The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-20
4 Populist "Leader" Receives Some
Good Advice from His
Followers.

seeing no other channel through
which their success is equally secured,
adopts the Democratic candidate, it
has no further use TO exist.
1T is strange logic indeed, that the
Peoples party must die because it does
right; that it must die because it is
! great and magnanimous and patriotic
enough to go outside of it's own ranks
for a presidential candidate for one,
WI ythough not a Populist in name is
in deepest sympathy with it for it's
MOST CHERISHED AND VITAL
MEASURES
to remove great and blighting curse
from the country.
why viii the nomination of Bryan
and Sewall by the Populist convention
render it impossible for Populists to
make fight for their local tickets as
Mr.. Taubeneck claims? Where they
are running Populist tickets without
fusion with either party the nonlina-
ton of Bryan and Sewall by their ma
uonal convention must strengthen
them with the people. 1t is true that
in states where fusion has been made
with the Republican gold standard
party, for the sake of local spoiis, the
plans may be somewhat marred; but
no true Populist can be any less
can cause no Populist candidate to lose
a vote.
Why should the Populist press dis
appear if Bryan is nominated? The
proposed action, if taken by the Popul-
ist convention will add strength and
influence to every Populist paper in the
land. The Populist party press viii
then stand for principle indeed, and as
a grateful and discriminating Ameri-
can people are brought to understand
THE PATRIOTIC ACTION TAKEN
for their sake by the Populist national
convention, the Populist press will
grow in favor and measure of pros
perity.
1T is true, that should the Demo-
cratic party be successful the POpul-
ISIS might not be in a position to de-
mand' appointments to offices from
President Bryan. But who can doubt
his sense Of justice and recognition of
obligation for patriotic duty well done
by members of the Peoples party?
Grant that the Democratic party
will not be likely to provide for paper
money, that is not redeemable in coin:
but Mr.. Taubeneck is mistaken in his
claim that outside of free coinage for
silver all other reforms advocated by
the Peoples party will be forcec to
await the formation and victory of
some new party pledged to their sup
port. If he will re-read the Omaha
platform and
COMPARE IT LINE FOR LINE
with the platform upon which Mr..
Bryan was nominated he will find that
the latter makes solemn pledge to the
country of every reform advocated in
the former except fiat paper money,
government ownership of railways and
the Sub-treaSury scheme which latter
measure the Omaha platform Itself
discredited
The cain of Mr.. Taubeneck that
the Populist party should be an ally
and nor an annex of the Democratic
party is an irridescent dream. Con
slderlng the numerical strength and
powerful organization of the Demo-
cratic party, coupled with the plain as
surance which its leaders have that the
Populists and free coinage Republicans
VIII flock to Bryan and Sewall by hun
dreds Of thousands, whatever the Pop
ullsss national convention may do, it
may be considered out of the question
that the Democratic party, having al
ready nominated its candidates and
adopted its platform, will make the CO.
partnership arrangement which is the
basis of Mr.. Taubeneck's plans. His
plan is for the Populists to nominate a
ticket Of their own and enter into an
WITH THE DEMO
Gratis
to have but one set of electors in each
OF the states. The result OF this agree
ment is to be that if the ccmbinafiorl
ticket is successful the Populists will
have either the president or the vice
president of the United States and will
also be in a position to demand an
equal share of the federal patronage.
including the cabinet and foreign, an
1t must be clear that the Demo-
cratic national committee has not the
vestige of the power necessary to enter
into such an arrangement, even if they
desire to do 50. The Democratic CON
vention adjourned sine die when it
completed its work, and its members
could be no more reconstructed into a
than they could be four
years hence for the nomination of a
new ticket and the adoption of a new
platform. Before the proposed action
could even be considered. the national
democratic committee must issue a
call for new national convention:
each OF the states must call new state
conventions to appoint delegates. The
Ils7e statement of this, which every
po1y must admit is
THE REAL CONDITION.
should satisfy every reasoning mind
now impossible is the proposed plan.
II must nave been plain to those who
PROPOSED IT, that it was impossible of
execution. We might go further. ana
say that the National Democratic com
nlttee would be fully justified in hold
ing that it had no authority n oo1
new convention for any purnose in tho
absence of the death or resignation Of
the nominees, their powers being lin
tied to the conduct of the eaTnnaion
that was inaugurated with the no,17ira-
ton of Bryan and Sewall
Passing from that considers tion y
party barter by which it would be nm
known to the country which of the fo,1r
candidates would be president or which
would be vice-president until the elec-
toral college convened, would prove, So
abhorrent to American voters that the
OVERWHELMING DEFEAT OF
THE COMBINATION
would be certain. There are in the Pop
ulist party, as in every other, two
classes, those who are merely politi-
clans and care for nothing but the
spoils, and those whose highest aim is
to secure to their country the relief
which the enactment of salutary meas
ures viii bring
Ninety per cent of the present men,
bership of the Peoples party is made