The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1900-02-22
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silver Republicans viii Hold To-

silver Republicans Will Hold To-
gether.
Teller says that branch of the G. o.
p. will remain. Yes, that branch will
remain loyal to the G. o. P. as political
spies in collusion with Bryan Demo-
Gratis to destroy the reform party Of the
people.
Together they laid the snare in 1896
to catch the unwary Pop. When their
campaign fake was ended in 1896 90
in every 100 of them voted the G. o. p.
ticket, and they are using the same
tactics for the same purpose again.
Bryan was made the figure head then
and is likely to be again in 1900; Bryan
wants to be president, but knows today
that if he ever is he must look at least
four years beyond March 3, 1901. The
honest reformer is no fool, and 2,OOO,-
600 Of reformers hoping, yet doubling,
voted for William J. Bryan in 1896, still
hoping, will never vote for him again
and another million, whose doubt kept
them from voting at all, will vote
against him in 1900; then there are a
great number of political pie-hunters
who suppo led him in 1896 have come to
believe that free silver canot win and
have returned to their single gold stand
ard vomit. Now, any man with a thin
bleful Of brains ought to know that
Bryan is the biggest political ass that
ever posed before the people, or that he
is the hired tool of one branch of the
money power, and there is but one
branch. What true Populist or true re-
former believes that a man who, In
1896, indorsed only Democracy, and q
mate, and only a silver dollar that he
might be made president, and when he
was defeated was offered an annual
salary equal to that Of president to
mine owners and capitalists, is any
more honest now than he was in 1881
believe now as believed then, that
he has two strings to his kite-the chair.
and the salary If he defeats the Repub-
lican party, and $4,000 or more II he
loses and defeats the POpulist party.
Why should one Populist vote for Bry-
an? He never Endorsed anything that
was populistic, never voted the ticket
nor for a Populist candidate for Office,
and never will. And yet he wants to
be nominated and voted for by Popu-
lists that he may be president of the
United States. And II they gave him
their support and elected him, all they
would get out Of it would be death to
the party. Bryan is a Democrat and
believes in himself and his party Tbs
Peoples party has no more avowed
enemy in one man than in w. J. Bryan.
He has no use for the reforms demanded
In the Peoples party platform; all that
ails him is he thinks he is one of the
royal blood and ought to be president.
have been Populist since l signed the
call for the Omaha convention that
made a Peoples party and I will not
support Bryan for any Office. I under
stand his tactics too WE'LL and this state
ment voices the sentiments of enough
true Populists to defeat Bryan's elec-
ton with all the voters he can secure.
II they are not Popu1ist votes that he
gets they will be Democratic votes, for
The Silver Republicans only fool tho
Democrats to try to fool the Pops-they
1on't vote the Democratic ticket. Pop
llists want to get their eyes open and
support their own ticket or none.
S. NJ FAIRCHILD.