The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-06-22
NOT I'M A HURRY.
Peoples Party Not Going to Be
Swallowed
By the Democracy Says the
Missouri State Chairman.
THEY MUST GIVE UP
Some of Their Old Democratic
Tenets
If They Want the Vote Of the
POpulists.

St. Louis, June 22.-In the opinion Of
A Rozelle. chairman of the Peoples
party in Missouri, the party under no
circumstances which may be surmised,
will abandon organization in order to
attain the election Of a free silver
president. He is also certain that the
Democratic party cannot secure en-
dorsement of its candidates. no matter
whom, upon a platform which does not
Embrace vastly more Populist doc
trine than the one demand for silver.
L am tired of all this questioning as
to whether the Populist party intendsto
support the Democratic candidate in
this campaign, and whether, now that
one of our demands has been taken up
by q larger party, we will disband and
merge into that party" says the rosy
checked chairman.
so far as the position of the national
committee of which I am a member. is
concerned, it is now as it has been
from the time of its orga nizatiOn. Our
position has been so clearly and so pos
itivelY stated so many times that it
seems waste of words to repeat it.
have been interviewed to WEAKNESS.
Chairman Taubeneck has issued circu-
lars in reply to irresponsible newspa-
per rumOrs, and now you come with the
same old questions.
Il do not say that the Populists.
Democrats and free silver men might
not work together this year PopuHsts
are not stubborn fools, and there are all
kinds of possibilities in a campaign like
this. It all depends, Of course. The
Democrats could cOncede enough to in
sure such concerted action if they
would. The whole matter rests with
them.
s.yS7bat T do COW ie tFet Tho Tlor,o
cratic party cannot secure PopuIst en-
dOrsement on a simple free silver dec
laratiOn. They must accept a vastly
greater portion of the Omaha platform
than that. I doubt not that the party
would overlook few minor demands in
order to accomplish their greater aims.
but of these free silver is a small part.
I can also say without fear Of contra
dictiOn from any POpulist on earth that
the initiative and referendum system
of legislation viii be demanded in any
platform for which the 1000. coo men
who now call themselves PopuIists will
vote, no matter what the label of that
platform.
"WiH the Democrats do this? You
know as well as I do. perhaps better.
If they viii take UP our fight. accept
the principal points of our platform and
be themselves fair and honest, then
you viii find that Popuists are work
ing for principle and make no idol of
party name.
Il myself believe that there is not
such great differences of opinion be
TWEEN the rank and file of Democrats of
the south and west and the Populists
as either side believes Our large ac-
cessiOns, particularly in the south, evil
dences that But with the Democracy
Of the east, the men who have for a
generation dominated the policy Of the
party and its administration when in
power, there is forever an irrecOnciIa-
BILE difference
so Ions as the Democratic theology
is so tame as to receive the support of
a single goldite, or a single man not IN
alterably and forever opposed to the is
sue of money from any other source
than from the government direct, Popu-
lists viii remain as they are and work
altogether on their own lines. Until
the Democratic party becomes so hu-
man, so great, so truly Democratic as
to force Cleveland Carlisle. goldbugisnl
and corporation cormorants actively
and entirely over into the Republican
camp, where they belong. Populists
would have no confidence in any pro
fession it might make
Rozelle is a bit particular about can
didates. He continued:
should the Democratic party become
so much of a POpuist organization as
have outlined-and, mind you. I am
making no predictions as to what it
viii or will not dO-the question Of can
didates with whom it can hope for
POpulist aid is fully as important as
the matter Of platform, no matter how
radical that might be. There are men
in the Democratic party whom the
POpUlists would not believe under oath.
Indeed, I can at this time recall the
names of but three men whom I have
any idea POpulists would support even
on the Omaha platform in entirety if
advanced by another political orgeni-
cation Teller. Caldwell or Sibley In
all these men. believe. Populists have
implicit confidence All look upon Tel
Ter as sincere. honest powerful,
statesman who is a patriot, every inch
of him"
The Populist chairman who makes
his headquarters with the national
committee. discussed state politics
with enthusiasm.
Never before has the Peoples party
been SO encouraged" he says It have
correspondence piling in on me that in
sures an addition Of 2O,0 GOO votes to our
cause from Republican ranks since the
declaration of the state platform for
the gold standard. The national con
vention's declaration will hurry and in
crease the addition of our numbers.
Even the turning down of ChaunceyI.
Filly, who, in the country at least, is
looked upon as the great Republican
cOmmOner, viii be to our advantage
Lunch baskets are incomplete with
out Bremner's High Teas. for picnics.
parties and outings.
Some Orange ice please. and have
you any Bremner's High Tea Waters
DR. A. P Sawyer: Z think your med
icine one of the grandest discoveries
that was ever made for women we
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