Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-07-07
PUSH MERRICK FOR
VICE PRESIDENCY
COMMITTEE WIRES SUCCESS
TON TO COLE
Mayor Harper and Friends Send Tele-
gram to Denver Democrats in
Interest of Former
Chicagoan

Mayor A. c. Harper and a committee
last night sent a telegram to the CALI
fornia delegation at Denver asking that
Can't, Eugene Merrick, known as the
youngest Union soldier in the war OF
the rebellion and also as Mckinley s
double, be put in nomination as vice
president.
The telegram was addressed to
Nathan Cole, convention hall, Denver
1t reads:
In response to the wishes of a committee
of Los Angeles citizens on behalf of the
Democracy of the state of California. you
are respectfully requested to present or
have presented to the national Democratic
convention the name of CAPTAIN Eugene
Merrick for the nomination for vice presl-
dent of the United States.
After many long and interesting confer
ences Captain Eugene Merrick has con
cluded to announce himself candidate FOR
the nomination for vice president Of the
United States before the Denver conven-
ton.
Captain Merrick was the youngest Union
soldier in the war of the Rebellion, was
CAPTAIN in the Spanish American war, has
always been a Republican until the WITH
ering panic of 1907. when he began stuoi-
ously to investigate the causes that leo 10
the unprecedented national misfortune ana
in his Investigations of the financial system
and the protective tariff system became
converted to and is the earnest advocate OF
the doctrines and principles of Democracy,
and the efforts of his life, he asserts. shali
be to proclaim to the people equal rights TO
all and special privileges to none
He says II had too much faith In the
leading men OF my party and ind that
they have been and are now subvertng the
principles Of our Republican institutions;
grating and wrong doing in high and low
places seems to be almost universal in the
party; laws have been framed that enable
the bankers, trusts and the manufacturing
interests to levy unbearabie burdens upon a
confiding and patient people; the few are
becoming millionaires; an aristocracy OF
wealth is being reared upon the ruins OF
the greatest republic the world ever en-
joyed the masses of the people are rapidly
becoming paupers cowed into subserviency
and scarcely dare express their opinions at
the ballot box; property and wealth have
become the passports to official position and
the poor man dare not consent to become a
candidate for any public office. The time
has come for turn in the affairs OF oui
| country; patriotism must leap into the
saddle, party lines must give way and the
doors of hope and opportunity must be I'M
barred and thrown open to the humnles'
| citizen.
IT can no more stand still and remain
silent when I realize that the people have
been deceived and plundered until about 81
per cent arep inched with poverty as the
| results of class legislation than I could b'
unconcerned at the sight of my neighbor''
house on fire.
Capt Merrick is a Chicagoan who
has been here four years and for some
time has been prominent in the Murphy
temperance work. He is well known t
! Grand Army men, having ATTENDED
| many national encampmentS.