Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1900 — CHARLES A. TOWNE WITHDRAWS [ARTICLE]

CHARLES A. TOWNE WITHDRAWS

Declines Vice Presidential Nomination Tendered bv Populists. Charles A. Towne has formally withdrawn from the Populist national ticket. In a letter to the Notification Committee he declines the nomination for Vice President, saying in part; "Everybody knows that either Mr. Stevenson or Mr. "Roosevelt is to bo the next Vice President of the United States. J am expected to take a laborious part in the campaign. I nhall, of course, advocate the election of Bryan and Stevenson. The Democratic convention, before which I was a candidate, nominated Bryan and Stevenron. The silver Republican party, of which organization I was the official head for nearly four years, has nominated Bryan and Stevenson. In what light should I' appear before the American people if. while advocating the election of one ticket, I should be going through the form of running on another? Nobody in the United States would think I had the slightest chance of being elected, and nobody would believe that I considered myself seriously as a candidate unless at the same time he believed me to be absolutely lacking in conxmon sense.”