Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1896 — Admittedly a Populist. [ARTICLE]

Admittedly a Populist.

The I’opnlist party has derived its -energy ami until this year has obtained its,: leaders chiefly from the RepttbHvans. Populism is extreme aniLi’abid Rcjlttb-” lic.mism. with a mixture Of Socialism' ami secessionism. ' We have William J. Bryan's own woril for it in 1893 and 1.894 that he was m> longer a Democrat ami that he had become a Populist. In addition to this w*> have the testimony of his friends at the St. Louis conventions of hist week that Im i- a Populist ami not a Demm rat Settntoi Stewart. Republican silver Plutocrat <d Nevada, said to the silver convention: 1 know William .1. Bin an. HE BE LIEVES WHAT WE BELIEVE HE IS NOT A DEMOCRAT I.X GOOD AND BEG I LAI! STANDING. Judge. (Ireeti id' Nebraska said to tile Populist convention: I kiiolv Mr Bryan. I know lilm personally. Hr Is my friend, and 1 sav to von HE IS AS TIH E A POPE!.IST AS VO! OR 1 It will lie seen, therefore, that there is no Democratic candidate for the pn-si-dem-y in the field as yet.—Chicago Chronicle tDern.l.