The representative., 1900-03-29
THEY ARE DEMOCRATS.


Sheridan, Mont, March 18, 1900.
Hon. Ignatius Donnelly.
Inclosed find 81, for which please
send the Representative to Mr.. Henry
Hermesmeyer, Sheridan, Mont.
I also send you a copy OF letter
which l have written to the editor Of a
little fusion squib in Helena.
Respectfully,
D. W. THOMPSON.
Sheridan, Mont, March 18, 1900.
Editor of Montana Sentinel, Helena,
Mont.
Dear Sir: I notice In a late issue Of
your Sentinel that you suggest that w.
v. Allen, or some other prominent Pop
ulist, give a series of speeches in our
liver us from any and all of the Allen.
Butler, Weaver, Davis, Bryan gang!
Do you presume to say that either of
the above named men are Populists?
If so, must differ with you. BY their
acts we know them. They are latter
day Democrats, not Jeffersonian. We
Populists believe in, and advocate, the
kind of government and principles that
Thomas Jefferson and A. Lincoln did
A government of, for and by the peo-
pie: equal opportunities for all and
special privileges for none. Those lat
ter-day Democrats who pose as Popu-
lists believe in a government OF, for and
by few men. "A moneyed oligarchy."
They are anything for office and the
spoils- -pie-hunters. In their career
they place money first and man last,
Populists place man before money first.
last and all the while. I am very glad,
sir, that our Populist majority bolted at
the Lincoln, Neb., CONFERENCE.-THE that
they would not be led into another
Democratic fusion deal like the one
this same traitorous gang Of scoundrels
dealt us at st. Louis in 1896 We have
not forgotten the treatment that Bry-
an and his heelers gave our noble and
Hon. Thomas E. Watson, Of Georgia,
patriotic statesman and gentleman:
man without a price, who will not
barter away his principles for gold
(for, surely, the old parties pay those
men whom they have bought in 9old).
In all the characteristics of a great and
good man Mr.. Watson stands as high
above w. J. Bryan as man does above
the ape.
That minority rule did not win at
Lincoln, neither will it win at our con-
vention at Cincinnati the 9Th of next
May. "You cannot fool all of the peo-
pie all of the WHILE" @
l notice that your Helena DELEGATION.
Calderhead, Hogan, Spriggs ct al. men
who were foremost in the Montana
fusion deal Of 1896, were seated IN the
Butler band wagon at Lincoln. Well.
goodbye, boys; we don't allow fusion
lists In the Peoples party. l did not
vote In 1896 on account of fusion. now
am very much pleased with the surety
that will have an opportunity to vote
for my principles at our next election.
When Populist votes q Demo- Fusion
ticket. right there and then he tumbles
down into the Democratic ranks and ia
no more a Populist but Democrat
Now, Mr.. Editor, don't know where
you. got my name. but several copies Of
the Montana Sentinel have come to me.
Will you please discontinue the same,
as have no use for any paper that
stands In with fusion or fusionists. I
read Donnelly's Representative and
Wharton Barker's American.
Populists in my county stand solid on
all the principles Of the Omaha plat
form: also. direct legislation through
the initiative and referendum. Our
Madison county delegate IN to our srate
convention will be solid against fusion
and elect delegates for our Peoples
party convention at Cincinnati. You,
OF course, will continue to advocate the
policy OF Allen, Butler & Co., and Sioux
Falls 40 the regulaf convention. We
have arrived at tho parting Of the Ways
and we Populfsts are very much pleased