The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-15
Letter from William v. Allen, Chair
man of the Convention, Mailed to
the Nebraska Orator.
TAFFY FOR THE GEORGIAN
SENATOR BUFFERS LETTER TO ONE
OF THE POPOCRATIC TAILS.
Peoples Party ApOtheOsized, Divided
Democracy Denounced and Ar
thur SewaII BeIittied.

MADISON, Neb, Sept. 14.-The Hon.
William V. Allen chairman of the Populist
national convention, mailed to William
Jennings Bryan to-day the following let
ter officially notifying him of his nominal
ton by that body:
Dear Sir-At a convention of the Peo-
pies party at st. Louis, from July % to 25,
OF the current year, you were unanimously
nominated for President of the United
States to be voted for at the approach
time that you had been nominated by the
Democratic party at it's convention held at
that you would in ali probability accept the
same in a formal manner. Your nomina-
ton by the Peoples party was not, there
fore, made with any thought that you were
a Populist or that you accepted all the
doctrines declared by the ST Louis plat
form. 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 answering, able
and fearless advocate of the free and I'M
limited coinage of silver and gold on terms
of equality at the minis of the United
States at the ratio of 16 to l. 1t was thought
also that the observance of patriotic duty
required union of all reform forces and
the convention took the liberty without
soliciting or consulting you or placing your
name before the people as it's standard
bearer. The convention was, in doing 80,
welfare and acting in its own motion
prompted alone by desire to bring about
the best attainable results.
rehabilitation of silver by again placing 1t
in our coinage acts in the position it oc-
act of 1873 that it would be idle for US to
discuss the question. You will observe by
the closing language OF the ST. Louis plat
form that the convention recognized the
money question as the great issue of the
day and because Populists believe that you
are in accord with them on this question
you will receive their ballots in November.
1T has at no time been expected or is it
now, that you will abandon your adhesion
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accept all that is declared in the Peoples
party platform, however gratifying the lat
understood that the party does not abate
one jot or little of loyalty to its principles.
We have declared ourselves in favor of
many important reforms, in our Judgment
essential to the liberation of the people
from present unjust and Ubiquitous indus
trial bondage.
In accordance with precedent of our par
ty we take this method of notifying you of
your nomination. We shall not send
tom. In sending this letter of notifica ton
of the great honor that has so justly been
less for us to assure you that you have the
confidence and esteem of all Your splen-
did abilities, known integrity, competency
and eminent fitness for the position justly
entitle you to a high rank among the great
statesmen of the Nation. We feel that in
the event of your election which now
seems certain that you will carry into the
executive the principles of monetary re-
form to the end that the people shall enjoy
anticipated that this can be done with un-
due haste or so suddenly as to wrench or
disjoint the business interests of the coun-
try but that it will be done gradually and
in way to infuSe confidence and hope of
better conditions for all.
1.-The Peoples party will exact of you no
promises further than those made in your
public utteranceS and eXemplified in a life
devoted to the welfare of the race, nor will
it ask you to abandon the party of which
you are an honored member. In your noni-
nation party has risen above mere
partisan surroundings, adopting a high
plane of patriotism, believing that a divi-
sion of forces would result in the election
of William Mckinley, the foremost advo-
cate of deeply burdenSome and unnatural
taxation and the criminal policy of the sin
gle gold standard. resulting ultimately, if
not in some manner checked, in the COM
plete destruction and disintegration of our
form of government
Your elevation to the chief magiStracy
of the Nation would be regarded al a vim
dication of the right of the people to gov
ern, and we entertain no doubt that you
will prove worthy successor of the i'm
mortal Jefferson and Lincoln and that your
public life. like theirs. will illustrate the
purity and loftiness of American states
In your extensive and intimate
knowledge of public affairs and the duties
the office will impose gained in a life that
has been devoted to upholding the cause
of the people as well as your keen in
sight into the condition of our country in
our Judgment highly qualified you to bring
about in a way that will work injury TO
none and justice to all, thus making our
government, in fact as it is now in form
only, a government of, by and for the peo-
ple."