The representative., 1896-09-23
BRYAN ANlgs.sWATSON,
ARE OFFICIALLY + 5NpTJFIED OF
THEIR NOMINATION. RY THE
PEOPLES Vp4RTY.
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Senator Alien ForWaftis Letter to
Mr.. Bryan-LikeWisef Chairman
Butler to ME1.Wlatson.
Lincoln, .Neb. Sept I 4j-wm. v. Al
len, chairman of the Populist national
convention, mailed to William Jennings
Bryan today the following letter, Off
cially notifying him Of his nomination
by that body
William ]. Bryan, Lincoln, Neb.,-
Dear Sir: At convention of the Peo-
Pies Party, held at st. Louis from July
~ to 25 of the current year, you were
unanimously nominated for president of
the United States, to be voted for at the
approaching election. 1t was known at
the time that you had been nominated by
the Democratic party at its convention
held at Chicago few days before that
time, and that you would in all proba-
blllty accept the same in a formal man.
ner. Your nomination by the Peoples
Party, was not, therefore, made with any
thought that you were. Populist, or
that you accepted all the doctrines de-
clared by the st. Louis platform. 1t was
due largely to the fact that the money
question is the Overshadowing political
issue of the age and because you have,
at all times, been an answering, able
and fearless advocate of the free and un-
limited coinage of silver and gold on
terms of equality at the mints of the
United States, at the ratio of 16 to L.
1t was thought, also, that the observ-
ance of patriotic duty required a reunion
of all reform forces, and the convention
took tho Eh0rrU without
consulting you, of placing your name
before the people as it's standard bearer.
The convention was, in doing so, guild
ed by deep solicitude for the common
welfare, and acting on it's own motion,
prompted alone by desire to bring
about the best attainable results. So
much has been said respecting the reha-
bilitation of silver, by again placing it in
our coinage acts in the position it occu-
pied when stealthily demonetized by the
act of 1873, that it would be idle for us
to discuss the question. You will OBJ
serve by the closing language of the St.
Louis platform that the convention rec
ognized
THE MONEY QUESTION
as the great issue of the day, and be-
cause Populists believe that you are in
accord with them on this question you
will receive their ballots in November.
1t has at no time been expected, or is
it now, that you will abandon your ad-
hesion to the ChicagospiSform nor that
you will accept all thatis,declared in the
Peoples Party platform, however graf
flying the latter would she to all Popu-
lists. 1t must be understood that the
party does not abate ONE iota or title to
it's principles. We have declared our
selves in favor of many important re-
forms. in our judgment essential to the
liberation of the people from present un-
just and iniquitious industrial bondage.
In accordance with president of our par
ty we take this metho5f of notifying you
OF our nomination. We shall not send a
committee according to old party GUS
tom. In sending this letter of notif1ca-
tion of the great honor that has 60 just
iy been conferred on yosp by ollr party,
it is useless for us to assure you that you
have the confidence and esteem of all.
Your splendid abilities, known integ-
rity, competency, and eminent fitness for
the position justly entitle you to high
rank among the great statesmen of the
nation. We feel that in event of your
election, which now seems certain, that
you will carry into the executive the
principles of monetary reform to the end
that people shall enjoy better industrial
conditions. It is not anticipated that
this can be done with undue haste or SO
suddenly as to wrench or disjoint busi-
ness interests of the country but that it
will be done gradually, and in a way to
infuse confidence and hope of better con-
ditions to all. The Peoples Party will
exact of you no promises farther than
those made in your public utterances,
and exemplified in a life devoted to the
welfare of the race, nor will it ask you
to abandon the party of which you are
an honored member
PATRIOTS. NOT PARTISANS.
In your nomination our party has risen
above mere partisan surroundings,
adopting high plane of patriotism, be-
lieving that division of forces would
result in the election of William Nc
Kinley, the foremost advocate of
deeply burdensome and unnatural tax
alton, and the criminal policy of the
single gold standard, resulting ultimate
ly, If not in some manner checked, in
the complete destruction and disintegra-
tion of our form of government. Your
elevation to the chief magistracy of the
nation would be regarded as a vindica-
ton of the right of the people to gov
ern. and we entertain no doubt that you
will prove q worthy successor OF the i'm
mortal Jefferson and Lincoln, and that
your public life, like theirs. will illus
trate the purity and loftiness of Amer
ican craftsmanship.
Your extensive and intimate knowl-
edge of public affairs, gained in life
that has been devoted to upholding the
cause of the people, as we'll as your
keen insight into the condition of the
country, in our judgment highly quail
fies you to bring about a change in a
way that will work injury to none and
justice to all, thus making our govern
ment in fact. as we'll as it is now in
form only. a government .'of, by and for
the people" We have the honor to be
your most obedient servants.
WILLIAM VINCENT ALLEN,
Chairman.