The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-25
CAN'T COUNT ON THEIR HELP.
POpuIists Think They Are i'm the
saddle and That They VIII Ride.

Saddle and That They VIII Ride.
Washington, D. c., Aug. Ex-senator
Butler. the foxy young leader Of the pop
ulists from North Carolina. who presides
over the Bryan and Watson headquarters
in this city. appears TO be playing politics
with the craft and mystery of a veteran.
The democratic leaders. including Sena-
tors Jones and Faulkner, seem to think
that the populsts are working with them
to secure the election Of Bryan and SewaIl.
and they are counting upon Senator But
Ter to manipulate the populistic wires for
the accomplishment Of that result. From
the tone of Senator Buffers remarks to-
day, II is evident that he has nothing In
common with the democrats, and the tie
that binds him to Bryan IS the belief that
the latter is a better pOpulist than he is
a democrat As for Mr.. Sewan, Senator
Butler says the populists can never regard
him as an acceptable candidate for Vice
President and a presidential possibility.
because he Is repugnant TO all the teach
ings of the populist party.
In view of the recent announcements
sent out from the democratic headquar-
ters here, 1t was supposed that the dem
ocrats and the popuiists were working
in absolute harmony, but Senator Buffers
talk to-day throws an entirely different
light on the situation.
Senator Butler was discussing the pro-
position to bring about a fusion between
the populists and the democrats in Texas.
He was at first disinclned to reveal the
proposition made by his party 10 the
Texas democrats, but after some persua-
sion, he admitted that In the construction
of the electoral ticket in that state, the
populists offered to let the democrats
electors. That offer, he says, was reject
ed by the democrats in the most scornful
and contemptuous manner possible, and
they refused even to hold a conference
with the representatives of the pOpullsts.
Senator Butler intimated very plainly
that the populists in the Lone Star"
state will take great delight in forming
any combination within reason that the
republicans may propose to overthrow
the naughty democracy of Texas. He de-
MES emphatically that the popullsts will
accept any compromise that tends to the
election Of Mr.. Sewall and the defeat of
Mr. Watson. He insists that Mr. Watson
represents everything that Mr.. Bryan
stands for, while Mr.. SeWall is out OF tune
with all that Mr.. Bryan advocates, ex-
cept that he claims to be for free silver.
In passing, Senator Butler scored the
managers of the Chicago convention for
lacking the courage to nominate Senator
Teller, whom they admitted typihed all
they hoped for or expected in a presiden-
tial candidate. They weakened at the last
moment and put him aside because he was
not branded with the mark of democracy.
They were forced to take Mr.. Bryan be-
cause they could not help themselves. If
they had continued phe good worlVs and
placed either Senators Daniels or Black
burn on the ticket with him, the populists
might have indorsed the entire ticket; but
when they went of to Maine and selected
Sewal, the populists refused to take him,
because he is surrounded by all the infiu-
ences that are in conflict with the plain
people of the country.
1t was with the utmost candor that Sena-
tor Butler claimed that Bryan represents
all that is near and dear to the populistic
heart, and he left the impression upon his
hearers that the democrats will be terribly
deceived If they count upon the populists
helping to pull Mr.. Sewall through.
He talked as though the populists ex-
pected to hold the balance OF power in
the electoral college, and he proposed to
! drive the hardest kind of a bargain to keep
Mr.. Watson on the ticket with Mr.. Bryan.
He says ne has received advices from the
populists of the west that they win not
support the Sewall end of the ticket, and
1T is needless for the democrats to look
for the withdrawal of Tom Watson.