was ready in the Bryan-Sewall inter-
est to force the Populist vice-presi-
Dental candidate out of the race, and
whose hopes of genuine electoral
fusion scarcely reached beyond the
borders of his own State, is now de-.
manding and securing union on cleo
tors-in many cases on Bryan and
Watson electors-in quarters whore
smicable fusion would not have been
dreamed of prior to Mr.. Bryan's ill
starred Eastern trip.
So confident and assertive have
the Populists managers become that
even the formal notification to the
St. Louis candidates of their selec-
ton, which Mr.. Watson has so vehe-
mently demanded and MIR. Bryan SO
persistently opposed, will probably
be undertaken within the next few
weeks. Only fortnight ago Sena-
tor Butler, the chairman of the Popu-
list committee, pooh-poohed the idea
of calling together the Notification
committee appointed by the National
convention, and added, that no
formal notification had been given
to the Populists candidates in the
presidential campaign of 1892. To
this rather feeble effort to excuse
the committees inaction Mr.. Wat
son replied with the statement that
both General Weaver and General
Field were present four years ago
at the Omaha Convention who
nominated them, aud that both made
speeches of acceptance to the dele
gates. Continuing, Mr.. Watson
argued with force and pertinencs;
"If the National convention at St
Louis did not mean that Messrs.
Bryan and Watson should be mott
fed, why was committee appointed
to notify thema Why does Senator
Allen, the chairman of that commit
Tee, refuse to do what the oonven.
ton instructed him to do? Is he
afraid that Mr.. Bryan will repudiate
our support? Ii so, our party has a
right to know that fact. II Mr..
Bryan is ashamed of the votes which
are necessary to elect him, we ought
to know it,"
These spirited and plain-apoken
words have evidently had their effect.
New York Tribune.