, 1896-08-24
VOICE Of THE PEOPLE,
POPULISTS DON'T PROPOSE TO BE
SWALLOWED BY DEM
OCRATS.
The Latter Assert They are in Favor Of
the Working Man But When a
Chance Comes Give Him the Gold
Shake'-Why They Refused to

Under the head Voice of the Peo-
pie" the Denver News of yesterday
prints the following communication
from a Wyoming populist:
Rock Springs. Wyo.. Aug. lin an
editorial of the 18th you ask the peo-
pie of Wyoming to wake up and not
let the goldites into power again. You
say that you do not know who was in
fault that the democrats and populists
did not fuse. The fault is with the DEM
ocrats; they wanted everything, and
did not think they needed the assist
ance Of the populists, since they adopt
ed the free silver plank OF the popuIist
party in their platform at Chicago.
Personally the democrats Of Wyoming
had no objections to Mr.. Brown of the
populist party Of Wyoming, as nomi-
nee for congressman. He Is a laboring
man; they have ever asserted that they
are the only friends of the working
man. Now, II they, the democrats OF
Wyoming, are in favor of the working
man why did they refuse to nominate
Mr.. Brown? Was 1T because he was a
poor man, or was 1t because they were
not in favor OF uniting with the popu-
lists? 1t was because they thought
they had Wyoming all their own way
but the November election will show
the mistake. All that Mr.. Tidball, the
representative of Mr.. Brown, and the
populists Of Sheridan county asked,
was the nomination OF Mr.. Brown for
we %populists Of Sweetwater would
want: we would want the electors also,
and no doubt Uintah county would
want the same. 1t is nothing but what
we should have. giving the supreme
judge and the four district Judges.
In Kansas the populist oflce-seekers
have given the democrats the presiden-
tial electors, and they take the state
ticket. but We are satisfied they will
rue their concession, as did the popu.
lists of Wyoming in 1892. when they
took the Weaver electors and the DEM
ocrats the state ticket. Did not the
democrats. with the aid OF the popu-
lists. elect their state ticket by 1900
majority and who was responsible for
the defeat Of Weaver electors? Surely
not h populists. But since the popu-
lists Of Colorado went to St. Louis and
cast their As votes for the democratic
nominees, the democrats ofWyoming
think that all they have to do Is to put
up a straight democratic ticket and the
populists will all rush to the democrat
camp, but they are very much mistak-
en-. for the populists in Wyoming are
all laboring men and they will not vote
for a congressman unless he is selected
from their midst. From the express
sions we receive from the people of our
community there were a great many
laboring men In the republican party
here that intended to ote for Bryan,
here refused to indorse Brown they
are beginning to think that it Is the
office the democrats are after, and not
the free and unlimited coinage of sill
yer: and they now declare that they
will vote for MondeH, as he mas proved
himself to be a silver man in hast ses-
sion Of congress. and 1t Is feared by the
populist party that they will be unable
to hold the populists in line, and that
they will vote for Mckinley electors.
We feel satisfied that none of the DEM
ocratic nominees for state Offices will
be elected, and we are afraid that in
their zeal for office they win drag to
defeat their standard bearer.
CHIP