People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1897-11-05


For many months past 1 have follow
ed IN the reform press 8 number of
con roversies and political prognosti-
nat ons. L have closely studied the
Mas awhile, as well as the St. Louis and
Chi ago conferences. l have read with
the orofoundest interest the PROPOSE
til 4 Of men like Barker, Watson,
Bat man, Boggs, Vandervoort Bryan,
Dets and others. Much has been said
abo It the Judases of st Louis and
Chicago conventions, much also has
bee2 said about the lecturing by Bryan
for specializing concern and the pub
lish ng of a book for S175 that could
be sold by any one else for $1.0O. 1
was at St Louis and l know that either
Chairman Jones did not keep tab on
wh.5 transpired behind the curtains,
or Else Mr.. Bryan suppressed the most
val bic information from publication.
One fact however has so far escaped
publ &c notice, and I may say it right
her it is this fact that compelled me
five nonths ago to at once to discon-
time the sale of organs book, although
SIN have eight volumes on hand.
cry delegate to st. Louis knows
full well that the situation was such
ths. Bryan could at no time get the
p ls5ilo1As ii44ictss I. MD
die of the roader received the Vice
Presidency. This they promised, but
for obvious reasons democratic prom
ises would not be swallowed by the
Pops and therefore the Vice President
had to be nominated first. Now,
want the fusionists in future cam
paigns to take the following from page
270 Of organs "First Battle" and when
at leisure, smoke it in their pipes: SIN
view of the contest over the second po-
sition, it was decided to nominate the
cand date for Vice-Presideut first, In
spite at all due respect for Mr.. Bryan
l call this willful and deliberate mis-
representation of facts, worthy of a
politician, but not of statesman. Mr.
Bryan from now on will be anything
THAI political expediency will teach
him to be and he will go anywhere.
where political expedieucy will teach
him to go and you see, just now he will
not go in the enemy's country New
York;.
As to the future of this great reform
movement, allow me few remarks.
see too frequently, where one man
makes good suggestions, another man,
without deliberate and thorough inves
legation, will jump at conclusions.
Thus Mr.. Boggs calls Mr.. Barker a bi
metalist and Mr.. Bateman denies thai
the Populists are fatists. Both are
wrong Mr.. Barker as well as Popu
lists are fatists. Mr.. Barker stands
squarely on the first art Gle of the St.
Louis platform and presume so does
Mr.. Bateman and the Populists. A
national money, safe and sound, issued
BY the government, full legal tender.
Mr.. Bateman, if this don't mean pa
per money then it does not mean gold
or silver money, but whatever it means
it means fatism.
M Bateman ought to know that if
we estore silver to it's old place, we
can only do it by fat. On this line N
Barker has been sound for years.
had 3 lengthy correspondence with the
honorable gentleman years ago and he
has not changed any of his principles,
except perhaps that he is today more
convinced of broader conception Oh
government ownership, only he
thought in former years that the re
forms could be brought about, but by
the Republican party. 1 told him that
he would find that he will utterly fai
to reform the Republican party. Under
date of April 2, he wrote in part: II
has been necessary to spend time in al
effort to get the Republican party int
line rs the party Of the people and out
of control of the money cliques. 1t was
also necessary to wait for the Demo
cratic party to again show that the
leaders were also under the control Of
the money cliques. The time has been
well spent, new party can now bt
formed with hope of victory. Thi:
later demand he has since modified as
he hiss apparently more faith in the
Peoples Party than have. I think
Mr.. Bateman views the situation right
the fusionists hold the party machinery
and viii wreck it. AS conference o.
representatives of labor and from every
con gressional district has been called
for ST. LOUIS for May 2nd, next.
think the Populists ought to compel
Butler to call a national conference
prior to that date and if he will not
heed the wish of the rank and file OF
his party, then let them attend the st
Louis conference and organize in CON
junction with all reformers for politi-
cal action and battle royal next fall.