The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1896-08-01
THE PoPULIsT FANATICS AND THE
POLITICAL SITUATION.

fOLlTlCAL SITUATION.
When the populist convention
refused to indorse the Chicago
ticket, and kicked out of the ira
ces at the mention of Mr.. Sewall's
name for vice president, great
boost was given to Mr.. Bryan.
Now he will stand as an out-an-
out democrat, and not as the nom
inee of a lot of socialists, political
desperadoes and anarchists.
1t is true that Mr.. Bryan was
willing to stand on their radical
and revolutionary platform, and
he was eagerly anxious that he and
his running mate on the national
democratic ticket should be en-
dorsed by the wild and woody agi-
tators; but when they refused to
accept his entire ticket and kicked
off of it the name Of its vice pres
'fiiaiay aHUf 6ajHtpNr NPryaa by
cut loose from all connection with
the desperate and impracticable
radicals.
The Picayune repeats that this
was % grand card for Mr.. Bryan,
for now, more than ever, he is the
candidate of the national demo-
cratic party, and not the leader
of a horde of madmen and desper-
ate doctrinaires. A mans politi-
cal offenses are readily coudoned,
and people will soon forget now
nearly he was to mixing up in un-
holy commerce, with the wild pop
nlists at st. Louis.
Bryan and Sewall now stand
forth as the chosen hag-bearers of
the democratic party, free from
all corrupt and impure political
alliances. Mr.. Bryan enjoys the
reputation of having positively re-
jected the overtures of the wild
fanatics, while Mr.. SewalI can
boast the celebrity Of having ac-
tually been spurned and cast out
by them. These facts establish,
more than anything that could
have happened, the pure and un-
tainted democracy of these stand :
ard bearers, and will secure many
democratic votes which otherwise
they would have inevitably lost
As for the populists themselves,
the Bryan ticket will get the votes
of nearly every man of them from
the western states. These people
have heretofore been forced to
combine with the democrats in
all state and local campaign, and
it is only in that way they have
been able to exert any political
power in their states which have
hitherto been dominated by the
republicans. The western popu-
lists and the western silver repub-
licahs will to a. man support the
democratic national ticket a.
this will be nothing more Nhan
they are accustomed to do in state
/ politics.
4 From this it will be seen that
Bryan will lose not single vote
that the populistic Endorsement
could have given him, while he
will escape the odium of such a
malrecognition, and if ever he
| had any chances of success, they
are materially improved by the
present situation. AS for the
southern populists who have
droved to he the most violent
radical and impracticable of then
all, they will not be needed to as
sist in carrying the southern state,
and they may kick and plunge
and rave as much as may pleas.
them. They may be counted OF
to combine with the republican
in every southern state where
they can gain local offices or influ
ence, and they will not hesitat,
to vote square against their aIleg
ed doctrines and pretended prin.
cidles if they can gain any ad
vancement.
The populists are political agi
tators and reyolutionists pure anC