The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-20
POpulists Dead Set Against En-
dOrsing Bryan.
Not an Ounce of Reform In a
Ton Of Democracy
SAYS THE PRESIDENT
Of the Indiana Populist Press
Association,
In a Circular Letter Scattered
Over the State.

ere E1duI6s 4HO.s July HO-OOETeS-
pondence and interviews, had within
the past few days with some OF the
leading Populists of Indiana, go to in
dictate that the coming national conven-
ton of the party will be one of the most
turbulent and exciting the country has
ever known. The expression ''an at
sea" will hardly convey an adequate
idea of the wide variance of views en-
tertained
In a circular letter. which he is now
sending out, N. H. NIotsinger of Shoals,
president of the Indiana Populist Press
Association, says:
I'VE urge every rank and file Popu-
list, and every lover of liberty, who can
raise the price of his fare, to go to St.
Louis, July p, and surround the con-
vention hall, and not allow the dele
gates to dispense until they have given
US the principles of the Omaha plat
form, with the initiative and referen-
DUN added, and true and tried Popu-
list candidates to carry it into law.
There is not an ounce of true reform
in ton of Democratic leadership. That
party stole the offices in 1892 under false
pretenses. They have established the
gold standard; sold the country to Eng
land for 1852, 900, 600; ruined commerce.;
destroyed half the values of all forms
of property; and now have stolen part
of the Peoples party platform, at Chi
cago, under which to hide their guilty
heads, in order to get the offices and
escape the wrath of a ruined people.
1--WE have forced the enemy into
plain view in the Republican party, and
they can easily be defeated by the
POpulist party. Let US drive pluto
crazy from its hiding place in the Dem
ocratic party. Let US not allow them to
seize our guns while we sleep, and
fight US with our own weapons. Plu-
tocracy is cunning; it is wary. Let us
not be caught by the deceptive tricks
Of the political conjuror. Not 1 per
cent of the free silver Democratic dele
gates at Chicago are really free silver
reformers. They are mostly trained
politicians; adopts in tangling pOliti-
cal sentiment-platform thieves Of SEN
timents not their own. Not a POpulist
in this vicinity will vote for Bryan"
MR.. ROOP'S STATEMENT.
In reply to this Mr.. A. NJ. Roop, sec
rotary of the Indiana Reform Press as
ISOLATION, and editor of the Standard
this city, today gave out the following
statement in an interview with The
News correspondent:
1.-The Democratic party Of today, as
it stands reorganized, bears no more re
semblance to the Democratic party of
ard does to that of Emperor Nero.Ihave
at this distance, watched the battle at
Chicago and AMIN free to say that a
more earnest set of men never fought
together for a common cause than fol-
lowed the leadership of William J.
Bryan. If he is elected I believe he
will as surely carry out the demands
of the platform as that he lives, pro-
viding of course, that congress gives
him the power and authority. I am
for Bryan, if he gets the endorsement
Of any respectable portion of the Popu-
list and free silver forces. A failure to
do this will mean McKinley's election
and McKinley's election means the re-
charter of the national banks for fifty
years to come. OF course, this plan is
kept in the background now. The peo-
pie are not supposed to know it, for, as
one of our gold bug organs said last
evening, the men who have money
loaned are the Reconstructed birds
that ever few and the writer might
have added, have as much mercy and
respect for their feIlow-men as the
eagle has for the tender lamb
LAS to the Omaha platform, it is, or
was, a great document, but has served
its duty. It's re-enactment in 1896
would prove as much of a failure as it
was a success in 1892. If the brains of
the POpulist party was exhausted in
that platform, then it is simply ineapa-
bic of further progress. The people are
for Bryan, and the perpetuatiOn of our
party lies in a union of free silver
forces. If the party stands for this I'M
ion, it will live. If not, the voters will
stampede to him anyway, and on cleo
ton day a few sO-called leaders will
be left standing alone. I am working
for principles rather than party, and
now is the time to gain them. Regard
ing party platfoFms-when once given
out, they become public property. They
are not covered by letters patent"