People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1895 — HELLO, THERE! [ARTICLE]

HELLO, THERE!

Gen. Weaver in *be Role of CaavaMet for tbe Silver Party. i Following is an extract from a private letter received from a reader in Iowa: “What is going to become of Genera' Weaver? He seems to have gone politically crazy. It is too bad, for be deserved a better fate.. Six out of seven Populist papers which I receive, crltl- ' else him for his infatuation over silver But they don’iknow tbe worst. They don’t know that at the close of the meeting of the Populist state central committee in Des Moines last week, Weaver announced that be had nothing to conceal, that he was in daily communication with the leaders of the silver party, and was co-operating with them cordially, and that he wanted to give each gentleman present something to read: whereupon he banded around

copies of a Bimetallic LeSfeue circular, which urges upon the person receiving it the duty of organizing a separate pdrty for the promotion of the cause of silver. I have a copy. Weaver's act was so extraordinary—the presidential candidate of one party acting as canvasgpr for another party right in the state committee es his own party —as for the moment to take everybody’s breath away. No man ever heard of such a performance before, it is safe to say. But they all knew Weaver, who never did have good judgment and whose sanguine mind is forever seeing success in something new. Every one feels now that he is sorely vexed over the defeat of his fusion candidate for temporary chairman of the state convention by the committee, and all believe that he will fulfill his threat to carry the fight for fusion into the convention; but there he will again illustrate h\s customary lack of judgment for the anti-fusion sentiment of lowa is so strong that he will be only running his head against a stone wall. Weaver’s best friends are the most sorry over his want of sense, which is now unusually great, and are at a loss how to account for It. The silver crowd seem to have hypnotized him. — Wealth Makers.