The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-10-10
ASKS TO BE WITHDRAWN.
Mr.. Geo. Wilson, the POpulist NOmi-
nee, Wants ali Silver Votes Cast
for COwherd.

Mr.. Geo. Wilson gave out the following
letter yesterday for publication. 1t is
self explanatory:
LEXINGTON, Mo-, Oct. 9, 1896.
X N. Hanlon and others-Gentlemen OF the
District OF the Peoples Party.
1t has taken me a good while to get at
the true situation of affairs in this con-
gressional district with respect to the de-
termination of those who are running the
democratic machine in this county thai
no one shall go to the Legislature from
Lafayette but a national banker. | believe
the case in a nutshell to be this: The
democratic leaders in this county, moved
by gratitude to Vest gratitude being de-
fined as "a lively sense of favors to come'')
have determined that If it is q choice be-
tween the free coinage congressman in
this district or the loss of a national
banker as a Der of the legislature
they will sacrifice the congressman. Vests
connection with national banking is we'll
known and the Vest clique in this county
Will trust nobody to go TO the Legislature
but a national banker. The value of their
professions OF a wish to see constitutional
coinage restored whilst they are working
in with the national bankers and for the
system that alone caused the demonetiZa-
ton OF silver can thus be judged. When
trying to get into the senate Vest said he
thought there ought to be an issue of a
billion g~reenbacks; when he got in h
wanted long time bonds; and in the
supreme of the repeal of the
purchase clause OF the Sherman Act, when
we had q hold that could have been used
to force a free coinage act or else keep
the hold we had he babbled about "the
commercial ratio"
The moral of the situation in the fifth
district today is that if CoWherd is to be
elected it must be by the votes of the
peoples party. The only choice we have
today is between Mr.. Cowherd and u
puppet of R~othschild's. The u~nrepublican
party has bowed to the Rothschild's
nnuUqF and M ma6 q nraoi1ontio candidate
on a platform that proposes that the power
to coin money delegated to & by
the constitution shall only be exercised
as Eurpean monarchies permit it. There
could scarcely be a %weightier reason why
all who believe in holding to the position
taken by our fathers on July 4tb, 1776,
should make every effort to keep the
Rothschild puppets out of the next Con-
gress and put in men who will hold that
these states are still one of the independ-
emit nations of the world.
l therefore advise your committee to
take my name from the ticket and put
that of Mr.. Cowherd in its stead, and that
you join me IN urging every member of
the peoples party to vote for him. Before
he was nominated l expected to stay in
the race in case of his nomination. But
some things that 1 had been told about
him 1 afterwards found to be not strictly
correct. So far as 1 am able to Judge
this is the proper course that seems
best as things are today. We cannot have
our experience ana yet get DacK the time
used in gaining it. 1 suggest hat the
certifying of the tickets to the proper
officers be done at once, as there is no time
to lose. / nave been asked to make several
addresses in behalf of our presidential
nominee in another state and wish to go
there soon. 1 look to our people to do a
like part in this battle as that done by
Morgan's matchlesS regiment OF ri1emen,
without whom there would be no column
of victory standing today on Saratoga's
plains, that in the winter of Valley Forge
lay between W~ashiDgton's camp and the
enemy. GEORGE WILSON.