The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-25
ON E LAST AppEAL
ISSUED TO THE MEMBERS 0E uTs
PARTY BY CHAIRMAN
BUTLER.
STAND BY WILLIAM BRYAN.
SUCH is THE REAL SUBSTANCE Otrl
THE SOMEWHAT FERVID
RHETORIC.
JUST A FEW WORDS FOR WATSON.
Georgia Running Mate Fit to stand
by the Boy Orator and Hold
His Hand.

WASHINGTON, Oct. Ex-senator
Butler, as chairman of the Populistl
national committee, today issued the
following official address:
Your national committee has been doing
an In It's power to unite our membership
IN one grand charge, all along the line. dur /
ing tne closing days of the campaign, in
pehalI OF liberty, home and country. We
nave been measurably successful. All that
Is needed now Is that the people should
aeat H the gravity of the situation which!
confronts them and the immense Interests
tnat are at stake and move together as one /
man. All thoughtful citizens stand apaIled
DeIore the tremendous power which the
mlinonalres OF the world, few in number and
individually insignificant have put forth In
the contest. Acting through the newspa-
pers which they own and the politicians
whom they have bought, they are covering
the whole land with a network of infu-
ences lnlm1cal to good government. They
threaten our defeat unless met by concert
ed action OF the whole people.
They seek continued power simply to in
crease their possessions. The good of man
KIND has no place in their purposes. They
despoiled, and made a land of princes and
paupers, where great wealth and great power
ty stand perpetually facing each other while
h1rel1ng armies preserve the peace and pro-
tect the robbers from their victims. They
are rapidly bringing this great, free re-
public in the same condition. Our ancestors
fed from the old world to the new to escape
the dreadful doom which Injustice had in
ficted upon them. Whittier will our children
fly when the full flower of this hideous abom-d
ination blossoms forth into perfection? OPP
preston peopled this new world. Is oppres-
sion to unpeople it? Or is our noble civiIiza-
ton to sink In blood in blind battle Of
Wretchedness against power. striking wildly
and wounding itself?
We have the noblest Of leaders. Our candi-
date for president Hon. William j. Bryan
has proven himself one Of the great men OF
the century, If not of all time. The power
which gave Washington, Jefferson jackson
and Lincoln has, by events, almost miracu-1
lously. brought him from obscurity to the
forefront Of affairs. He is more than AMI
orator, he Is profound thinker, logician,
born statesman. He Is striving, to the
last verge Of human endurance-and at the
risk OF his life-in campaign which is one
prolonged and tremendous debate to save his
country. Is there honest heart that does
not go out to him in this great struggle? We
see him almost alone, like knight in arnor
armed cap a pie with truth and Righteousness,
battling against the gigantic powers that
now have possession Of the world. Shall
we not sustain him? Shall any petty plea
turn us aside? Let follow where he leads and
strike where he strikes. Almost without a.
newspaper, without wealth, he takes upon his
forward laughing, to beat down the swarming
hosts OF the enemy. Let every Populist in the
United States cry out: Master, go on, and
truth and loyalty
We are no less fortunate in our candidate
for vice president. Hon. Thomas E. Watson
MS hand; scholar, an author, an orator a
nero; fiery souled son of the gallant South
as wise and just as he is brave.
But do not take encouragement from the
TACT that there are two candidates for vice
president in the field marching under Mr.
Bryan's banner. There will be two months
between the date of the election and the day
when the electors are required by law to
cast their votes. Surely there Is wisdom
enough in the two parties which support
Mr.. Bryan to adjust that complication dur
ing that time in manner satisfactory 70 al.
Brethren, some Of you fear that this cam
paign will destroy the Peoples party. We
have no such apprehension. Its principles are
right. and being right they are immortal II
Democracy lives up to its pledges the alliance
now temporary, may be continued. If they
do not, and the forces have to divide three
fourths of their people will march off under
our standard. The banquet is not over with
the soup. The Peoples party has yet a ire
mendous mission to perform and it seeks
nothing that Is not just and reasonable 1t
must ever remain in the guiding force of the
American republic, led by the pioneers of the
great army of reform.
In the name Of God, your country, your
children and all the poor and oppressed Of
the whole world, we ask you not to forego
this opportunity to do good and help man
kind. Let all unworthy thoughts perish
''The century's aloe flowers today
The tremendous power put forth by our
opponents teaches that If we fail now
we may fail forever. We felt the pressure
of the chains upon our limbs but they are
not riveted. Shall the cunning artifcers have
four years more in which to finish their work?
Shall we not strike them down now and
forever? Shall our children bless us in our
graves, or shall they rise up in their mis-
member that when liberty dies In the United
States it dies in the whole world. This is
mans one last, great opportunity. Forget
everything else and do your whole duty.