Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1896-07-25


presidential candidate, for one who,
though not populist in name, is in deep
est sympathy with its most cherished and
vital measures, to remove a great and
bltghting curse from the country.
Will Strengthen Tickets.
why will the nomination of Bryan
and Sewall by the populist convention
render it impossible for populists TO
make fight for their local tickets, as
Mr.. Tauberneck claims? Where they are
running populist tickets without fusion
with either party, the nomination OF
Bryan and Sewall, by their national con-
vention will strengthen them with the
people. 1t is true that in states where
fusion has been made with the republi-
can gold standard party for the sake OF
local spoils, the plans may be somewhat
marred, but no true popuist can be any
less a populist through such action, and
it can cause no populst candidate tc
lose a vote.
why should a populist press disappear
if Bryan is nominated? The proposed
action, if taken by the poputst conven.
/ ton, will add strength and influence tc
every populist paper in the land.
THE claim of Mr.. Taubeneck that the
populist party should be an ally and mo-
an annex of the democratic party is ar
irridesCent dream. Considering the nu
merical strength and power and organiza
ton Of the democratic party, coupled with
the plain assurance which it's leaders Civ,
that the populists and free coinage re
publicans will flock to Bryan and Sc
wall by hundreds Of thousands. whateVe
! the pOpulist national convention ma,
! do, it may consider out of the question
that the democratic party, having alread!
nominated its candidates and adopted it
platform, will make the co-partnershi
| arrangement which is the basis of MI
| Taubeneck's plans.
at must be clear that the Democrat
| national committee has not a Vestige 0
| the power necessary to enter into sue
| an arrangement, even II they desire
! do So The democratic convention nc
! journed sine die when it completed It
work, and it's members could be no mor
! reconstructed into convention than the
could be four years hence for the nomir
| alton of a new ticket and the adoptio
! Of a new platform.
"A party barter, by which it would /
unknown to the country which Of tn
four candidates would be president an
which would be vice president until til
electoral college convened. would prov
so abhorent to American voters that ~
Overwhelming defeat 'of the combinatio
would be certain.
The populist convention will seal til
doom Of the party if by its action
arouses a well-grounded suspicion tina
| IN hn
| ton for which the masses are in sue
crying need. Why should either cours
operate differently in Texas or Mort
Carolina from what it would in Nebrask
or Colorado? There are $1,000 populii
votes in Colorado If the coming cor
Vention shall not nominate separdt
ticket at least 10000 OF them Will in an
event be cast for Bryan, and the probd
! bilities are that, feeling inCensed a
the Indifference of the national CONVEX
ton Of their party to their needs An
condition, most of them will vote IN
democratic state ticket as well. But nom
mate Bryan, and the prestige such WIS
and generous action will give the part
will in all human probability carry tn
state for local officers. So it will be
| Nebraska. In what does the situate
differ in the southern states? Men ar
alike in all; and the same intehisen
selfishness will induce them to act alik
in all. The practical workings Of In
nomination advised will at once dispe
all apprehenslons of the calamities of III
populist press, popuHst prestige, populis
candidates and populist measures WhicI
Chairman Taubeneck in his newborn
zeal for a separate ticket so adroltl
suggests"