The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-11-16
A STRONG LETTER.

our gallant standard bearers-BarKer ana
Donnelly. L! c. BATEMAN.
Auburn, Maine. 81
A STRONG LETTER.
Ex-Gov. Waite Hopeful.
Denver. Colo, Nov. II, 1893.
Friend Donnelly:-Elect1on IS over ana we
are badly showed under" in Colorado. L
took the stump VS. Charley Thomas the
fusion candidate for governor, but he was
elected by a very large plurality perhaps
$4,000, most people being made to believe
that no man in Colorado could oppose Mr.
Thomas for governor without being goia-
bug ca and this Notwithstanding all poli.t-
cal parties in Colorado are pledged to the
free coinage Of silver. Notwithstanding
also that Thomas was the Democratic can
didate for governor in 1884, and at that
time the Peoples Party was the only party
which had a plank in its national platform
for silver.
Yet Mr. Thomas abandoned his own party,
and carried with him over 20 the Republican
party % 600 out of 30, 600 Democrats, all the
while maintaining that the Republican party
was gold standard" The silver question
is so intensely local In Colorado that dem
agogues lug in silver at all times and unoe:
all circumstances and make the people be-
lieve that unless all parties unite on some
fusion humbug, Colorado cannot be cOnsid-
cred for silver.
But the general result in the United
States is eminently satisfactory Fusion pc
tween Populists and Democrats has been
killed in California. Washington, Utah,
Montana Nevada, Kansas, Nebraska, ana
in fact in all other states except Colorado
and possibly Wyoming. The defeat OF fu-
sion in Nebraska Is exceedingly important
Allen gets left for the senate and he was
one of the Peoples Party officials who, with
Taubeneck, Weaver and Butler, compelled a
fusion of the Populst organization with the
Democracy-a party which In my judgment
is insincere in advocating the free coinage
of silver or any other reform-and even us
radical minority represented by Bryan ana
Altgeld, after obtaining the supremacy IN
the national Democratic convention at Chi
cago in 1896, and through the subcommittee
on resolutions adopting in substances the
financial plank Of the Omaha PLATFORM
went back upon it, eliminated every REQ
pies Party idea 1t contained ana conln at
all supporters of the Democratic platform
to the intrinsic value Of money and the re-
| demption of the greenback III coin.
According to the many-sided policy OF fu'
| sion in a state like Colorado where every
| BODY is for silver, which Is both natloha
! and local issue-national, because the free
| coinage of silver would necessarily increase
| the circulation of money and to that extent
| is a mart Of the financial issue; and local be-
| cause silver is one of our products lihe
wheat in Minnesota or cattle in Iowa-in the
| silver states a cast-iron rule prevails tha'
| all must support the fusion organization
! which has degenerated II a mere scramble
| for spells, but in New YqSlSI and all states
! east of the Mississippi, the silver questlo!
| by consent of Bryan himself, was not ar
| issue in the state electDns.5 This Is upon
| the dishonest principle that the joint vote
! of the silver and anti-silver Democrats OF
| the East might be quotes rs an endorse
ment of Bryan and the, Chicago platform
on silver.
Even the people of Co3Tado will learn ii
time that, however important the free coin
| age of silver may be to the local interests
| of the silver producing states. they cannon
| force that single issue upoAf all partles' u
the detriment of all other reforms of equa
! and even greater Importance. Thirty cleo
| toral votes cannot swing an electoral col
lege of 4A votes any nsC1F gthan the tai
| can wag the dog Such men as Alleh
! Weaver. Taubeneck Butfts Stewart, Jones
BRYAN and Altgeld wouldtnc& take the FREE
| coinage of silver from the Peoples Party
| because it demanded also reform IN trans
! portation and a government paper currency
as well as coin. To kill the Peoples Part!
| these men compelled fusion WIN th'
Democrats on the single issue of silver pre-
! tending that the only way to succeed "a
| lone reform at a time" when common sense
dictates union of retOrmers ana not
! division. There is no sense IN any reloIn
! which does not demand enough, II success
| full, to insure the radical change we neeo
! The free coinage of silver alone, If obtained
would be of vast local advantage to ever:
| silyer-producing state, but even If granted
| with the bank monopoly unchanged, VIII
| the railroad monopoly able to make sue
rates and such unjust determinations
they please, there can be no natlonai pros
perty.
Fusion between the Peoples Party and tn
Democracy is dead, but it may be man
year; before the Peoples Party VIII occo
DIV the grand position 1T once dld organ
| lied at Omaha July 4, 1892. In -FOUR moHlli'
| campaign it cast a million votes, out a ~
| sion paralysis attacked the party from tn
| very beginning. There was almost no d
tempt at organization. for party speaker
documents or newspapers. b. the treacher
of Taubeneck. and after him Butter ana "A
len, all progress has been stayed, ana ne
a new convert has been made to Populfs;
for wears In all proba blity there are nc
az MANY PEOPLES Party voters today as Q
Nov. 3, 1892, but thank Gcd, the fuslo
efforts of our own traitorous o1nclais an
, Bryan and Altgeld, their allies, nave falie
and there must be separation oet"ee. q
Democratic goats and the Populist shee
! The Peoples Party, purged OF It's IaE
' friends, will start anew and succeed up.
it's me rts The hope of reform Is IN u
l Cincinnati movement, which mas cut 100
from our corrupt caucus ana cohNeh'f'
3 system that has destroyed both the Ola pa
1 ties and so far our own, and deliver'
G them over bound hand and foot, blind al
' shorn of their strength, the sport OF Phlii
i tines and political rings, who laugh the w
t | of the people to scorn.
a Our old organizat ton, torn to pieces
| the traitors Taubeneck, Weaver, Alien ~
| butler lies like John Browns body, moul
ering in the grave" but the immortal PR
, ciples of reform and their practical results
the postal savings bank, the proposed co
= struction of the Nicaragua canal by
, government the municipal ownership
e r,ghteous war of modern times which prof.
, tses to secure some portions of the ear
from the tyranny of despotism ike 10
, Browns soul, ''go marching en-
+ DAVIS H. WAITE