The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-08-19
HOW PoPULIsrs STAND.

extracts from papers that are middle Of the
road advocatas:
Waylands appeal to reason: Bryan il q
man whose public life has shown him to be
IN sympathy with Populistic demands.
There was nothing to do but nominate
Bryan. for the people would to a large ex-
tent nave voted for him anyway. But with
the cunning Of a fox, with Mr.. Bryan was
nominated Mr.. Sewall, millionaire, inter-
ested In banks. railroads and other corpora
lions. whose only use for humanity is how
much he can make out Of it. The Populists
had some men who could not be made to
swallow this. for between greed and the
people would be only one life, Bryan's, and
greed has never hesitated to bride court,
jury, congress or hire an assassin to
remove amy obstacle in its path. To avoid
this contingency, Tom Watson. of Georgia,
was nominated for vice-president. :
Bryan will be a great Improvement over
Mckinley.
Eugene v. Debs, in Railway Times: We
are heartily satisfied with the choice, and
the Railway Times will support the ticket
with such ability as 1t can command. We
are by no means satisfied that the Populists
pursued the correct course at st. Louis, but
we give them credit for patriotic intentions,
and for the sake OF uniting the forces
against gold and monopoly, we unhesita-
tingiy approve their action and pledge our
unqualified support Of the ticket. In this
great contest the Railway Times is for
Bryan and Watson and the Peoples party
Joliet News: Placing Populist candi-
date for vice president in the field and the
adoption of the best platform ever adopted
In the history Of the organization, were vic
tories for the middle-of-the-road men and
places the Populists Of the North, at least
on fairly good footing. A few kind words
from Bryan, We suspect, will settle the
difficulty.
To n,,k - %IA
exchanges that have reached this Office
since the convention adjourned, the Neb-
raska Independent is the only one that has
had the audacity to even hint that Senator
Allen made good chairman, or to declare
that the telegram sent to the convention
was bogus. Every paper yet to mention
Mr.. Allen has denounced him as a traitor
| to the fairness that has always prevailed
in all Populist gatherings. Senator Allen
conducted the convention on old party lines,
prostituted himself, the chair and his FORM
er good reputation, and had an able second
in the humbug "Populist' governor now
| on the throne of Nebraska. Old Spav
Weaver also whispered in his ear.
Topeka, Kansas Advocate: Let us unite
our votes, and wait for calmer time to
| DISCUSS points of difference in party creeds.
Patriotism knows no party. The country
now demands our united support. Let us
| give it freely and question not the politics
| of our temporary leader.
Chicago Express: The contest to-day is
| not between Republicans and Democrats
| but between patriots and plutocrats. The
| patriots meeting without regard to
| party to make fight for the liberties of
| an outraged nation, while the hosts of
plutocracy are by deception and falsehood
striving to maintain the supremacy of a
| power more infamous in conception, and
more diaboical in fact, than any the world
| has ever seen.
Chicago Sentinel Stand by the action of
your convention and Loyalty support the
platform and candidates.
Nonconformist: Populistic principles
| have been the great wedges that split
up parties. It has not been the Populists
| who were captured. They did the captur-
| ing themselves. This campaign promises
| to convert a large majority to the Popu-
| list way of thinking and the legislation of
| the future is apt to be Populistic. No Pop
| ulist therefore need be discouraged. Popu-
| lists are and always have been willing
| to help all who are coming their way.
| Missouri World: The editor Of the World
| was delegate to the convention, and did
| what he could from start to finish for a
| middle of the road ticket. We want to say
| we came home with no sore places on us.
| We would bolt convention If we thought
| such action best, without hesitation. We
| are not party bound; think nothing what
| ever of party; would rejoice to see any
party take up and carry out the reforms
! needed. When we see old time reformers,
| some of them who date their enlistment in
| the cause as far back as the days of
Peter Cooper, men who expect nothing
| except from the general relief that will
come; when we see such men as these en-
| thusiastic for Bryan, we must conclude
that there are two sides to the question.
Paul Van der WORT: Now that the smoke
| has cleared away the question arises:
What shall We do to be saved?" For once
| l say, stand by our principles. Keep on
| educating the people; hold together like
heroes of DID, and win in 1900" Our papers
and speakers can reach a vast host of peo-
pie who would not heretofore attend our
meetings or read our papers. We have the
| only editors and speakers who understand
and can readily discuss the ST. Louis or
Chicago platforms. Adhering always to the
ST. Louis platform we can win millions to
our creed and gain the victory as early as
| any OF the clearest sighted ever predicted.
[gnatius Donnelly in Representative: We
are ready to support Mr.. Bryan not only
because he is the choice of the national
convention, but because he is able, bril-
liant and honest representative OF our prin-
ciples; and we are even willing, If it is
the sense of the convention, to support a
ticket made up in part Of men who are
not Populists; but we are ready to stamp
in the dust those who would merge our
party into any other, or who would lower
by hairs breadth. the standard first
gloriously flung to the breeze at Omaha,
in 1892.
s. F. Norton in a interview: Mr. Norton
Is not disappointed or disconnected at the
outcome Of the convention so far as he was
personally concerned. He says he is now
| ready, as always, to sacrifice all personal
feelings to the success of Populistic doc
trines.
"Our best course" he said, would have
been to have nailed our principles to the
masthead and kept to our party throughout
the campaign. The Southern states were
especially bitter against being yoked with
their old enemies. the Democrats. The
Democrats and PoDulists have had bitter
struggles in the South. At times the Popu-
lists who insisted on their party rights in
the South did so at the peril of their lives,
for the Democrats tried to intimidate them
eff the parties had kept separated they
could have massed their electoral votes
and thus prevented McKinley's election.
Then by a judicious trade in the electoral
college, the Democrats could have been
given the presidency and the Populists the
vice presidency.
81 think. however. that the Populists
are going to fall in line on Bryan all right.
There has been strong feeling for Bryan
| the past year, for we have counted him
| more of Populist than a Democrat. If
| the Democrats remain true to the Chicago
and complete political revolution. am
very friendly to Bryan.
Bryan would not doubt have been the
~ do 70 ~ tho middle Of tho road olornent