Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-18

ed by the kissing vipers of the fusionists
in our own party, the venomous rattle
snakes of the silver barons of the West,
the deadly cottonmouths of the South
known as bourbon ballot box suffers, the
poison copperheads coiled in the ranks of
the hungry Democrats of the valley states;
and, lying in wait in the jungle was the
Democratic anaconda, starved and hungry,
and its lengthy coils ready to press the
life out of the Populst party and its mouth
wide open to absorb the remains in its
putrid stomach.
"By putting up these fusion tickets, our
executive committee prevented a straight
ticket-Norton and Watson-being put in
the field, which was the intention of the
reform press If Sewall was not withdrawn.
The proper course would have been to have
asked Tom Watson to so straight to Kan
sas, Nebraska and Colorado: to have de-
manded Bryan and Watson electors in ev-
cry Populst state where we held the bal
ance of power, and to have notified the
Democratic party that If Sewall was not
Withdrawn in thirty days the committee
would hoist the ticket Of Norton and Wat
son. But they went into the fusion deal
and We are sold out.
1.-THE action of that convention in re-
pudiating Sewall said to the world that no
honest Populist would vote for Sewall cleo
tors. 1t meant that if there was to be an
honorable union we would not surrender
our organization, and that We would put
Watson in the breach to compel bourbons
to recognize the fair ballot and honest
count issue and give us honest elections in
the South To show how they have re-
formed, they have brutally counted us out
in Alabama. Arkansas and Georgia; they
are preparing to do it In all the South.
They have absorbed us in the West. They
have compelled us to vote for Sewall thir-
teen times in Missouri and four times for
hara civ r n
Illinois and three in Wisconsin and Min
nesota: they have sold us out in Kansas,
Nebraska and Colorado and have given us
the fag end everywhere.
THE Democrats and fusionists have.
from the very beginning insulted every
true middle-of-the-road Populist Every
man who wants to support the national
nominees-Bryan and Watson-is a Hanna
crat and these fusion snakes who sold out
the party, and their putrid Democratic al
lies, with Democratic and silver money
jingling in their pockets. charge every man
who stands by Watson as a traitor. ! went
through Andersonville: I have faced cop
perheads in Indiana and Illinois: have met
ballot box suffers in the South, but all
these combined are not equal in iniquity
and general cursedness and wholesale SIAN
der to the fusion leaders IN Kansas and
Nebraska Every one of them should be
buried in political grave in swamp
among snakes and loathsome reptiles, and
green ooze should sway to and fro over
their unholy resting places.
1.-THE piratical act of putting up ten gan
grened, spawned. broken-down remnants
of the Democratic party in Kansas who
would and did indorse Cleveland and the
devil to get Office is an outrage never
eaualed in political history; and then certi-
flying them on the Populist ticket as Bryan
and Watson electors is Illegal under our
ballot laws, done with intent to deceive
and betray our heroic candidate. I can
stand the assaults on myself, as they are
false: am sustained by the great body of
our party and so per cent Of our press.
And when they call Tom Watson bolter
and thank God he has an abscess in his
throat caused by noble work for our
cause; when they say they hope he will
speak in hell instead of Kansas, can
stand It. am proud to stand by him. I
have feeling Of loathing and contempt
for the poison fusionists of Kansas and
Nebraska. and hope they will be involved
in a general wreck and will never be dug
out from under the avalanche.
notwithstanding these shameful lies,
have not said one word against Bryan,
and have. in common with all middle-of-
the-road Populists. expressed my willing
ness to support and am supporting now,
the only straight Bryan and Watson elect
ors in Kansas. The mddle-of-the-road
Populists all supposed that our national
executive committee was selected to look
out for Watson's interests. and that Sem
ator Jones and his committee would look
out for Bryan, but 1t seems that we were
mistaken"