The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-09-21
SOUND IN SPOTS.
Joe \. Parker Reviews the Work Done
at Cincinnati. hut Omits Important
Items.

at Cincinnati. hut Omits important
Items.
The Cincinnati convention has met, de-
liberated and departed.
l have not time nor space to care
fully analyze its actions.
The convention divided the advisa-
bility of nominating candidates for presI-
dent and vice president outside the regular
party organization and by an utterly I'M
representative body.
| will discuss this later on but here I
will simply sum up what was done.
Hon. Wharton Barker was nominated fer
president and Ignatius Donneliy for vice
president.
Though nominated by small faction Ct
the party, there has never been named
ticket, by any party in America. as rep
resentative of brains and intellect his
The platform adopted and which received
the unanimous sanction OF the convention
before the division occurred, is a grand doc
ument principally the production of the
genius OF the gifted Donnelly. ana is 4
step i'll advance of any Peoples Party na-
tional platform vet written.
Had this ticket and platform been tie
result Oh the deliberations of a regular and
representative convention it would be H.
resiSt;ble.
The circumstances and conditions which
but we VINO now deplore may yet lind a
rock of safety.
Without criticism. without comment. I
desire TO say do not much regret this NOM
nation. Truly, it puts these brilliant men
and their followers outside the Peoples
Party; gives Butler ana fusion more lev
erage and q better chance to overthrow
the straight Fopulists in 1880. bat it gives
middle-of- the-roaders protection that they
need
l venture this prediction:
! II we nid-roaders who decided to stand
| by the regular party are defeated in 1890.
| and our party is carried for fusion, there
| will be bolt that Will make the
| Cincinnati affair small; to remember. The
| straight poluiists uf kentucky vii: stand
| with Texas and Georgia and other Ates,
| and never accept another fusion ticket.
In that event we will have in the field
| Il Populist ticket which We ear support
| without hesitanry and with all our energy.
! On the other hand. if carry the ma
tional convention Il truce will be patched
up and differences adjusted. for Mr.. Bark
| e, and Mr. Donnelly would never allow
| personal ambition to keep us apart.
Taken all in all, l am not ready to sit
! down in sackcloth and ashes and weep
| over the result at Cincinnati.
! Ii insures. beyond peradventure, 4
! straight Populst ticket in 1900. and. with
! this assurance what is there to prcven-
! the old guard from furnishing its
! weapons of conflict and entering with re-
! doubled zeal into the battle for human
| rights?
Bro. Parkcr's review OF the work Of
the convention seems candid. Unques-
tionably his heart is in the right place.
The foregoing letter evidences returning
consciousness of the true situation that
eliminated in nominations. Southern
blood is impetuous, and the retiring del
egates, in the heat of discussion, lost
sight OF two important but controlling
facts.
First, the convention was called for
the express purpose OF making nomina-
ticns; the press had SO announced. and