The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-08-27
REASONS FOR THE POPULISTS
WHY THEY OUGHT TO suppur,,
BRYAN RATHER THAN BARKER.
Letter that shows the Folly OF
Going Outside the Democratic
Party for Relief.

<hu'ti"' iVAes, Ausu5- Eo.-lne follow
| Ing self-explanatory correspondence was
given out today
Hon William NJ. Walton. Austin, Texas
Fort Scott, Kan, August l6.--My Dear
Sir: We have always admired your writ
/ ings SO much that / nave concluded to
write and ask you TO write lis an artic 4
en- Why One Shoull Support Bryan in
Place of Barker and Donnelly." The party
that wants this article written is a mem
/ Der OF the middle of the road populist
! National committee. and wishes to with.
draw and state his reason for doing SO
The main reason that he gives Is inperi-
alism. trusts and the dangerousness of the
Mckinley adm Illustration.
| Ii you will write US an article of two or
three columns on this, and send to us, we
will be thousand times obliged TO you
ours truly, r. NJ. Chenault
X. M Chenault, Esq, Fort Scott. Kan.
| Austin, Texas. August 23.-Dear Sir:
Your favor of the 10th instant addressed
to Major w. M! Walton, in which you re-
quest an article from him upon the ques-
lion Why One Should support Bryan and
Stevenson in Place of Barker and Don
nelly has been received by him and re-
lSAltu 70 me lUT reply
! / may not be able to write and present
tho reasons why one should support Bryan
instead of Barker as strongly as Alalor
Walton, but they are so patent anu cogenu
that even a poor presentation of demon
strate6 facts ought to convince all hon
est, unprecedented minds.
1 In the first place, l assume it to be a
fact that every populist who severed his
party ties and allied himself with the
? nd al
principle, believing fully that his party
had abandoned its former principles and
was running off after strange gods.
When Mr.. Cleveland led majority OF
the party in official life into strange and
forbidden paths thousands of the best
democrats in the land were left stranded,
for they could not, would not, and did not
fall down and worship Baal; and there
was no place for them to go except into
the ranks of the populsts; and there we
went, not for aggrandizement, pelf, or
plumber. but for what we honestly con-
ceiy2d to be for the general welfare-and
! assume the fact TO be that every man
who joined himself to the populist party
was honest and sincere and Was not gov
erned by selfish motives only SO far as he
could enjoy the results OF good Just and
fair government in common with his Eel
low citizens of the whole country,
rate. they were opening the eyes OF the
people not to new things, or new princi~
pies, but they were calling the people
back to first and foundation principles
tina. were being abandoned by those IT
official life. and leading many astray; the
rank and file Of the party had
begun fully to realize this fact,
electrified the country by such an
outhurst of patriotic fervor that by the
very force of it's new birth they relegated
Mr.. Cleveland and his vicious policies to
the tombs of the Capulets, from whence
there is no resurrection, and from that
hour the party has been growing III
strength and vigor by pruning off the dead
limbs and drawing from the masses the
patriotic from all parties, and now 1t is
ready and able to throttle and to destroy
the great octopus that has been and IS
now sucking the blood from the body psi
itc.
: 1t is a matter of great satisfaction to
know that much OF the renewed strength
OF the party comes from the populsts re-
turning to It's thanksgiving the strongest
evidence of their political honesty.
/ Much of this new strength is gained
I from patriotic republicans who have be-
come alarmed at the dcspotic tendencies
/ of their party: thus showing their love OF
country and principle above party ties
for they have seen the Handwriting on
the walli--imperialism tie death OF the
republic If present policies are to be per-
petuated. -.
The populist party at st. Louis, in 1926,
indorsed the democratic platform by ire
unanimous Endorsement OF Mr.. Bryan ut
that time. but made the unfortunate ana
fatal blunder of injecting man into wnat
/ was otherwise a harmonious olending o.
all the reform elements of the country
This was the first symptom of seliishness
that had ever come to the surface IN the
populist ranks, and 1t was great mistake
for with democracy standing upon a
platform of almost perfect agreement WIN
their own--thers was no place lett for tne
populists except with either the repuo-
lican or democratic parties, because the
issues were clearly drawn and there was
standing room for every man on one slae
or the other, but no middle ground 10
stand upon except in the ditca. k'gnl
here l desire to pull off my hat TO the
honorable Charles A Towne-ne IS a man
whose lead can be safely tolloWel oS
every lover of his country.
Why should a man support Bryan anc
not Barker?
not avail anything except to assist NC
Kinley. =, !.
cond.-McKinley or Bryan VIII p'
elected. ,,.,.
/ Third There is practically no differ
ence between the principles advocated D!
democrats and populists.
Let us analy1e and see in what the,
agree.
First.-Both favor free coinage at 10 V
IL. econd.-Both favor the issue OF Ma
tional notes made legal tender. Third
Both favor graduated income lax
Fourth. Both favor the destruction o
trusts. Fifth-Both favor arbitration
differences batween capital and LABOR
Sixth.-gBoth favor republican. form o
government. and believe that all govern
ments derive their just powers from th'
consent of the governed.
Now, both oppose: First.-Ihe gol'
4 standard second.-The retirement
ereenbacks. Third.--They oppose Nationa
banks OF issue Fourth,-B9th oppose th'
issue of interest bearing bonds. Fifth
Both oppose government by injunction
sixth.-Both oppose imperialism. Sew
enth.-Both oppose trusts OF All KINDS.
Nov, where we favor, the rs,uo,iesn
oppose; where we oppose, the republican
favor. There is the issue, and every maj
will Judge for himself on which side D.
stands. Bryan stands like a stone wal
upon these issues. What more can, o
1 does. Barker propose that will benefit tn