Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1896-07-24
Populists Must Set Aside. rty
Lines and Rise to High Planes
of Patriotism.


ton, arrived today and with others began
a crusade in behalf of the nomination Of
Bryan and Sewall by the popdlist con-
vention. During the evening Patterson
and his coadjutors prepared and Issued
an address in reply to Chairman Tanoen-
ecks appeal to maintain the autonomy
of the party by taking position against
the nomination or Endorsement or the
democratic candidates. The address CT
the Bryan followers as prepared by Fat
rerson is as follows:
1--WE agree with Chairman Taubeneck
that the all-absorbing question with pop
ulists is, and should be, how can they
assist in the speedy restoration of silver
to it's former place and at the same time
maintain and advance their party Or
ganization. We believe that the peo'
pies party is necessary to the country
and should 1t be disbanded or become in
consequential for want of numbers the
money power would resume complete
sway over both the old parties and the
masses be deprived of protector from
the greed of corporations, trusts and syn
dicates.
but we emphaticaly disagree with
him as to the means by which these
ends are to be secured. To nominate
an independent ticket, one in opposition
as much to Bryan and Sewall as it would
be to Mckinley and Hobart, would not
only make it impossible to restore free
coinage of silver during the lifetime of
the youngest in the coming convention,
but it would practically annihiate the
peoples party as far as followers are
necessary to make party. The lead
ers might hold franticaly 20 the organ
ization during the campaign, but at its
close they would find it's followers in full
fellowship with the democratic party and
having voted its ticket under the name
and emblem of that party II Bryan
should be elected they would find little
obstacle to continuing with it.
Instead of nominating others the peo-
pies convention should nominate not in
dorse, Bryan and Sewall. The conven-
ton should make these two men its own
nominees-the party nominees. 1t should
adopt it's own platform of principles and
place them upon it as their choice for
president and vice president Having
done this the delegates can return to
their homes and looking constituents in
the face say: we have made this partial
sacrifice of party pride to make certain
the enactment into laws of one or more
of the great measures for which our
party has struggled. In doing this we
have proved that our party stands ready
to do whatever is necessary to secure
practical relief to a suffering country,
even to the extent of supporting candi-
dates nominated by other parties No
greater test of party devotion to prilci-
pie can be devised, and measured by that
| test the peoples party is pre-eminenlly
| A.. L., q 1Dp1 nN,1
| support.
"The proposition of Taubeneck that
whenever one party indorses the national
| ticket of another it has no further use
| to exist is wholly without precedent to
sustain. The chairman's logic is simply
| this The restoration of free coinage to
silver is known to be absolutely ne2as
sary to bring back the country's DEPART
| ed prosperity. The democratic and peo-
| pies party are both agreed upon his
and some other vital questions, but ON
erwise they differ. The democratic parry
| adopts platform and selects presidential
| candidates pledged and known to be sin
| cere in advocacy of these vital meas
| ures. The republican party is pledged
| to measures, the extreme reverse Of
| those upon which the democrats and
| populists agree, and unless democrats
| and populists unite the republicans will
| win and its policy of ruin indefinitely
| continue
| Now because te peoples party in it's
organized capacity, to make certain of
obtaining these measures, knowing that
If they are lost now they will be lost for
| generations, and seeing no other chan
| mel through which their success is equal
| ly secured, adopts the democratic candi-
date, it has no further use to exist
1T is strange logic, indeed, that the
peoples party must die because it does
right; that it must die because it is great
and magnanimous and patriotic enough
to go outside of it's own ranks for a
| presidential candidate, for one who,
though not a populist in name, is in deep
est sympathy with its most cherished and
vital measures, to remove a great and
bllghting curse from the country.
VIII Strengthen Tickets.
why will the nomination of Bryan
and Sewall by the populist convention
render it impossible for populists to
make fight for their local tickets, as
Mr.. Tauberneck claims? Where they are
running populist tickets without fusion
with either party, the nomination OF
Bryan and Sewall, by their national con-
vention, will strengthen them with the
people. 1t is true that in states where
fusion has been made with the republi,
can gold standard party for the sake of
local spoils, the plans may be somewhat
marred, but no true populist can be any
less populist through such action, and
it can cause no populist candidate to
lose vote.
why should populist press disappear
If Bryan is nominated? The PROMISED
action, if taken by the populist conyen.
ton, will add strength and influence tc
every populist paper in the land.
THE claim of Mr.. Taubeneck that tbe
populist party should be an ally and moi
an annex of the democratic party is ar
lrridescent dream. Considering the MI.
merical strength and power and organiza.
ton of the democratic party, coupled with
the plain assurance which its leaders give
that the populists and free coinage re.
publicans will flock to Bryan and Sc.
wall by hundreds of thousands, whatever
the populist national convention NAV
DO it may consider out of the question
mat the democratic party, having already
nominated its candidates and adopted its
platform, will make the co-partnershiI
arrangement which is the basis of Mr.