The San Francisco call., 1896-07-26

hand, which habit was no doubt learned
from Watching Sullivan and Corbett in
their boxing exhibitions. As she thrusts
forward her left arm she leans backward,
and this attitude gives her rather un-
couth profile. As she stands thus, with
her head thrown back and her long eye
lids half closed. she reminds old theater-
goers of Sarah Bernhart or Jeffreys Lewiston
the stage in their cat-like moods, purring
their victims into Inconsistencies OF
danger. She is q Democrat now, and
made rafting speech for Bryan in which
she claimed him as a Populist, but she
did not mention that week or ten days
ago Mr.. Bryan in public declared that he
was Democrat, and that the Democratic
party was the only one which could get
the people any relief.
The Texans, the truest of the true blue,
have not so many orators, and these few
are not of the kindergarten kind. Stump"
Ashby is a clear speaker, straightforward,
of the Texan quality and with not many
frames of flowers around his sentences.
Milton Parks. the stalwart editor of the
Southern Mercury, robust and manly,
with that breezy manliness OF the South,
is man of few words, but each of them
can SLTIk6 DlOH OI VIII 4NAcuU W tAo
cause he advocates.
Barnett Gibbs is another representative
of the fervld school of oratory, and the
Texans are proud of him. As for "Cy-
clone" Davis, whose political star set
below the horizon of his speech for Bryan
to-day, he is a roughly chiseled orator of
the Methodist exhorter school, the
cadences of his voice alternating between
q sob and shout with a copious rainfall of
tears between. He is quick at repartee,
but not of an original style and does not
wear well. 1t should be explained here
that the "CycIone" is not mem Der OF the
Texas delegation, but member of the
National Committee, so that Texas Pop
ulism is unsullied with the taint of De-
mocracy.
Referring to the shameful selling out
to-day of che Peoples party to the Democ-
racy by the majority of the Populist lead
ers, / wish TO call attention to the many
and consistent stand of those noble Texans
to-day. When the convention went wild
over the nomination of Bryan, the men from
the Lone Star State raised their middle-of-
the-road banner as high as they could get
it, and gathered around It as the old guard
used to gather about the regimental colors
when the fight was the thickest and the
enemy at his best. They stood unmoved,
some stern and others with smile on
their lips, as the shouting hosts filed passed
them with the standards OF the Bryan
States. Nor did they finch even for an
instant when friendly voices and admirers
called upon them pleadingIy to join in the
victorious march and wheel their State
into the Bryan column. Texas"
Texas" they cried, "Come along. Fall
into line"
But enthusiasm and cheers and coaxing
could not turn them aside from principle,
and when some of the Bryan Democratic
delegates crowded too closely upon tn EN-
some of the more excitabIe Southerners
seized the shouters by the waists and
threw them over the railing. They were
not to be iostled away from the middle-of-
the-road standard and they would not suf-
fer the standards of the few faithful States
| that had rallied around them to be lost in
the crowd.
Three men bolder and more rash than
the rest were knocked down by the indig-
nant Texans, and others were saved from
similar hard usage by the interference of
squad of police. After the tool of the
Democratic tricksters had raped with his
gavel and announced that the convention
was adjourned for good and all, and when
friends grasped the hands of those gallant
Southerners the tears rolled down their
sun burned cheeks as they thought of the
shame of the day, OF the bitter humiliation
ofthe morrow. Who would not rather have
one of these outspoken, loyal hard-fsted
= (,
thousand Aliens or Weavers, or McDow-
ellis, or sockless and conscieDceless Simp-
sons who betrayed to the rotten and cor
rupt Democracy party which had priI-
ciple. and constituency representative of
pure-minded American men and women
tillers of the soil?
Shame upon the treachery, and may
oblivion be the fate of the cheaply bought
traitors 1t is fortunate that the people
do not always vote or think with the dele
gates whom they send to a political con-
vention, fortunate for the people and un-
fortunate for those who betray the trust
confided in them. 1t is fortunate that the
action of the majority of the convention
will not be indorsed by the honest Popu-
lists who in their homes to-day were
stabbed to the heart by their betrayal.
The object of the conspirators was to
knife the Peoples party to the death, but
they failed of their purpose. The party is
too strong; it has too much vitality to
Ianguish and die because OF little blood
letting, and in few days when the Bryan
managers are forced to tell the voters of
the United States that his nomination by
the Peoples party convention was affected
under the false pretense that he was
Populist and would indorse the platform
and betray his colleagues the Peoples
party Will place ticket in the field headed
with the nam of an honest Populist and
with Thomas E. Watson of Georgia to
help him in the fight, if not for victory,
for that which is better than mere victory,
for principle.
The blood of the straight Populists is up
and at their meeting tonight they took
steps to ascertain whether before Bryan
was nominated his hackers and Chairman
Allen did not know that he had wired to
Senator Jones of Arkansas that be would
not accept q nomination at the hands of