Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-09-02
BRABsTER VESTS LETTER.

Bourbon Democrats I'm the Saddlc-WlIl
POpulists Submit! - Thurston and
Bryan-Shall the Peoples Party BE
the FOOtst00l OF the Democratic
Party!
Special Correspondence
WASHINGTON. d. c., Aug. 81, 1896.
The national committee of the Peo-
piles party has at length located in
Washington, and has declared that up
on no consideration will the name of
Mr.. Watson be withdrawn from the
ticket. For that waited. 1 hoped
that 1t would not and anu glad that
the Peoples party will not permit itself
to be submerged into Bourbon Democ
rdcy. Had the democratic party placed
upon its ticket with Mr.. Bryan a run
ming mate equal to himself or Tom
Walton. would have said support the
ticket. no matter whether the nominees
be labeled democratic, Peoples party,
or by any other name" But the dem
ocratic convention saw fit to place upon
the ticket with Mr.. Bryan a man who
is national banker, railroad magnate,
and millionaire. In himself and in
his career as citizen Mr.. Sewall is be-
yond reproach, but this year, when we,
the plain common people of the United
States. propose to reassume control of
the governments it is not fit that man,
however pure his private life, however
honest his dealings with his fellow
men, should be our candidate so long
as he is tainted with the national
banking system, which we contend is
the most damnable system ever dream
ed OF by Satan, and foisted upon the
people of the United States by miser-
able hireliEgs such as John Sherman.
The question to day is not between
Bryan and Mckinley, but between Wat
son and Sewall. Bryan Will be elected.
Every democrat, who is democrat, ev-
cry PopuIist, every silverite, every hon.
est republican will vote for Bryan and
shall it be required of us, the Peoples
party, that we commit hari kari, that
we commit self immolation on the
shrine of Arthur Sewall? Mol If the
democratic party be destroyed. obliter-
ated and wiped out. the Peoples party
Will yet remain to save this nation from
the usurers and monopolists who
threaten it, but let the Peoples party
be destroyed and the democratic party
will fall back into its old rut and this
nation will march on to a Rothschild,
Hanna, Mckinley era of slavery and
subserviency. The members of the
Peoples party must demand that in
each state they have share of the cleo
toral vote, or else put up separate cleo
toral tickets. The reason for the pre-
ceding remarks is that the campaign of
the democratic party. instead of being
conducted by Mr.. Bryan and the men
who are in sympathy with the new re-
form movement, has fallen into the
hands of lot of old Bourbon demo-
Gratis who don't know the difference be-
tween silver dollar and a gold dollar
unless they pass it oyer the bar. They
have tried to get Senators Hill, German
and Brice to fall into line in this cam
paign, when your readers know that we
d9spise those people and do not wish
them in any movement of the people.
That will show your readers what kind
of campaign the democrats are run
ming. Senator Jones has gone to Chi
cago leaving broken pledges behind
him. Let him go. The Peoples party
can do without him and the rest of the
Bourbon Democrats.
Much comment was aroused by
Thurston's attack upon Bryan. Thurs.
ton charged Bryan with receiving mon.
| ey from the silver mine owners fol-
making speeches in the past few years
Senator Stewart gave Thurston the lie
Thurston took it like the dog he is, and
now that Bryan has come out and spe.
officially denied receiving any money
from mine owners Thurston acknow.
Lodges the corn.
A sample of the tactics of the gold
bugs occurred this week in Washing
ton. A man named Capt. Stephen Mic
Oletti, the author of book entitled "a
Gold Conspiracy" was selling his book
upon the streets of this city. A nation
al banker CHANGED to pass by, glanced
! at the book and forthwith had Nicolet
tt arrested by An ignorant policeman
who had been in this country but two
years. The author and vendor Of the
book was locked up in a cell for twenty
/ minutes before heard of 1T, and [ ha(
him out SO quick that it made the heads
of the goldbugs of Washington swim
The best lawyers in Washington, IN
Guiding Hon. A. a. Ljpscomb, who de
Tended Coxey when he was prosecuted
for stepping upon Grover Cleveland's
sacred grass, volunteered to defend
him; and the authorities or Washing
ton, like the gold bug towards thai
they are, were afraid to prosecute the
case and so nolle pressed it.
TO leave serious matters, and they
are serious, and God knows that if VIZ
do not wiz this year by the ballot We
will have to win in few years by othel
methods, 1t is pleasant to be able to say
that an emblem has been adopted fol
| all friends of reform, all men who wisl
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