The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-08-12
TO DEFEAT BRYAN.
Banks and Corporations Industri.
Ously at Work Manufacttir.
ing Panic.
More Fake Interviews" Run to Earth and
Salted.-Convention Driftwood.-
Personal Gossip.

Personal Gossip.
Peoples Party News Bureau,
Headquarters National Elk. Committee,
st. Louis, Aug. H..
The banks, factories and railroads are
evidently unified in conspiracy to pre-
vent better conditions for the people
and to intimidate voters into support
ing Mckinley They are trying to bring
about a panic or scare which shall de-
feat Bryan and are declaring all the eff
fects of hard times to be due to feel
ing Of insecurity In the business world
meaning the world of monopoly and
monoplists-on account of the cam
paign of reform now on. The big Tudor
Iron Works in East St. Louis have shut
down and give as an excuse, fear of free
coinage Of silver being successful in the
election, and number of smaller fac
tories have followed their example with
the same purpose Of creating scare in
the minds of the people. The money
stringency In the banks becomes tighter
every day and it is now practically i'm
possible to secure loans an any kind of
security in any part of the country
Correspondence to the bureau shows
that these conditions exist in every Sec
tion of the United States without differ
ence 1t remains to be seen whether
the moneyed lords and monopolistic
interests have the people by the throat
so tightly that they can never again
accomplish reform for themselves and
the benefit of their children. The
struggle seems to be the finaH one in de-
c;ding whether liberty is to live on the
shores Of the Western Hemisphere and
he republic of our fathers isto be per-
petuated. -
This is what Tom Watson-has to say
Of William J. Bryan in an open letter:
"As stated in my paper a week before
the convention, when had no thought
Of being connected with him in politi-
cal campaign, Mr.. Bryan is q man OF
.unblemished character and brilliant
ability. We served together in the
Fifty-second congress, voted together
> ON nearly. every question, and were per-
sonal friends. When my contested cleo
tion came up iNsthe Fifty~third 66nSf6Ss
and Mr. OuthWaite, of Ohio, made the
motion to eject me at once and without
hearing, Mr.. Bryan was one Of the
three Democrats who had the courage to
vote against it."
Henry George has announced himself
rs q determined supporter of Bryan.
J. H. Davis, of Texas, has been nomi-
mated for congress by the Populists Of
his district ~----.~--sss-.t
The Democrats and Populists Of Cher
okee county, Kan, have fused, the
Democrats getting the offices of probate
judge and representative.
oil Dor forv 1{v,ev
Bryan clubs all over Missouri. Two
thirds of the members of these clubs
will vote for Bryan and Watson in pre-
ference to Bryan and Sewall and will
become permanently identified with the
Peoples Party organization. The Peo-
pies Party state committee is claiming
4 certain increase of the party vote by
10000 or $4,000 and perhaps greater.
In the addresses reported by the COM
mittee on resolutions and passed by the
state convention of the Peoples Party in
Missouri is the following declaration:
I'VE now offer to all voters and parties
Of our state an honorable alliance for
the campaign by a union of forces on
national electors on any basis that is
fair, just and legal" In the same re-
port the state committee was given full
plenary powers to decide what basis of
union was fair, just and legal. A. Ro-
Eelle was reelected state chairman and
NJ. v. Carroll, of Lamar, was chosen Sec
retary of the state committee.
Considerable effort is being put forth
on the part of a number of prominent
members of the National Bimetallic
party in Missouri to secure endorsement
Of several of the candidates on the PeO-
ple's Party state ticket.
Cold mon cau'f ovon hv nrQtonSo ac-
cept Bryan. They have come to realize
that in case they should vote for him he
would consider himself under NO obli-
cation to give them any chance in the
affairs of government and even in Mis-
souri, they are organizing for the purpose
of putting third ticket in the field. s..v
Senator Palmer, of Illinois, favprs Con-
gressman Bynum, Of Indiana, as the
presidential candidate of the gold Demo
Gratis.
The railroads have already begun
their work of intimidation in the inter-
est of Mckinley. One of the Gould
lines is sending out circulars to all en-
ployes demanding that they express
their preference on the questions of
coinage. No purpose is indicated in the
circulars but 1t is SO clear that tH0se who
run may read. -.-,---~ssss.,s
BOtn MT. Bryan anu OON. AI8elo nave
denied the Associated Press story to the
erect that the latter has been promised
the attorney y-generalship in case Of the
formers election.
There are but two Mckinley clubs in
all of Idaho.
The Hon. Joseph G. Sibley has been re-
nominated for congress in Pennsylvania
The resolution to give the state central
committee Of the Peoples Party In Ten
nessee full plenary powers to arrange q
fusion with the Democrats on electors was
passed without single dissenting vote.
The Farmer, Of Albany, Mo-, con-
dvcted by w. B. Cline, has holted the ac-
ton Of the national convention and de-
c,ares that It will not support Watson q
an associate Of Bryan.
Richard Parks Bland has been renom-
mated for congress in his old Missouri dis
trict-the Eighth. Contrary TO Demo
cratic prophecy. however, he haa not been
endorsed by the Peoples Party, but the
Popu:tsts have strong Candidate. In Tho
race In the person Of Rev. J. H Steinced-
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