The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1904-10-15
WATSON'S LETTER
OF ACCEPTANCE
CANDIDATE OF PEOPLES PARTY
Is HEARD FROM,
SYNOPSIS OF THE DOCUMENT
Only Hope Of middle and Lower
: Glasses" Is in Success Of Third
Party-Roosevelt and Par
ker Assaulted.

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ker Assaulted.
Birmingham, Ala, Oct. 10.-Thomas
n. Watsons letter formally accepting
the populist nomination for president
was made public Sunday. The letter
which is addressed TO Samuel w. VIII
liams chairman of the committee on
notification, is about 1880 words long.
The letter opens with lament by
Mr.. Watson over the tendency OF hui
manity TO submit to the domination OF
few, who use their power for OPP
preston. Passing from historical ex-
amples to the condition Of things now
in the United States, he finds "symp-
toms which always have characterized
the diseased nation when afflicted by
class legislation" The corporations.
according TO Mr.. Watson, now rule the
land and the people.
Only Hope Is in Third Party.
The only hope for the middle and
lower classes" as Mr.. Watson terms
them, he sees is the rise and growth to
success of third party. not subject to
he proposes a national board of arbi.
tration to pass upon disputes between
capital and labor, the adoption Of the
initiative and referendum for the max
ing of federal laws and the ownership
OF public utilities.
The question OF class legislation was
discussed, the national banking and
transportation systems being held up
as shining examples in this respect.
The inevitable outgrowth of these sys-
TENS, he declared, was the building up
of colossal fortunes at The expense OF
the people. Resuming he said:
Such men are freebooters. Their
more broken hearts and ruined homes
than are to be found in the track of
actual war.
u. p. Morgan Andrew Carnegie,
Charles Schwab and other conspicuous
captains OF industry increased their
unwieldy fortunes by pocketing $780,
100000, which other less conspicuous
persons confided to the steel trust"
Attacking the gold standard, the can
didate says: "The gold standard is not
1rrevocably fixed" because it is I'M
scientific and wrong. Nothing is more
certain than that the people of this
country will continue their struggle UNI
til they have a national currency which
the money power cannot control, and
which answers the purpose OF perfect
ing exchanges without becoming an
armory from which the buccaneers Of
modern finance draw the irresistible
weapons with which they attack values
and raid the markets"
Turns Guns on Candidates.
Concerning the republican and demo-
cratic candidates for the presidency, Mr..
Watson says:
IS Much abuse has been heaped upon me
because more time was devoted by me to
denunciaton of Parker than to ROose-
welt. The reason is obvious enough.
Roosevelt is a straight-out republican,
who declares boldly for republican prin-
ciples defiantly defending existing con-
ditions. To attack him Is short, easy
Job.
But with Mr.. Parker II Is different
He Is not Jeffersonian democrat, yet
he seems to secure the support of Jeffer-
sonians. If he would speak out plainly
and tell the people that he Is in princi-
pie the same thing practically that Roose-
welt Is, the Bryan democrats would fall
away from him by the millions. would
then be enabled to organize such party
OF revolt against the republican rule as
would sweep the country. His attitude
is thoroughly disingenuous, profoundly
lacking in true manhood and leader
ship"
William Jennings Bryan, Mr. Watson
declares, was a leader like JefeSrson,
Jackson and Stephen A. Douglas. and he
cries out: Would to God that MIR.
Bryan were with me In this, the ,se cond
battle! Together we could have whipped
the fight in 1896. but the southern demo-
cratic bosses would not have Il So"
Mr.. Watson closes his letter with the
charge that II men who deem him to be
right fail to vote for him they are moral
towards" He therefore relied upon ali
who love their country and care to see
its sacred institutions preserved TO cas-,
their vote for him as the representative
OF the only party pledged to carry on,
the will of the people OF the nation.
Mr.. Watson Is Ill.
Lincoln, Neb., Oct 1O.-Thomas II
Tibbles, populist nominee for vic,
president, announced Sunday even n.
that he had received advlces from
Presidential Candidate Thomas II
Watson that on account Of illness Mr.
Watson will be unable to Ill his speak
ing dates in the northwestern state
and requesting Mr.. Tibb.es to take h,
place Mr.. Tibbies left for the north
west on trip which will extend as fa
as the Pacific coast.
Fear All Were Drowned.
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