The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-07-15
DESPERATE
DEMOCRATS,
Their Efforts to Capture
the PopuliSt Con-
venti0n.
ITS APPRECIATION MUST
BE SECURED.
Without 1t Their Party Will
Surely Be IrretrieVably
Ruined.
BOSS ALTGELD'S S0CIALISTIC
COMBINATION.
If Bryan Is Recognized Most of the
Peoples Party Will Vote for
BOSS ALTGELD'S S0CIALISTIC
COMBINATION.
If Bryan Is Recognized Most of the
Peoples Party Will Vote for
Mckinley.
THE CALLS HEADQUARTERS, J
HOTEL LINDELL, ;
ST. Louis. Mo. JuIv is.

1 LL.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, July Is.
The eyes of the country are now focused
upon st. Louis and will continue riyeted
| there until the end of next week, when the
question of the destruction or prosperity
of the Peoples Party will have been set
tied. The issue to be decided then is
whether the tottering Democratic party
shall be bolstered up by the Peoples
to the ruin of both or whether the Peoples
Party shall stand forth before the Nation
with clean hands and pure heart.
The question now confronting the
Democracy is one of life or death If the
Democratic candidate, with his mill
l1onaire partner, shall receive the indorse-
ment of the coming convention, the
| Democracy may be enabled to hobble
along, even though defeated, crippled and
| in shame for the next four years, but if
| the good sense of the honest mass of the
Populists shall prevail, then will die the
party which since 1861 has been false to
principle. The silver men, the socialists,
| the anarchists, the ex-Republicans, the
greenbackers and the rest of the cranks
who captured the Democratic organiza-
ton at Chicago are using their greatest
efforts to secure the Endorsement which
they hope will save them from destruction.
The coming convention will be one Of
Ethe largest ever held in the history of this
country. 1t will consist of 1900 representa-
tives of the party from every State and
Territory in the Union-men who have
left the old parties because of what thew
consider to be corruption and bossism.
They are men of partisan character,
courageous enough to face the taunts and
| ~
political associates, and it therefore can
not be expected that any great proportion
of them are likely to be influenced by the
ex-Republicans and silver Democrats who
will urge upon them the apparent advan-
tages to be derived from allowing their
party to be absorbed by the free-silver
wing OF the Democracy.
With such a fate confronting it the sill
yer faction is desperate. 1t will stop short
at no means, however improper, to attain
its end. If arguments will not prevail
silver and even gold will be used. Indeed
the report is now current that persons in
terested in the free-coinage proposition
and in the election of Orator Bryan and
Capitalist Sewall have made up or are
making up large purse to be used where
it will do the most good in the coming
convention.
The necessity for resort to bribery is
apparent, when one reflects that the ster-
ling Democracy throughout the country,
through its leaders and newspapers, is de-
serting the Bryan-Sewall banner and re-
fusing to eountenance the methods and
principles of such as Boss Altgeld and the
anarchistic faction of which he is the
leader. No less than sixty-five of the lead
4 ;rr bovo
ated the ticket put up at Chicago and more
are falling into the ranks of the boilers
every day. The following is the list of
some of the more prominent of the Demo-
cratic newspapers which have repudiated
Populist BrJ an and Capitalist Sewan:
Anstin (Tex.) Statesman, Boston Globe,
Boston Herald, Boston Post, Balti-
more Sun, Baltimore News, Buffalo Cour-
ier, Buffalo Inquirer, Brooklyn Eagle, Ben
nington (Vt.) Reformer, Chicago Chron-
icle, Chicago Abend Post, Chicago Stats
Zeitung, Charleston CIV. Va.) News, Chat
tanooga Times, Dallas (Tex.) News, Dav-
enport (Iowa) Democrat, Detroit Free
Press, Elizabeth On. J.) Herald, Easton
(Pa.) Express, Fitchburg (Mass.) Mail,
Galveston (Tex.) News, Holyoke (Mass.)
Free Press, Jersey City Times, Key West
| (Fla.l Equator, Key West (Fla.) Democrat,
Lacrosse (Wis.) Chronicle, Lewiston
Sun, Lexington (Ky.) Herald, Louis
vile Courier Journal, Louisville Times,
Louisville Post, Louisville Anzeiger,
Lowell (Mass.) Times. Manchester IN. H.
Union. Milwaukee Journal, Mobile Regis
ter, Machias (Me.) Union, New York
Evening Post, New York Herald, New
York Irish-American, New York World,
New Orleans States, New York Stats
Zeitung, New York Sun, New York
Times, Nashville CTenn.) Banner, New
Haven (Conn.) News, New Haven Comm
Register, Philadelphia Record, Philadel-
phia Times, Providence (R. - Journal,
Petersburg (Va.) Index-Appeal, Richmond
(Va.l Times, Salem (Mass.) News, Sioux
Falls Is. d. Argus-Leader, st. Paul Globe,
ST. Louis Anzeiger, Springfield (MassO
Republican, Syracuse Courier, Syracuse
Herald, Sioux City (Iowa) Tribune, Troy
IN. w Press, Trenton IN. J.) Times,
Utica IN. W Observer, Washington Post.
Washington Times. Wilmington (Del.)
Every Evening, Yonkers On. W Gazette,
Hartford Times.
The bolt becomes more appalling to the
Populistic faction of the Democracy when
the high standing and great influence of
these newspapers AMI of their leaders and
readers especially are taken into conside-
ration.
An added impetus has been given to the