The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-10-15

| hlnley. L ne certainty OF lnaC IdCl u
my mind caused me to withdraw from
the ticket; that fact is named in my let
ter of withdrawal as the reason of my
| withdrawal. If there was or is no fusion,
why don't you address yourself to that
main fact, instead of nOSing around try
ing to find supposed causes. reasons, sus-
picions or whisperings, through which
you could put blame on me: Why not
come out and meet the issue Ike a man:
Thirteenth-When and how did my
kinsman's, Stump Ashby's, heart get so
mellow that it bleeds when republican,
ism is put on the rack by bold and hon
est discussion!
Let me tell you, my dear sir, that if
as many truthful and unanswered evil
dences of guilt were to point to a man
charged with murder as point to the fact
of fusion, to rob Bryan of Texas and
give it TO Mckinley, it would not be, long
before the hangman's rope would justly
crack the bones of his neck.
l would like to ask you why you have
not publicly and officially denied these
rumors of fusion? Why do you permit
Tracey and Williams to remain on the
campaign committee, when they both
oppenly oppose the head of the ticket:
Why do you permit Williams to remain
on the electoral ticket, when he vows
that he will not support nor vote for
Bryan? Why do you permit State Elec-
tor Wood to remain on the ticket when
he publishes to the world that Bryan had
sinned away his day of grace, and that
he will support him no longer? What
means this condition of things: What
do these things mean? Is Bryan the
candidate of the populists? If yes, how
does it happen that you keep commit
tee that openly and boldly and detantly
81 Iprpv How
does it happen that you take no steps to
get rid of electors who avow their
recreancy and treason to the trust the
populiSts confided to them? Do you
know of these things: Everybody else
knows them.
Permit me to ask you. will you dare
to openly and officially deny that there
is an agreed fusion between the populist
campaign committee and the republican
plenary committee, that the populists
shall vote for at least eight Mckinney
electors i'll consideration OF the republi-
cans voting for the populist state ticket!
Will you deny that you are perfectly
cognizant of the existence of such
conspiracy? Are you not conniving at
it on the one hand and trying to conceal
it on the other from the great body of the
pOpulist voters? If | am wrong in the
belief that these things exist, and few
hundred thousand voters would like to
hear you answer that they are not so.
viii Won answer or will Won remain
silent. while we are all in the dark?
If there he such n trade on hand, my
friend. you nor ten thousand like you
can deliver the populists into the hands
of. and for the purposes Of republican,
ism. You had as well understand that
now AS Mt n later day. A populist vot-
ing for Mckinley would be monstrosity
and to my thinking you and the whole
fusion gang will find very few of them.
either IN or down the creek. or at the
forks thereof.
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10 MI up tBe 'iche'' on WHAT 'heolF VIII
1t may be that | care too little what
Quirk, Cannon and snap may say
about me. or what rlah Heap may IN
sinuate. while the cold sweat ooZes out
of his death-like hands. but for your IN
formation | would like to tell you that
there are quite Il number OF assertions,
insinuations. intlmatlons. or Things. IN
your 'cneprIul dCCepldlC' lldt itullH
have not the shadow of truth in them.
will not say that you knew they, were
false, but | will say that you, ought to
have known they were true before you
put them afloat.
No man was trucr to Bryan and Wat
son than | was at Galveston and since,
until. in my judgment, it became neces-
sary to vote for Bryan and Sewall to
save Texas to Bryan. So believing. do
not hesitate. but act. Anything said or
written contrary to this is false.
Second-The rumor of my being called
down at Myrtle Springs is untrue in
whole and in part. You We're fully ad-
vised as TO the facts early after their
occurrence. and your reference To the
rumor is close akin. under the circum-
stances, to a pitiful SANDER. and uttered
for a very silly purpose.
Third-Do you consider it fair. just or
honorable that my name. purpose and
intentions should have been discussed
and adversely animadverted on in your
10th of September committee meeting
and the whole of it kept concealed from
me? Was there no man there with
bravery. honor. manhood enough TO tell
an absent friend that n back-biter was
abroad. with slime running out of his
mouth? Old women over their tea.
That discussion was about on par with
the manner in which the campaign has
haan nonoped Nv dear sir If what