The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-12
shared and the cause we represented
permanently endangered, if not lost.
HOPES GONE.

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{ good people are gone with it.
/ 1.-THE Democratic managers. however,
not only claim the Populist vote for
Mr.. Bryan, who is our nominee, but
/ they claim it also for Mr.. Sewal, who is
not our nominee. and who was over
whelmingly rejected when offered to
! the st. Louis convention
I'VE are now told that we must not
say anything against Mr.. Sewall; we
must not explain TO the people wherein
he is an Objectionable candidate, and
we must not mention the fact that he
is a national banker. d bondholder, a
railroad magnate, a corporation million
aire, an enemy to organized labor,
! beneficiary of trusts, a seeker after
| subsidies of the merchant marine, and
a protectionist of the Mckinley variety.
These things must be kept from the
people, l am told. Why so? Have
| not the voters a right to know Tor
whom they are voting?
Both Kansas and Colorado are Popu-
list states, and yet the Populist norll-
nees are not to receive single eject
| oral vote in either state. The Demo
cratic ticket, Bryan and Sewan, will
receive them all. In Kansas the people
have been soothed by the assurance
that the Sewall electors would vote for
Watson, provided Watson got more
| elsewhere than Sewall got.
Thus the PopulistS in Kansas and
Colorado have been disfranchised;
worse than that, they have been de-
livered to a fusion where none OF their
votes count for the PoDulist ticket
They must vote for SeWau, and thus
violate their principles.
I'm North Carolina, where fusion had
been arranged with the Republicans on
the state and county ticket, and with
the Democrats on the national ticket,
Mr.. Sewall gets a majority of the cleo
tors. North Carolina is supposed TO De
a Populist state; upon that idea she
was allowed 50 votes IN our national
convention. The fact that in North
Carolina we have now conceded a ma
iority of the electors to MIR. SeWall
would indicate that our vote in North
Carolina has undergone a disastrous
shrinkage since our national corvS<l-
ton adjourned, or that the national
ticket has been used for mercantile
purposes.
PARTNERSHIP.
Senator, reform party has no right
to exist, if it has no valid complaint
to make Populists cannot denounce the
sins CT the two old parties and yet go
into political copartnership with them.
The moment we make treaty, the war
must cease; and when we cease our
war upon the two old parties we have
no longer any excuse for living. When
ever right compromises Eith wrong, it
is the right which SUFFERS
THE Democratic managers seem to
result as a strange piece of imperti-
nence the fact that the POpuliStS dared
to nominate a ticket differing at the
rear end from theirs.
Coming to them with 100000 they
were begging for and piteously needing,
l can say, with a perfect assurance
Of telling the unqualified truth, that
my arrival on the field of battle has
not been welcomed as heartily as
Butcher was received by Wellington at
Waterloo.
They want my relnforcements; but
they don't want me to lead them. They
need Butchers troops but they draw
the line at Butcher. That is hardly
fair either to Butcher or his troops nor
is it the best way to defeat Napoleon
For this attitude on the part of the
Democratic managers, 1 believe that
you, senator, are responsible You made
no effort to have me recognized. You
publicly stated that 1 would not be
notified of my nomination. You went
into the fusion policy, over my written
protest, with all the zeal of a man who
wanted to elect the Democratic ticket.
in this. l think you were wrong. As
chairman Of the Popuiist committee, the
party certainly expected you to do all
you cou,d to elect the Populist ticket
drewal from the ticket, he would have
been withdrawn. l have a letter of
yours in which you state that the Demo-
cratic committee expected you TO make
The demand, but you did not make It.
FROM the pervers,ty Of temper with
which Democratic managers have refused
70 do the right thing by the Pobulists,
it would seem that they prefer Mckinley
SIN TO anything which might seem to
De partly Populist triumph Their
double purpose is TO complete the election
Peoples party.
BOTH OR NEITHER.
They mean to elect both Bryan and
Sewall-both or neither. They cannot en-
dure the, thought that the victory shall
10 use the Populist nominee as a lever to
move Popuhst votes-but not as an ally
who had any rights they are bound to
''The s., Louis compromise ticket
should have been insisted upon for two
reasons: First, because Mr.. Bryan can
Tot be otherwise elected; second because
assured.
1T is hardly necessary for me to say
mat L heartily indorse the platform upon
which | was nominated. In speech and in
years every issue Populism raised. and
MY position on them all is so well known
that L need go into no dicuSSion of Pop
ulist principles here.
THE position taken in this letter Will
De bitterly assailed. Would that the path
way OF DUTY were always carpeted with
flowers 1t rarely is. BY making myself
and the great party | represent a mere
footmat for Democratic politicians to
wipe their feet upon, l could win much
applause from that quarter. But if
were now lacking in the loyalty which
was expected of me when chosen, l would
srieve the men who have honored me,
trusted me. defended me and loved me
In this reform movement TO which |
my life, l have lost much-but nv own
self-respect has not been lost nor the
respect OF those principles l represented
and whose battles l have fought
Il did not seek this nomination nor
desire it. Had l asked the presidential
nomination of the Peoples party and
gone TO st. Louis to claim it, no power
of the Democratic emissaries could have
kent ii from me.
help unite all the reform forces and ar
the same time to save my party and its
principles from wreck, that l agreed TO
accept second place on the compromise
ticket. | stood ready to join hands with
Mr.. Bryan and to aid him in harmonic
ing Populists and silver Democrats, and
IN uniting the south and west TO the
end that we might achieve victory
against Mckinley and McKinleyism
of principle. Fusion with Sewau does.
HIS REGRETS
mo one regrets more profoundly than
do, that the Democratic managers have
so shaped the campaign that the south
had again been told that she must groVeI