Semi=weekly graphic., 1896-10-14
DENIED BY WATSON.
Not the Author of an Edi-
 torial Credited to Him.
SAYS MR. SHELBY WROTE IT.

He Says He Is For the Election og
 Bryan Regardless of What Might
 Happen to sewalI or Himself-A Tour
 Has Been Arranged For MT wat,o, In Kansas.
 NEW YORK Oct. 13.-A special to The World from Thomson, Ga. has the following from Candidate Watson /:
 "New York papers have alluded to the editorial, No Watson, no Bryan. which appeared in the Peoples party paper of last week, and they attribute it to me, This is erroneous. I resigned the editorship of the Peoples party pa. per just after the campaign opened. MT. James L. sibley, the present editor, wrote the article alluded to. Neither directly nor indirectly am I responsible for it. It represented his individual sentiments, and he had the right to ex- press them.
 My own position is different. From the beginning of the campaign I have given my loyal adherence to the St. Louis compromise ticket.
 T would make any personal sacri. flee not involving honor and principle to aid Mir, Bryan, regardless of the conse- 1uences to my political fortunes. Nv protest against fusion Is not so much that it pushes me off the ticket that it eompels Popuhsts to vote for man who does not represent their principles, and whom their national convention reject sd at St. Louis.
 Partly for that reason, PopnHsts. gee- ing this, grew discontented, and their discontent threatens the success of MT. Bryan. The fsst that several states have put out no Populist ticket, and the entire electoral vote has been sold to the Democrats for local offices, spreads in- 1ignation among the Populists in every state in the Union. I have mingled among the reople in this campaign more informally than any of the oandi- 1ates or any of the managers, and know Populist resentment at the man ger in which their party is being wrecked by mere plaoehunters which ieopardizes Mr. Bryan's success.
 q have repeatedly asked that justice oe done the Populist national ticket in Kansas and Colora 1o. l have also felt tree to condemn the deal in North Caro- ina, by which Populist votes are ex- 2ected to give a majority i'll the electoral college to Mir SewaI.
 .'This arrangement is not only unjust on the face of it. but may defeat itself by disgusting the PopHlists. In other words, it has seemed to me that the very best way to assure Mir. Bryan the Popuhst votes necessary to his election was to treat the Populists fairly as friends, comrades, allles, not as mere political Hessians, who had been hired to fight, and who could be disposed of as the whim and selfinterests of the hirers might dictate.
 'In continually calling attention to ;his weak point in our lines my purpose has been to help Mir. Bryan, not to hurt him At no time have I uttered the continent that Bryan must be defeated anless Watson could be elected, At no ;ime have harbored such feeling. At this time, as upon all other occasions, I nave felt the supreme importance of Bryan's election, regardless of what might happen to either Sewall or Wat son. but I ave also felt that in their stubborn, unyielding and insulting pol .cy of trying to force the Populists to vote for Sewall in these fusion deals the Democratic managers were clearly mak- ing a sacrifice of Bryan in the interest of Sewall THOMAS E. WATSON"