People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1896-10-30

as Populists elsewhere, take such
action as will show that they care
more for the principles of the Peoples
party than for the emolumen,s of
otlise and there will be no further
talk about separate electoral tickets
Now IS to Mr.. Watson.
1t Thomas Z Watson is one of
the "so-called leaders" of the Peoples
party i. would be we'll perhaps for
somebody having knowledge along
that line to define what constitutes
real leadership and to designate by.
name some of those who are real
leaders in the party. Mr.. Watson
did not seek the nomination, which
was unanimously tenderod him at St
Louis bui having, after solicitation,
accepted it and realizing from tha
peculiar position in which it placed
him that the duly of maintaining the
existence of the party which had
honored him was sarily his
especial tasS, he has thrown himself
into the bre'ch and bravely borne
all the abuse and Misrepresentation
which, under other conditions, would
have been shared by many standard
bearers of the Peoples party. In
terested office seekers Of the Bryan
emocratio school as well ss of the
Tom Patterson. Jerry Simpson Pop.
ulist school have missed no oppor
tunity to SANDER and misrepresent
Mr.. Watson, stupidity believing that
such course would ultimately drive
him off the track and solidify the
vote OF the people Cor Mr.. Bryan
ard national banker Sewall whom
the Democrats had ma lie his running
mate. Only the day before the
meeting OF the national commit
tee, a st. Louis paper, whose well
known gold bug proclivites are very
thinly veneered with a silver coating
published a two colpmn front page
article under the lying headline,
NV atson's Treason Now a Known
Fact" in the course of which it gi Is
special prominence to d>spa CHI
from Topeka, Kansas, to the effect
"John w. Breidenthal, Chairman
OF the Popunss State central and
member OF the national executive
committee lata tbs Afternoon for
45- .ass@qgfT aa vs. ila seMe
of the exeqn Tie committee tomor-
row. Befoi : aging he branded
Thomas L. y, Nson as traitor and
said that ths committee tomorro =
would probably ask him to withdraw
and that # he declined they would
repudiate him."
The burden of Mr.. Watson's sin p.
ming in Kansas viii ;h has so aroused
the ire of Mr.. Occidental IS in the
fact that he insists that the q lint
electoral ticket" so heartily com
mended by The national committee
shall obtain there as well as else
WHARF, and that tt c comfortable little
decker by which the national Peoples
party organization was sold out in
that S ate for few contempt Die
pis oes Of official pie shall come down.
Mr.. Watson's position is plainly in
accord with that Of the national COM
mittee and how any one with the
least knowledge of the political stu Il
alton can regard the address OF The
committee as "rebuke" to him is
past understanding.
The only answer Mr.. Watson has
for the abuse heaped upon him is
reason and calm argument. He shows
plainly that the very course which
certain Bryan du lderheads are trying
to driva him to adopt would newt
ably result in driving Peoples party
support away from Bryan and thus
insure his defeat. He has never ut
tered a word of abuse in reply
to the scufr.lous attacks upon him
self, and even in the same issue of
the paper containing the hagitious
front page assault On himself contains
manly letter from him, hidden
away back on its ninth page, in
with he declares his readiness to
sacrifice everything but "honor and
principle to aid Mr.. Bryan regardless
of consequences to his own political
fortunes. But of course case
hardened, constituencies politician
who, in his cfli ial capacity rs ma
tional committeeman, could sign an
address eondemning certain con-