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"Doesn't the man do those things?" Miss Kitty whispered. "What, our next Populist governor? Not much!" Tom replied. Kitty of course did not understand; it was hopeless to begin upon that theme of our labor aristocracy; so we sent the men away, and made ourselves as presentable as we could for supper. I need not dwell upon it; it was the usual Walter's Ferry supper.
But many of the Republicans who acted with the Democrats on that occasion could not see their way clear to remain in that party, though some of them were not willing to return to the ranks of the Republicans. So they decided to cast their lot with the Populist party, which in the meantime had made its appearance upon the field of political activity.
The Republican sheriff swore in men of his party as special deputies; the Populist governor called out the militia. The situation was at once too absurd and too grave to be permitted to continue. "Sockless" Jerry Simpson now counseled the Populists to let the decision go to the courts.
Cronine, a Populist member of the legislature of Colorado, is reported as saying: "It hurt my husband, a lifelong Republican, to see me vote against his party and carry both our children with me."
Kansas, unfortunately, proved to be a fertile field for the growth and development of that ephemeral organization known as the Populist party, a party that had secured a majority in the Legislature that was to elect the successor to Mr. Ingalls. The Senator evidently had great confidence in his own oratorical ability.
Historic democracy is dead. This is not to say that a Democratic party organization has ceased to exist. Nor does it mean that there are no more Democrats and that the Democratic party is dead in the sense that the Federalist party is dead or the Whig party is dead, or the Greenback party is dead, or the Populist party is dead.
More than a million votes, nearly nine per cent of the total, were cast for the Populist candidates in this election a record for a third party the year after its birth, and one exceeded only by that of the Republican party when it appeared for the first time in the national arena in 1856.
This is apparent from the fact that the twenty-seven electoral votes from ten States which were cast for Watson came, with one exception, from States in which no separate Populist vote was recorded. It is evident, nevertheless, from the figures in States where comparisons are possible, that the party had lost ground. The People's Party was mortally stricken by the events of 1896.
"Come to this room to-morrow afternoon at 6 o'clock with the landlord, the Populist Candidate, and any other witnesses elected from both parties, and I will return the socks." "Bien, Monsieur; schlafen sie wohl." "Au revoir." The Chairman of the Democratic Executive Committee, Platform No.2, bowed courteously and withdrew. Tictocq sent for the bell boy. "Did you go to room 76 last night?"
In addition to those that have been mentioned we recall the fact that in our recent political campaign, four parties that nominated candidates for President and Vice-President of the United States, had in their conventions women as delegates and members of committees. They were the Populist, the Free-Silver, the Prohibition, and the Socialist-Labor parties.
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