Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1896-10-14
AN APPEAL TO POPS.
Continued From First Page.

wealthy and powerful classes who want the
control Of the government to plunder the
people. The other represents the people,
contending for equality before the law and
the rights of man. Between those two there
Is no middle ground.
'The one and only hope of the Repub-
lican party to win in this campaign and
fasten the gold standard upon the country
is the corrupt use of an unlimited supply
of money, for bribery, corruption and in
timidation. The patriotic action OF the Peo-
pies party in forming and supporting these
joint electoral tickets has shattered that
hope. Already they are alarmed at the i'm
potency of a Doodle campaign, when all Of
the great moral forces of the people are
solidly united in the defense of American
institutions. The revulson Of the Amer
lean people against this Doodle campaign
during the last ten days has so united
them that victory is now assured.
1.-THE Peoples party made this revulsion
possible. Let everyone do his duty and
fail not Let our boast be that We are
American citizens and that American citi-
zens are more than partisans.
foreign greed will be driven from our leg
isiative councils and the domination of
American institutions; this done, and the
and the party that achieve such grand
and patriotic result in this crisis will be
has been left for the Peoples party and the
silver Republicans to make the party sac
rifice and to do the patriotic work neces-
ne nartv no nst "a TINS II for na other nary
will; the Peoples party will do Il. There
fore, the Peoples party will be the party,
Of the t. the people VII
day when their interests were at stake:
the American people will rally around its
banner as the party to contend against the
enemy of good government in the future.
Every man to his post and the victory Is
w0n' MARION RnmhER: Rchatlms:n.
81. R. SOVEREIGN.
"GEoRGE F. WAsHRuRM,
JOHN ". BREIDENTHAL.
~ A. EDGERToN. Secretary"
The members of the committee admitted
after the meeting that this statement is in
the nature of a rebuke to Thomas Watson,
who has been calling on all Populists to
keep in the middle Of the road without
paving attention to either of the other
parties.
Early in the afternoon Senator Marion
Butler said that Mr.. Watson would re-
not been discussed. different story was
given out after the meeting. when It was
said Mr.; Watson had been the chief SUBJ
Jecr uiueT discussion curing the udy.
Senator Marion C. Butler said to an As
sociated Press reporter after the meeting:
I'VE are very well pleased with the re-
sui. and have no doubt it will bring many
votes to our ticket.
There have been many small points of
difference among the members of the COM
mittee, and We wished to get them out of
the way and to present a solid front to
our opponents. We have settled all these
differences and the committee was unani-
nous in support of the statement we have
issued. If the committee had been divided
up it. We never should have issued it."
'It is said by some that the action Of
the committee is a direct slap at Mr.. Wat
SON"
Well" said the senator. eff 1t Is, it is
the kind of slap he would like very we'll
to have repeated. 1 have no doubt that
with a slap of that kind sent on one cheek,
Mr.. Watson would gladly turn, the other
ously. though. it is not slap at Watson
in any way, and it is not so considered by
any member of the committee. Mr.. Reid.
Of Georgia. who is the personal friend Of
meeting. and gave his consent to the state
ment. That does not look as If he consid-
cred Mr.. Watson was being slapped to any
great extent"