The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-05
wATTERSON. IS COMICAL.
He Talks About the Election of Palm
er and Buckner.

New York, Sept. 5.-A dispatch to the
Herald from Geneva says:
The Herald correspondent called up
on Col WattersOn this morning when
the news of the nomination of John M.
Palmer of Illinois and Simon B.
Buckner of Kentucky, as the national
Democratic ticket was received there,
IN response to the following points;
First, his opinion of his ticket, and Sec
ond, the wide disappointment that
would be felt at his not heading it,
Col. WattersOn wrote out the following
signed statement:
"A better ticket than Palmer and
Buckner could not have been made.
Among the surviving heroes of the war
they stand pre-eminent- One was a
gallant soldier of the union, the other
was an equally gallant soldier of the
cOnfederacy.
"They join hands to fight the new
sectionalism that menaces the integri-
ty of the nation. Thus they represent
not merely honest money, orderly and
responsible government, but complete
reconciliation between the north and
south.
Each has shown himself to be
trustwOrt and capable in civil affairs,
one as governor of Illinois and senator;
the other as governor of Kentucky.
They merit enthusiastic support from
patriotic voters everywhere.
You will bear me witness that re-
garded the possibility of my own nom
nation with a kind of terror I was
profoundly grateful for the honor i'm
piled by the suggestion, and I was not
willing to present the unmanly specta-
Gle of refusing the irksome duty which
has now been urged upon others.
I nevertheless felt, under the cir
cumStances, that it involved sacrifices
which should not be required of me. I
am both relieved and rejOiced by the
result which is both logical and wise.
HENRY WATTERSON.'
In course of further conversation
Col WattersCn said:
Il am particularly delighted by the
circumstance that both Palmer and
Buckner are born KentuckianS.
THE honest movement for home rule
and revenue reform will ring all along
the line to the apt refrain of The Blue
and the Gray and will carry the day.
The boys in the trenches, whether
northern or southern, will rally around
the flag Of these two old soldiers, and
we shall see the beginning of a new era
of patriotism, sound Democracy and
good government
Il think the Palmer Buol1ner ticket
will get an enormous vote il Kentucky.
It would not surprise me If it pOlled
more votes than either Bryan or Sew
all or Bryan and Watson 1t ought to
poll a great deal more in Illinois where
Senator Palmer has always held COM
handing position, and where Buckner, /
being an old property owner in Chica-
go, is very well known and very popu- |
lar.
''All my advices from home are to the |
effect that the sound money party has
been steadily gaining ground. I can
even from this distance see indications |
conclusive in this direction.
THE third ticket nominated will |
neither defeat Bryan nor elect McKin- /
ley. but it will represent the great body /
of public sentiment and opinion, which /
has rights of representation and is not /
represented either by Bryan or McKin- /
ley.
1T is too early to predict the election 1
of either Bryan or Mckinley. Many /
strange things have happened in Amer |
election of Palmer and Bucl1ner IN |
doubtedly if the sense of the country |
could be taken, neither Bryan nor Nc /
Kinley would receive a majority Of the /