The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1896-09-25

II go eaN AWW1Ve presence In sthSi6
Ia walt11g ont 81 II VIII
slaongn lNl 2 delegate. was also Il
e2eAely before thS country. g m S4
IN sAl cabinet position unieY RfvaSs
lfnlSt1af ion. 1 = = b y. . sssss
nauch for the national move.
s N0M We come to that part OF IL
enat - been played n this state iSi
p1 Owen, Towne, Lind and q couple III
Solaa1,. No one here suspected what WSH
ld1Ss nafched out. Everything dependS3
So 1ontn soing Tor silver, and no der
tylAn1 could be perfected until It Was fiiSs5
Chat thefs was q majority Of sitver mSs;
~ Chlcaeo convention. Hence inT IT,
Eaistt1c0 q this state where the PED
patty delegate conventions were held ~
IsSAeyS were allowed to instruct for nnrSsl
tor president. But ~ soon a. the ONE
lscenxentlon had declared FOR silver and f
| san, the machine went Into action here ~
Is must.s however. be underG
snas f&the SDemo-Pop arrangement I'M
Stars Wa: practically made soon afters}
Republican state convention. in anticsrsi
oI Mnat was expected to happen. and
actually happen. a 5.SSISssN
AZ the underlying chief motive of
sMhole silver movement was the destrucf
Ct the Peoples party for the beneafEEj
the Democratic party, not only IL sx
Southefn states. but even here In ME-
eotA, II was necessary to nominate J3
Lind u such . way that the DeniocrS
party could claim him as Democta
least liter his election. The way tpss
complish this was for the DemocrSfHss h
hold their convention first. Just afSsS
cine when these plans were maturani
Mas stated In the Representative that
Peoples party state convention wOuIS 81
called for Aug. s. A few days afterssS
Demoeratic convention was called f0r
% % August, evidently for the purroS9s5
being aheadS Of the Populist conventiS
An attempt was made by certain Popuifi|
60 eall thlss convention still earlier. but N
some reason Il was not done. Sl.ggsyl
The Peoples party national conyenfSa
Wa held the 22d Of July. It was at fh1
convention or rather on the train 5cafryIi22
the Mlnnesota delegation to the conyenfi1
that the -Populist conspiracYS}
10 up the Peoples party first leaked r.
TO carry ont the programme at st. Lou3
was necessary to get Donnelly out II
way. He was not In the deal. ana 0ss
was stven any prominent position the MN
ecneme Was likely to miscarry. ii 81
to down DonnelIy It was necessary t0sf
some new members Of the delegation r.
the secrets Of the conspiracy. The conssil
etors carried their point by hook Ss
crook, but not without letting out enoni1
to reveal the whole scheme. Sass
AZ soon % the delegl tion rot home. IL
ing Populists OF the state were inforra1
OF what was going on. The confereSS
committees that met at the time Of tho DsS
ocratlc state convention contained eoy9iidi
Populists that were already up In n
against this nefari0us programme.
BUT the fusion wave had got too much
9 start to be checked. Several well kroil
Populists made an effort to stop the q -
from controlling the Populist state COW
ton, but In vain. The instant that ~
Populist opened his mouth against NJ
Democratic swallowing process, he a.
pointed out 40 In the pay Of the Nerrin9
Olough machine. and that sllenced hfm.sS
course. The fusionlsts, alias the conspff1
tors, that had undertaken to deliver r.
Peoples party Of the state ana OF the ri
ZION over to Democracy, ruled the state coi
ventioh with an iron hand, and utterly 4
nOred any man thas dared to even utta
sn opinion differing from 9. u. Owen q
his retainers. 5sl.l Il slssSlEs
The original idea was to have the People
party convention endorse John Lind, IL
Democrat. But that could not have -
done without bolt IN the convention. M
was arranged tnat he should be nominati
by reclamation before the platform NJ
adopted, SC that he should mot b cam
upon to accept It, but instead should
cept the nomination on his own tefms ~
fusionists were, Of course, exceedingly ~
ful OF the success. OF. their grand TT
But the old Popullst leaders went horaSla
utter disgust. They said nothing, lest
failure OF the ticket should be laid to
charge. But the rank injustice Of ;sx
whole deal-the selling out Of the Peop3
the thought OF being used AZ tools Of u
an interruptions lot Of politicians to utt9ll
destroy the only reform party Of the 6ol
try, is ranking In the breast Of III Of fh3i
and Il some Of this suppressed wrath do
break out before election day, these 1iSG
have more patience than Job of old. aSs
The Democratic party. that q. the -
cratic campaign Committee. % conduI
Lind's campaign. The Peoples party
paign committee 10 not In II, 10 slmnS
ngurehead to satisfy imple-mlndsd
lists and keep them quiet until the n
cratic party has converted all People'esp6
organizations In the state into Demoet1
organixations. A few leading Popull
fusionists. Of course, have been proaa1
omces under the coming Lind admiaaG
tton. and they are now acting under Inst
tons from Democratic headquartersae3
making Bryan and Lind clubs ont IL I
PIES party leagues light along. ev1
county campaign COMMITTEES In xopu
counties Is being ohacered BY fusionisk
out and ont Democrats, which msanSM
same thing. Il Lind 10 accepted he WIN
course appoint some Of these fusionlSt
once. In everything else no will DO Q -
Pc known BY any other name. q HUI
II y believed to be the drstf time u
history Of American politics that = nan
oal party has been 30 basely. betrayed ri
sold out. az have been the 2000O 600 vot1
constituting the Peoples. pasty, North