The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-07-27

have trouble? Not on your life. l
had given out my ultimatum and when
he heard it he wilted. As an example
of meekness Moses was not in it with
him.
81 see some people who call them
selves Populists, who 'trecked' up to
a town called Sioux Falls and held a
convention at which they nominated
myself and a man by the name of
Towne. They expected me to insist
thatthe Kansas City should
also nominate Towne, but | didn't do
it. Towne is all right and talks the
same kind of stuff that | do and like
him, but you must not expect me to
carry Mr.. Towne with me. 1t was a
question of sacrificing Towne or
myself and it is much better for the
plain common people and lot better
for me that Towne should be sacrificed
than that my hide should be hanged
on the fence. am the great champion
of the plain common people, but if you
imagine that my eye is not steadily
glued on the main chance for William
you are laboring under mistake. |
work the plain common people with my
mouth and sympathize with the woes
of the poor, but | also propose to hold
onto the people who have the dough.
Hence cannot afford to fool away too
much time with you Populists. You
have the fun of nominating a ticket
and running it for nearly two months.
That ought to satisfy you. You must
take it down now and support me and
the resurrected tail end of the Cleve-
land administration. Fouryears from
now you can meet again some where
if you like and nominate ticket and
run it a spell till the next Democratic
convention says it is time to get off
the tack. | want it understood that
am running as the candidate of the
poor common people of this country.
There are some few pure and good
plutocrats who are with me, however.
/ There is that truly good man, Mr..
Croker of New York, who is with me
in my fight for reform and to down
thetrusts All the time Mr.. Croker
can spare from managing the ice trust
and collecting his share of the Doodle
gathered in by the city officials of New
York he will devote to me and my
canvass. And there is another pure
plutocrat, ex-senator Clark of Mon
tana, who will put upa million to help
me down the money power. He would
give more, bu. he thinks it will cost
him another million to convince the
plain common people of his state that
he should be returned to the United
States senate. Once in while you
will find a good and pure man
like Mr.. Croker or Clark who does
not belong to the venal money power
1t is a great help in time like this to
have a man like ex-senator Clark who
will cough up a million to help a
champion of the plain common people
like myself
"We have a great platform.
wrote most of it myself. That part OF
it that speaks of men being created
free and equal and that government
without the consent of the governed
is tyranny, was fixed up by myself
] fni11Y,n,, g f'a,,A1i,,n
Ben Tillman is a great man. Next to
myself he is one of the great men OF
the Democratic party. He has made
his state solid for me. The majority
are niggers and would vote against
me if they dared, but Ben and the
minority have killed part of them and
counted the rest out so that there is
no trouble. 1t may be little hard to
explain how suppressing the will OF
the majority in South Carolina tallies
with the declaration that governing
the people without their consent is
tyranny, but Ben says that declara-
tion will cut no ice in South Carolina
and | can work it to advantage up
here in the North.
81 have talked enough to you for
one sitting. | must save this jaw OF
mine for other delegations that will
come after you are gone. Go home
and whoop it up for Bryan. You
needn't mention Stevenson unless
somebody happens to inquire who he
is. Stevenson doesn't count much
anyway. l am the band wagon and
also the procession myself. In short
| am the whole thing and please do
not forget it. / do not know what
would become of this country if !
were to happen to die. | tremble
sometimes when / think about it. II
Mckinley is elected there won't be