The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-07-14
Millionaire Sewall Not at All
Popular With the Honest
Farmers.
PECULIAR CONNIVANCE TO BE
FOUGHT AT ST. LOUIS.
One True Advocate of the People
Tells a Tale of Woe TO John
Paul Cosgrave.
THE CALLS HEADQUARTERS,
HOTEL LINDELL,
O n - 20

THE CALLS HEADoUARTERs,)
HOTEL LINDELL,
ST. LOUIS Mo-, July 13.
The first act of conspiracy between So
cialfsts and socialistic Democrats was
planned at Chicago last week, and the Sec
ond will be enacted next week in st.
Louis.
The first act was the nomination of
PopuIist Bryan and the second will be his
Endorsement, if the anarchistic and Demo
cratic combine shall succeed in carrying
out the second part of the conspiracy to
ruin the Populistic party by grating upon
it the socialistic scion of the Democratic
party. What has been expected and only
hinted at a short time ago has now been
demonstrated by the unanswerable logic
OF events. 1t is conceded that Mr.. Bryan
is a Populist, parading under the name OF
a Democrat to serve the purposes of the
most ambitious of the party of many
plants.
From what can be cleaned at this early
stage of the contest, it is highly probable
that the Populists of Nebraska will IN
dorse Mr.. Bryan's candidacy and Will sup
port him, and that they will go further, to
the extent of urging their National Con-
yention, which will meet in this city on
Wednesday of next week, to mdorse Mr..
Bryan.
This is asking coed deal of party
many of whose most enthusiastic members
are farmers and the bulk of whose mem
bership is taken from the ranks of the
Iaboring people and of those who are not
blessed with an abundance of the worlds
goods. 1t viii be impossible for even a
Populist to vote for Socialist Bryan and
- E. y
is a close listed Yankee and all his sympa-
thy is on the side of his class, the monopo-
lists and millionaires. So that the Popu-
lists will Kill two birds with one stone, one
a bird of its own feather and the other
Republican of the hawk family, OF whose
depredations the Populist is forever COM
planning. He will have to do considera BILE
thinking and waste considerable time in
trying to solve the Chinese puzzle, which
requires a man to vote for Bryan and to
vote against Sewall at one and the same
time. This obstacle in the way has not
been very well considered by the chief
actors in the conspiracy. In fact they
have not given thought to Capitalist
Sewan because they are engaged solely in
the Bryan fight. Mr.. Sewall, according to
their idea, is the tail that goes along with
the hide.
1t will be highly interesting spectacle,
and as amusing as interesting to watch the
countenauce of Populist with wild oats
in his beard as he deposits his ballot for
Bryan and Sewall next Novem Der. The
placid smile of satisfaction which wrinkles
his sunb1rned face as he votes for the one
set of Presidential electors who represent
Mr.. Bryan in the electoral college will be
eclipsed Immediately thereafter by an ex-
preston of disgust when he remembers
that this same set of electors must also
cast their ballots for Capitalist Sewall, who
hates the Populists worse than the Popu-
lists hate banker.
When one thinks of the full meaning of
this political conspiracy he cannot refrain
from expressing the greatest astonishment
that men of ordinary business sense should
for moment entertain a proposition so
inconsistent as this is. It certainly looks
as though the ringleaders of the whole af-
fair had about the same idea of the intelli-
gence of average Populist as that possessed
by bunko sharp who offers the aforesaid
Populist gold brick at three-fourths or
one-half its bullion value. But ridiculous
as it may seem that is the proposition.
Theg are offering to the PopuIists of the
United States a bogus silver brick COM
posed of 5 per cent of Bryan balderdash
and 95 per cent OF Sewall capitalism.
But whether serious or ludicrous, whether
consistent or inconsistent, whether an in
suit to the intelligence of the masses of the
American people, the programme arranged
by Anarchist Altgeld and his pal, Stone of
Missouri, assisted by boiling Republicans
and socialists out of a job, will be carried
through, if it be at all possible to keep the
blinds over the eyes of the well-meaning,
honest but often-bunkoed Populists.
The plan provides for the obliteratIon of
all the fundamental planks of the Peoples
party platform and the substitution of the
silver plank by the Democratic party in
Chicago. 1t is proposed to cover all the
issues with the dust raised by the stampede
for silver. In this conspiracy the wealthy
owners of silver mines and spectators
and stock iobbers have been the real plot
ters, with Altgeld and Stone as the cats
paws. Altgeld in the event of the success
OF the fusion proposition would assisted in
his aspirations for the United States Sena-
torship, while Governor Stone will receive
whatever political assistance he may re-
quire in the furtherance of his political
mbition.
Can it succeed? That will be the crucial
test by which the Peoples party will rise
above its sordid and selfish surroundings
and retain the respect and the confidence
OF the whole of its membership or by