The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-09-15
NOTIFIED AT LAST THAT HE Is
THE PEOPLES PARTY CAN
DIDATE.
WARM ROAST FOR sEWALL.
CHAIRMAN BUTLER HARDLY ARIE
TO SEE WHERE ARTHUR
COMES IN.
LETTER SENT TO BRYAN AS WELL.
Informed Why the PopuIists Con-
sidered Him the Right Man to
Name for Presidents

WASHINGTON, Sept. 14-The fol-
lowing is the letter sent by Senator
Butler, the chairman Of the Populist
executive committee, to Hon. Thomas
E. Watson, of Georgia, notifying him
of his nomination as candidate for
vice president by the Populist national
convention:
Headquarters Populist Party National Ex-
ecutive Committee Washington, y. c., Sept.
15.-Hon. Thomas e. Watson: Such Is our
form or government that the citizens of the
United Staes must shape its course for good or
evil, through the agency of political parties
When there Is no political party which repre-
sents the principles of good government no
party that stands for the right and interest of
strive to make an honest living by fair and
legitimate means, then it Is impossible for
the majority Of the voters to express their
will at the ballot box When alI the nolitical
parties stand for the selfish interest and
personal greed Of money changers, corpora
tions, trusts and monopolies, as does the Re-
publican party, under the leadership Of John
Sherman and the Democratic party under the
leadership Of Grover Cleveland the great
producing masses victims without the
alternative. To withhold their votes will fur
nfsh no relief, while to cast their votes for
either party is to sanction their own spoil
alton and SO strengthen the power that OPP
presses them.
This was the political situation in 1892. when
stern necessity forced organized labor the
organized wealth-producers and others who be-
lieve in good government, and were engaged
in legitimate business interest, to meet
and form a new political organization known
as the Peoples party. The Democratic and
Republican parties no longer represented the
principles upon which they were founded
Both had betrayed the people and had legis-
lated in the interest Of bankers spectators,
bondholders and monopolists thus enabling
the favored few to absorb the millions If
property earned and created by the toiling
masses.
The Peoples party was the first political
organization in twenty-three years that made
an honest demand for the free and unre-
stricted coinage of silver. The PEOPLES party
was the first political organization to make
definite and specific what is meant bv oppo-
sition to monopoles. instead Of indulging In
glittering generalities. So successfully has it
exposed the shortcomings OF the two old
parties that one of these old parties has been
forced to retrace its erring steps and cast
off, for the time being at least. its base and
treacherous leaders. 1t was the Peoples party
that brought out that all-important and over
shadowing Question Of financial reform to the
front.
The Democratic party, SO long debauched
and now divided, party beset from with
out and within by the gold and mononofv
Democrats, who are plotting to again control
1t, cannot be relied upon to carry out these
reforms Of the Peoples party, and to restore
prosperity to the American people. There
fore. there was never greater need for the
continued existence and vigorous growth Of
The letter then refers to the nomination Of
Mr.. Bryan by the Democrats, and saws: The
Peoples party, at its second national conven
ton, recognized In him man who stands in
the broadest and truest sense for American
institutions and American principles. 1t then
continues:
If the Democratic party had been true to
the people and its own platform in its selec-
ton OF candidate for vice president we
would not now have the honor Of addressing
you, one Of the worthest and NOSE beloved
sons Of the Peoples party, In this oficfaI
capacity. for in that event the PEOPLES party
would have nominated the whole Democratic
ticket by even larger majority than 1t nom
mated Mr.. Bryan. But such was not the
case. 1t seems that the party was not able
at one effort, to purge itself of its modern
at the same time it nominated Mr. BRYAN
give him a running mate who had earned
in the arena of action, contending against
foes of the republic, the affection c0nffd-
cnce and trust of the masses Of our people AZ
had Mr.. Bryan himself Had it nominated .
man for the vice presidency who was known
to America as chieftain and leader in de-
Tense of the toilers and producers of the land
one who by the use of voice and pen had
endeared himself to the American people
one with a past not obscured I'm silence sug-
gestive of either ignorance or Indifference to
the struggles OF the people with the money
to your worthy self would not have occurred.
The Peoples party, true to its principles
and teachings, nominated for the high ONCE
OF vice president man worthy to have
headed the ticket, a man who represents
what Mr.. Bryan represents, and therefore