The representative., 1900-01-25
PEOPLES PARTY TO
BE AGAIN BETRAYED

and Butler TiCkot-Read the PO.
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Trade, Tramc, Treachery,
Treason.
On the goth Of December, 1899, q COM
mittee of Southern Populists went to
Washington, armed with numerous re-
quests from members Of the national
Populist committee, to ask Chairman
Butler in person to call q meeting Of
said committee at Chicago for Feb. H.
1900, preliminary to apportioning the
state delegations and fixing a time and
place for holding a national nominating
convention, in accordance with the So
called Omaha agreement of June, 1898.
In an interview with Mr.. Butler, that
functionary informed the committee
that he had already sent out an inquiry
to each member of the committee ask
ing his opinion whether or not a meet
ing of the committee should be held
when and where, and whether or not
ed to meet at the same time and place.
So far as we are concerned, we have re-
ceived no communication from Chair
man Butler, but. whether it was an in
territorial omission, an oversight, or the
habitual perversity of Uncle Sans mail
In the transmission of important mat
ters affecting the interests of Southern
Populists, we are unable to say, but we
are in receipt Of the following letter
from Senator Allen, of Nebraska, Mr..
Buffers chief ally and co-conspirator
In the work of disorganizing the Peo-
pies party and turning it over body,
boots and breeches to the tender mercy
of Bryan's mouth and the equally capa-
cious digestive organs of the infamous
old Bourbon counting machines of the
Southern states:
United States Senate.
Washington, D. c., Jan. 3, 1890.
My Dear Sir: Senator Butler, chair
man of the national Populist central
committee, has submitted to a referen-
dunn vote the time and place of holding
a meeting of the committee and of the
national convention. beg to suggest
to you that If consistent with your view
Of the matter, you should vote for a
meeting of the committee at Lincoln,
Nebraska, February IL, proximo, and
for the location Of the convention at
Kansas City, Mo. This would accom-
modate the largest number of Populists
and would do much towards assisting us
to carry the Southwestern and North
western states, where our principal
strength lies. Very truly yours,
WILLIAM v. ALLEN.
Hon. Frank Burkitt, Okolona, Miss.
will you walk into my parlor, said
the spider to the fly" is an invitation as
old as creation and it's acceptance has
been attended invariably with the same
result-death. We have not forgotten
Senator Allen as the Bryan chairman
of the st. Louis convention in the year
1896. We remember Senator Aliens
suggestion at the Lindell hotel, St.
Louis, after Butler was elected chair
man, that J. A. Edgerton, of Lincoln,
Nebraska, should be made secretary Of
the committee because of his proximity
to Mr.. Bryan, and the senator's conduct
as chairman Of the committee on Gre
dentials at Omaha in 1898 is still so
vividly impressed on our memory that
we instinctively reject his advice, be-
cause we know his purpose is to sell
out the Peoples party to Bryan and
Democracy again this year. To assem-
BILE the committee at Lincoln, Nebraska,
would be equivalent to turning the
party over to Butler, Allen & Co., to
be by them laid at the feet Of Bryan to
be spurned and spit upon as in 1896.
For our part, we don't propose to be
again offered as sacrifice on the altar
of the Democratic Moloch, and we be-
lieve there are few of the 49,, 900 Popu-
lists who voted for Weaver in 1892,
when they thought him honest, will
abandon us in the fight this year. We
are willing to meet the committee at
any place in the union where it's delib-
erations will be untrammeled, and at
such time as the majority think best,
but our purse is too short and our
patience too threadbare to permit us to
Journey to the Mecca Of fusionists mere
ly to witness the maneuvers of a few
political hogs engaged in selling us and
our people to the most despisable or
ganization on earth, for the privilege Of
keeping their noses in the swill.
1t does not require extra political
sagacity to discern that Butler, Allen
and the Bryan henchmen ensconced on
our committee from states like New
Hampshire, Connecticut, New Jersey
and Delaware. where there is not nor
ever was corporal's guard of reform
voters, have already agreed to make the
Peoples party tail to the Democratic
kite again this year. and to save the