The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-07-14
James E. Nc Bride.
(Written for Symposium. }

EQlJOT luueptHucuL. IOu 0oh NY
view of the condition and prospects
of the peoples party. | answer that
all depends on the outcome OF the st.
Louis convention.
The eyes of nine-tenths of the old
line populists north of the Mason and
Dixon line are turned towards st.
Louis instead of Springfield. The abb
sorbing topic in our national cOnyen-
ton will be that outcome. / saw this
two months and more ago, after ex-
tensiye correspondence with former
party leaders in Michigan. see it
now more forcibiy after Jealous eff
fort to secure volunteer delegates.
Nine-tenths of the replies are that the
writer's hope for Hearst's nomination.
and are not ready to insurge against
former allies while there is hope.
You know, as every candid, cool
headed man must know, that the de-
feat of the Cleveland element at ST.
Louis and the nomination OF Hearst
on Hearst platform means the final
ACKNOWLEDGMENT of the peoples party
nationally. Cooperation may continue
populist organization in the west; but
north, east and south the forces OF
populism will be given to aid the dem
Ocratic party with the usual result of
two late campaigns, and the few of
us who oppose cooperation and resist
absorption must take to the words and
hibernate our votes.
No one is to be blamed for not see
ing this situation before the date OF
our national convention was fixed, be-
cause it was undisclosed; but | must
insist, and I believe the feeling at
Springfield will prove that 1t would
have been best to have postponed our
convention to July rs.
With the later date and a throw
down Of Organism at st. Louis deter
mined, there is not a stato-that would
find the least difficulty in holding a
convention to name delegates and in
securing full delegation to our ma
tional convention; besides which we
would have made the polite and man
ly move TO invite fusion, always de-
sirable, of the reformers of the coun-
try with our own forces in one COM
pact political organization where they
would have equal voice and vote with
U.S.
believe that those who come to
labor in the political vineyard with
zeal and honesty in the eleventh hour
are entitled to as much compensation
as those who have borne the heat and
toll of the day. and that it Ill be-
comes the few who have been the
| teachers of the many to close the door
OF opportunity to the many who are
ready to graduate.
AS to platform at Springfield, give
us sound populist doctrine. Insert no
| planks of yote-catching nature, that
will lead us into difficulty. The curse
of the Omaha platform-that devel-
| Oper of co-OperatiOn-was it's demand
/ for 1.-The free and unlimited coinage
of silver and gold at the legal ratio
| of 16 to l." This is not now and
never has been populist doctrine, but
| the mere ghost of a false doctrine first
promulgated in the Loco-Foco conven-
i ton of 1844-patent reserved since
then by the bimetallic, basic money
democracy.
4 Let us remember that We are green
hackers all the time, and that our de-
mands for bimetallic coinage at the
} old ratio are made not because we
want more redemption money, but
more money in circulation of the his
toric kind until the scientific system
can be established and commodity
money abandoned.
The Michigan delegates chosen tC
/ attend the Springfield convention are.
e. s. Greco, Nj. G. Loenecker, l.. Il
. Lockwood, F. w. Anthony, d. C
Wachs, James M. Houghton. f. p
Monfort. Horace Jerome. w. r. Hall
. j. A. Corner, John NJ. Harris, Rober
Blemhuber, Austin s. Randall, Jane.
+. Stewart. NJ. J. Vincent. N. b. Farms
worth. S. j. Brown A. b. Wood. p. p
Miner. Abram Fauckboner. Nj. r
Vaughan and James f. Mcbride. Eacl
may appoint his alternate. A few o
these may be unable to attend, bu
provision Is made for substitutes by
proxy. JAS Il. MCBRIDE.
Grand Rapids, Mich.