The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-07-20
silver all other reforms advocated bv
the Peoples party will be
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party pledged to their support If he
| Will read the Omaha platform and
I compare 1t line for line with the plat
form upon which Mr.. Bryan was NOM
mated he will find that the latter
| makes solemn pledge to the country Of
every reform advocated in the former
! except fiat paper money government
| ownership of railroads and the sub.
treasury scheme which latter measure
the Omaha platform itself discredited
The claim Of Taubeneck that the
| party should be an ally and not an an
mex of the Democratic party is an ir.
rfdescent dream. Considering the num-
erclal strength and powerful organiza-
tion OF the Democratic party coupled
with the plain assurance which it's
leaders have that the Populists and
1ree coinage Republicans will flock to
Bryan and Sewall by hundreds of
thousands whatever the Populist ma
tlonal convention may do. It NAV ba
considered out of the question that the
democratic party, having already
nominated its candidates and adonted
It's platform, will make the co-partner-
ship arrangement which is the basis Of
Mr. Taubeneck's plans. His plan is
Tor the Populists to nominate a ticket
or their own and enter into an agree
ment with the Democrats to have but
one set of electors in each Of the
states. The result Of this agreement
Is to be that If the combination ticket
IS successful the Populists will have
either the president or vice president
of the United States and will also be
In a position to demand an edual share
or the federal patronage including the
caplnet and foreign appointments.
1t must be clear that the Democratic
national committee has not a vestige
OF the power necessary to enter into
suon an arrangement even If they de-
sired to do sO The Democratic con-
vention adjourned sine die whef III
completed It's work and Its members
could be no more reconstructed into a
convention than they could be four
years hence for nomination Of q new
ticket and the adoption Of a new plat
FORM: Before the proposed action
could even be considered the national
democratic committee must issue q
call for new national convention:
each Of the states must call new state
convention to appoint delegates. The
mere statement of this, which every,
pody must admit is the real condition.
snould satisfy every reasoning mind
the proposed
PLAN IS IMPOSSIBLE
1t must have been plain to those who
proposed 1t that it was impossible of
execution. We might go farther and
say that the national Democratic COM
mlttee would be fully justified in holdl
ing that 1T had no authority to call A.
new convention for any purpose in the
absence of the death or resignation Of
the nominees, their powers being linn
lted TO the conduct of the campaign
winch was inaugurated with the Mons
NATION OF Bryan and Sewall
Passing from the consideration of
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known to the country which Of the four
Candidates would be president and who
would be vice president until the elec-
toral college convened would prove so
abhorrent to American voters that the
overwhelming defeat of the combina-
ton would be certain. There are in the
Popullst party, as in every other.
Two classes those who are mere-
ly politicians and care for moths
ing but the spoils and those
whose highest aim is to secure to the
country the relief which the enactment
or salutary measures will bring.
Ninety per cent of the present mem.
oership of the Peoples party is made
up of former Democrats and Republi-
cans who regard the immediate restor-
alton of free bimetallic coinage at tha
ratio Of 16 to 1 as Indispensable to the
return Of prosperity. They unerringly
trace the pauper prices which they re-
celve Tor the products of the field the
shop and the loom, the all but annihi.
latlon OF values to farm lands and
stock, the absence of EMPLOYMENT for
millions of American workmen and tha
pail Of bankruptcy that overshadows
tne land, to the single gold standard.
what they want and will have if the
opportunity presents are practical re-
suits that will materially affect their
industrial and social condition. They
want the single gold standard aboIish-
ed and double standard created. The
PopuIst club inculcated a graet trutI,
when IT taught them to believe that free
coinage of silver at the ratio Of 16 to d
with gold would drive gloom and desI
titution from the country and replace
tnem with sunshine and prosperity. I'd
Popul1Sts have reason to believe that
their party will endanger that measure
either by dividing the forces that favor
1t or by imposing impossible or imprac-
tlcable conditions to secure assist
ance for if they will abandon that
party without regret and enthusiastic
caiiy unite with the party which they
believe is most likely to secure them the
relief
The Populist convention will. seal the
doom Of the party, if by it's action IL
arouses well grounded suspicion that
IL prefers party autonomy to the leeis-
lation for which the masses are in such
crying need. Why should either course
operate differently in Texas or North
Carolina, from what it would in Ne
braska or Colorado? There are so 600
Populist votes in Colorado. If the COM
ing convention shall nominate separ-
ate ticket at least 10000 Of them win
In any event be cast for Bryan and the
probabilities are that, feeling incensed
at the Indifference of the national con-
venuon OF their party to their needs
and conditions, most of them will vote
the new state ticket as well. But non1i
nate Bryan and with the prestige !
such wise and generous action will give
the party it will in all human proba hi
nty carry the state for local officers.
80 1t will be in Nebraska In what
does the situation differ in Southern
states? Men are alike on all; and the
same intelligent selfishness will induce
them to act alike in ALL The practical
workings of the nomination advised.
VIII at once dispel all apprehensions
OF the calamities to the Populist press,
Pcpulist prestige, Populist candidates
and Populist measures which Chairman
Taubeneck in his new born zeal for a
separate ticket so adroitly suggests.
WAITE, OF BLOODY BRIDES.