The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-11-12
AZ Last He Publishes His Lorg
Delayed Letter.
suTleR SEVERELY CRITICISED
Te Treat With Either Of the Ola
Parties Was q Give Up the Fight
Tor Reform-TAe Oenoerats, In
Their Waterloo. Expeeted Rein-
forcements, Dat Drew the Line
on the Leader-In Trying to Elect
Bryan. They 1T the Sane Time.
Wished 10 Coapass the Extinc-
tlon Of PoD1lism.

Attautas NOV. LINE letter OF accept
arce written by Tom Watson, accepting
che Populist nomina ton for vice president
was today made pubic. Seven columns
of Wafson's Peoples PARTY Paper are de-
voted 10 il. The letter Is supplemented
by four columns of advice 30 Popn.ists 20
sit steady in the boat and hold their
party together
The editorial tone OF the paper is one
OF fulfilled prophecy. Watson declares
that the failure of the Populisss TO sup
port Bryan in the, close states brought
about Mck.niey's election He goes into
long review of the circumstances lead
Ing to his nomination. and accepts the
viee-president.al nomination because 1
said l would" He declares that Il the ST.
Louis POpulist convention had nominated
= straight Popalist ticket 1t would have
been elected. IL would. he said. have
driven the Hills and Germans where they
belonged - in the Republican ranks-and
the Bryans and BANDS would have joined
with the PopuIists. He complains bitterly
OF the treatment he has received at the
hands of the Popuiist leaders. ard ad-
dresses himself particularly to Senator
Butler in this way:
Senator a reform has no right to ex-
ist Ii II has not valid complaint TO make.
Populists cannot denounce the sins of the
cooartnsrshin iih ad hem The noo msn pe1,cas
-
make treaty the war must cease, and
when we cease our war upon the old par
ties we have no longer any excuse for liv-
Ing, whenever right compromises with
wrong, 1t is the right which suffers. The
Democratic managers seem TO resent as
strange piece of impertinence the fact
,haa the ropnlists sh dared to nominate .,o
theirs. Coming to them with the 2.0oo. .0tv
votes they were begging for and piteous-
y needing, ! can say with a perIec, as
NJ tr1s t&3<l l.
that my arrival on the field Of battle was
rot welcomed as heartily as Blucher was
received by WELLINGTON at Waterloo.
do IN not want van M me to lead them. They need need
Blucher's troops, but they draw the line
at Blucher. That Is hardly fair either TO
Blucher. nor is 1t the best way to defeat
For this attitude on the part Of the
Democratic managers. believe you SEN
Ator. are largely responsible. You made
INTO the fusion policy over my written
protest. with all the zeal of a man who
wanted to elect the Democratic ticket. In
this ! think you % were wrong AZ chair.
certainly expected you to do all you
could to elect the Populist tickets Had
ycu demanded Mr.. Sewalrs withdf4wal
s34Awn. have letter of yours. In which
you state the Democratic committee ex-
pected you to make the demand. but you
0lu not MAKE II.
From the perversity of temper with
which the Democratic managers have re-
fused to do the right thing by the Popu-
lists. II would seem they prefer McKtn-
leyism to anything which might seem to
be partly Populist triumph. Their
subtle purpose is to couple the Bryan
election with the complete destruction of
the Populist party.
THE position taken In this letter will
be bitterly ssailed. Would that the path
way were always carpeted with flowers
II rarely is. BY making myself and the
party / represent a mere footmat for
Democratic politicians to wipe their feet
upon, l could win much applause from
that quarter. But II were now lacking
In the loyalty which was expected OF me
when chosen. / would grieve the men
who have honored me, trusted me and
defended and loved me.
mo one regrets more profoundly than
I do that the Democratic managers have
shaped the campaign by which the South
has again been told she must grovel in
The dust. and let an Eastern plutocrat
put his foot upon her neck. Nor does any
one regret more than do that the Dem
ocratic managers. in shaping their fusion
deals. have considered those Populists
only who are getting loaves and fishes.
They have lost sight of the great army
OF privates, whose honest hearts and sim
cere souls form the strength of the REIN
forcement Mr.. Bryan needs. These Popu-
lists OF the rank and file have the spirit
principle more quickly than they would
sell II. These men W.T. not vote TO. Sew
all nor for Sewall electors.
IF Senators Jones and German really
wish to defeat Mckinley. let them lose
no time in realizing this TRUTH