The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-12

public. 1t was written on Oct. Ii last
to Senator Butler, chairman Of the
notification committee and manager OF
the Populist campaign. 1t was sup
pressed by Mr.. Butler during the cam
paign for reasons that are obvious
from a perusal of its contents. The
document would make seven columns
in a newspaper. Mr.. Watson publishes
the letter in full in his official organ,
The Peoples Party Paper, which comes
out tomorrow. Below are some ex-
tracts:
SOME EXTRACTS.
Hon. Marion Butler, Chairman ex-
officio Notification Committee:
Dear Sir-Your letter giving me for
NAL notice of my nomination by the
Peoples party for the office of vice
president has been received. 1t is
solely because of my promise to do so
that 1 accept the nomination. The I'M
usual conditions confronting US must
be my excuse for submitting to the
public fair statement OF the facts
touching this remarkable campaign, in
order that all unprecedented minds may
reach just conclusions.
LAS the time for beginning the presi-
Democratic party found itself in q
dying condition and it resorted to a
! desperate remedy to save itself from
dissolution. 1t publicly renowned the
| Republican policies which it has al
ready enacted into law and espoused
| the Populist creed, which it had bitter
ly assailed. Having closed the doors
of the minis to silver and having sus-
! tanned Mr. Cleveland in his refusal to
allow the seigniorage to be Coined
! having condoned his issue OF bonds in
( violation of law; having acquieSced in
his contraction policy of destroying the
greenback; having helped to feed the
trusts by the passage of the Wilson
/ Gorman-Jones tariff bill-the Demo-
cratic party, realizing that it had lost
| the respect, the confidence and the pa
| thence of the people, determined to
anticipate the triumph of Populism by
a public confession of political guilt,
an earnest assertion Of change of heart
| and a devout acceptance of Populist
principles, and a modest demand that
! the Peoples party should vacate its
quarters and surrender its political pos
sessions.
POLITICAL IMPUDENCE
"a very staggering piece CT political
impudence was this. 1t was not a mi
nortty OF the Democratic party which
murdered silver in 1888. 1T was a ma
jorfty that did ft-a majority in the
house, a Majority in the senate, and 9ha
men who committed the deed cannol
their work than they promised in
1892 to do it,
During the dreary years of 1892, '93
"a. and '95, when Republicans and
Democrats alike were failing over each
other in the effort to be first at Wal.
streets feet. and lowest in the dust q
political establishment to the trusts
the national banks, the railroads, the
bond-holders and the gold SPECTATORS.
the Peoples party was the one cham
pion Of the people. 1t stood feariessiy
against the hungry hordes of class leg
islation. Tt proclaimed constantly its
undying entagontsn to Wall street and
its policies. 1t held aloft> the sacred
banner of a peoples rights and called
for patriots to rise and defend the re-
public. Since the hugle note Of Err-o7ar
lex Dhu awoke the highlands
and the fiery cross sped from gleH IL
hamlet there has been no such SION
taneous cutburst of popular enthusiasm
as marked the growth of the Peoples
party. One creed, one purpose. one
hope, one inspiration moved us all. and
had we sternly put the temptation aside
and named a straight Popuiist ticket
and one from the south, we would have
swept this land from sea to sea-
cat Chicago, the Democratic manag-
ers, having the leading Popul.eIt prin-
ciples, nominated for the first place en-
the ticket a candidate that endorses
those principles"
MIDDLE-OF -THE-ROADERS.
Mr. Watson recites the fight in the
pO-11Ilicf convention q or ho
tween the Bryan Populists and the
middle-of-the-road men. He proceeds:
Il was asked to allow the use of my
name to harmonic all the differences
which existed in the convention and
consented upon that express condition.
There is no doubt that among the
voters Of the Democratic party south
and west there was an earenst desire
that the Populists should be met half
way. They wished for union among
the advocates of silver. and they felt
that union could not be accomplished
by demanding any abject surrender at
the hands of the Populists.
THE leaders of the Democratic party
having secured the Populist endorse
ment of Mr.. Bryan by direct vote in
the convention, determined to secure it
for Mr.. Sewal also. and for this pur-
pose they have resorted to the policy of
fusion instead of meeting the Populists
half way. the Democratic managers
have demanded that we furnish all the
patriotism which the occasion requires
and they not only refuse to make any
concessions at all, but they treat with
public insult the party whose votes are
necessary to Democratic success. BY
listening to the overtures of Democratic
managers, our party has been torn into
factions, our leaders deceived and en-