The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-07-23

| with the platform upon which Mr.. Bryan
was nominated he will find that the lat
ter makes solemn pledge 10 the country
of every reform advocated in the former
ownership of railroads and the sub,
treasury scheme, which latter measure
the Omaha platform itself liscredited.
THE claim of Mr.. Taubcncck that
the Populist party should be an ally and
not an annex of the Democratic party
is an iridescent dream. Considering the
numerical strength and powerful
strength of the Democratic party,
coupled with the assurance which its
leaders have that the Populists and free
silver Republicans will flock To Bryan
and Sewall by the thousands, whatever
the Populist convention may do. it may
be considered out of the question that
the Democratic party. having already
| nominated its candidates and adopted its
platform. will make the cO-partnership
| arrangement, which is the basis of Mr..
Taubeneck's plans. His plan is for the
POpulists to nominate ticket of their
own and enter into an agreement with
the Democrats to have but one set of
electors in each of the states. The re-
suit of this agreement is to be that if
the combination ticket is successful the
Populists will have either rhe president
or the vice president of the United
States and will also be in Il position to
demand an equal share of the federal
patronage. including the cabinet and for
cign positions.
ut must be clear chat the Democratic
national committee has not vestige of
the power necessary to enter into such
an arrangement. even if they desired to
do so. The Democratic convention adj
journed sine die when it completed its
work and its members could no more be
reconstructed into Il convention than
they could be four years hence for the
nomination of a new ticket and the adOp-
ton of Il new platform. Before the pro-
posed action could even be considered the
national Democatic committee must
issue Il call for new national Demo-
cratic convention: each of the states must
call new state conventions to appoint
delegates. The mere statement of this.
which everybody must admit is the real
condition, should satisfy every reasoning
mind how Impossible is the proposed
plan. 1t must have been plain to those
who proposed it that it was impossible
of execution. We might 20 further and
say that the national Democratic COM
mittce would be fully justified in hold
ing that it had no authority to call Il new
convention for any purpose in the alb
sence by death or resignation of the
nominees, their powers being limited to
the conduct of the campaign that was
inaugurated with the nomination of
Bryan and Sewall.
Passing from that consideration, Il
party barter, by which it would be I'M
known to the country which of the four
candidates would be president until the
electoral college convened. would prove
so abhorcnt to American voters that the
overwhelming defeat of the combination
would be certain. There are in the
Peoples party, as in every other class.
those who are merely politicians and
care for nothing but the SpOis and those
whose highest aim is to secure to the
country the relief which the enactment
of salutary measures will bring.
NINETY per cent of the present mem
bers of the Peoples party is made up
of former Democrats and Republicans
who regard the immediate restoration of
free blmetallic coinage ut the ratio of
16 to l as indispensable to the return
of prosperity. They unelringly trace
the pauper prices which they receive for
the products of the field, the shop and
loom, the all but humiliation of values
to farm lands and stock, the absence of
employment for millions of American
wyorkingmen and the pail of bankruptcy
that overshadows the land. to the single
gold standard. What they want and
will have, if the opportunity presents
itself, are practical results that will ma
terially affect their industrial and social
condition.
They want the single gold standard
abolished and the double standard crea-
ted. The Populist press inculcatcd
great truth when it taught them to be-
lieve that free coinage of silver ut the
ratio of 16 to | with gold will drive
gloom and restitution from the country
and replace them with sunshine and pros
perity. If Populists have reason to be-
lieve that their party will endanger that
measure, either by dividing the forces
that favor it or by imposing impossible
or impracticablc conditions to secure its
assistance for it, they will abandon that
party without regret and enthusiastically
unite with the party which they believe
is the most likely TO secure them relief.
'The Populist convention will sea- the
doom of the party it, by its action. it
arouScS Il well grounded suspicion that
it prefers party autonomy to the legis
lation for which the masses are in such
crying need.
''Why should either course operate diff
ferently in Texas or North Carolina
from what it would in Nebraska or Col
orado. There are 10000 Populists in
NOloIuNO. IL lnt toIhlllS
shall nominate Il separate ticket at least
10000 of them will in any event be cast
for Bryan and Sewall and the proba bill
ties are that feeling in sense that the
Indifference of the national convention
of their party to their need and the con-
ditions, most of them will vote the Dem
ocratic state ticket as WELL But NOM
mate Bryan and with the prestige such
wise and generous action will give the
party it will in all human probability
carry the state for local officers. So
it would be in Nebraska. In what does
the situation differ in the southern states
Men are alike in all and the same intel
ligent selfishness will induce them to act
in all.
1.-The practical workings of the nomi-
nation advised will at once dispel all APP
prehensions of the calamities of the Pop
ulist press, Populist prestige. Populist
and Populist measures, which
Chairman Taubeneck. in his newborn
zeal for a separate ticket, suggests
THE DISCOVERY SAVED HIS LIFE.
Mr.. G. Caillouette, druggist, Beavers
ville ILL.,, says: $50 DR.. Kings New
Discovery l owe my life. Was taken
with la grippe and tried all the physicians
for miles about, but of no avail and was
given up and told | could not live. Hay
ing Dr. Kings New Discovery in my
store, l sent for bottle and began Its
use, and from the first dose began to get
better, and after using three bottles was