The Saint Paul globe., 1896-11-12
FAMOUS DECLARATION OF THE
GEORGIA NOMINEE AT LAST
MADE PUBLIC.
SENATOR BUTLER SCORED.
BITTERLY OF THE TREATMENT
ACCORDED HIM.
WATSON SAYS, T TOLD you so.'
Relieves If the Party Had Nominated
Straight Ticket Free Silver
Would Have Won.

ATLANTA, Ga, Nov. 1.-THE letter
of acceptance written by Thomas E.
Watson, accepting the Populist nomi-
nation for vice president, was today
made public. Seven columns of Wat
sons Peoples party paper are devoted
to it, 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 in 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 says he
accepted the vice presidential nomina-
tlon because | said l would" He Ge-
clares that if the ST. Louis Populist
convention had nominated a straight
Popul1st ticket, it would have been
elected. 1t would, he says, have driven
the Hills and Germans where they be-
long-in the Republican ranks-and the
Bryans and Blands would have ioined
with the Populists. He complains bit
| terly OF the treatment he has received
at the hands of the Populist leaders
ana addresses himself particularly to
Senator Butler in this way:
:. senator, a reform has no right to exist if
IL, IL mas no valid complaint to make. Pop
ul-sts cannot denounce the sins of the two. old
partles and yet go into political copartner-
snip with them. The moment we make a
T, treaty the war must cease And when we
cease our war upon the old parties we have
| no longer any excuse for living. Whenaver
rght compromises wrong 1t is the right
Wnich suffers: The Democratic managers
seem seem 10 resent as strange piece of imperti-
! nence the fact that the Populists dared 10
nominate ticket differing at the rear end
from theirs. Coming to them with 900 600
poses s they were begging for and piteously
heedlng, can say with a perfect assurance
OF telling the unqualified truth that nv ar
rival on the field of battle was not welcomed
as as heartily as Butcher was received by We'll
nngton at Waterloo They want nv rein
Iorcement but they do not want to lead them
ihey need Butchers troops, but they draw
the line at Blucher: That is hardly fair,
either to Blucher or his troops nor is it the
best way to defeat Napoleon.
For tbs attitude upon the part Of the Demo-
crate managers, believe that you, senator
are largely responsible. You made no ef-
fort to have me recognized. You publicly
stated that | would not be notified of nv
nomination. You went into the fusion policy
over my written protest with all the zeal
OF a man who wanted to elect the Democratic
ticket In this | think you were wrong AS
chairman OF the Populst committee the par-
y y certanly t ~ expected you to do all you could
manded Mr.. Sewall's withdrawal from the
ticket he would have been withdrawn
nave a letter OF yours in which you state that
the Democratic committee expected YOU to
make the demand, but that ycu did not make
IT, From the perversity of temper with which
me democratic managers Fave refused to do
the right thing by the Populists it would
seem that they prefer McKinleyism to any-
th.ng which might seem to be partly Pom
uHstlc triumph. Their subtle purpose is 10
couple the Bryan election with the complete
destruction of tie Populist party.
The position taken in this letter will be
bitterly assailed. Would that the pathway OF
duty were always carpeted with flowers. It
really is. By making myself and the great
party l represent mere footmat for Demo-
cratic politicians to wipe their feet upon
l could win much applause from that quar-
ter But II | were now lacking in the loyalty
which was expected of me when chosen, I
would gr1eve the men who have honored me-
trusted me and defended and loved me-
No one egrets more profoundly than I do
that the Democratic managers have so shared
the campaign that the South has again been
told that she must grove in the dust and
let an Eastern plutocrat put his foot upon
her neck. Nor does any one regret more
than l do that the Democratic managers in
those Populists only who getting loves
and fishes.
They have lost sight of the great army
OF pr-vateS whose honest hearts and sincere
souls form the strength of the re-enforce-
ment Mr.. Bryan needs. These Populists of
the rank and file have the spirit of cru
saders, and they would die fer a principle
more quickly than they would sell it. These
men will not vote for Sewall, nor Sewall
electors. If Senators Jones and German
really wish to defeat Mckinley let them
lose no time in realizing this truth"