New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-10-02
mATSON PREPARED TO ACT.
pOPULIsT NOMINEE TIRED OF
BEING SNUBBED.
-crrp TO RETIRE FROM THE BIFURcATED
popocRATIc TICKET OR CALL ON HIS
PARTY FOR A RUNNING NATE IN
PLACE OF BRYAN.
rnx rrtrGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE.]

!. PLACE OF BRYAN.
IN, TELEGRAPH TO THE rRIBUNE]
Atlanta, Ga. Oct. 1.-The impression Is ABROAD
ond Is fast ripening into conviction that
%~.,,ss z. Watson, the Popuist candidate FOR
.,..- president is on the point either OF leaving
,,oLe, or calling on his party to give him
".o,ber running mate than Bryan since his
turn from his Western tour Watson mas oeeh
.our Before his departure on that journey ne
80. communicative. almost eXultant' no" "e "
- erd silent He retired Immediately 10 MS
..r,e at Thomson. where he has refuseo 10 see
-orsnaper men, and declined to answer d" III
-,,,r,es about his political plans. III was S"p
sossd that he was preparing MS let'ei Vi az
,,.nce but II Is now known tnat he H"' "
.,sr begun that letter. and he refuses " say
han he expects to write. Inc "u'" 10 ~
u,.,son has been snubbed from start u '',''."
.d ha is lust now realizing It, he was 'io' ia
s"u =" nec,a,,v Of his nomination until he had
.-otested long and loudly against oe''e 81
~, trim West he seems to have received
.,s cold shoulder from the ieaue'e
70. ,o..s, srubbjnc was in Indiana where two
Inc '" 49,. r,arocrats and Populists fused
"a' s'ou despite Watson's most earnest pro-
on 0e"" o, u.ent so far as to telegraph:
'T,s-.orouv am dead against fusion WIN
.,oo,ors II such is made. II Is over my
nro,es,' Despite that the fopui's'' "e''
ahead and fused. ,,oo. -, on
r,,s incident also forms the supJec' W "'
.s,,or,a, in this weeks issue of watson feo-
s,a,s party Paper" issued tonight as Io''o"S'
. have heen made 20 show that MI. Mai, W.
Atelhp.s f,sion in the State or inuidna' no .tio
scn oorrsct Mr. Watson took the gPo,,Iis, could
,snn,ins nT, of the campaign thai no s,anor any
eeeggsistently vote for single Se%a Oar eector He
consi" .Snn he could vote for hoDdI Wy nro,as.
more ,iahh nah ch0irr1an Butler writssn IpU,Isr
nisd w Wr Butlers fusion policy; MI .oadiIv
as ignored Mr.. Watsons profess aa' nositon
forwaro pa, on il was when the Georgia sac p,
,,ssr,ion met Fe is for straighn ~ nnnocratc
Road ticket In no other way o1h ho e. Louis CON
Hfr Watson's position has been humllad'n6 *
nH ar,barra ssing and he has hceh cciiPo'' "
smbro, su 70 policies he did not approve
In another editorial of the same issue Wat
son says: ..,.u
/ our National Chairman the Hon MARION ~ hrc nbIcb
Oul rranged q fusion In North Carolina D! "hCn
,%s Ponusts get the small end OF lle ,s
usual Democrats get hve elec'oT,s. si,le
get hve and the Silver part! ''e"'o"
show gets one
These attacks on Butler are mere ou'c'op
,ros of the hatred Watson is known TO 'ee'
,or the Populist chairman. Senator Butter mas
long ceased trying to handle the Nlce-frrSl"en
tioi nominee He never knows "hcIe u" Pu'
his finger on the Georgian. some tlliih w nn
son is angry because OF Bryan vlslt w 80 a',
He regards the visit as an indication 'hd' pi! az az
nref IS Sewan TO him. and he resents TINS. An
bere agree that the Nice-Presideniial nominee
&c nretty sure to do something sensatl soon,
He may decline the nomination or ne ma! call
for q straight out Populist ticket