People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1896 — Populists To Revolt. [ARTICLE]

Populists To Revolt.

Members of the .Tartu Asked to Stand by Candidate Watson. Special to the Chicago Record. Indianapolis, Ind., Sept. B. There comes from the populists west of the Mississippi river a call to the populists of this state and of all of the states, it is said to join a revolt against the Bryan and Sewall ticket. The Re form Press association, which has its headquarters in Omaha, Neb., is at the head of the movement. Paul Vandervoort, president of this association, is taking the lead in the demand that Arthur Sewall be taken off the democratic ticket and Thomas Watson substituted. The threat is made that unless Sewall is removed the command will go out for the populists everywhere to withold support from the democratic tickets—national, state, congressional, and legislative. Well informed populists here believe the time for a break between the free-silver democrats, and the populists is near at hand. They do not believe the freesilver leaders have now, or ever have had, any thought of recognizing the candidacy of Watson. They say their only regret is that they did not come to their senses sooner—before the populist party had divided electors with the silver democrats in many states. But it is not to late, they declare, to withdraw the electors and make a clean-cut fight for Bryan and Watson. The voice of the populists of the south, it is averred, is against the fusion scheme. The Nonconformist of this city, one of the leading papers of the populist party of the country, was immediately after the Chicago and St. Louis conventions inclined to support Bryan and Sewall, but it is now demanding that populists stand by the party or see it wiped out of existence. e Many of the leading representatives of the party in that section of the country are writing to northern men, declaring that the democrats of the south would never haye been for silver except that they thought they saw a way by which their old enemies, the populists could be destroyed. While no call has yet been issued, the impression prevails that if Sewall is not removed from the democratic ticket short ly there will be a conference of populists from all parts of the country for the purpose of considering the nounced by those who are in the revolt that if a meeting is held an address will be issued to the populists of the country, calling upon them to withhold support from the Chicago ticket and to vote populist tickets straight.