Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-09-16
NOTIFICATION OF WATSON.
Chairman Butler Sends to Him Let.
 ter From Washington.

] WASHINGTON, Sept The follow ing is the letter seat by Senator Butler of North Carolina, chairman of the Populist executive committee, to Hon. Thomas B. Watson Of Georgia, notify ing him of his nomination as candidate for vice president by the Populist na- tional convention:
 Such is our form of government that the citizens of the United States must shape it's course for good or evil through the agency of political parties. Whom there is no political party that represents the principles of good gov ernment, no party that stands or the rights and the interests of the laborer. the wealth producer and all who strive to make an honest living by fair and 1e- gltlmate means, then it is impossible for the majority of the voters to express their will at the ballotbox.
 When all the political parties stand for the selfish interest and personal greed of moneychangers, corporations, trusts and monopolies as does the Re publican party under the leadership of John Sherman, and the Democratic par ty under the leadership of Grover Cleye- land, then the producing masses are vic- tins without the alternative To with hold their votes will furnish them no re- lief while to cast their votes for either party is to sanction their spoliation and to strengthen the power that expresses them. This was the political situation i'll 1892 when stern necessity forced or ganized labor, the organized wealth producers and others who believe in good government, and were engaged i'll legitimate business interests and to meet and form q political organization known as the Peoples party.
 ''The Democratic and Republican par ties no longer represent the principles upon which they are founded. Both i have betrayed the people and have leg slated i'll the interest of bankers, speeu- ators, bondholders and monopolists, thus enabling the favored few to ab- sorb the millions of property earned and l created by the toiling masses.
 1.-The Peoples party was the first po- litical organization in B years that made an honest demand for the free and unrestricted coinage of silver. The Peoples party was the first political or ganization to make definite and specific what is meant by opposition to monopo- lies instead of indulging in glittering promises It exposed the shortcomings of the two old parties, that one of these old parties has been forced to re- trace it's erring steps and cast off, for the time being at least, it's base and treacherous leaders. Is was the Peoples party that brought the allimportant and overshadowing question of financial re- cratic party, so long debauched and now divided, q party beset from without and within by the gold and monopoly Dem- ocrats, who are plotting to again con- trol it. cannot be relied on to carry out those reforms of the Peoples party and to restore prosperity to the American people Therefore, there was never greater need for the continued existence and vigorous growth of our party than now"
 The letter then refers to the nomina- ton of Mir Bryan by the Democrats and says the Peoples party at its second national convention recognized i'll him man who stands in the broadest and truest sense for American institutions and American principles. It then con tinues
 If the Democratic party had been true to the people and it's own platform in its selection of candidate for the vice presidency, we would not now have the honor of addressing you, one of the worthiest and most beloved one of the Peoples party, i'll this official capacity, in that event, the Peoples party would have nominated the whole Democratic tlCk6b ny oFtA Q AthA BCA h1fhJOAApJ eAoh 1p nominated Mir. Bryan. But such was not the case. It seems that the party was not able at one effort to purge it. self of it's modern heresies, cast off it's plutocratic leaders and at the same time it nominated MT. Bryan gave him q run- ming mate who had earned ill the arena of action, contending against the foes of the republic, the confidence and trust of the masses of our people, as had MT. Bryan himself Had it nominated q man for the vice presidency who was known to the Americans as 6 chieftain and leader in desenSe of the toilers and producers of the land, one who, by the use of voice, pen and means, had en-