People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1896 — Tom Watson’s Views. [ARTICLE]

Tom Watson’s Views.

Judging from the tenor of his latest speech, Tom Watson is a factor that must be reckoned with if the democratic managers mean to carry on there campaign peaceably and with harmony in the ranks. The Georgia orator's speech at Dallas, Tex., leaves no doubt as to his intentions or as to the way in which he will use his influence in case the free-sil-ver democrats refuse to recognize his position on the ticket. He insists’that the free-silver democrats need the votes of the free-silver populists if they are to win the election, and he points out that to remove the populist vice-presidential candidate from the ticket is to kill the populist party. Consequently, he argues all populists who want their party to survive and demo crats who sincerely desire to see Bryan elected will bend their efforts to induce Sewall to step down and make way for Watson

There is considerable force in what the Georgia candidate says, and his arguments are likely to have some weight with Mr. Bryan’s managers. The populist party in recent years has grown amazingly, and it is now an important factor in elections in the south and west. This party in convention assembled agreed to give |its support to a democratic silver candidatq, asking in return only that it be allowed the privilige of holding the second place on the ticket. The populists indorsed Bryan, but they nominated Watson, and now the question is, shall they as a party vote for Bryan at the cost of their own candidate, or shall they make the fuson complete, and by voting for Bryan and Sewall run the risk of expunging their party from the situation.

This, at all events, is the question as it asserts itself to Mr Watson, and evidently the Georgian does not mean to have his party ignore it. He loudly demands that Mr. Sewall, who is “a aead weight to the ticket” retire and make room for himself. In case Mr. Sewall refuses to step down, he implies, the pop ulists should vote to save their party. But whom can they vote for, having indorsed Bryan? Mr. Watson seems to be quite dependent upon Mr. Sewalls generousity.— Chicago Record. McKinley stands for national bank notes based on government gold bonds; Bryan for government legal tender money and no bonds.