Evening journal., 1896-11-12

dent Insists That He Was the Biucher
who Would Have Saved the Democratic
Waterioo-Bitter Toward Butler.
ATLANTA, Nov 12.-The letter Of ac-
Hptance by Thomas L. Watson accepting |
sle Populist nomination for vice president |
*as just been made public.
Seven columns of Watson's Peoples !
arty paper are devoted TO it. The letter
supplemented by four columns of advice
Il Populists to "sit steady in the boat and
fbld their party together. The editorial
<ne of the paper is one of fulfilled prophe-
Watson declares that the failure of the
3opulists to support Bryan in the close
Sates brought about McKinley's election
h goes into a long review of circum-
&ances leading to his nomination at St
Fouis and accepts the vice presidential
*0mination because / said / would " He
9Pclares that If the st. Louis Populist con-
*ntiOn had nominated a straight Populist
Xcket It would have been elected. Itwould,
Al said, have driven the Hills and Germans
n here they belonged, in the Republican
y 4nks, and the Bryans and Blands would
s i've joined with the Populists. He com
iains bitterly of the treatment he has re-
81 lved az the hands of the Populist leaders
ld addresses himself particularly to Sen
or Butler in this way:
Senator, reform has no right to exist
81 1t has no valid complaint TO make Pop
lists cannot denOunce the sins of the two
E d parties and yet go into political CO.
b rtnership with them. The moment we
* AXE a treaty the war must cease. And
hen we cease our war upon the old par
/. IS we have no longer any excuse for liv-
z. Whenever right compromises wrong,
is the right which suffers. The Dem
ratio managers seem to resent as
range piece of impertinence the fact that
g Populists dared to nominate a ticket
n nering at the rear end from theirs.
90 Coming to them with the 1000, 600
tes they were begging for and piteously
eding, l can say with perfect assur-
&C of telling the unqualified truth that
arrival on the field of battle was not
lcomed as heartily as Blucher was re-
we'd by Wellington at Waterloo.
They want my re-enforcements, but
ey did not want me TO lead them. They
E led Blucher's troops, but they draw the
C at Blucher That is hardly fair either
Blucher or his troops, nor is it the best
" to defeat Napoleon. For this attitude
on the part of the Democratic managers
believe that you, senator, are largely re-
Dnsible. You made no effort to have me
& 'ognized. You publicly stated that l
puld not be notified of my nomination.
II went into the fusion policy over my
itten protest with all the zeal OF "a man
o wanted to elect the Democratic ticket.
hink you were wrong. As chairman Of
M Populist committee the party certainly
Dected you TO do all you could to elect
Populist ticket
sewaIl Would Have Withdrawn.
<. Had you demanded Mr.. Sewall's with
lwal from the ticket he would have been
hdrnvn. I have a letter of yours in
ich you state that the Democratic com
ttee expected you to make the demand
that you did not make it, From the
'versity Of temper with which the DEM
attic managers have refused to do the
ut thing by the Populists It would seem
,t they prefer MclJ inleyism to anything
ich might seem to be partly a Populist
umph. Their subtle purpose is TO couple
Bryan election with the complete de
& uction Of the Populist party. The posi-
n taken in this letter will be bitterly as
led Would that the pathway of duty
re always carpeted with flowers II rare
S is BY making myself and the great
III rty represent a mere footmat for Dem
'atic politicians to wipe their feet upon
would win much applause from that
arter. But If 1 were now lacking in the
atty which was expected of me when
4 psen would grieve the men who have
aored me, trusted me and defended and
ed me.
No one regrets more profoundly than
o that the Democratic managers have
shaped the campaign that the south has
lin boen told that she must grovel in
dust and let an eastern plutocrat put
foot upon Her neck. Nor does any one
ret more than do that the Democratic
nagers in shaping their fusion deals
. 70 considered those Populists only who
re getting loaves and fishes. They have
sight Of the great army of privates
ose honest hearts and sincere souls form
strength Of the reimbursement Mr..
yan needs These Populists of the rank
file have the spirit of crusaders, and
would die far principle more quick
han they would sell it. These men will
vote for Sewall nor for Sewall elect
If Senators Jones and German really
n to defeat Mckinley, let them lose nc
he in realizing this truth.
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