The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-08-18
Thomas Watson Ignored Both in
the Nation and in This
State.
GEORGE MoNTEITFs CHARGES
Democratic Leaders Playing In With
the Southern Pacifc-Republi.
cans at Work.

Populists are beginning to taste OF the
bitterness of the unholy alliance which
their leaders seem so anxious to make with
the Democracy.
Thus far it has become apparent in
every instance that the Democrats have
broken every pledge they made several
months ago when the matter of fusion
was preached by Democratic leaders, who
knew that without the aid of the People
rarity vote the Democracy would pass out
of history so far as California was con-
cerned.
1t has leaked out that the Peoples party
placed only three candidates for Congress
in the field, with the understanding that
the Democrats would indorse these three
and would not nominate any candidates
against them, while the Populists would
indorse the four candidates to be nomi-
mated in the other districts by the Democ-
racy. The Democrats, with their usual
perfidy, have broken this pledge and have
turned down George w. Monteith, the
Peoples party candidate in the First Con-
gressional District, just as they have
turned down all over the Nation Tom
Watson, the PEOPLES party candidate for
the ce-Presidency.
pies party but once, and that was about a
week after his nomination, when he de-
clared that he was a Democrat and that
he stood upon the Democratic platform.
On a subsequent occasion he also publicly
declared that the platform. of the People
party as adopted at St. Louis was too radi-
cal for himself and the rest of the Democ-
recy and that he repudiated it.
He has never acknowledged his nomina-
ton by the Populists, and has spurned
the platform on which he was nominated
at st. Louis, and he has refused to recog-
niZe Thomas Watson as running mate
under any circumstances. So the Peo-
pies party stands to-day the hacker of a
Presidential nominee who spits in its face
and tram pies upon its platform.
The action of the National Democracy
in turning down Watson is copied by the
Democracy of this State, which has not
only turned down Mr.. Watson. but is re-
pudiating the Peoples party nominees for
Congress in this State, thereby DELHI
erately breaking the pledges made to the
gullible and too eager leaders of the Popu-
lists. The members of that party through
out the State are indignant over the treat
ment being received by Thomas Watson,
and this Indignation has been raised to
boiling heat by the manner in which the
Democracv is treating them in this State.
Middle-of-the-road men are very we'll
pleased at the imminent OIL the predlc-
lions made by them. They said from the
outset that fusion meant death to the
party by surrendering 1t into the hands of
INSCRIPTIONS politicians who would use it
as a catspaw and cast it aside with dis
dain whenever its services would be no
longer required.
There is a growing disposition among
the honest masses of the Peoples party in
this State to repudiate all efforts at fusion
and TO put up a straight ticket. They say
that even the rotten Democracy is show
Ing more devotion to principle than are
the Populists because the sound-money
Democrats are putting up ticket and
voting forit without regard to the effect
which their action may have upon the
election of Bryan or Mckinley. They are
going to vote for principle and decline to
allow their principles to be swallowed by
the Bryan wing of the Democracy as the
National Papulists are dong.
George w. Monteith, People party cam
didate Tor Congress from the First District,
Is infuriated over the treachery by which
;he Democrats have attempted to defeat
aim. He said last Saturday night. and