The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-12
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not mention the fact that he is a national
banker, a bondholder, railroad magnate,
| a corporation millionaire, an enemy to
| organized labor a beneficiary of trusts,
a seeker after subsidies of the merchant
imagine and a protectionist of the McKin-
ley variety.
THESE things must be kept from the
! people l am told. Why so2 Haven't the
voters right to know for whom they
| are voting?
both Kansas and Colorado are popu-
list states, and yet the populst nominees
are not to receive a single electoral vote
! in either state The democratic ticket
| Bryan and Sewall, will receive them all
In Kansas the people have been soothed
| by the assurance that the Sewall electors
| would vote for Watson, provided Watson
got more votes elsewhere than Sewau got
THUS the populists in Kansas and Col
orado have been DISTINGUISHED. Worse
| than that-they have been delivered to a
! fusion where none of their votes count
for the popul.st ticket. They must vote
for Sewan and thus violate their princl-
pies.
'In North Carolina, where fusion has
beeen arranged with the republicans on
| the state and county tickets, and with
! the democrats on the national ticket, Mr..
| Sewall gets a majority of the electors.
! North Carolina is supposed to be popu-
list state upon that idea she was allowed
| ninety-five votes in our national conVen-
ton. The fact that in North Carolina
we have now conceded a majority of the
electors to Mr. Sewall, would indicate that
our vote in North Carolina has undergone
a disastrous shrinkage since our national
convention adjourned, or that the national
ticket has been used for mercantile pur-
| poses.
Senator, a reform party has no right
| to exist if it has no valid complaint to
make. Populists cannot denounce the
sins of the two old parties and yet go into
political copartnership with them The
| moment we make a treaty, the war must
cease.
and when we cease our war upon the
two old parties we have no longer any
excuse for living. Whenever right COM
promises with wrong, it is the right which
suffers.
1.-THE democratic managers seem to re-
sent, as a strange piece of impertinence,
the fact the populists dared TO nominate
a ticket differing at the rear end from
+. theirs.
"Coming to them with the two million
they were begging for and piteously need
ing, L can say with perfect assurance OF
telling the unqualified truth that my ar
rival on the field of battle has not been
welcomed as heartily as Blucher was re-
ceived by Wellington at Waterloo Ihey
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want me to lead them. They need Bluch-
ers troops, but they draw the line at
Butcher.
"That is hardly fair either to Butcher or
his troops, nor is it the best way 10 deteat
NAPOLEON For this attitude upon the
part of the democratic managers, be-
lieve that you, senator, are largely re-
sponsble You made no effort to have
me recognized. You publicly stated that
/ would not be notified of my nomination.
You went into the fusion policy over my
written protest, with all the zeal OF a
man who wanted to elect the democratic
ticket.
I'm this 1 think you were wrong. AS
| chairman of the popullst committee the
party certainly expected you to do all
you could to elect the populist ticket. Had
YOU demanded Mr.. SewalPs withdrawal
from the ticket he would have been with
drawn. / have a letter of yours in which
you state that the democratic committee
expected you to make the demand, but
that you did not make it.
, From the perversity of temper with
which the democratic managers have re-
fused to do the right thing by the popu-
lists, it would seem that they prefer Nc
Kinleyism to anything which might seem
to be partly populist triumph. ia91 i.
Their subtle purpose is to couple Bry-
ans election with the complete destruction
of the peoples party. They mean to elect
both Bryan and Sewall-both or neither.
They cannot endure the thought that the
victory shall be shared by populism They
are willing to use the populist nominee
as a lever to move populist votes-bit not
as an ally who has any rights they are
bound to respect
1.-The st. Louis compromise ticket should
have been insisted upon for two reasons:
% Because Mr.. Bryan cannot be other
wise elected.
(0 Because the triumph of silver can
not be otherwise assured.
"It is hardly necessary for me to say
that l heartily endorse the platform upon
which l was nominated. In speech, In
editorial, in pamphlets, 1 have discussed
for several years every issue populism
raises, and my position upon them all Is
so well known that need go into no dis
cussion of principles here.
1.-THE position taken in this letter viii
be bitterly assailed. Would that the path
way of duty was always carpeted with
flowers 1t rarely is. by making myself
and the great party 1 represent a mere
footmat for democratic politicians to wipe
their feet upon, could win
much applause from that quarter
But if I were not lacking in the loyalty
which was expected of me when chosen,
| would grieve the men who have honored
} me, trusted me, defended me and loved
me. ~tef
'In this reform movement to which J
have devoted eight of the best years OF
my life / have lost much-but my own
! self-respect has not been lost, nor the re-
spect of those principles represented and
whose battles l have fought
81 did not seek this nomination, nor
desire it. Had / asked the presidential
. nomination of the peoples party and
gone to St. Louis to claim 1t, no power
, of the democratic emissaries could hava
kept it from me. 1t was out of a heartfelt
desire to help unite all the reform forces
and at the same time to save my party
and its principles from utter
wreck that 1 agreed to accept second place
on the compromise ticket. / stood ready
to Join hands with Mr.. Bryan and to aid
him in harmoniZing the populists and sill
yer democrats and in uniting the south
: and west, to the end that we might achieve
a victory against Mckinley and Mckinley
ism. Fusion with Bryan meant no sacri-
? flee of principle; fusion with Sewall does
No one regrets more profoundly than 1 dc
that the democratic managers have SO
shaped the campaign that the south had
again been told that she must grovel in