The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-16
WILLIS CONES OUT
he ExENPLlFIES WHAT THE
HATRED OF BROTHERS Is.

| He Denounees Statements of the Popocrat'
in Opposition to Him rs Lies, and thu
Efforts of the Dsmspops as Fraudulent
At Every Step From Abilene to the Poll
ing Booth-Trus PoPulists Have Moth
ing in the Deal But Free Silver and
Popocrats viii Get no Pie-Rich PoPu
nstic vituperation.
Topeka, Kan, Oct 16.-In answer &c
the many criticisms and the flood o.
abuse heaped upon John F. Willl1s
chairman of the niddle-of-the-roa'o
Populist committee, by John W. BRED
enstein and others in the fusion deal IN
this state, Mr. Willis has made the fol-
lowing statement:
81 ann doing all I can for the People
party and its candidates. / have di-
rected Steinberger, the secretary, 70
file a protest against the printing OF
the Bryan and Sewall electors on the
ticket. 1t is the most glaring fraud
ever attempted under the Australian
ballot law. The Bryan and SewaM cleo
tors are the candidates of the Demo-
cratic party straight, and any attempt
to force them on the Popuiist voters is
plain violation of the law. A reso-
hutton was forced through the Abhene
convention under the gag rule, to en-
dorse the Democratic electors, but il
was done by office-seeking politicians
in order to get the Democratic vote for
state officers. 1t is well known that
not one of these Democratic electors
would vote for Tom Watson for vice
president. Several of them have pledg-
ed themselves not to do so under any
circumstances.
"RDFORM" DECEPTION.
another thing: our reform papers
have put UP the name Of Tom Watson
for vice president, on the orders of the
bosses, for the purpose Of deceving the
honest voters. Our people were not
Democrats. They wanted to vote for
their own candidates. They did not
want to bolt their national convention.
but the bosses, under Democratic ord
ers, fave dfsfranchised them. and now
tell them that if they do not bolt their
national convention and candidate that
they are Hannacrats, traitors and bolt
ers. According to the fusion crowd.
every man who is not a Democrat is a
Hannacrat. Cieveland's postmasters
are running their campaign in the in
terest of Democracy, and if a man ia
not mongrel Democrat or a bastard
free silver Republican he has no stand
ing in the new party. And they have
no use for Populist speakers in their
campaign, and none need apply.
FUSION GANGS PROTEST.
With reference to the protest by the
FUSION gang, 1 have this to say: They
know they have no case. They lied
about me, signing petitions, and they
did it knowingly for the purpose of pre-
Juc1clng VOTERS. They have done every
thing in their power to prevent us get
ting a petition One of their hirelings
got hold of one OF our petitions contain
ing 16O names and destroyed it, and we
have more than 200 names ON file in
the Office of the secretary Of state
These men are reading a villainous
lie on Vandevoort at their meetings.
sent by Clevelands, aPpointees at Oma-
ha for the purpose of driving our party
away from his meetings. They advise
Populists to stay away from Varrde-
voorrs meetings. They send their hire
ling thungS to mutilate and destroy
our bills advertising meetings after We
have put them up. This putrid, Shiny
old political prostitute, this gangrened,
purified relic of political rottenness,
whose other name is Tomiinson, has
been secured by the Democratic An
anias club and he is doing his best to
establish his claim to the position Of
chief liar Of the gang. He has called
me q bolter, a traitor, a Republican and
Hannacrat, and 1 was afraid he
would go far enough to call me a DEM
ocrat But he is the kind of man who
is standing up for this new party head
ed by Breidenthal, and they propose to
drive the Alliance farmers of Kansas
into this Democratic net, set to catch
suckers.
TRUE POPULISTS.
Time will demorstra te that the true
Populists of Kansas have too much in
telligence and independence to be or
dered away from meetings rounded UP
and corriled for Democratic purposes
by any man or set Of men.
1--WE are told 10 vote the Democratic
ticket now because if we do not We may
let Mckinley in. The leaders admit
that it is wrong, that the Democrats
ought not to compel us to do il, but If
they won't do right we must do wrong.
Next election, We, the Democrats, will
be in the saddle and be as wrong as
ever, and the bosses, who want office
worse than relief for the country, will
compel us to vote for Cleveland 10 keep
some Republican out. This fight means
death to all the principles of the Peo-
pies party with the one exception OF
free silver. It means to enthrone De
mocracy, with all that il stands for in
the future, and the whole gang Of Tam
many thugs, ballot box suffers and
beer-soaked, office-seeking renegades
who have no higher aspirations than TO
get the pie-counter
"J. F. WILLIS"