The San Francisco call., 1896-07-22

DTydn-Do pet OF the reVOluIlOulSIS
raised by the breath of disloyal mob to
the head of the ticket of a great party be-
cause be happened to be good eocution-
ist and wept crocodile tears over the
crucifxion of man of straw upon q cross
of gold. Johann Most is not being cheered,
nor has his name been placed upon the
Democratic ticket for q high position in
the councils of the Nation, but that is be-
cause he happens TO be native of a for
eign country and has not sworn allegiance
either TO the Democratic or Republican
party.
In the midst OF ali this turmoil, in the
midst of this turbulent mob of wolish in
terests, whose yelps disturb the quiet of
this city, stand the Pcpulists their ears
besieged with prayers, pleadings, cajoles,
wrath, imprecations, promises of bribes
and threats of ruin-ail this noisy conten-
ton being for the purpose of loosenlng
their house on the platform built by the
loyal men of the party at Omaha, and of
inducing them to put their shoulders to
the wheel of the party which they repudi-
ated years and years ago in disgust, and
to lift it out of the quicksands OF defeat
and despair.
Loyal Populists cheered when ninety
I'VE sturdy Populist delegates from Texas
came into the city carrying aloft the ban
ner OF their faith and shouting, "No COM
promise; keep in the M iddie of the road.
for principle and country" Magnificent
specimens of manhood are the Texans
tall, sinewy, sunburned, without an ounce
OF superfiuous flesh, vigorous and as wiry
and as hardy as the ponies which they
ride in ter own country. If they don't
like man or a thing they blurt out their
dislike with the candor of an Indian in his
native wilds. A Texan will share with his
comrade his last dollar, will divide his
coat in two to keep the cold blasts from
the shoulder OF needy friend. He fights
like an Indian, he loves like an Indian
and he hates with the intensity of saw
age. They came here whooping from the
cars to the aristocratic Southern Hotel
into their quarters, large parlor on the
ground floor, to the great surprise of the
slow-going st. Louisans and to the great
joy Of the middle of the roadsters
who saw these strange wild men truop.
Each man wore a white badge bear
ing as its prominent emblem a single star
the lone star of Texas.
Many of them wore the G. A. r. conner
button, a badge which symbolizes honor
more truly than the cross of the Legion
of Honor, for it is matter of history that
the Legion OF Honor has been made SUBJ
lect to barter and sale. Many of them had
also worn the gray, and fought for the lost
cause with the same enthusiasm, the same
devotion, the same self-sacrifice. the same
co?sclentiousness, the same loyalty. the |
same love OF home as that displayed by
their brothers who wore the blue. Forthe
hrst time since the close of that bloodv
war these two, representative of the North
and of the South, march shoulder tn
shoulder, with all the old-time hatreds
all the old animosities, all the panes and
bitterness OF the direfu past buried and
forgotten in the grave of common cause
And above IL, gladdening the eyes alike of
the blue and the gray, grows the greenery
OF the Populistic faith. They are men
who would night at the drop of hat, with
out pauslng to take note of its color or
fashion. They are men of the sup-and-a-
coming class, OF the "get there rowel-dee,,
in blood kind OF rough riders in the race
of life. Above all they are as true as steel.
l asked one OF those long-haired, bearded
men as to how his dele esation stood on the
middle-of-the-road proposition.
'tSolid as -. We have come in here
with our lighting breeches on ninety-five
strong and propose to make a rodeo of the
traitors on the floor of that convention
he whooped.
Then they went to the middle-of-tbe-
road headquarters three blocks awav and
signed the roll in a chirography as is
not seen on the ledger of acounting-house,
but 1t was good, manly fist that meant
what 1t said and needed no indorser.
So great is the crowd and so much is the
confusion that the middle-of the-road peo-
pie are not yet fully organized and don't
expect to be until late in the evening. But
they all understand that they are here as
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