The Louisiana populist., 1896-09-18
VanderyOOrt's Letter.
By a United Stand Mr.. Sewall Can
Be Forced From the Ticket.
litOr NoncOnformist :

| EultOr NOnCOnIOrlnlSJ:
The treason to Watson, our gal
liant candidate for vice-president,
has been carried out in Nebraska,
Kansas, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada
and all the west except Oregon and
Washington. We divide electors
in California and Montana, while
South Dakota gives them all to
the democrats.
In the south the Bryan democra-
cy refuse to give us one single
elector, relying on their power to
stuff the ballot-box and by false
counts steal electors in the solid
south. The conspiracy of the
bourbon democracy in the south,
the silver men in the mining states
and traitors in Nebraska, Kansas
and Iowa is being carried out to
destroy the Peoples party. In Nc
braska the Holcomb and Allen wing
of the Peoples party take the state
ticket and give the democrats four
straight electors and then they have
four others who will vote for Sc
wall without doubt. Howling
about freeing the nation from for
eign rule, they have placed on the
electoral ticket Swede, a German,
an Irishman, a Polander and Bo-
hemian-or FIVE out of eight.
The democrats feel outraged at
being compelled to swallow Hol-
comb and his satellites, but they
had to do it to get the electors for
Sewall, as all the Holcomb crowd
want is pie and plenty of it, and if
Bryan should be elected they would
demand still farther reward for
their treason. They have nomina-
ted for congress republican in
the third district who has never
left the party, democrat in the
first and second and the immacu-
late and only Greene in the sixth.
In the fourth and fifth we have
true Peoples party men, Judge
Stark and Switzerland Such is
the condition here. The trade will
be carried out down to county Of
ficers, and Peoples party with
eighty five papers carrying Bryan
and Watson at their masthead SUBJ
NIT to the infamous sellout arrang-
ed before the delegation went to
St. Louis. The Bryan democrats
polled less than 10000 votes last
fall, and / honestly believe that
the silver republicans. Outnumber
them in the state. The republican
Bryan men have not been conceded
one thing unless we call Judge
Maxwell a concession. 1t is all
democracy in the saddle. l was in
Texas when the democratic state
convention spurned and spit upon
the Populist state committee when
they asked for a division of cleo
tors. So it is all over the south.
The purpose is to destroy the
Peoples party and put the south
ern bourbons in full control for
another quarter of century.
They have disfranchised two-thirds
of the people by the infamous Mis-
sissippi and South Carolina con-
stitutlons, and they propose to en-
act similar provisions in all the
south. They are not honest in
their advocacy of silver. They
will betray the cause again as they
have in the past. The great ques-
ton in the south is a fair ballot
and an honest count and it will be
sacrificed by the triumph of Bryan
and Sewall. For nv part / will
not support Sewall electors in the
state and will fight them in every
state where we have the power.
l will support Bryan and Wat
son electors but the cheat and swim
die has been carried so far that all |
middle of the road Populists. if !