The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-07-16

newspapers is filled with announcements
of old-tlme influential Democratic leaders
and newspapers getting from under the
anarchistic platform and taking shelter
under the safe and conservative platform
of the Republican party or joining forces
with that radical element of politics
known as PopuIism. On the other hand,
the Bryan Democrats are stricken with
dismay. Their only hope, their last
ditch, is the capture of the Peoples party
convention. When that fails, as | am
certain that it will, they will seek some
secluded spot, give few spa smodic kicks,
utter a few groans and quietly curl up and
die.
A severe blow was given to the st. Louis
Democracy last night at the meeting of the
Jefferson Club, the strongest Democratic
organization of the State. The club had
adopted resolution indorsing Bryan and
SewalI, when Kolla Wells, its president,
who is one of lis most esteemed and in
huential members, announced that as
consistent Democrat be could not support
the Chicago ticket and that he would
therefore resign his Office and sever his
connection with the club. When he picked
up his hat and walked out of the door the
sensation became so chilly that the dele
gates ceased to perspire.
Hon. B. B. Cahoon of Fredericktown,
Mo-, a Republican candidate for Gov
ernor, is pouring hot shot into the ranks
of the Altgeld- Tillman Bryan democracy.
He said to me last night:
The small farmer and the capitalist
alike are alarmed at the ascendency OF the
Altgelds and the Tillmans in the Demo
cratic party, for they realize that that
means war on the man whose industry
has honestly accumulated $1,000, by lazy
vagabonds, who have never accumulated
anything. The people of this country will
stamp out men like Bryan, men who seek
to make more disconnected those who have
nothing by arraying them against the in
dustrious and saving classes. Let US
have a school-district campaign and we
will redeem Missouri in spite OF the fusion
of the Democrats and Populists, winning
the State on the issue of its business devel-
opment, and we Will hold it permanently
hereafter
The principal topic of conversation here,
on the streets and in the Merchants Ex-
change Is the reputation by the honest
Democracy of the Bryan-Sewall ticket.
OBJECTIONS are noted all around and the
same thing seems to be prevalent in other
States.
Even at the seat of government, the
Democracy is breaking away from the
Chicago platform. Assistant Secretary
Hamlin of the Treasury is reported as
saying that the perpetuity of republican
III situations is threatened and that every
loyal citizen irrespective of party, should
ally himself against the forces that control
the Chicago convention, force of lawless-
ness which are inconsistent with the main
flamenco OF the republic. Secretary Her
bert has also announced that he will not
support the ticket.
General John.Gill of Maryland, who was
delegate to the Chicago convention, said
that the best way 10 stem the free silver
tide and to preserve the credit of the
country was for all sound money Demo-
Gratis to vote for Mckinley.
Captain George NJ. Jackson, Populist
delegate from Arkansas, says that every
tenth of the platform on which Mr. Bryan
stands is in opposition to the principles of
the Populist idea. He is opposed to and
will fight against the Endorsement of
Bryan and in favor of the nomination of
Senator Teller, of Colorado, or Judge
Caldwell of Little Rock, Ark, for Presi-
dent.
The most prominent Populist delegate
on the ground is Ex-Governor John Price
Buchanan OF Tennessee. Mr.. Buchanan
is representative of that manly type of
the Southern gentleman whose presence
is as grateful to the senses as the perfume
OF the magr Ola blossoms that grow around
his piazza in his beloved Southern home.
His face is that of one who has lived well
and at peace with his neighbors. He is a
represen tatiye Peoples party man and his
lineage IS American of the bluest of the
blue. His ancestors were for generations
past native Tennesseeans.
Inc Governor spent his boyhood days
on farm three miles from Franklin. At
the breaking out of the Civil War young
= Buchanan, inspired by love of his home
and burning with loyalty for all that was
near and dear to him, enlisted as pri-
vate IN the Confederate army at the age of
10 years and served with gaIlantry during
the last year of the war in General For
rests famous cavalry. After the close of
the war he returned home and went to
school. At the age of twenty he married
his sweetheart and with true Southern
pluck went to farming IN wheat corn and
cotton on rented land in the effort to
build himself a home.
As poor man at the very foot OF the
ladder he began the struggle of life. But
his loyalty to home, his industrious
habits, his sterling manhood and his
ability were recognized spontaneously by
his neigbbors without any seeking on his
part, and thus without his solicitation
and in the face of his positive declination
they elected him a member of the Legis-
lature of 1887 and 1889. He gave so much
satisfaction that in 1890 they elected him
Governor of the great State of Tennessee
When Cleveland was nominated for the
Presidency toward the close of Governor
Buchanan's term, the Governor, through
patriotic and Conscientious motives, as
many of the best Democrats then and
since have done, refused to advocate Mr..
Cleveland's election. Governor Buchanan
was therefore obliged to undergo ostra-
cism by the machine of the Democratic
party and to run for the governorship as
an independent Southern gentleman.
Through the power of the machine he
was defeated, and no doubt realizing that
the Democracy, once the party of Jeffer-
son and Jackson, had become a Hessian
of whatever wind that blew, Joined the
Populfsts, because he saw in the platform
of that organization the principles which
were in accord with his honest convic-
tons.