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* In July, 1894, when the People's Party was growing rapidly, the editor of the Review of Reviews declared: "Whether the Populist party is to prove itself capable of amalgamating a great national political organization or whether its work is to be done through a leavening of the old parties to a more or less extent with its doctrines and ideas, remains to be seen.
These fundamental issues were included in the demands of subsequent labor and populist parties, and some of them were bequeathed to the Progressive party of a later date. The convention was thus a forerunner of genuine reform, for its demands were based upon industrial needs. For the moment it made a wide popular appeal.
Tictocq opens it and looks at his watch. "Ah," he says, "it is just six. Entrez, Messieurs." The messieurs entrez. There are seven of them; the Populist Candidate who is there by invitation, not knowing for what purpose; the chairman of the Democratic Executive Committee, platform No. 2, the hotel proprietor, and three or four Democrats and Populists, as near as could be found out.
Johns, and I conducted in 1894, held a special interest, due to the Populist movement. There were so many problems before the people prohibition, free silver, and the Populist propaganda that we found ourselves involved in the bitterest campaign ever fought out in the state.
The Populist vote as a whole was much larger than 223,000 the total usually given in the tables -for this figure does not include the vote in the twenty-two fusion States in which the ballots were not separately counted.
"Wait a minute," said the Populist Candidate, rising; "I don't see why in the h " "Once more I must beg that you will be silent," said Tictocq, rather sharply. "You should not interrupt me in the midst of my report." "I made one false arrest," continued Tictocq.
All were impressed with the significance of the decision they must make. Gone were the hopes of the past months; the Populist party would not sweep into its ranks all anti-monopolists and all silverites for one of the old parties had stolen its loudest thunder!
The money question had disappeared and both parties were outspoken in their declarations against trusts and combinations of capital. The Populist party, in a convention made up of delegates from one-half the States, nominated Thomas E. Watson, of Georgia, and Thomas H. Tubbles, of Nebraska, for President and Vice-President, respectively.
The sale of lots in Lithopolis went on faster than ever. When General Weaver was running for governor, a Populist worker called on my friend Wilbur Wheelock, who was then as now a stock buyer at our little town of Ploverdale, and asked him if he were a Populist. "No," said Wilbur, "but I have all the qualifications, sir!" "What do you regard as the qualifications?" asked the organizer.
The congressional and state elections of 1894 revealed the unstable equilibrium of parties, and at the same time the total Populist vote of nearly a million and a half reflected the increasing popular unrest.
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