Volume 18 , Issue 42

NW Okie's Journey

It is my promise that I accept their difference without condemnation and will do all in my power to protect them from perceived danger. I stand in solidarity and unity with the "Safety Pin" brigade! Will you join me, please?

Found on Newspapers.com

Besides Native Americans history this week in the "OkieLegacy Ezine/Tabloid," let us take a look at "Populism" and see how it fared in the past centuries. It was in The Wichita Daily Eagle, out of Wichita, Kansas, dated 26 July 1896, Sunday, page 4, we found this concerning "Populism" (you know, what Trump thinks he is apart of and got voted into office by Populist-type people).

Without Reason Or Decency
Populism today (1896) should hide its head in shame. Populism represents a condition of mind which is a resulting protest from patent wrongs. Blocked industrial energy, paralyzed values, dwarfed agricultural recompense with their opposing extremes, increment of idle money, excessive riches and the growth of an aristocratic class has brought Populism. It has brought also something that is not Populism, but which is sympathy for Populism, and which would have been eventually activity for Populism.

But whatever man, either high or low, ever felt sympathy for Populism, he discarded it with shame yesterday (25 July 1896). It was naturally to be supposed that a new party would not be responsible for rude and reckless leaders. But the Populist party was not new. It has had six years to win now from its leadership that rank, good-for-nothing, brutal set of blatant fools who gained control of its convention at ST. Louis Friday (1896).

No sensible man can indorse a convention where riot took the place of reason; frenzy the place of enthusiasm and brutality the place of protest. No man can indorse a convention which ordered policemen to throw out a man for reading a minority reporter and sat smiling while the policemen did it.

Populism - It cannot run a convention with decency. It will not be allowed to attempt to apply similar methods to the government. At first it was humorous in the 18th century, but six years of it had rubbed the fun off it. The people were sick of Populism. Thins may be wrong, and Populism has proven it cannot remedy them. Above all ... the people must be guided by reason, and reason Populism has never had. And lacking reason, it lost also at St. Louis, July, 1896, its decency.

In 1896, Wm. Bryan and his Populism was brought to an end. McKinley would be elected, beyond a shadow of a doubt. Young Mr. Bryan, though no fault of his own, stood in a most embarrassing position. He asked the Chicago leaders not to put a rich man on the ticket with him. He knew the Populists would object to one. But Sewall was nominated. Bryan began praising Sewall with a hope of warming Populism to the man from Maine. The Populists at St. Louis repudiated Sewall. The Populists at St. Louis repudiated him when Bryan had telegraphed them that he could not alone accept the nomination. The nomination of Bryan by the Populists merely entangled Bryan deeper.

Populism still lived, but it was breathing heavily. it was about gone in 1896. To the middle-of-the-road Populists, who believed in a separate organization entirely, this surrender of the principal place on the national ticket was humiliating. To the men who wanted Bryan and sew all nominated the nomination of Watson was unsatisfactory.

I'm still with her! You think I was a "Nasty Women" in 2016 ... "Buckle-up, Buttercup! You have not seen anything yet!
Good Night! Good Luck!
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