The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1896-11-12
TOM WATSONS LOST LETTER
That Long Delayed and Much Discussed
Document.
FINALLY GIVEN TO THE PUBLIC
1t is supplemented by Four Columns Of
Editorial Comment in Which the Geor-
gian Declares That Popunst Detection
Resulted in McKinleys Election.

ATLANTA, Nov. l2.-IhC letter Of acCep-
tance written by Tom Watson accepting
the Populist nomination for vice presi-
dent was yesterday made public Seven
columns of Watson's paper are devoted to
1t. The letter is supplemented by four
columns of advice to Populists to "sit
steady in the boat and hold their party
together"
The editorial tone of the paper is one of
fulfilled prophecy. Watson declares that
the failure of the Populists to support
Bryan i'm the close states brought about
McKinley's election He goes into a long
review of the circumstances leading to
his nomination at st. Louis, and accepts
the vice presidential nomination because
l said 1 would"
He declares that if the St Louis Popu-
list convention had nominated straight
Populist ticket it would have been elected.
1t would, he said, have driven the Hills
and Germans where they belong-into the
Republican ranks-and the Bryans and
| Blands would have joined with the Pop
/ ulists.
He complains bitterly of the treatment
he has received at the hands of the Popu-
| list leaders and addresses himself purticu-
| luarly to Senator Butler in this way:
Senator, a reform has no right to ex-
ist if it has no valid complaint to make.
! Populists cannot denounce the sins of the
two old parties and yet go into political
| copartnership with them. The moment
we make a treaty the war must cease.
/ And when we cease our war upon the old
parties we have no longer any excuse for
living. Whenever right compromises
wrong it is the right which suffers.
THE Democratic managers seem TO re-
sent as II strange piece of impertinencC
the fact that the Populists dared to nom
mate II ticket differing at the rear end
from theirs. Coming to them with the
! 100000 votes they were begging for and
piteously needing, | can say with perfect
assurance of telling the unqualified truth
that my arrival in the field of battle was
not welcomed as heartily as Butcher was
received by Wellington at Waterloo They
want my reinforcements, but they do moi
want me to lead them. They need Blu
cher's troops, but they draw the line al
Blucher. That is hardly fair, either tc
! Blucher or his troops, nor is 1t the best
way to defeat Napoleon.
For this attitude upon the part of the
| Democratic managers | believe that you
senator, are largely responsible You
made no effort to have me recognized
You publicly stated that L would not be
notified Of my ndFhination. You wen
into the fusion policy, over my writer
protest, with all the zeal Of u man who
wanted to elect the Democratic ticket. II
this think you were wrong. As chair
man of the Populist committee the party
certainly expected you to do all you coult
to elect the Populist ticket,
Had you demanded Mr.. Sewall's with
drawal from the ticket he would have
been Withdrawn. l have letter of your.
in which you stated that the Democratic
committee expected you to make the de
mand, but that you did not make it. Tit
Democratic managers seem to prefer Nc
Kinleyism to anything which might seen
to be partly POpulist triumph
NO one regrets more profoundly than
do that the Democratic managers have 81
shaped the campaign that the south ha
again been told that she must grovel il
the dust and let an eastern plutocrat pu
his foot upon her neck. Nor does any on
regret more than | do that the Democrats
managers, in shaping their fusion deals
have considered those Populists only VIII,
were getting loaves and fishes"
The letter concludes with the statemen
that Populists will not vote for Bryan an,
Sewall electors, and says: If Senator
Jones and German really wish to defea
Mckinley let them lose no time in real
izing this truth"