The herald., 1896-07-15
ENDORSEMENT OF BRYAN
Is Urged by a PopuIist
Leader
THE REORCAN|ZED DEMOCRACY
Deserves Support of the Peo-
pies Party
POPULlSTS OF PRINCIPLE
POPULISTS OF PRINCIPLE
Recognize the Triumph Of Masses Over
the Classes
Teller Declines q Nomination and Will Sup.
port Bryan
The Probability Increases That Both Popu-
lists and Silver lien VIII Endorse the
Nominee Of the Chicago
Convention
Associated Press Special Wire,

WASHINGTON. July 14.-J. H. Turn
er. secretary of the national committee
Of the Peoples party. has issued the
following statement:
The result Of the late national DEM
ocratic convention is undoubtedly the
triumph of Populism. A large portion
Of the voters in the Populist party In
the south and west were originally Dem
ocrats. and left the old party because It
was dominated in every convention by
the eastern Democrats, who represent
ed Wall street and the monopolists of
New York and New England. 1t be-
came evident to every thinking man that
as New York was allowed to make the
platform and name the candidate Of
the Democratic party. the great plain
people would have no show and that
their rights and wishes would always
be ignored.
Believing this, the thinking men among
the rank and file determined to quit the
old party and organize a new party.
Hence the existence Of the Populist
party.
The Democratic party has purged It.
self. reorganized itself. and come out
for true Democracy, and to all intents
and purposes substituted the Populist
platform for the old platforms that the
party has been using for years and
which were dictated and foisted upon
the people by the gold bugs of the
east. Mr. Bryan, the nominee of that
convention, is a man who fits the plat
form. l have personally watched his
course for number of years, and know
that his every impulse has been against
the oppressors of the people and in be-
half Of the great masses. For more
than two years he has acted with the
Populists Of his own state. 1t cannot
be successfully denied that the princi-
pies advocated by the Populist party
have captured the Democratic party
and have driven out of its ranks that
element which has always been op-
posed to true Democracy, and which
from the beginning has been affiliated
with the Republican party as its natural
home.
"All the Populists in these United
States should rejoice that their prin-
ciples have taken such a hold upon the
American people that one Of the great
political parties of the nation has been
compelled to adopt those principles and
nominate ticket pledged to carry them
into execution.
If the Populists think more Of their
principles than they do of mere party
organization. they will be compelled
to unite with the forces going in the
same direction, and thereby rescue our
country from all the dire calamities
which we have predicted would befall
1t should the gold standard be perma-
nently fastened upon us.
LAS secretary of the national COM
mittee of the Peoples party for the last
four years, 1 have labored in season
and out Of season for the uplifting of
our party. love the associations which
I have found in it's ranks, but while these
are dear to me, the principles of the Pop
ulist party are much dearer. feel that
I would be one of the worst enemies of
the Peoples party and of it's princi-
pies should I not take the step at this
point that I believe will eliminate in
the complete triumph of every de-
mand made by the party. We have
advocated union of the south and west
in order that we might bring about the
necessary financial reforms. Now we
have chance Of bringing our hopes
and desires to a grand consummation.
THE truth Of it is, the only point we
now have to decide is whether they
will take Mr.. Bryan, whom every gold
bug in the country has denounced as a
Populist, for our next president of the
United States, or whether they will take
Mr.. Mckinley, who represents every
thing the Populists have denounced
and just the opposite of everything they
have advocated since they have been
party.
Looking at 1t from this standpoint.
I feel that in the election of Mr.. BRYAN
Populism has triumphed-and when I
say Populism mean the great common
people Of the United States, the masses.
have triumphed against the classes
and should Mr.. Kinley be elected the
classes have triumphed, the English gold
standard has been permanently fas-
tened upon the lines of industry in this
country. and there will be nothing left
for us but serfdom that will undoubt-
edly bring on a bloody revolution in
the near future"
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