Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1894 — ITS A DEATH BLOW TO POPULISM. [ARTICLE]

ITS A DEATH BLOW TO POPULISM.

’Washington cofresiiondent in Ind’pTs .Tour. Scarcely second to the deep satisfaction with which the overv helming victory of the Republicans is received is the gratification at the almost complete extirpation of the Populists by the voters of the west, and of the south. True it is that in Alabama and possibly in Texas there have been elected so-called Populists, lut if will develope when these gentlemen reach Congress they are in no respect to be regarded with apprehension. In the . complete defeat of Waite, the Populist Governor of Colorado, the Populist party, as Mr. Waite himself said, received its death blow as a national party. The sporadic cases of Populism that will appear in'the next House will neither replace in ability (and consequent power so ■ evil) the Populists in the present House who have been defeated Simpson, of Kansas, ami La fa Pence, of Colorado, are both of real and acknowledge ! acquirements. Nor were Ivene aud Bryan, of Nebraska, Boen,of Minnesota, and Harris and Davis, of Kansas, men of less attainments th-n the vast majority of their colleagues. All of them have been defeated. Bryan, it is true, was not a candidate for re-election to the House, bat for the Senate. His defeat is not jet so certainly assured, as is desirable, but the very faet that there is everv reason to hope that Nebraska has been redeemed from the blight of Populism is of itself cause for sincere rejoicing.