Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 15, 1900 Page: 2 of 16
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SOUTHERN MERCURY
March 15, 1900.
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Senator J. L. Darwin of Delta coun-
ty, who is a delegate from the Fourth
congressional district to the national
convention, is in line with straight
Populism, as he always is. Senator
Darwin writes: "I see no other way
out of the muddle than to have a state
convention, and let the Populists of
Texas decide which convention their
delegates shall attend. I've no fears of
their course. My county is for the
Cincinnati convention, and I have
strong reasons to believe that the en-
tire Fourth congressional district with
the possible exception of Hopkins
county, is the same way. As for my-
self individually, as you are aware
from my course at Mt. Pleasant, I will
not affiliate with the Bryan wing un-
der any circumstances. I am of the
opinion that the fusion bolters will yet
go to Kansas City and have it out, as
Allen suggests, by going boldly into
the Democratic party, where they be-
long."
Out of all the replies received from
members of the Texas delegation to the
national convention, the only one fa-
vorable to the Sioux Falls convention
is from Dr. John R. McKenzie of
Weatherford, a delegate from the
Eighth district. The doctor writes:
" From what I can learn, there was only
one regular national committeeman
who took part with the bolters, as I
consider all those who participated in
the Barker-Donnelly affair, as having
placed themselves outside that body.
At present it seems to me that our par-
ty is being tossed up between the Dem-
ocratic and Republican parties, and if
the thing continues, it will soon be a
matter of choice to each of us Individ-
ually between them. I think you did
wrong in leading the revolt at Lincoln,
though I do not impugn your motives.
The differences among us should have
been left to be settled at our national
convention, as such matters are not
proper to be taken in hand and settled
by a body of men picked up at random,
and a majority of whom never had any
legal connection with the national
committee." (Dr. McKenzie loses sight
of a very vital point—a national con-
vention run on the order of the Lin-
coin fusion committee, by shutting out
at will delegates on flimsy pretexts,
would in no sense be a representative
or deliberative body, and could settle
nothing except as the bosses should
dictate. He is mistaken about the
Barker and Donnelly men. In the
first place, no one had a right to ques-
tion the right to a seat on that com-
mittee of any man duly elected by the
Populists of his state; but had they
had that right,there were but 2 members
of the committee at the Barker con-
vention, and Butler dropped from the
rolls thirty-one on temporary organiza-
tion. And does it not seem queer to
Dr. McKenzie that the partisan line
should be drawn so tightly on the fol-
lowers of Barker, the Populist, when
men who are in open affiliation with
the Democratic party, who have been
openly repudiated by the regular Pop-
ulist conventions of their own states,
were "recognized" as members of the
committee by Butler, and in some in-
stances put in in place of Populists
duly elected? If Dr. McKenzie only
knew the true inwardness of the fight
at Lincoln, he could search the politi.
cal annals of this country in vain to
find the equal in dishonesty and per-
fidy of the Butler gang of political
ringsters. Another thing, the doctor
jumps at the conclusion that every
Populist who is for a straight ticket
is for the Republicans. We deny that
this is true. This reflects upon the
political honor of every independent
voter, living or dead. It is not true
that because we decline to ally our-
selves with the perfidious Democracy
that we are working for the success
of the Republicans. If a reform party
is to be built up, its members must go
ahead with their work regardless of the
faite of either of the old parties. If by
pursuing an independent course, the
Populists help the Democrats or the
Republicans, it is not for them to care.
We are satisfied Dr. McKenzie cannot
And many Populists in Parker county
who agree with him.)
O. P. Pyle of Mineola, who is a dele-
gate from the Third district, and a
member of the state committee from
that district, is discouraged over the
so-called split, and writes that he will
have nothing to do with either, but will
support whichever ticket he sees fit.
John L. Mooney, one of the old war
horses, and a member of the state com-
mittee from the Tenth district, writes
that he will advise the Populists in
Texas to let both factions of the party
alone nationally during the present
campaign, and put all their efforts on
a state ticket. He seems to be a little
discouraged, and says: "The fact is,
I am 'in the woods,' and seeing no
political light ahead, I expect to stay
'in the woods' during the present cam-
paign, or until order is restored to our
political Zion. I have given the best
years of my life and a good living to
the cause of reform and my health
and finances admonish me to call a
halt until at least there seems to be
a better chance to accomplish some
good than at present. I doubt not the
good Lord will bring order out of chaos
in His own good time, and I shall try
to content myself and abide that time.
G. B. Abercombie of Anderson, a
delegate from the First congressional
district to the national convention,
writes: "I have conferred with most
of the delegates from this (First con-
gressional) district to the national
Populist convention. We read the
papers together, and have concluded
that the Butler faction of the national
committee intend to do all in their
power to surrender our party organiza-
tion 10 Bryan and Democracy at £$ioux
Falls. We believe if they succeed we
will have a repetition of our experience
iu 1896. That our efforts in behalf of
the starving women and children of
the country will have come to naught
lorever. We do not believe the Bryan
agents could deliver the delegates elect-
ed by Populists if they should all at-
tend the convention, but we know that
is impossible and we fear the dema.
gogue worshippers will work in prox-
ies enough to control the organization,,
and then run the 'gag rule 'over the
honest few. If this is done, what will
be the result? We cannot believe that
any man with ordinary intelligence
thinks for a moment that the great
Democratic party will surrender its or-
ganization and be absorbed by the
Populist8;-nor will they consent to take
us in as partners and call the thing
Demo.Pop. We have tried them once,
and they fooled us. So you will see
our local organization everywhere will
be destroyed by our having no national
organization. If the Democratic presi-
dential ticket is good enough for you;
why not their judge anjl sheriff ?'Politi-
cal parties are like individuals—have
their birth, childhood, manhood, old
age and death. The Populist party is
now at least a very healthy, vigorous
and promising child. Coursing through
its veins is the purest and best blood of
the land, its flesh, bone and sinew
are uncontaminated by corruption. If
kept free from pollution and carefully
nurtured it will soon grow to a giant
man, worthy of its noble sires. We
do not see how any consistent Populist
can vote for Mr. Bryan even should
he renounce his allegiance to the Dem-
ocratic party and come over to us,
for the reason our motto has always
been that the office seek the man. God
save the mark! How is it in his case?
From the very day he was nominated
in 1896 to the present day (except the
short time he chose to be a common
footlight lecturer) he has seemed to
try to visit every justice precinct in the
United States, whooping, howling, per-
suading, threatening and electioneering
in a manner that would put to blush
the most veritable "ward heeler" in
a tenderloin district of some politically
corrupt city. We would like to vote
for some man for the great office of
president of the United States who has
some self-respect. We think Mr. Bry-
an lost all claim to that distinction
when he went in person recently be-
fore a meeting of certain of the mem.
bers of the national Populist commit-
tee evidently for the purpose of dick-
ering and trading for so many votes as
he would for so many cattle. He is
undoubtedly the most officious man in
America. He went all the way to
Washington and told the Democratic
senators to vote for the ratification of
the Paris treaty of peace between the
United States and Spain, and has ever
since denounced the measure in sub-
stance as the greatest crime and mis-
take of the age. When any of his
friends dare make a suggestion, he
promptly tells that friend to sit down,
or he 'won't do a thing to him.' He
has told his party if they did not make
a platform to suit him he would not
run. What does that mean? Answer:
*1 am bigger than my party. I am a
dictator.There is only one great man in
America; that man is me," etc., etc.
We believe if we would write all the
objectionable peculiarities of Mr Bry-
an in detail, we would have a good-
sized volume, and we think it peculiar
indeed that men claiming to be Popu-
lists will be advocating him. We, of
course, cannot know the hearts of you
gentlemen who have invited us to meet
you in Cincinnati, but you say you are
-opposed to the man we consider the
greatest demagogue of the age, and
want to nominate a Populist candidate
for president. That is exactly what
we want, and the writer here promises
to meet you there If possible, and be-
lieves every other delegate from this
•district will go to Cincinnati.—G. B.
Abercombie, Anderson, Tex. "
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The Democrats of Texas will doubt-
less do away with their rigid tests at
primary elections and make every in-
ducement to get Populists back into
the party. They see in the position
of certain ex-leaders of the party in
Texas a fruitful harvest, and will
throw out every possible bait to catch
suckers.
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Park, Milton. Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 15, 1900, newspaper, March 15, 1900; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth185844/m1/2/: accessed May 14, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .