The representative., 1900-10-25

OCAOCI dSACp xtCQ0OI1Nou3 1OpUAAoI dA'4
Prohibition parties"
"The executive committee of the Ne
braska Silver league desires to appoint
one Silver Republican, one Silver POpu-
list, one Silver Democrat and one Silver
Prohibitionist in each county as an
executive committee, for the organiza-
ton Of the county and for the dis
tribution of literature. All persons In
favor of the free and unlimited coinage
of silver at the present ratio of 16 to /,
without waiting for the aid or consent
Of any other nation, are requested to
send their names, with address, to any
member of the undersigned commit
.mittees will be selected from the names
so received. .-..
Country papers will please copy.
GILBERT L. LAWS,
"SILAS A HOLCOMB,
wv. ]. BRYAN,
III. w. HARDY.
Executive Committee Nebraska Sill
yer League"
Note that no meeting of the rank and
file of the Populist party of Nebraska
ever gave sanction to this "cOmbina-
tion," which was hatched out in the
governors Office at Lincoln, with Gilbert
L. Laws in the chair.
NAfn 01ca fho$ %hfc UoNya M Inn -
selected the names of it's lieutenants
in the various counties without consult
ing the peoples wishes, and through
this sort of manipulation succeeded In
building up mongrel organization,
which soon developed into the triple
headed machine known as the fusion
machine of Nebraska-and all this with
out any regard whatever for the con
sent of the governed
Note further, that this action was ta-
ken months in advance of the 1896 Pop
ulist convention, and in pursuance Of
the program hatched out by the Popu-
list and Democratic senator's and COLI
Washington, early in the summer OF
the same year.
Note again, that this was the first at
tempt ever made in Nebraska to separ-
ate the "silver Populists" from the gen.
uine article-all Populists having de-
clared for 16 to 1 in 1892
Tho Uyoo1fh Mol/oro :~oo1r
ed by George Howard Gibson-a true
Populist-was frozen out by the ma
chines," and the Nebraska Independent
a mongrel fusion organ, established In
its stead. Then began the struggle ot
the rural Populist press for an existence
One by one the hundred straight Popu.
list papers OF Nebraska were driven
from the field, and fusion papers estab-
lished to help swing the Populist party
into line for Bryan at st. Louis in 1896
That was the deliberate purpose oi
the Populist congressman and senators
who met in that star chamber causus
with the Democrats in Washington, ir
SAO 0uAAAACA VI 1COO"IudJ IL was Liz
deliberate purpose of the "Non- Partisan
Silver league" of Nebraska to kill the
Populist party and merge it into the
Democratic party at st. Louis In 1896
no sane man familiar with the history
of those days can reasonably doubt, n
the atmosphere at st. Louis became sui
nhnrnrc xyhnn ho o<c g.
indorse Sewall and stood by the gallant
Watson. -
Hon. A. E. Sheldon, of Nebraska, whe
was an alternate to the St. Louis con
.yention, writing home to his paper, thu
Chadron Signal, at the time, said:
mo power on earth can ever per.
suade me that it was not the hand o.
Governor Stone which turned of those
lights. And the malignant bitterness.
and vituperation, the wrath, the lurit
damnation, curses, invective and person.
al abuse that poured from the Demo
Gratis in the galleries and in the hotels
upon that convention of Populists FOE
PRESUMING TO NAME A POPULIS1
FOR VICE-PRESIDENT were confirma
ton. never heard anything like it
1T WAS HE'LL ITSELF. TURNEI
LOOSE. The st. Louis Democrats witt
whom became acquainted, and whom
met afterwards in the hotel lobbies
were white with rage. AS for me,
drew long breath and said: 'Thanl
God, Populism. still lives and Tom Wat
son is its leader. Let the heather rage.
LET THE POPULIsTS OF NEBRASKA
BEAR THESE THINGS IN MIND
THIS IS NO ExAGGERATION II
WAS THE DELIBERATE PURPOSE
OF THE BOURBON DEMOCRACY II
BREAK AND DESTROY THE POPU
LISH PARTY AT ST. LOUIS"
Since the campaign of 1896 the fusior
program, hatched out as aforesaid, ha,
dominated the politics of Nebraska. ant
hyprocisy, falsehood, deceit, double
dealing, bigotry, intolerance and self
sancti1cation have been its weapons O