The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-10
SEWALL MUST GET OFF
POPULIST REVOLT TAKES on FOR
MIDABLE PROPORTIONS.
tvs National OrGan-A Madison
County PopuIist Rebels.

Unless Mr.. Sewal gets off the Popocratic
ticket pretty quickly, there is going to be
a heap of trouble. Candidate Watson is not
the only Populist who is determined to
have Sewalfs scalp. He is backed in his
demand by some of the most powerful
agencies in the Populist party and a large
and growing Populist following that is
ready to come out in open revolt against
Bryan in very short time. Not the least
powerful of the influences at work is the
Nonconformist, which is generally recog-
nized as the national organ OF the party,
and has as much influence throughout the
prairie States any half-dozen Populist
papers that might be named. 1t is edited
by Charles X. Matthews, one of the men
who believes that it is time for the party
to assert itself. Mr.. Matthews declares
that a few electors here and there do not
cut any figure at ALL but what the party
wants and proposes to have is the cleo
ton of Watson as Vice President in case
Bryan should be elected. In this week $
issue of the Nonconformist which goes to
press to-day Mr.. Matthews will publish the
following letter, written to him by Paul
Vandervoort, president Of the Reform Pres;
Association and one of the best-known men
in the Populist party.
1.-The treason to Watson, our gallant can
didate for Vice President, has been carried
out in Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado, Idaho,
Nevada and all the West, except oregon T
California and Montana, while South Da-
kota gives them all to the Democrats.
In the South the Bryan Democracy re-
fuses to give US one single elector, relying
on it's power to stuff the ballot box and by
false counts steal electors in the solid
South. The conspiracy of the Bourbon
Democracy in the South, the silver men IN
the mining States and traitors in Nebraska.
Kansas and Iowa is being carried out TO
destroy the Peoples party In Nebraska the
Holcomb and Allen wing of the People
party takes the State ticket and gives the
Democrats four straight electors, and then
they have four others who will vote for
SeWall without doubt. HcWling about free
ing the Nation from foreign rule, they have
placed on the electoral ticket a SWede, a
German, an Irishman, Polander and a
Bohemian-or five out of eight
THE INFAMOUS SELL-OUT.
1.-The Democrats feel outraged at being
compelled to swallow Holcomb and his
satellites, but they had to do it to get the
electors for Sewall, ali the Holcomb
crowd want is pie and plenty of it, and If
Bryan should be elected they would de-
mand still further reward for their treason.
They have nominated for Congress a Re
publican in the Third district who has
never left the party, a Democrat in the
the First and Second and the immaculate
and only Greene in the Sixth. In the
Fourth and Fifth we have true People. S
party men Judge Stark and Switzerland.
Such is the condition here. The trade Will
be carried out down to county offlcers aud
Peoples party with elghty-nNe papers
carving Bryan and Watson at their mast
head submit to the infamous Sell-out ar
ranged before the delegation went to St.
Louis. The Bryan Democrats polled less
than TO- 900 votes last fall, and | honestly
believe that the silver Republicans outnum-
Der them in the State. The republican
Bryan men have not been conceded one
thing unless we call Judge Maxwell con-
cession. 1t is all Democracy in the saddle.
L was in Texas when the Democratic State
convention spurned and spit upon the Pop
ulist Sta lie committee when they asked for
a division of electors. So it is all over the
South The purpose is to destroy the Peo-
pies party and put the Southern bourbons
in full control for another quarter of a
century. They have DISTINGUISHED two
thirds of the people by the Infamous Mis-
sissippi and South Carolina constitutions,
and they propose to enact similar provI-
sions in all the South. They are no not nom i7
betray the cause again as they nave IN the
past. The great question in the South Is
will be sacrificed by the triumph of Bryan
and Sewall. For my part L Will not sup
port Sewall electors in the State and will
tight them in every State where we nave
the power.
PEOPLES PARTY TRAITORS.
81 will support Bryan and Watson cleo
tors. but the cheat and swindle has been
carried so far that all middle-of-the-road
Populists, if they want to preserve one
iota of their party must at once demand
Sewalrs withdrawal and that Bryan shall
at once accept our nomination and fully
dignity our party, which has kept alive the
cause of silver for five years. l hope and
trust that all Peoples party traitors like
Holcomb Weaver. Taubeneck and every
other one who are before the people for
office this fall will be ANONYMOUSLY de-
feated.
Not one single honest Populist will be
recognized in this campaign None but
the Aliens, Leases, Weavers and that class
have any standing with the Bryan Democ-
racy
too numerous to mention. The whole plot
means our utter destruction. 1t does not
mean the triumph of free silver; The gold
bugs will be in the saddle. The people
will be betrayed, and there will be, if they
have the power, no chance to revive our
organization. | will not be delivered to
Sewall. / despise, loathe and hate the
Bourbon Democracy, and 1 have as much
desire to see the triumph of the battle
for an honest ballot as l have for free
silver.
THE plutocrats are in the control of
both the old parties. d. B. Hill and Tam
many have never supported a candidate
without trade. We can force Sewall off
the track. Let US all join hands in a re-
volt that will compel it"
A MADISON COUNTY LETTER.
The Nonconformist will also print the
following letter from w. Cory, of Madison
county, one of the influential Populists of
Indiana:
LAS the Peoples party now hold the key
to the present political situation L say,
let them use it for what it is worth. Push
it along. Keep it moving in every direc-
ton. The masses of the Peoples party
must not submit to be sold out by a few
self-constituted leaders, who by swapping
the presidential electoral tickets of their
respective States for the State and county
tickets. to be used for the express benefit
of the said few officers. They surely cam
not deliver the Peoples party voters who
have been educated against such systems
for the last six years. Let US show them
that will remain true to our late teach
ings of true and independent American vot-
ers, and that we will stand by that true
and noble Tom Watson though the heavens
fall land Bryan, toO) AT our ST. Louis
convention, by our action there. we have
shown to the world at large that we We're
willing aye, more than willing} to COM
promise on fair and honorable terms. The
would either voluntarily withdraw or that
he would be invited to do So Let us de
mand North, South. East and West loud
and long, and all the time that this be
done and done quickly.
This must be done for the good of the
masses of the people, the common people.
if you please of all the reform element
who came from all the parties. The people
who are in debt demand it, and there are
legions. The farmers and the wealth pro-
ducers of every kind demand it. In fact.