The Louisiana populist. [volume] (Natchitoches, Natchitoches Parish, La.) 1894-1898, 1896-08-21
Letter From the Devil.
He Writes To- the Free silver
Democrats.

Has no Objection to them Agita.
ting The Free Silver Question
But Don't Want Them TO Settle
it-Urgcs Them TO Stick to
Their Ticket and Not Support
Watson - Sewall an Eastern
Nan and Will Guard His Ma.
lesty's InterestS-The Democrat.
ic Chairman Opposed to Any
Compromise With The POpu.
lists.
To Free Silver Democrats:
Brethren: l have no objection
whatever to yOu agitating the free
silver questiOn-prOviled You don't
settle it. 1t is u good thing to
agitate-nOt as good as the tariff,
but i: it will serve the same pur.
pose of keeping the people divided,
it will do. Now / want to give
you Democrats a little advice.
Don't you take Sewall Off your Ma
tiOnal ticket and put up Tom Wat
son. Watson is a red headed soil
Of-a-gun. You fellows stand by
your party and if yOu have any
union of forces let it be the kind
the hawk and chicken has when
they come together. If Sewall
would get off and the ticket be
of Bryan and Watson
there would be such a stampede
among us business men that it
would shake the earth and a good
part of hell. The fact is just this,
if those men are elected and should
have a Congress to back them my
business interests would be ruined
on earth and there would he con-
siderable of a panic in hell. /
have to call in my loans,
close my mortgages, Increase my
bank reserves, and this would all
cause u money stringency and i and
Wall street would create such
panic as you never saw in your
lives, and times would be harder
than ever.
Now you fellows do as tell You;
stick to Sewall and let the Popu-
lists go to he'll, need them down
here anyway; there are NOT enough
here for a cOrpOraPs guard. If you
do that free silver can't carry ami
you can have all this fun over
again in the next campaign. You
fellows are fo0fing away your time
anyhow OH this silver question.
1t would have been dead long ago
il it had not been for the POpulists
who have said all the time that the
money question was the main issue
The great trouble with tie POpu-
lists is they read. But they don't
seem to discriminate between an
ism and an issue. Now free silver
is an ism but sound money is an
issue. Sect Now what you fel-
lows want to do is to keep right
OIL abusing the Populists. If they
come to you ma Q 'em surrender
and support Sewall. Sewall is all
right. He's a National banker, a
railroad king and a millionaire.
that he's an Eastern man
and l can always trust an Eastern
man to guard my interests.
You fellows don't want to give
the Populists anything; stick tu
your party and let them stick to
theirs and it win be money In my
pocket. Don't you zee what your
National Chairman, Jim. X. Jones
,aysf He says he Is not in favor
VI making any sort Of compromise
with the POpulists. Jones' head n
evel and Is long m I have such
men as him at the head Of your
PARTY I'm not afraid Of the gold
being defeated. You ere
Row Jim maaaged that tariff re-
orm! Now wasn't that q big re-
0rm 10 make 20 much noise abouts
Put diamonds and fiddle strings on
he free list! bursted q peek OF
buttons of Of my clothes laughing
u that blamed thing when Jim got
trough with H. II is the only
hing that ever existed on earth
hat the English language couldn't
describe. Ii was the only thing on
'arth that everybody who had any
hing to do with was ashamed G
{, and yet had to take a piece
md call it good. I'm satisfied tina
lin can fix up the free silver ques
ion equally as good, and max
everybody gag to think about
afterwards. So you fellows jus
tick to Jim and Sewall and the.
will pull you through all right.
The best way to have a union G
orces is to do something to pre-
'ent it. You can all see that very
'lainly. Now do it and Oblige
Yours fraternally,
SATAN DEVIL.
-MOrgan's Buzz-Saw.