The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-11-17

! Ogn1Z6Q, YOU puOLACly SO8V0~
would not be notified of my nomina.
ton, You went into the fusion policy
over my written protest, with all the
zaal of a man who wanted to elect the
| Democratic ticket.
In this, l think you were wrong. AS
! Chairman of the Populist Committee,
the party certainly expected you to do
! all you could to elect the Populls5
ticket.
Had you demanded Mr.. Sewalls
! withdrawal from the ticket, he would
! have been Withdrawn. have a letter
| of yours in which you state that the
Democratic Committee expected you to
| make the demand, but that you did
not make it.
From the perversity of temper with
! which the Democratic managers have
! refused to do the right thing by the
| Populists, it would seem that they pre-
fer McKinleyism to anything which
| might seem to be partly a Populist
triumph.
Their subtle purpose is to couple
Bryan's election with the complete de-
! ~gtruction of the Peoples Party. They
mean to elect both Bryan and Sewall
both or neither. They can not en-
pure the thought that the victory shall
| be shared by Populism. They r will
ling to use the Popu!ist nomination as
a lever to move Poprlist votes-but
not IS an ally who had any rights they
are bound TO respect.
Tie 81 Louis compromise ticket
should have been insisted upon for two
reasons:
1st. Because Mr.. Bryan cannot be
otherwise elected.
2ad. Because the triumph Of silver
cannot be otherwise ASSURED.
To elect Mr.. Bryan, the Populist
votes are necessary, and he cannot get
them if I should come eff the ticket
voluntarily, Or be virtually forced IF
by the Sewall fusions. II you and Mr.
Jones think the Populists will vote for
Mr.. Bryan after they realize that Wat
son has been practically pushed eff the
ticket by fusion deals, you are making
a huge blunder. Bryan is being ruined
by the efforts to force Sewall's election
also. Populists will not vote a ticket
which is ali Democratic.
In the second place, we must preserve
the Peoples Party from absorption By
the DemocrRts-in the interest of sill
yer.
In Bryan's own party, weakened as
it already is by the Sound Money" de
lection, there is the powerful German
element which vii! do all it can to tie
Bryan's hands. Wherever the Demo
Gratis a do so, they are electing men
to c0ngr So who are enemies to silver
The Tammanyites are no real friends
to silver. Neither are the representa-
tives which Democracy may elect from
Chicago, New Orleans, Philadelphia,
Baltimore and other similar money
centers. Senator German, the gold
bug, is virtually controlling the Dem
ccratic party machinery, and goldbug
Democrats everywhere are saying that
they are supporting Mr.. Bry an because
his election will not mean free silver.
They boast that he cannot carry out
his pledges.
In the event Of Mr.. Bryan's cleo
tion, this anti silver element in the
Democratic party will join forces in
Congress with the goldbug R9publi-
cans, and the sound money Democrats.
Remembering that even among the
Silver Democrats who have been re
nominated for Congress, are many of
the flexible Statesmen who voted
| against silver in 1892 and 1898, the un
prt iudiced observer can reedliy see
that Mr., Bryan q no more carry out
his pledges without Populist help, than
he can be elected without it.
Again, if he is defeated, the anti sill.
yer forces ID his party will at once pull
looee and pin the sound money Demo
~cTats-thus leaving the silver Demo
Gratis utterly homeless and helpless
without Populist aid.
Therefore, IN either event, every sen
timent of loyalty 10 Mr. Bryan, and to
the cause Of silver, demand that we
maintain the full national organization
| Of the Peoples party.
We should not fuse it's moral force
away. We should not hamper it's
progress with entangling alliances. We
We shou;d not lose the conf
dence OF the public, and lose