The San Francisco call., 1896-08-25
WATSON BETRAYED
BY POPULISTS.
Only Three Were Faithful
to Their Standard
Bearer.
SEWALL GETS ON TOP.
Democrats Win the Game of
Thimberig and Are
Growing.
TWO OBSTACLES IN THE WAY.
Joseph Kelly Will Not Withdraw and
Monteith Defies the Railroad
TWO OBSTACLES IN THE WAY.
Joseph Kelly Will Not Withdraw and
Monteith Defies the Railroad
Company.

John S. Dore, Peoples party National
Com mitteeman from California, while in
favor of straight Bryan and Watson
ticket so far as the fusion on Presidential
electors is ccncerned, is more than will
Jig to fuse with the Democracy on divid-
ing the offices of Congressman. He argues
that the Peoples party has nothing to
lose and something to gain by uniting
with the Democrats. Hence, ne acted as
spokesman on behalf OF the majority of
the State Central Committee of which he
is a member. and proposed to the Demo-
cratic State Executive Committee that the
offices of Congressman should be divided
between the two parties in the proportion
of four Congressman TO the Democrats and
three to the Populists.
As the Democracy had already broken
faith with the Peoples party State Con-
vntion with reference to this matter
and had nominated candidates in certain
districts strong in Populistic votes, Mr.
DoTe suggested, presumably by way OF re-
lief, that all the candidates for Congress
nominated by both parties should tender
their designations and allow their State
Central Committees to reappoint them or
their successors.
This proposition was accepted with
avtdltY by the Democratic committee.
Representatives or we'll wishers OF the
Southern Pacific Company on that COM
mittee were more than pleased, because it
would give them an opportunity of turn
ing down George W. Monteith, the Peo-
pies party candidate from the First Con-
gressional District. Mr.. Monteith has
incurred the enmity of that powerful cor
poration because he defended the railroad
strikers, and because he sought to prose-
cute Coils P. Huntington for issuing a
railroad pass to Frank NJ. Stone, the politi-
cal manager of NJ. H. de Young.
1t will also give them an opportunity of
pulling down Marion de Vries, Demo
cratic candidate in the second, and putting
up a weak Populist in his stead, in order
that the way to Congress might be made
clear for Grove L. Johnson.
The Democrats will take the Third Dis
trict under the new arrangement. Judge
Mcguire Will resign as candidate from the
Fourth District, and his resignation will
be handed back to him Immediately.
1t is understood that Joseph Kelly will
refuse to retire in the Fifth and that
Colonel Taylor Rogers, the Peoples party
nominee, will also stand pat.
In the Sixth an effort will be made to
have Patton, the Democratic candidate,
withdraw in order that a union may be
effected on G. A. Barlow, the Peoples
party candidate.
In the Seventh it is the intention to
allow Mr.. Castle, the Populist candidate,
to remain on the ticket and not to put up
a Democrat against him.
George w. Monteith was asked yes ter
day afternoon by CALL reporter whether
he intended to resign as candidate in the
First.
mo, sir; shall not resign. 1 never re-
tire under fire. | will not withdraw" he
added with emphasis. s'The First Dis
Al. u H.
ticnately in the State, and the Populists are
entitled to that district. F"
Chairman Butler of the Peoples party
National Committee has been asked as to
the policy of the State Committees fusing
with the Democracy on Presidential elec-
tors, and he has replied that wherever an
equitable arrangement should be made 1t
would be recognized. In other words,
wherever the Peoples party would be
allowed q number of Presidential electors
proportionate 10 its vote in any State, that
arrangement would be approved OF by the
National Committee.
But in States which, like Kansas and
Colorado, the Popluists had agreed to sup
port all the Bryan and Sewall electors In
exchange for State offices. such States
should be cut off from the Peoples party. !
Joseph Asbury Johnson said yesterday
that a remark made by him few DAYS ago
had been misunderstood. What he had
said was that he would not vote for the
four Bryan and Watson electors alone.
because that would give Major Mckinley
five-ninths, or more than half a vote He
added:
$50 shall have to take my medicine
and vote for all the fusion electors
The State Executive Committee of the
Peoples party went into session at p. NJ.
and re NAMED invisible until clock.
Ii did not take long to agree to appoint
1unlt 10 81
Democrats on the proposition TO fuse on
Congressman, and then the battle of the
day was inaugurated on the adoption of
the majority report of the subcommittee
recommending a fusion with Democrats
on Presidential electors. John S. Dore of
Fresno, National Committeeman from
California, presented the following mi
nority report:
Mr. Chairman and Members Of the Executive
Committee Of the Peoples Party Of California;
GENTLEMEN: Not agreeing with the report of
the joint committee of conference as adopted
by that body and dissenting from the action
taken by the other members of the committee
appointed by this body, deem it my duty to
give my reasons why could not sign the ma
jority report and while being duly impressed
with the extreme gravity of the situa ton
am constrained to present this minority re-
port.
party held at St. Louis July %, 1896, NOM
mated the Hon. Thomas E. Watson OF Georgia
as its candidate for the Office of Vce-President.
This was done in an unusual and most en-
phatic manner thus expressing to the whole
Nation the stesdtastness and fidelity of that
great convention to the cardinal principles of
the Peoples party.
The Hon. William Bryan of Nebraska was
subsequently nominated by the same conven-
tion as its candidate for the exalted
position OF standard bearer of that party, even
10 wider extent than he was an exponent
of the principles and the platform of the
Democrat tic party as declared at Chicago in
1896.
These are the nominees of the st. Louis con-
vention of the Peoples party, to whom our
party exacts allegiance and fidelity.
The Democratic convention at Chicago noml- !
mated the Hon. Arthur Sewali of Maine for the
office of Vice President, to whom this majority
report attempts TO bind the Peoples party of
his State to cast five electoral votes where but
four are cas- for Thomas E. Watson.
The Peoples party is an organized National /
movement of great power in opposition to |
monopoly of money, monopoly of Iransporta- !
non and monopoly of land. and yet in this |
pa paiority report you would force the loyal Peo- |
,leis party voters of this State to support Hon. |
4 rthur Sewall, whose career has been in direct /
opposition to these reforms and whose per-
onal interest and environments make him an
Unsafe leader in the in terest and for the well
are of the plain people in this hour Of our