The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-09-23
BUTLER, BRYAN AND PoPUusM
Co. haa not beard Of Marion Butler for

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long tirne-ex-S Senator Marion Butter,
" North Carolina. who. 1t appears. sun
considers himself the chairman OF the
t,o,mlist National Committee. Everybody
,,cept the Hon. Marion Butler and pos
uhlv few others supposed that that
committee was defunct-not that 1t had
actually died or that there had been any
actual funeral exercises, but that. ike
= country merchant we once heard OF,
4 had quietly ceased to DO business. be-
eause II could And no business to do
But ex-senator Butler yet considers him
sslf tho chairman OF that committee. and
Is saoh he has recently made a trip to
washington. and as such he has been
Interviewed by newspaper man. we
ksry much doubt II plain Mr.. Marion
Butter believes all that Mr.. Chairman
Eue1er told tho reporter. and we ere
n,ate certain Daat nobody else does, but
be said Some things tteet ere very plaus-
BILE.
The chairman told the reporter that
4 is the Intention Of the Populists to put
put Presidential ticket in 1904. discard
Eng the Democratic alliance, He expects
the party to come out OF the amalgama-
zion wrought by tho two Bryan cam
palens stronger than when 1t entered 1t,
BECAUSE in all that time the Democratic
party has taught its members to despise
Cleveland. and Its teachings will be re-
1embered.'' MI. Butler points to the
tact that the Populists polied 100000
votes for Weaver In 1892 and he argues
hat the increase acquired through alb
sorption from the Democracy will make
The vote much larger In the next cleo
don.
No one oan be found to believe for
porn.nt that the Populists. as a distinct
par1y, VIII ever again poll as many votes
Is II cast for Weaver IN 1892 but that
The abuse Mr.. Bryan and his immediate
followers heaped upon N1T. Cleveland and
those who aided him in the attempt to
hnrmonize the warning elements in the
Democratic party has caused many who
are not and never We're Populists to hate
cleveland and all that he stands for no
enc can doubt That Mr.. Bryan and his
immediate followers will try to carry
hes: into the Populist party or into some
nher party when the National Demo-
;rauc party IN convention assembled shall
epudiate Mr.. Bryan and his idiosyn
racies. Mr.. Butler thinks he has reason
% believe. Mr.. Butler evidently sees that
he real Democracy of the country In
ends to shake loose from Organism and
III that Organism implies, and he evil
lently expects Mr.. Bryan, in that event.
% become a. bolter. Thus far Mr.. Butler
nay be right, and that this bolt may re-
lult in the formation OF n kind of ex-
.Cse for party composed Of free silver
lLd Bryanite odds and ends, which, add
I'd to the Populsts. may poll something
Nike a million or two votes. may no. be
} bad guess. But that this consomera-
non will cut mucn fig re in national
campaign or materially injure the real
Democratic party, no one outside Of that
Immediate following now believes. In
lact. the Democracy, purged of these
E:scordant elements ard entirely I'D OF
AE faint of Populisnn. Will be in better
shape to make fight On a tariff reform
platform, against its old enemy than it
has been since the days of Samuel j. TIL
ten.
Nothing but Mr.. Bryaa's present atti.
,ud. towards Democracy and Democra-
rs present very proper attitude towards
Er. Bryan could have made the resur-
lection Of Marion Butler, with his hope
Tor a resurrection of the Populist party,
possible.