Show IN DAKOTA POPULISTS IN MISSOURI DEMOCRATS The Indianapolis Journal prints a statement that Senator rettlgrcw Gen Weaver Senator Duller of North GOTO ln exSenator JDuboIc Mr Coinpau of Michigan and William J Bryan I since In days held n conference n few I Chicago and that It was there agreed I that Hon Charles A Towne should be nominated a VlccPresidcnt with Mr I Bryan The story beam every probability proba-bility of truth Mr Towne was on I Thursday nominated for the same ofilce with Mr Bryan at Sioux Falls and then Mr Towne Is really a logical candidate can-didate for the place < for he cast his fortunes and tunes with the Chicago convention four ago and h8 Its candidate our ear anI ever since Ho wag been his right arm I the never I Democrat but he accepted whole of the Chicago platform and has I never wavered since But the question Is what will the parly that Mr Bryan call Itself this year Ut will will lead cal I w1 Is that whose I he just as Popullstlc as representatives nominated Bryan and rcpresenUtlcs I Towne on Thursday I will be antagonistic antago-nistic to every principle of the old Democratic party except free trade I is clear enough that It clings to the name of Democracy solely because Its managers believe they will get the votes of thousands If the ticket is headed head-ed Democratic that they never would get IC they called themselves Populists The fairest way would be to call their party l The New Democracy for that Is really supposing tlirn to be honest what they arc aiming at With success in November the party represented at Sioux Falls would claim their full share ot the spoils and honors Indeed theirs Is the party to which Mr Bryan gravitated I gravi-tated In ISO I and It will be seen that the convention that mct nnd agreed upon Towne for VicePresident was made up of men not one of whom was a Democrat five years ago and two of whom have for years been Populists one of whom was the Populist candidate i candi-date for President In 1S92 The aggregation aggre-gation will not command the ancient Democratic vote It will command the votes of but a corporals guard of silver sil-ver Republicans It will not be supported support-ed by the MlddleoftheUoad Populists Popu-lists and It cannot win this year With its defeat the men who are now In tho organization and who call themselves Democrats will after election be known only as Populists Running over Colonel Pattersons address ad-dress we Inc confirmation in all that is said above He sid that the Peoples Peo-ples party In 1S96 would have been false to all Its avowed principles had It nominated any other man than Mr Bryan We never surrendered our rights as a party we never could have I nominated any other man And that shows the perfect understanding held between the chiefs of the Populist I party four years ago and Mr Bryan Then Colonel Patterson proceeded to r denounce Imperialism in the very same tone that Mr Bryan denounces 1U And then he followed that up with this remarkable re-markable sentence So dominant has the spirit of Populism become In the Democratic party that that party does not take Issue with a single principle advanced in the Omaha or the St Louis platform According to Colonel Patterson then all the cry for silver has been but a secondary cry with the whole outfit from the first because i Populism If it has any foundation at all is on the belief that irredeemable currency backed only by i the good faith of the Nation Is all that the people peo-ple need for money and enough of that should be issued to help every one out who is in distress So far as that Is concerned It resembles exactly the position po-sition ot Mark Twain in his speech In London the other night wherein he said he was going to America to run for President and that ho was going to espouse every mans principles so that he could be a candidate for all tho people nnd not merely half of them I Mr Pattersons next paragraph is a eulogy o Mr Bryan as possessing I every attribute that the Populists desire de-sire in n leader I Then after predicting Mr Biyans triumph he added Whatever What-ever may b < > the glory of thnt victory the Peoples party may claim the greater share and It will he the great political power that brought about the great result Then going to theplatform we find thul It begins hy denunciation of the act of March 11 1900 as the culmination culmina-tion of a long series of conspiracies I would deprive the people of their Constitutional rights to the money of the Nation denounces the making payable ot obligations in gold for refunding re-funding coin bonds and making them payable in gold for using money of the treasury to accomplish the refunding refund-Ing of bonds not due Then comes denunciation de-nunciation of national banks then the indorsement of the greenbacks and the paying of the bonds In greenbacks then l demand for the free coinage of silver the Income tax the establishment establish-ment ot postal savings banksj the free homestead act the condemnation of the railroads and their ownership by the Government the usual anathemas against trusts and their first demand is that railroad property shall be condemned I con-demned and taken in by the Government I Govern-ment and thp next is to destroy the tariff on all trust articles then a demand de-mand for the stoppage of the war and the charge that murder and arson had been our response to the appeals of the people The effort to get a little revenue out of Porto Rico Is denounced de-nounced as 0 violation ot the Constitution I Con-stitution and an abandonment of the fundamental principles of American I liberty Then there is great fear of militarism Then there is a sop thrown to the Irish and Germans by I the resolution ot sympathy for the Doers Then the specter of an alll 1 ancc with some foreign power Is lifted up only to be knocked down then denunciation 1 nunciation of the execution of the laws I In the Coeur dAlcne country giving all sympathy to the murOftrers and in cendiatT there and having not a word of sympathy or friendship for the decent people who for seven years I were kept under the fear of thosti L assassinsJiehd Q d by l Ed1 Boyqe1 Trs I l opposed to the ImpoVfation of Japan l ese and pledges itself to keep l out Mon I t gollan and Malayan Immigration I I J wants to turn over the public utilities condemn and pay In greenbacks that Je to condem lLd pn that city or franchises backs for any rchises cty The next Is O55C5S the country may possess thrown to the labor unions by 0 HOP thrwn promising to tao away all the legal restraints upon their acts no matter how violent or ohamcful Then all officers offi-cers must bo elected by a direct vote of the people Then homo rule of the Territories and the District of Columbia Colum-bia Is demanded Then tho pension laws must be revised There It Is What kind of a country this would be under that sort of rule one con very well Imagine There area are-a good many things in the platform but wo take it thoro was not one member mem-ber of that convention who framed that and put it out who would with its provisions put In force engage in any I business where skilled labor was required re-quired or want to live In any place where the toughs were liable to have control The claim that It would be restoring re-storing the country to such rule as prevailed under Jefferson Is an insult I to his great name and to the great souls that surrounded him But no 1 mutter The question Is will the platform plat-form at Kansas City be In any respect different from that We predict that the platform framed there will In I effect be but a readopllon of the palt form at Sioux Falls because the same coterie of gentlemen who framed the I one will frame the other |