The Climax of Populism by Durden Robert F.;

Author:Durden, Robert F.; [Durden, Robert F.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2021-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

1 Hicks, Populist Revolt, 369, erroneously states that no notifications were made and that Bryan never accepted or rejected the Populist nomination.

2 Butler to Allen, September 5, 1896, Campaign Letterbooks, Butler MSS.

3 New York Times, September 15, 1896; also Bryan, First Battle, 430-31.

4 New York Herald, October 4, 1896; Bryan, First Battle, 432-33.

5 New York Times, September 15, 1896.

6 New York Times, September 8, 1896.

7 Dallas Morning News, September 8, 1896, and People’s Party Paper, September 8, 1896, as quoted in Woodward, Watson, 319-20.

8 Reed to Butler, September 7, 1896, Butler MSS.

9 St. Louis Post-Dispatch, September 8, 1896.

10 New York Times, September 9, 1896. The Times printed another editorial on September 11 about Watson’s attack on Sewall in the weekly journal, the Independent.

11 New York Times, September 8, 1896.

12 Butler to Watson, September 8, 1896, loose copy in Butler MSS and one also in Campaign Letterbooks.

13 St. Louis Post-Dispatch, September 12, 1896; J. F. Willets, a national lecturer for the Farmers’ Alliance, to Butler, September 9, 1896, Butler MSS.

14 Reed to Butler, September 10, 1896, Henry McLean, Populist chairman of Marion County, Kansas, to Butler, September 16, 1896, Butler MSS. The state chairman of Iowa said that they could use Watson in the state “upon the condition that he in no wise touches upon the situation as regards the vice-presidential candidate.” Good Populist doctrine “without reference to any personal matters and without attacking” the Democrats would be fine. J. Bellangee to Butler, September 11, 1896, ibid.

15 Atlanta Constitution, September 17, 1896; Reed to Butler, September 16, 1896, Butler to Washburn, September 18, 1896, Campaign Letterbooks, Butler MSS.

16 Butler to Watson, September 22, 1896, Campaign Letterbooks, Butler MSS.

17 St. Louis Post-Dispatch, September 22, 1896. In a hotel across the street from the one where the Populist leaders conferred, the president of the American Bankers’ Association ended his annual address to the convention then meeting in St. Louis: “Solemnly, with a fervor and honesty of purpose that were evidenced by closed eyes and reverent posture, [he concluded], ‘From the folly of free silverites, from dishonesty and repudiation, from Anarchy and ruin, O Lord, deliver us.’ ” Ibid.

18 Butler to Washburn, September 24, 1896, Campaign Letterbooks, Butler MSS.

19 Butler to Washburn, September 28, 1896, ibid.

20 Butler to Rankin, September 21, 1896, Butler to Vandervoort, September 22, 1896, ibid.

21 St. Louis Post-Dispatch, September 17-30, 1896; Atlanta Constitution, September 26-30, 1896. In Missouri too Vandervoort and the midroaders failed to thwart the electoral fusion of the Populists and Democrats. When Watson denied that he had known anything about the Missouri arrangement, the chairman of that state’s Populists declared: “When Watson went through St. Louis on his way to Georgia from Kansas, I met him at the Southern Hotel. The sole object of my call was to tell him what had been proposed in Missouri and what we were going to do. I told him that the sub-committee of the Populist committee had agreed that four [out of seventeen] electors were all the party were entitled to, or could get, and that fusion would be arranged on that basis.

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