The San Francisco call., 1896-10-08
GATORS JOB HAS
{ SPRUNG A LEAK
Peoples Party Men Will
Soon Denounce Him
Openly.
How the Platform Has Been
Ruined and the Party
Absorbed.
THE GREAT CRIME OF 1896
Observations or Sentiment Among the
MassA of the Party by
Stalwart.
THE GREAT CRIME OF 1895.


party. If they vote for municipal officers
they must vote for Buckley's lambs or
else remain away from the polls; if they
wish to vote for members of the LegisIa-
ture they must mark an x with the
red-rubber stamp opposite the names of
Ralney's lambs. They will vote for these,
if at all, with the understanding that the
Democrats put on the ticket by Gator and
Buckley and Rainey will answer the roll
call for Thomas V. Gator, alias Charles
Jones, for United States Senator, and as
Gator is higher than the platform and the
party he must be necessarily higher than
the people, for it would be rank treason to
murmur against the fulfllment of any
bargain made by such political purists as
the three gentlemen named.
Populists are complaining in undertones
because their party has been absorbed by
the Democracy, and it will not be many
days before they will loudly voice those
complaints.
A well-known Peoples party man said
to CALL reporter yesterday: 81 am as-
gusted with the whole affair and yet
dare not announce myself because it
would injure me in my business. was
dissatisfied at the start when the silver
men in the Peoples party National Con-
ventIon in st. Louis destroyed our plat
form, which was never intended to be
TEN mporarv affair, but permanent declara-
tion of eternal principles. These were cut
down and obliteTated in order that Bryan
and other Democrats who needed our
votes could stand upon it or pretend to
when called upon.
81 noticed that Bryan in his letter of
acceptance indorsed the free coinage
plank in the Peoples party platform, but
did not indorse any other plank. Yet we
are asked to support a man who is neither
of US nor for US, but who is programme
Democrat from the sole of his foot to the
crown of his head.
1.-The local fusion farce has made me
even more disgusted. We give Sewall
five electoral votes and Watson four. The
four votes won do Mr.. Watson any good
because they will be killed by the five for
Sewall. 1t looks 10 me as if we had been
buying silver brick from lot of Demo-
cratic bunko sharps.
Then we are asked to vote for Buckley
and Rainey lambs for the municipal and
Legislative offices, and such tough look
ing crowdl They should begin libel
| suit against their countenances, for when
i saw them lined up on the platform l
felt like pulling police whistle and blow
ing it. If any one had told me year ago
L
put up lot of Buckley lambs for Office l
would have called him liar.
81 was talking with E. S. Barney the
other day, and he said that it was all
right, because the Buckley lambs had
promised to support the Peoples party
platform, and that it was a part of the
programme of fusion. You know Barney
don't your He's pretty honest sort of
fellow, and is running Populist paper
on Market street called Voice of Labor.
He is associated with M. McGlynn, but
understand that A. e. Kinne, the fusion
candidate for Congress in the Fifth Con-
gre ssional District, owns or has an iron
grip on the type and fixtures of the estao-
lishment. kinne, being q candidate,
must stand in with the machine and the
programme, and as the tail goes with the
hide, Barney and McGlynn are for the
programme too.
II tell you that there will be big sur
prise for the jobbers on the day after cleo
ton. They'll find that while it may be
very easy to put up job to sell out the
Populists. body, boots and breeches. it's
not so easy to deliver the goods. Some
times the goods kick.
81 know a whole lot of Peoples party
men who are going to do what | am going
to do, and that is to vote for Populists
only We will vote for the four Watson
electors and let the Democrats take care
red cross opposite Montieth's name in the
First Congressional District, and for
Kinne in the Fifth and Barlow and Castle
in the Sixth and Seventh.
II will not vote for a solitary Demo-
cratic candidate for the. Legislature be-
cause know that Rainey put them OF the
ticket with the assistance of Gator, and
believe that Rainey is one of the lieuten-
ants of the Southern Pacific Company
and that, therefore, we cannot expect any
/ hostile legislation against the corporation
. from that quarter.
"Just think of itl We've been euchred
out of our Mayor. We haven't candidate
for that office because Mr.. Buckley-the
same old Chrls-wanted one OF his Demo-
cratic friends there, SO shall have to vote
for Taylor or DR.. O'Donneli-I haven't
made up my mind which.
'Cator and Wardall seem to think it is
all right. Gator wants to be United States
Senator, and Wardall is drawing down a
century every month in United States
Peoples party State Central Committee.
Wardall wants the coliectorship of the port
at Wilmington, and Secretary Bush, who is
drawing down $75 month, doesn't seem
to exDect anything except that fat salary.
Bush got himself dlsliked at the start be-
cause he kicked IN the traces against the
fusion proposition, but he's got onto his
lODi dS Iuc Say AHS AoS oAN 40 5aW1uR NOO0
now.
"We Peoples party men, who for
the most part are poor, must be a whole
lot of gudgeons, besides, to be paying
those salaries. The Republicans, who
could better afford to pay salaries, don t
do it. Major Mclaughlin. their chairman.
works like ranch horse in harvest time
sixteen hours day and does not receive,
directly or indirectly, dollar for his serv-
ices. Neither does Colonel Higgins, the
secretary, and both of them have done
and are doing a voluminous quantity of
work. They are donating their time and
labor out of pure patriotism for the party.
"Why don't Wardall and Bush do the
same2 Tnen they would be in condition
in the year 1904 TO ask the party for po-
litical favors, for guess it will be eight
years before the Peoples party will be
fully recovered from this dose OF fusion.
4 Il want you to understand that I'm no
IHcker, but Mr.. Gator can't programme
V.e for Buckley or anybody else"
1t Is expected that Populistic discon-
tent will have assumed a concerted ex-
preston before another week shall have
rolied away. George w. Monteith, Peo-
pies party nominee for Congress from
the FIRST District, is being besieged with
letters urging him to hold mass-meeting