The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 16, 1897 Page: 8 of 16
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December 16,lMl
Shall we Nominate in 1898?
Let Every Populist Read This Article.
There is no question that the Peo-
ple's party of the United States is in
a bad way.
The nomination of Bryan last year
has pretty nearly "cooked its goose."
It was sold out by the office-seekers
for a mess of pottage—and a mighty
small mess it has proved to be.
In New York it was utterly ignored
during the last campaign. Even Hen-
ry George, with his 20,000 votes, had
not a good word to say for it. In
Ohio its vote fell from 50,000 to 6000.
In Iowa it tumbled to the same fig-
ures, and is all torn to pieces. Id Vir-
ginia and Kentucky it disappeared in
vacuum.
What are we to do? Shall we des-
pair and give up the ghost and lie
down and die? Or shall we renew the
fight where we began it in 1891?
We are better off than we were then.
Now we have the true men separated
from the flesh-pot fellows.
Weaver tried to prevent the estab-
lishment of the People's party in 1891,
and he has now led many
of the Populists of Iowa in-
to the Democratic camp. Owen
was ready last fall to trade off the
kingdom of heaven for a democratic
indorsement. He got it, and that was
all he got. Jerry Simpson was in the
same state of mind, and the Populist
vote has diminished in his district so
that he will probably never go back
again to congress. Kansas is now a
Republican state. This is the ripe
fruit of the fusion tree--Dead Sea ap-
ples!
But what are we to do?
Even when we hold our national
convention first in 1900, will not the
flesh-pot fellows crowd in and take
possession of it, and turn it over to the
Democracy, even though Democracy
means Tammany.
The conference of Populists held at
St. Louis last week proposed that we
resort to an extraordinary expedient,
to-wit, that we meet in the spring of
1898 and nominate our candidate for
the presidency—and make a two years'
campaign for our principles!
If there was "fusion" then it would
have to be on one candidate!
An effort is now being made to get
the national committee of the People's
party to unite in this movement.
What say you brethren, to this
idea? Let us hear from you. Give
us short emphatic letters. Let us have
a referendum upon the question.
We are in a bad fix. If we stand
still, another party will continue tosteal
our ideas and membership; and we
have no assurance that if successful
they will not sell both out.
Shall we burn our ships, and go In
for a grand battle for principles, and
leave the consequences to God? Or
shall we snil until the tentacles of the
political devil-fish enfold us in a net-
work of suction and there is nothing
left of us but the bones?
Let us hear from the people.
But let no man despair.
Tho evils which gave us two million
votes in 1894 still exist. The senti-
ment of distrust of both the old par-
ties is as strong as ever. The late
elections have but confirmed It
If we had nominated our own can-
didates last July, and made our own
campaign, we should have polled five
million votes, and McKlnley would
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have been defeated. And suppose the
electors of the Populists and Demo-
crats, having a majority, had agreed
upon Bryan for president, who would
have regretted it, provided the People's
party had come out of the battle
united and triumphant?
But, oh, the fools! The fools, who
held some petty personal advancement
so close to their eyea that they could
not see the great Interests of man-
kind! We do not blame the rank and
file who abided the trade, in good
faith, when the mistake was made;
but God will never forgive the leaders
who led a great party into such a
slough of destruction.
But all Is not lost so long as honor
and true hearta survive.
"Up, guards, and at 'em!"—Ignatius
Donnelly.
At the session of the Grand Lodge
of the Masonic Order at Houston, on
December 9th, the location of the pro-
posed home for the widows and or-
phans of the order was located at Fort
Worth, the inducement being 200 acres
of land near the city, $5000 in caah, and
building material
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