People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1896-11-13

upon the ticket. He is as squarely
upon the Chicago platform as | am
myself, and he has defended the
cause of bi-metalism against much
greater opposition than have the
men of the West and South. de-
sire to be left free to. support Sewall
during the campaign. 1t is due to
myself and the Popuiist Convention
that there should be the most out.
spoken frankness between U.S."
To this dispatch was added a
postscript requesting that it be read
to the convention. Senator Allen
knew that its reading would result
in the refus II of the convention to
make Mr.. Bryan its candidate.
Thus we have traced the action of
the Bryan managers through the
stormy scenes of the convention.
What all happened in the private
rooms of hotels the people likely will
never know. The Bryan managers
on the Populist side were almost
continuously in secret communica-
ton with the Democratic bosses.
Bryan's nomination was secured
by fraud and false pretense.
1t is enough for the Populists to
support him on the ticket with full
set of Watson electors.
1t is folly to ask them to support
Bryan and enough of Sewall to eff
fectually defeat Tom Watson.
In the St. Louis convention were
fully SO delegates from Tennessee
whose representation was based upon
Republican votes. There were fully
that many from North Carolina, and
half that many from Virginia thst
were also based upon Republican
votes.
Kansas had 90 delegates in the
convention and Colorado 45, and
both of these states have bolted the
the action of the convention.
In North Carolina the Populle>s
have fused with both the Democrats
and Republicans.
Confusion reigns every whore and
it all results from the action of the
men who could not resist the aroma
of the flesh pots
The pie-hunters who are so anx-
: y up'on Ore Democratic
: 'no az ~ .bn should be defeated at
the polls and then be invited to re +.
main in the Democratic party.
If the Peoples party lives the
trading, compromising office seekers
must meet their political death
Morgan's Buzz Saw.
A S udy of Mental Epedemics.
Boris Sidis, in the Century. Condensed
for Public Opinion,
Susceptibility to the movements
of his companions by passing through
the same motor processes is the only
way by which the social brute can
become aware of the emotions that
agitate his comrades. This susoept-
Utility is nothing but what we, in re-
lation TO man, call suggestibility,
which consists in the impressing on
the mind of an idea, image, move
ment, which the person reproducas
voluntarily or involuntarily. Sug-
gestibility, then, is natural to man as
social animal. Under Ger lain con-
ditions this suggestibility, which is
always present in man, may increase
to an extraordinary degree, and the
result is stampede, mob, an cpl
demic. sit is often said" remarks
DR.. Mol, great authority in hypno
tism, "that hYpnotIzed persons are
asleep, and the two states have been
partly identified. think this mis-
use of words, since there are whole
series of hypnotic states in which
not one symptom of sleep appears,
and mistaken conclusions ara often
drawn from the mistaken terminolo-
gy, with resulting confusion" Sus-
ceptibilty to suggestion is the chief
phenomenon of hypnosis. Man car
ries within him the germ of the pos
sible mob, of the epidemic. AS q
social being he is naturally suggest
bic; but when this susceptibility to
suggestion bsc)m under certain
conditions abnormally intense, we
may say that he is thrown into a
hypnotic state. We know that a
limitation OF voluntary movements