The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1896-08-27
LEFT THE PARTY.
Col NJ. N. Price, the Eloquent POpu.
list Comes out fer
Mckinley.
Once a POpuliSt Candidate for Lieut..
Governor, and well known
i'm Hand Co.

county q. A. II. meetings several
times. He publishes the following
open letter:
TO the Public: | frankly avow
that cannot support Bryan. | am
not and never could be a Democrat.
All my antecedants are republican.
| cheered at the birth OF the republi-
can party and swore fealty to its
sacred banner in 1856. | was a
Lincoln wide-awake in 1860; was
commissioned a colonel by a repub-
lican governor, and first flashed my
maiden sword, with eager grasp to
the thrilling music OF Republican
patriotism.
have always advocated a civil
bill securing to every negro citizen a
free ballot, and denounced the multi
fication of the results OF the war.
am in favor OF a protective tar
if, which has always been the stead
fast friend OF the laboring man, and
| have for twenty years advocated'
true bimetalism, but | am opposed
to reckless experiments in finance
which are always favorable to the
capitalist and disastrous to the lab
orer. These associations cannot be
forgotten. | would not, if | could,
blot out the record of the past.
These sacred Oracles, woven and
embroidered with memories of de-
votion to country, weaponed val
or against battalioned treason, wise
legislation producing industry and
national greatness, and steadfast
loyalty to constitutional government;
all speak to my conscience in this
crucial hour and loudly forbid ALI
ance with Altgeld anarchism, con-
tempt OF courts, Tillman sectional
ism, and the shimmering shibOleth of
an irridescent orator, who is an I'M
tried champion, a free trade and
anti-ciyil rights advocate, and who
insultingly ignores the platform and
nomination OF trucking POpulism
and kicks the u that licked his
boots. When accidental leaders
mock at the most cherished
object of POpulism, when adventure
ers for the sake Of Temporary success,
delude our reform movement into
abandoning it's basic principle, then
the standard OF Populism becomes a
meaningless rag, |, for one, will low
er my lance and quit the field.
Never in the annals of parties was
there such an exhibition of brutal
manners, rude impudence, gross i'm
politeness, less calm elaboration and
more reckless gag rulings than dis
graced the late Populist convention,
and put to blush every decent mem-
Der OF the party in the country.
Loucks and Stewart were squelched
and insulted and Pefferand Donnelly,
both eminent men, We're totally TO-
nored, and under the lead OF PROBES
sional politicians, Weaver and Allen,
backed by the ignorant corn crack
ers OF North Carolina and Georgia.
Populism was assassinated, crucified
on u silver ross, and the mangled
body turned ver to Coroner Bryan.
The financial principle so strongly
urged by Wendell Phillips, advocated
and Endorsed by Edwards. Pierpont
and Senator Stanford, and so long
maintained by wise legislation in
France, and to advance winch lett
my old associates in 1899. was in
st. Louis relegated to the rear by
eager ofhceseekers who hope to
delude the people and ride into Office
upon the wild waves OF a silver craze.
| cannot follow them against an old
soldier whose record in morals, poll
tics and the field is without spot or
blemish. Like the Texas delegation,
who, amid the Glamour OF band wag-
on eXcitment, stood as firm as the
Coldstream guards, and voted "No,
no to Bryan's nomination, 50 |
take my stand and shall vote NO"
on the Bird OF November. And | do