The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-07-20


Democratic party. having already no1a-
mated ats csBtfdares and adopted iss plat
form. will make the co-7artnershl2 az
rangemens which Is the basis OF MI ls1-
henecks plans. His plan Is FOR the so2a-
lists 10 nominate a ticket or fnsfr eva
ami enter into an agreement Win the
Democrats 20 have but one set Of electors
IN each OF <he states The result OF tfsas
Arrangement - 10 be that II the noEniaa-
ton ticket Is successful. the Populisss VII
have either the president or vice pres1-
dent OF the United States. and WA also
be Ia a position 10 demand an equal share
OF the federal patronage. including the
cabinet and foreign appointments
sIt must be clear that the Democratic
national COMMITTEES has 2os yssiaSe OF
the power necessary to enter into sach an
arrangement. even IL they desire 60 do
so. The Democratic convention adjourned
sine die when IL completed Its work. and
It's members could be no more re-conSu-
fgtod into a convention than they could
be four years hence for the nomination.
OF new ticket and the adoption OF new
platform Before the proposed action could
even De considered. the national Demo-
cratic committee mast Issue a eaA for
new national convention. and each Of the
states must call new state conventions 10
appoint deIegafe The mere statement OF
this. which every body must admit Is the
real coaditi0S. satisfies every reasoning
mind how impossible is tue proposed plan.
Il must have been plain TO those who pro-
posed It THAI IL Was impossible of execn-
tion. We might go further and say that
the national Democratic committee would
be fully justified in holding that it had 20
authority TO call new convention for
any purpose IN the absence Of the death
or resignation OF the nominees, their
powers being limited TO the conduct OF
the campaign that was lnaggarated wisa
the nomination of Bryan and Sewall.
Passing from that consideration. par
~ barter by which IL would be unknown
10 the countS which of the four eandi-
dates would be president or which would
be Vice president until the electoral college
convened. would prove so ahhorreut 10
American voters that the overwhelming
defeat Of the combination would be GER
tain. There are in the Popu,ist party. as
In any other. two classes. those who are
mercy politicians ard care for nothing
but the spoils. and those whose highest
aim Is 10 secure TO their country the re-
lief which the enactment of saiutary
measuers will bring.
Ninety per cent. of the present mem
hershsp Of the Peoples party is made up
OF former Democrats and Republicans who
are agreed that the immediate restoration
OF free bi-metalllc coinage at the ratio of
Is TO i Is indispensable 10 the return of
prosperity. They unerringiy trace the
pauper @rice which they receive for the
products OF the field. the shop and the
loom, the all but annshiiatson of values TO
farm lands and stock. the absence OF en-
p.Oyment for mssilons OF American work
men and the pail of bankruptcy that over
SHADOWS the land. 10 the single gold stand
ard.
What they want and viii have II the
opportunity presents itself, are practical
results. that will materially affect their
industrial and social condition. They want
the single gold standard abolished and
the double standard created. The Populist
press inculcated a great truth when 1t
taught them that free coinage OF silver al
the ratio of is 20 l with gold, would drive
gloom and destitution from the country
and replace them with sunshine and pros
perity. IL Populists have reason 10 be-
iieye that their party Will endanger that
measure either by dividing the forces that
favor or by imposing impossible or i'm
practicable conditions 10 secure its assist
ance for IL. they VIII abandon that party
without regret ana unanimously unite
with the party which they believe 10 the
more likely 10 secure them relief.
The Populist party will seal the doom
of the party If by its action IL arouses a
well grounded suspicion that 1t prefers
party autonomyto the legislation forwhich
the masses are In such CRYING need. Why
should either course operate differently
in Texas or North Carolina from what it
would in Nebraska or Colorado? There
are Soo0o Popuiist votes In Colorado. IL
the coming convention shall not nominate
"A separate ticket at least 10000 OF them
viii In any even be cast for Bryan. and
the probabilities are that. feeling fneenSed
at the Indifference OF the national conyen-
tion OF their party to their needs and con-
ditions most OF them VIII vote the Demo
cratic state ticket as we'll But nominate
Bryan and the prestige such wise and ~ea-
erous action will give the party, VIII. In all
human probability, carry the state for
local state officers. So II VIII be IN Ne
braska. In what does the situation differ
in Southern states. Mn are alike in all:
and the same intelligence and unse.-ishness
will induce them TO act alike in all. The
practical workings OF the nomination ad-
vised will at once dlspel all apprehensio0s
of the calamities OF the Populiss press.
Popu.ist prestige. Populist candidates and
Popu.ist measures which Chairman Tau
beneck, IN his newborn zeal for a sep
arats ticket. so adroltiy suggests"