The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-15

MADISON, Neb., Sept Ex-senator Al
len, chairman of the Populist COMMITTEES
to notify the president. tonight gave out
his letter to William J. Bryan, notifyinss
him of his nomination. The full text %
the letter follows:
Madison, Neb., Sept. II, 1886.
ITO Hon. William ]. Bryan, Lincoln. Neb
Dear Sir-At a convention of the PEG.
pies party held at st. Louis from july
p to %, Of the current year, you were
unanimously nominated for president oe,
the United States, to be voted for at ths
approaching general election. 1t was
known at the time that you had been
nominated by the Democratic party at
its convention held at Chicago, a few
days before that time, and that you would
IN all probability accept the same in q.
formal manner. Your nomination by the
Peoples party was not, therefore made
with any thought that you We're a Popu-
list or that you accepted all the doctrines
declared by the St. Louis platform. 1t
was due, largely, to the fact that the
money question is the
OvERSHADOWING POLITICAL, ISSUE
of the age, and because you have at all
times been an answering, able and fear
less advocate Of the free and unlimited
coinage OF silver and gold on terms OF
equality at the minis of the United states
at the ratio of l6 to l. 1t was thought
also, that the observance of a patriotic
duty required d union of all reform forces
and the convention took the liberty with
out solicitation or consulting YOU. of plac-
ing your name before the people as its
standard bearer. The convention was in
dong so, guided by deep solicitucss for.
the common welfare, and acting on its
own motion, prompted alone by a desire
to bring about the best attainabe re-
SUITS. 80 much has Dnnn said
the rehabilitation OF silver by again plac-
ing 1t in our coinage acts in the position
1t occupied when stealthily demOnetfzed
by the act of 1873, that it would be idle
use for US to discuss the question You
VIII observe, by the closing language OF
the St Louis platform, that the conveu-
ton recognized
THE MONEY QUESTION
as the great issue of the day and because
the Populists believe that you are in
accord with them on this question you
VIII receive their ballots in November
It has al no time been expected. nor is il
now. that you will abandon your adhesion
10 the Chicago platform, nor that you
VIII accept all that is declared by the
Peoples party platform however eerafi fJ-
ing the latter would be 10 all PopuIisfs
1t must be understood that the party does
not abate one jot or little of LOYALTY to
ITS principles. We have declared our
selves IN favor of many important re-
forms, and further than you or your marty
have gone. These reforms are IN p- o, ~
Judgment, essential to the liberation of the
people from present unjust and iniquitous
industrial bondage. In accordance with
precedent of our party, we take this
method of notifying you of your nominal
ton; We shall not send a committee, ac-
cordlng to old party customs In sending
TINS letter of notification Of the great
honor that has so justly been conferred
on you by our party, it is needless for US
to assure you that you
HAVE THE CONFIDENCE AND Es-
TEEN
of all. Your splendid abilities. known in
tegrlty, competency and eminent fitness
TOT the position justly entities you to a!
nlsh rank among the great statesmen OF
the nation.
I'VE feel that in the event of your cleo
uon, which now seems certain that Won
VIII carry INTO execution the principles
OF monetary reform, to the end that the
people snail ENJOY better industrial con-
citlons 1t IS not anticipated that this
can be done with undue haste, OF so sud-
denly as to wrench or disjoint the bust
ness interests of the country; but that il
will be done gradually and in way to-
infuse confidence and hope of better con-
ditions for all.
''The Peoples party will exact of yotp
no promises further than those made In
your public utterances and exempIffied i'm
a life devoted to the welfare OF the race.
nor VIII It ask you to abandon the party
Of which YOU are an hOnOred member
In your nomination, our party has risen
above mere partisan surroundings, and
adopting
A HIGH PLANE OF PATRIOTISM,
believing that division of forces would
result in the election of William McKin-
ley, the foremost advocate of a deeply
burdensome and unnatural taxation, and
the criminal policy of the single gold
standard, resulting ultimately if not in
some manner checked. in the completes
destruction and disintegration- Of our form
Of government Your elevation to the
chief magistracy of the nation would be
as a yindication of the right Of
the people to govern, and we entertain
no doubt that you viii prove a worthy
successor of the immortal Jefferson and
and that your public life, like
theirs, viii illustrate the purity and loft
mess Of American craftsmanship. Your
extensive and intimate knowledge Of pub
lie affairs. and the duties the Office VIII
voted to upholding the cause of the peo-
pie. as well as your keen insight into the
condition of our country in our Judgment
highly qualities you to bring about
change in way that will work INJURY
to none and justice to ALL thus making
our government, in fact, as it is now I'M
form, only a government of, by and for
the people.
1--WE have the honor to be, your most
obedient servants,
WILLIAM VINCENT ALLEN.
Chairman
The names Of each Of the members OF
the notification committee are signed to