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MR. WATSON'S LETTER OF ACCEPTANCE.
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votes count for the Populist ticket. They must vote for Sewall and thus
violate their principles.
In North Carolina, where fusion hss been arranged with the Republi
cans on the State and county tickets, and with Democrats on the National
ticket, Mr. Sewall gets a majority of the electors.
North Carolina is supposed to be a Populist State, upon that idea she
was allowed ninety five votes m our National Convention. The fact that
in North Corolina we have now conceded a majority of the electors to Mr.
Sewall, wou’d indicate that our vote in North Carolina has undergone a
disastrous shrinkage since our National Convention adjourned, or that the
National ticket has been used for mercantile purposes
/ Senator, a reform party has no right to exist if it has no valid com •
plaint to make. Populists cannot denounce the sins of the two old parties,
and yet go into political co-partnership with them. The moment we make
a treaty, the war must cease.
A.id when we cease our war upon the two old parties, we have no
longer any excuse for Jiving. Whenever Right compromises with Wrong,
it is the Right which suffers. A reform movement is necessarily anlassault—
an attack upon intrenched error. Whenever the attacking force halts, it
begins to melt away To rout Republicanism, we must continually assail
it. We cannot bo friends to it one day, and enemies to it the next. The
same truth applies to the Democratic party. Whenever we cease our war
fare upon old party errors, and go into partnership with them, we lose all
moral force; we lose our own crusading spirit; we show the public that we
are mere spoilsmen like the others; and the people lose interest in us when
we reduce the issue to that of merely exchanging one set of place-hunters
for another. If we represent nothing but a contest of the “outs” against
the “ins,” we are a lot of humbugs, parading as reformers, and we deserve
the contempt of all good people.
To win in this campaign, there should have been immediate and con
centrated efforts to unite the South and West, from whence the free silver
majorities must come. There should also have been conciliatory measures
adopted to harmonize Populists and silver Democrats.
Thus far in the Campaign, the South has been conciliated by sneers,
misrepresentations and abuse hurled at the Southern nominee.
The Populists have been mollified by being told “to go to the negroes
where they belonged.’'
The American people are highminded and fair— quick to sea injustice,
ewift to condemn it.
To all unprejudiced and manly men, regardless of party, 1 submit the
statement that never before has any party, so badly needed as ours, been
so badly treated. Invited to cone to the help of the helpless Democracy,
we have received no generous recognition from those who appealed to us,
and whose appeal we heard. We did not go to them for aid—they came
to ns. And yet they refuse to recognize our right to either place on the
ticket which they admit our votes mnst elect. They want our help:—but
we must come as servants earning a wage, not as friends sharing a duty,
and an honor.
They are the prodigals, not we, yet they signalize their return to the
principles they abandoned, by persistent efforts to degrade and disrupt the
party which has been true to silver during the years in which they were
false.
They seem to resent, as a strange piece of impertinence, the fact that
the Populists dared to nominate a ticket differing, at the rear end, from
theirs.
Coming to them with the two million votes they were begging for, and
piteously needing, I can say with a perfect assurance of telling the un
qualified truth that my arrival on the field of battle has not been welcomed
as heartily as Blucher was received by Wellington at Waterloo. They
want my reinforcements, but they do not want me to lead them. They
need Blucher’s troops, but they draw the line at Blucher.
That is hardly fair either to Blucher or his troops, nor is it the bey*
wav to drfeat Napoleon.
y For this .. > upon the part of tue j>emociauu L 'iTdievo
that you, Senator, arc largely responsible.
You made no effort to have me recognized. You publicly stated that
I would not be notified of my nomination. You went into the fusion pol
icy, over my written protest, with all the zaal of a man who wanted to
elect the Democratic ticket.
I a this, I think you were wrong. As Chairman of the Populist Com
mittee, the party certainly expected you to do all you could to elect the
Populist ticket.
Had you demanded Mr. Sewallls withdrawal from the ticket, he
would have been withdrawn. I have a letter of yours in which you state that
the Democratic Committee expected you to make the demand, but that you
did not meke it.
From the perversity of temper with which the Democratic managers
have refused to do the right thing by the Populists, it would seem that
they prefer McKinleyism to anything which might seem to be partly a
Populist triumph.
Their tubtie purpose is to couple Bryan’s election with the complete de
struction of the Peop'e’s Party. They mean to elect both Bryan and Saw
all- both or neither. They can not endure the thought that the victory
shall be shared by Populism. They are willing to use the Populist norm
nee as a lever to move Populist votes—but not as an ally who had any
\ rights they are bound to respect.
The St. Louis compromise ticket should have been insisted upon for
two reasons;
Ist. Because Mr. Bryan can not be otherwise elected.
2nd. Because the triumph of silver can not be otherwise assured.
To elect Mr. Bryan, the Populist votes are necessary, and he can not
get them if 1 should come off the ticket voluntarily, or be virtually forced
off by the Sewall fusions. If you and Mr. Jones think the Populists will
vote for .Mr Bryan after they realize that Watson has been practically
pushed off rhe ticket by fusion deals, you are making a huge blunder.
Bryan is being ruined by the efforts to force Sewall’s election also. Popu
lists will not vote a ticket which is all Democratic.
In the second place, we must preserve the People’s Party from ab
sorption by the Democrats, —in the interest of silver.
In Bryan’s own party, weakened as it alrea iy is by the “Sound Money”
defection, there is the powerful Gorman element which will do all it can to
tie Bryan’s hands. Wherever the Democrats can do so, they are electing
ineu to congress who are enemies to silver. The Tammanyites are no real
friends to silver. Neither are the representatives which Democracy may
elect from Chicago, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Baltimore and other similar
money-centers. Senator Gorman the go’d bug, is virtually control ing the
Democratic party machinery, and gold-bug Democrats everywhere are say
ing that they are supporting Mr. Bryan became his election will not mean
free silver. They boast that he can not carry out his pledges.
In the event of Mr. Bryan’s election, this anti-tilvtr element in the
Democratic party will join forces in congress with the gold-bug Republi
cans, and the Sound Money Democrats. Remembering that even among
the Silver Democrats who have been re-nominated for congress, aje many
of the flexible statesmen who voted against silver in 1892 and 1893, the
unprejudiced observer can readily see that Mr. Bryan can no more carry
out his pledges without Populist help, than he can be elected without it.
Again, if he is defeated, the anti-silver forces in his party will at once
pul I loose, and join the Sound Money Democrats—thus leaving the Silver
Democrats utterly homeless and helpless without Populist aid.
Therefore, in either event, every sentiment of loyalty to Mr. Bryan,
and to the cause of silver, demand that we maintain the full national organi
zation of the People party.
Wa should not fuse its moral for -e away. We should not hamper its
progress with entangling alliances. We should not lose the confidence cf
the public, and lose our own self respect by showing that our principles and
cur vote merely constitutes a stock in trade to be sold to whomsoever will
buy. We should bear in mind that our voters are men of convictions and
can nt be delivered like cattle to those who trade for them.
I. should also be remembered that silver is not the only issue we raise.
We have been from the first its friend. Every one of our votes have always
been given for it. They always wll be.
But there are other planks in cur platform equally as important as the
silver question, and we cannot afford to abandon our entire ritual, when
’.’e can aid tie Democrats quite as wall by preserving our identity as by
las n i it.
lu their mad policy of jeopardizing the cause of silver, rather than
make any concession to National Populism, it appears the Democratic
managers would be willing to mike a sacrifice of both Bryan and silver, if
they can but destroy Populism.
In your letter, Senator, you say ours is the first political party that ever
demanded abolition of banks of issue, monopolies, etc. In this you are
mistaken. The National Platform of the Greenback party (1878) contains
every principle for whioli Populism row stands.. The Greenback party was
PEOPLE’S PARTY PAL SR, ATLANTA, GA., NOVEMBER 1:\ 1896.
murdered by false promises and treacberou, fusions. Let us take winning
from its fate. In every State of the Union where Populism has an oganiza
tion we should see to it that the National Populist ticket is represented by
Populist electors.*
It is hardly necessary for me to say tbj*t I heartily endorse the plat
form upon which I was nominated. In splech, in editorial, in pamphlets I
have discussed, for several years, every ;sßae Populism raises, and my
position upon them all is so well known that I need go into no distussion
of Populist principles hare.
The position taken in this letter will Vi bitterly assailed. Would that
the pathway of duty were always carpetedijvith flowers. It rarely is. By
making mjself, and the great party I reprjfent, a mere footmat for Demo
cratic politicians to wipe their feet upon, Mould win much applause, from
that quarter.
But if I were now lacking in the loyalty which was expected of me
when chosen, I would grieve the men wlo have honored me, trusted me,
defended me, and loved me.
In this reform movement, to which f have devoted eight of the best
years of my life, 1 have lost much—but my own self-resprct has not been
lost, nor the respect of those whoso principles I represented and whose
battles I nave fought.
Through good report and evil, through sunshine and through storm, I
have been true to this great cause, and I stall not dishonor it now.
I did not seek this nomination, nor dejire it. Had I asked the Presi
dential nomination of the Peoples party anj gone to St. Louis to claim it,
no power of the Democratic emissaries could have kept it from me.
It war out of a heartfelt desire to help unite all the reform forces, and
at the same time to save my party and its principles from utter wreck, that
I agreed to accept, second place on the compromise ticket.
I stood ready to join hands with Mr. Bryan, and to aid him in har
moniz ng Populists and silver Democrats, apd in unitine South and West,
to the end that we might achieve a victory against McKinley and M Kin
leyism. Fusion with Bryan meant no sacrifice of principle: fusion with
Sewa'l does.
No one regrets more profoundly than Ido that the Democratio managers
have so shaped the campaign, that the South fas again been told that she
must grovel in the dust and let an Eastern plutocrat put his foot upon her
neck.
Nor does anyone regret more than I do that the Democratic managers,
in shaping their fusion deale, have considered those Populists, only, who
wore getting loaves and fishes. They have lost sig at of the great army of
the privates, whose honest hearts and siheefe soals forms the strength of
the reinforcement Mr. Bryan needs. These Populists of the rank and file
have the spirit of crusaders, and they would die for a principle more quickly
than they would sell it.
These men will not vote for Sewall, nor for Sewall electors. If Senators
Jones and Gorman really wish to defeat McKinley let them lose no time in
realizing this truth. Yours, etc.
TIIOS. E. WATSON.
Thomson, Ga., Oct. 14, 1890.
AT JOHN BROWN’S GRAVE.
(An acquisition by New York State.)
A strong tierce cry for right!
A shot!—a halter!—and a. grave!
Here lies the hero, in his lion might,
There mounts the unshackled human
slave.
Still now, and safe from every tyrant
foe,
Upon God's uplands ( a ir, he Sleeps in
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Watch, grim sentries, until war-
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The age-carved boulder ot primaeval
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Guard where the old saint’s body lies. •
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1 hear that shrill scream ever ami
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There—The Great Ghost “Goes
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