The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-07-29

ence of the Peoples party is indispen-
| sible to the success of free silver. For
me TO withdraw would be for me 10 sign
the death warrant of my party. Ours
| is the party of free silver and We main
tanned that principle while the DINO
cratic party in 1892 and 1898 was making
! war upon it. We do not think our
party should now close up and quit
business simpy because the Democrats
are so unreasonable as to refuse US Pop
ulists of the south any recognition at
all. That fact would show that the
real purpose of the apparent adoption o
our principles is to kill our party and
not 10 enact those principles into law.
If the Democrats are sincere they
viii not try to put upon us such terms
that every man in our party at the
south will feel insuited and Inundated.
If Mr.. Bryan did not want our support
Senator Jones had no business at st.
Louis at all. If Mr.. Bryan does want
our support he ought to be willing to
adopt the policy which viii most GER
tainly assure him that support and that
policy is to accept as a running mate
a southern Popuiist named by the I'M
animous voice of the Populist national
convention Our party has gone TO the
extreme limit Of generosity in the effort
to procure a union of the silver forces
We did not claim first placef on the ma
tional ticket. We are content with the
second.
HE'LL STAND BY IT.
Thomas f. Watson, candidate for
vic president on the Populist tin
a. telegram from Townsville, Ga, to
the Herald says:
Our executive committee must de-
cline the question OF the dividing OF
electors. If Bryan accepts our nona-
nation and Mr.. Sewall should retire,
Texas Populists would probably be con
tent with Bryan and Watson, even
though Bryan did not endorse adj the
platform l was absolutely sincere
when l said / would not accept either
place on the. Populist national ticket
| thought our party would have dlrfi-
Guilty in naming d straight-out Popu-
list ticket and 1 did not desire either
place l stayed away from the conven-
ton partly to avoid prominence and
the Georgia delegation had positive in
etructions not to allow the use of my
name. After they met and the fusion
strength developed it seemed that our
party would be swallowed up by the
Bryan forces, and to have gone into the
presidential campaign with no Popu-
list on the national ticket meant death
to the Populist party. The Georgia del
egation then telegra pied me asking
me to allow the use of my name to or
ganize the factions and save the party.
1 consented and will abide 10y the con-
sequences. When l said 1 would not
accept did not dream that this emer-
gency could possibly come upon our
party
SOUND MONEY IN NEBRASKA
Omaha, Neb., July 2S-In an inter
view with the Bee, J. Sawyer. United
States district attorney for Nebraska,
and one of the leading gold standard
Democrats of the state, stated that 1.-The
true Democracy of Nebraska will hold
state conven ton in the near future
to nominate a ticket composed of rep
resentative Democrats upon Demo-
cratic platform"
Mr.. Sawyer stated further that a
meeting of sound money Democrats
would be held i'm Omaha this week to
discuss the details of the proposed cam
paign- Delegates viii be sent TO the
national convention TO nominate a
sound money candidate for president
AND IN INDIANA
indianapolis, July 2S.-Ex-CongreSs-
man Bynum who is a member of the
subcommittee of the sound money
Democrats that is arranging for "a ma
tfonal convention to nominate a sound
money ticket, said today that fifteen
states have already indicated that they
VIII be represented at the meeting in
This city, August I. There are a few
OF dhe far western states which Will
not be represented at the meeting of
August z, he says, because the time is
so short that they cannot get their rep
resen tatives. States are beginning to
organize, Bynum says. and Minnesota
has already appointed delegates and
Texas has organized and Kansas has
sent word that that state would be or
ganized Immediately.
LIKEWISE IN MISSOURI.
Kansas City, Mo. July 2S.-The first
steps toward the organization of the
gold standard Democrats have been
taken and the first of next week viii
witness the beginning in this part Of
Missouri Of an active campaign of the
cause of the gold standard along the
line of the recent Chicago conference.
l.. c. Kroutoff, the Missouri member
of the national committee OF the gold
standard Democracy. is leading the
move, which took form here at a con-
ference of thirty prominent jackson
county Democrats Within the next
few days, it was decided. call viii be
issued for county mass meeting. at
which delegates viii be elected to
state convention to be held as soon as
possible after the national COMMITTEES
convenes. August . In the meantime