People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1896-11-20

movement will not rnaterialize.
Ii We compel the Populists to yote
against their reform principles, in
supporting Sewall, we kill the spirit
which vitalizes and inspires our
movement, and it viii shrink into a
mere rabble of place huuters-sEeh
as we see under BREEDER thaPs lead in
Kansas.
When Populist State leaders openly
avow the policy ofselling the national
ticket and the national principles il
return for local spoils, he who rnn.
may read the doom of Populism. LIS
mission as re generator Of the na.
tional body polite is ended. Its oc.
cupation as the apostle of higher and
purer ideals Of national government
is gone.
Senator, because have held these
views and have dared to express
them, you have called the Nationa
Committee together at Chicago, and
issued an address condemning me
thus putting a public affrons upon
me.
No euoh ipdignity was ever before
offered Presidential candidate By
ais own committee.
You knew that | vas ill: under
the osre Of physicisn; snd beiere
you thus took the responsibility of
.djudgiug me, and publicly condemn
ing me, your committee should at
least have visited and consulted me.
do not believe, Senator, that the
Peoples party intend I'D, when thay
nominated me, that | should be- pub
liCly Inundated by you in this man
ner. The Party knew that had
always been HMiddle of the Road"
Popuhst; and had the Convention
disapproved my attitude, the pre-.
sumption is that it would have ad-
ministered the rebuke. 1t would not
have left the job to you.
By seeking to degrade me, you
have emphasized the fact that you
did not want me nominated at St.
Louis. and you have reioiced the
Democrats and the Republicans ex-
ceedingly. I cannot believe that you
have won the approval oftho Popu-
lists.
In the written protest which laid
before you at the opening Of this
campaign, | warned you that if you
persia ed in trying to force our people
TO vote for SewaI, would appeal
from you TO the people. now do SO.
They must judge between us. Yop
had no right 70 make these deals over
my protest, and then claim that it is
row too late to apply the remedy.
! Neither in law nor in politics should
any man bs suffered to take advant.
age of his OWE wrong.
Senator, you were selected as
Chairman to help mo win this cam.
paign. You were expected to act
with me and for nae. You have not
done SO. You have acted without
me, and you have acted against me.
In nothing have you consulted ne
| At no time have you told me Of your
plans, eff gour purposes.
In all this you may be right, and I
may be wrong. The Committee,
called of by You to one side at CHI
cage, has sustained you, and oenaured
me. Therefore my position is most
painful. The Bryan sewall commit
tee is against me, and thu Bryan
Watson committee is against me.
I stand alone.
Bat, Senator, I was Popul'st
willis you vera still camping with the
Democrats, and I have always been
Middle. of-the- Road Populist while
you neysr have. A fusionist you
have always bseD, and you bargain
with the Republicans in one cam
paign and with the Democrats in tha
next. In this campsign, goa have
bargained with both Republicans and
Democrats.
God, only, knows which bargain
you intend to keep.
AS for me, l turn from you and
appeal to the real, true-hearted Pop
uIists. II 1 haveHinned against prin-
ciple and right in demanding that
our party and its nominees and its
creed be respected by the Democrats
who had come to US for help,-then
I want the party to say so, and I will
bow to It's decree.
Rnt I do not recnrniza aLo1Lr ,.ioth4