The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-10-16
GET INTO The ROAD.
f You Cannot Travel in the Middle, TIL,
Either Side WIN Do Equally as Well.

f You Cannot Travel in the Middle, Then
Either Side Will Do Equally as Well.
Even as sometimes satan steals the
livery of Heaven in which to compass
ais nefarious purposes, just so, to my
mind, certain enthusiastic marplots
are doing the cause of humanity
grievous injury in the name of the
principle exemplified in the admoni-
lion, keep in the middle of the road"
To all such 1 feel privileged, from
ny past record, to offer an honest ex-
aortation. A middle of the road man,
If the straightest sect, radical of the
radicals and a full grown man in pop
llism, fought step by step, and with
Ill my energy the successive acts in
che comedy of errors that left the peo-
ple's party. green and attractive, with
no alternative except to gracefully
submit to being swallowed by the
democratic organization. l faithfully
founded the alarm and poin ted out the
nevita BILE consequences of the course
our so-called leaders were pursuing,
which virtually pledged us to support
aemocracy's candidates, if they adopt
ID certain portions of our principles.
L uOW TcdllZc, DIS SlTOuSlN DIS Cdu
lny one, that we have been buncoed
again and beaten in the game of
politics. But, mark this, instead of
being captured by the old time corrupt
democratic organization, we have be-
come the, shall l say ''property," no,
will say the allies of the rank and file
Of the democracy, who captured their
party's organization from the Cleve-
Morgan syndicate. This
was neither intended, or expected, but
altogether unintended and unexpected
and foreign to the programme.
By the nomination, by the democ-
-acy, of Bryan, upon the platform
adopted at Chicago, the populists were
not only morally and logically COM
oelled to also nominate him, but were
placed in such a position that their
only alternatives were either the nomi-
nation of Sewan also, or the nomina
ton of straight candidates for both
the presidency and vice presidency.
The democrats made a mistake in not
nominating Judge Walter Clark, of
North Carolina; Joseph c. Sibley, of
Pennsylvania, or some other democrat
Of known alliance or populist sympa-
thies- The populists made confusion
worse COMPOUNDED when they nomi-
mated Watson, at the same time nomi-
mating Bryan. With both Sewall and
Watson in the field, neither could be
elected, even though division of elect
ors were effected, with a joint set of
electors in each state for both tickets,
all for Bryan and part for Watson and
part for Sewan. With separate and
distinct electoral tickets in each state
Mckinley would have won by plu-
rality vote and the populist voters
would have assisted in defeating their
own candidate. So far as the preserva-
ton of party autonomy and identity is
concerned, that could have been ac-
complshed as easily without Watson
as with him, in the only way it can be
done anyhow, to-wit: By the placing
in the field of separate and distinct
populist state tickets in each and every
state. Looked at from every stand
Bryan, was a mistake
With the exception Of the coin re-
demption fallaey and the omis sion OF
a declaration on the land question, the
platform adopted at Chicago is as good
and more radical than the platform
adopted by the pepulsts at Omaha in
1892, or at St. Louis in 1896. On many
points it is much more outspoken and
clear, and in gramma teal construction
it clearly excels the others.
The candidate standing upon this
platform is populist in all save the
name and he escaped bearing the name
only by the mere accident of the masses
of democracy capturing the party or
ganization and declaring for silver.
He has now made since his nomina ton
some 900 speeches and has plainly and
explicitly defined his attitude and ex-
posed his sympa thies. 20 that we may
know where he stands. And now
solemnly and without any reservation
whatever declare that, aside from Lin
coin. William Jennings Bryan is the
ablest. truest and noblest representa-
tive of the common people-the masses
that ever stood as a candidate for
the presidency of the United States.
and 1 consider him-Bryan-the ban
ner around which the toilers-the OPP
pressed and distressed-the disinher-
tied ard disconsolate must rally for
the political battle of Armageddon-
for the face to face struggle be-
tween the masses and the classes-the
aristocrats and the proletariat-the
people and the plutocrats- Bryan is
the personification and eloquent advo-
cate of the vital principles of Liberty,
Fraternity and Equality. He is plat
form of and by himself. He is NOT the
man whom certain conspirators in and
out of the peoples party intended
should be nominated at Chicago. But
he whom the builders rejected has
again become the chief corner stone
and we must not fail to assist in erect
ing thereon the temple of liberty. Be
fore the tremendous and vital issues
ocrsonified by Bryan and NJ Kinley
there is nothing worthy of a moments
consideration, and after them comes
aext in Importance the selection of
congressional candidates and candi-