The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-06-23
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.
POPULISTs WARNED.
MAcHIAvELLIAN WoRK-DEcEPTIoN IN REGARD
TO TELLER.


MAcHIAvELLIAN WoRK-DECEPTIoN IN REGARD
TO TELLER.
To the Editor Of the San Francisco CdIt-SIR:
Every intelligent and ardent Populist who has
only read the Associated Press news dispatch
purporting to give the address of National
Chairman Taubeneek and other leading Pop
ulists of the country in favor of making Sem
ator Teller the Presidential candidate of the
Peoples party is certainly in maze of doubt,
tinged with Indignation; for the whole force
OF the address implies that they have gone
daft on the single silver issue, and he sees that
whatever influence the address will have as
thus reported will tend to divide and dis
hearten true and loyal Populists Butlol what
a change steals over his heart and llu-
mines his mind as he reads that address in
full as sent over the wires by the United Press
News Agency and published in the columns of
IHE CALL this Sunday morning Permit me
to say that THE CALL has done the Populsts OF
this whole coast service which they will
highly appreciate when they fully understand
the value and character OF that service simply
as regards this one dispatch, headed '"Teller to
Lead the Populists," and ask unusual space
Tor this letter that may expose the treachery
and dishonor OF this Associated Press service.
Indeed tits matter of serious Importance to
all honorable men, be they Republicans, DEM
ocrats or Popul1StS, to have the true but skill
July concealed purpose of this constituencies
news agency fully disclosed, thereby to some
extent neutralizing its baleful influence.
On comparing closely the address as pub
Eshed this morning in the Examiner and
Chronicle, whose news service is that of the
Associated Press, with that published in The
CALL, as wired by United Press News Agency,
L find 1t q glazing and dastardly case of 'ssup-
pressioyeri," in which the half-truth, told
with Machiavellisn cunning and duplicity, sur
passed downright falsehood in the effect it
was intended to produce, and has indeed pro-
duced where this garbled dispatch alone has
been read. In order to render the exposure
complete, word of explanation is needed for
readers who do not understand the attitude of
earnest Populists toward "fusion" of any kind
on the silver issue or any other issue.
Until recently Nation al Chairman Taubeneck
has been under grave suspicion OF a desire to
surrender the Populist party to the siyerites
by an abandonment OF all other Populist issues
Tor the sole issue OF free silver coinage, but he
has just set himself right with most Populists
by the publication of a frank and manly letter
in which he unequivocally denies the charge
and outlines q course of action in full accord
with the views OF the PEOPLES party; and now
comes this dispatch through the news service
of the Associated Press and places him and
other prominent Populists in worse light
than ever. indicating that they have rushed
headlong after Senator Teller a single silver
plank candidate for the Presidency. No acts
of theirs could De more offensive to all loyal
and true Populisls than this would be
if they. were guilty OF 1t. But they
open hearted and grandly patriotic in the ad-
dress as published in THE CALL, but they are
made to appear in quite another light in the
dispatch published in the Examiner and
Chronicle by the omission of the paragraphs
which define the attitude of Senator Teller
toward the Popul1st party, the one vital thing
for Populists to know, but which was so
adroitly and completely suppressed by the
trained and talented deceivers in the service
of the Associated Press, the most malign
agency controlled by the gold men for delud-
ing and confusing trusting people to secure
their votes, SO that they themselves shall
give the gold olgarchy new lease of power.
in measure the treachery and dishonor of
this malignant news agency in emitting this
paragraph:
A concident Of fear, of hope, OF conviction, al
ready exists among Intelligent and observanr
people Political division alone creates an obstacle
TO unity OF purpose and harmony of action be-
tween them. The duty Of every patriot is 10 re-
move this obstacle so far as it can be. by honor
able concessions and reasonable sacrifices These
do not contemplate even the thought of merging
our party into any other or the slightest impair
ment of its efficiency: but alone, for the sake of
humanity and 10 avert, If possible, the disasters
which the supremacy OF the money power now
so menacingly forebodes, to secure the union of
good citizens who think alike upon the important
issues of financial REFORM in behalf OF the election
Preside mt who in spirit is antagonist ic to none
of the fundamental principles of our party and
has openly engaged in the most sturdy advocacy
of our chiefest measures.
Mark well the purport OF these last words
IA President who in spirit is antagonistic to
none of the fundamental principles of our
party and has openly engaged in the most
sturdy advocacy of our chiefest measures"
How eagerly every Populist in the land will
grasp at that assurancei How cunning the
hand that struck it out of the address! Iwill
inclose in brackets ] the portion omitted
from the following paragraph:
We see in the private and official life OF Henry
NJ. Teller a beacon, brightly burning, warning the
people off the threatening shores Of diSsension
He has but now publicly abandoned the Repub
lican party, with which he has been associated
since Its first organization Tentering it when led by
conscience TO strive for the overthrow of human
OIro oNl,i
were swallowed up in the greed and cruelty Of he
money kings. For twenty years he has been
commanding figure in the Nations life q Cabinet
officer and Senator of the United States. Nomi-
nay Republican he has many times openly de-
fed his party when It's members sought to make it
an Instrument of injustice and oppressionJ.
1t required little political sagacity to discern
the reason for the omission of the bracketed
portion OF the foregoing paragraph. But here
follows another paragraph which was sup
pressed because of its extreme accepUability
and vital interest to Populists, and, | would
fain hope, TO large majority OF both Republi-
cans and Democrats, as the only safe and
patriotic view to be taken of the money Ques-
ton, which reads as follows:
For twenty years he has stood as a buIwark
against the tyrannical Entertainments of the Ma
tional banks; he has never hesitated to declare
that they should be deprived of all authority to
issue money ana TO CONTROL its volume; he is an
unfiincnng advocate of the duty of the Govern
people the sovereign power of emitting all money
gold, silver and paper He holds that TO issue
bonds in time of peace is Stupendous wrong to
the people and the country.
Populists are now able to see what they may
expect from the news service OF the Associated
Press, while on the other hand the news SER
vice of THE CALL, that OF the United Press, has
given the address without mutilation, and THE
CALL has published it in full, although it sup
ports Mckinley and the platform on which he
stands, and as in duty bound also whacks
away in good style at the Populists. This is
certainly broad-gauge journalism such as is
rarely seen i'll any part OF the world. In a
word, THE CALL speaks for all and with large
and true American tolerance worth of all COM
mendaton. JOSEPH AsBURY JOHNSON.
IL Essex street, San Francisco.