The advocate., 1896-10-28

drels, not merely Democrats; and neither
Willis nor SteinbeFger has ever said
these Electors arc sc0undrelg.
The whole Of this tribulRtion is over
this childish demand that five Of these
Electors should confess themselves dis
honorable by resigning in order to put
FIVE POpulists in their placesl
On this trivial ground-it is Rll tho
ground there is for 1.-THE Populists Of
Kansas are asked to take the State from
Bryan and give it to Mckinley.
We cannot vote for President. We
can vote only for ten Electors, who q
few weeks after election are 20 meet and
vote for a President. The Electors ON
the "Middle-of- the.road" ticket are not
those on our ticket.
OF course the "Middle-of-the-road"
ticket could not win il every Populist in
the State should vote for il. These men
know this. How, then, can o vote for
that ticket help Watson? We give him
as good chance as SewRll. They give
him no chance at all. But were many
to vote the "Middle-of-the-road" ticket
the Bryan vote would be divided 80 Gs to
give the State to Mckinley and Hobart;
for every vote for that ticket, the Elec-
tors not being the same as ours, would
be vote taken from our ticket, and the
vote for our Electors would be just that
much reduced. A vote for their Elec-
tors would have the same effect as to
our electors rs q vote for somebody else
for Governor would have on Leedy.
Do you see the schemep
Can the object be anything else than
the election Of Mckinley and Hobart
Electorsp How can that benefit Wat
son? How can il advance our cauge2 IL
we had to choose between Sewsll and
Hobart, ought not SewalPS views on the
money question decide our choice for US?
II SewRll is rich, Hobart is a member Of
the coal trust and q gold standard man.
Is it not cutting of our noses to spite
our faces to vote for Hobart because we
do not like Sewail as we'll az Watson?
/ think l know the old reformers of
Kansas, with whom / have shared the
prosecutions incident to the advocacy Of
an unpopular cause. They have acted
upon LoWell's view
"Then to side with Truth is noble,
When we share her WretChad crust;
Fer her cause bring fame and profit
And 'Eis prosperous TO DO just"
They know me. Had it not been for
the consciousness that my name had af-
fectionate mention in farm houses and
humble laborer's homes in Kansas, I
could not have endured the storm Of
abuse which has silVered my hair. To
them / appeal as comrades to stand by
Bryan, though We should get Satan for
Vice President. Our first step must be
to get the government back into the
hands Of the plain people; for till then,
no reforms can be possible. That done,
we may hope to enact our demands into
law; but never until then.
We did not leave the parties Of our
very childhood merely to worship Rt the
shrine Of party again. We were first de-
voted to a cause, and we made the Peo-
pies party only as an instrument to
make that cause prevail. "MRn pro
poses; God disposes." Heaven chose an
other instrument at Chicago to do the
first thing which at Omaha we meant
our instrument to do: to restore the gov
ernment to the people. Shall We rebuke
the Almighty for not choosing our way?
Let US rather be thankful that our OBJ
ject is to be achieved in any way, by any
means, Our party machinery is perfect.
With the government again in the hands
Of the people, We can begin our real
work. A great occasion has come, and
the man for it has come with it, as he
always has come all through history.
To-day, Bryan is the man sent for the
occasion. If elected he, like Lincoln be-
fore him, must do precisely the work
heaven has sent him to do. For my
part, the signs Of Brysn's selection for q
great work are 30 numerous and 90 plain,
should deem it impious to waste Q
single vote which might contribute to
his election, And will any true Popu-