San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-10-12
TOM TALKS.
WATSON NOT CARING MUCH FOR
HIMSELF.
The PopocratiC Sell Out of the Populists
is Hurting Bryan This is What
Watson Wants to Set Forth.

New York, Oct. IA special to the
World from Thompson, Ga, says New
York papers have alluded to an edito-
rial, NO Watson, No Bryan" which
appeared in the Peoples party paper
of last week and they attribute it to
me.
This is erroneous. | resigned the
editorship of the Peoples party paper
just after the campaign opened. Mr..
James L. Sibley, the present editor,
wrote the article alluded to. Neither
directly nor indirectly am 1 RESPONSE
BILE for it. 1t is reported his individ-
ual sentiments, and he had the right
to explain them.
Ny own position is different. From
the beginning of the campaign l have
given my loyal adherence to the st.
Louis compromise ticket, and shall
continue to do so to the end.
l would make any personal sacri-
fee not involving honor and principle
to aid Mr.. Bryan, regardless of the
consequences to my political fortunes.
NV protest against fusion is not so
much that it pushes me off the ticket,
as that it compels POpulists to vote
for man who does not represent
their principles and whom their ma
tiOnal convention rejected at St.Louis.
Partly for that reason, POpulists
seeing this, grew discontinued and
their discomfort the success of Bryan.
Especially does the fusion in Colorado
endanger Mr.. Bryan's success. The
fact that several states have put out
no Populist ticket and that the entire
electoral vote has been sold to the
Democrats for local offices, spreads
indignation among the POpuliSts in
every state in the union. have been
among the people this campaign more
informally than any candidate, and |
know Populist resentment at the man
ner in which their party is being
wrecked by mere place hunters, which
jeopardizes Mr.. Bryan's success. l
have repeatedly asked that justice be
done the POpulist national ticket in
Kansas and Colorado. | have also
felt free to condemn the deal in North
Carolina, by which the Populist vote
is expected to give a majority in the
electoral college to Mr.. Sewall.
This arrangement is not only unjust
on the face of it, but may defeat it.
self by disgusting the Popuiists. In
other words, it has seemed to me that
the very best way to assure Mr.. Bryan
the Populist vote necessary to his cleo
ton, was to treat the Populists fairly
as friends, comrades, allies and not as
In continually calling attention to this
hired to fight and who could be dis
posed of as the whim and self-inter-
ests of the hirers might dictate.
In continually calling attention to this
weak point in our lines, my purpose
has been to help Mr.. Bryan, not to
hurt him. At no time have 1 uttered
the sentiment that Bryan must be de-
feated unless Watson could be elect
ed. At no time have 1 harbored such
feeling. At this time, as upon all
other occasions, l have felt the SUI
preme Importance of Bryan's election
regardless of what might happen to
either Sewall or Watson, but l have
also felt that, in their stubborn I'M
yielding and insulting policy of try
ing to force the POpulists to vote for
Sewall in these fusion deals, the Dem
ocrtic managers were clearly making
sacrifice of Bryan in the interest of
Sewall.
(SigneO THOMAS E. WATSON.