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tity and Give McKinley Several States.
other News From Storm Cen-
ters of Politics.
LITTLE ROCK, July 17.--J. H. McDow-
ell, sergeant-at-arms of the Populist na-
tional committee, arrived here from St.
Louis and went before the state Populist
convention with a proposition which he
said was written by Chairman Taubeneck
and would be submitted to the national
convention at St. Louis-next week. It is
as follows: '
“The all absorbing question now agi-
tating the political world is what the Peo-
ple’s party and the Silver party will do at
their respective conventions to be held in
St. Louis on July 22.
“In order'to restore silver to its lawful
place and make a combination with Dem-
ocrats they must do one of two things:
“1. Indorse the Democratic ticket nom-
‘inated at Chicago and merge into the
Democratic party, or, second, nominate a
. ticket of their own and enter into an
agreement with the Democrats on one set
of electors. If the first policy is pursued,
the People’s party will lose its identity
and, for the fellowlng reasons, become an
annex to the Democratic party:
“First—Whenever one party indorses
the national ticket of another, it has no
further excuse to exist.
“Second—All the state, congressional,
legislative and county candidates in the
People’s party, with the exception of a
few western states, will have to resign,
because it will be impossible for the Pop-
ulist candidates to make a fight for their
local tickets when the party nationally in-
dorses the Chicago nominees.
“Third—The Populist and Silver par-
ties will lose their organizations, as they
will go to pieces after thetNovember elec-
tion and become a part of the Democratic
machine. _
“Fourth—The Populist press, which is
a powerful factor with an organization
behind it, would disappear and be dis-
placed by a Democratic press and the Pop-
ulist editors turned down. '
“Fifth—Should the Populist party in-
dorse the Democratic nominees and the
ticket be successful at the polls next No-
vember, the Populists would not be in a
position to demand anything except what
a Democratic administration may dole
out to them.
“Sixth.—If the Populist and Silver par-
ties merge into the Democratic party, the
' Democratic administration will carry out
the Democratic platform as regards paper
money redeemable in coin and no more,
while all other reforms demanded by the
Populists will have to wait until another
new party forces an old one to take them
up, as the People’s party has now forced
the Democratic party to take up the men-
ey question.
“Seventh.—If the Populist convention
indorses Bryan, it cannot deliver more
than 60 per cent of the People’s party vot-
ers to the Democratic candidate. The dis-
.aflection caused by such a course will keep
a large number of Populists who are hit-
terly opposed to surrendering the People’s
party at home on election day. This loss
alone would be sufficient to elect McKin-
ley electors in Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska
and many other states.
The Other Plan.
“2. 0n the other hand, suppose the
Populist and Silver parties consolidate and
pursue the policy of nominating a ticket
of their own and units with the Democrats
on electors, what will then be their status
before the country?
“In the place of an annex to the Demo-
cratic party they will become an ally for
the following reasons:
“First—It will preserve the People’s
part-y organization for future use, and by
making an alliance with the bolting Re-
publicans the Populists will outnumber
the Democrats and make them the third
party at the polls next November.
“Second—If the combination ticket is
successful, the Populists will have either
the president or vice president and will be
in posit-ion to demand an equal share of
the federal patronage, including the cabi-
net and foreign appointments.
“ Third. —Every Democratic newspaper,
especially the daily press, will be com-
pelled to treat the Populists on equal
terms with the Democrats. This will give
the Populists a daily press south and west.
“Fourth—The Populist party has the
best literature on the silver and money
questions, which will be in great demand,
and the Democrats will have to help cir—
culate it.
“Fifth—In the south the Democrats
will be compelled to give Populists a fair
count and a representation at the polls,
because if an alliance is made between
the two parties ballot stufiing and “count-
ing out’ will go. '
”Sixth.——1t will preserve the Populist
press and make it more powerful than at
present. This alone is enough to appeal
to every Populist proper in the land to
oppose the idea of becoming an annex in
the place of an ally.
“Seventh.—When that portion of the
Populist platform upon which Democrats
agree is enacted into law, the Populists
can continue to educate the president on
other demands of the platform.
“These are the two roads which con-
front the Populist and Silver parties at
their national conventions. Do these two
parties possess statesmanship and gener-
alship enough to take advantage of the sit-
uation and become an ally in the place of
an annex? Will they preserve party iden—
tity and prove to the world that they are
able to cope with the most astute politi—
cians of this generation, or will they sur-
render their principles and organization
lit the hehests of an opponent which has
never let an opportunity escape to stab
them to death?”
BRYAN MAKES A SPEECH.
A Short Address Delivered to Railroad
Men at East St. Louis.
ST. LOUIS, July 17.—William J. Bryan,
the nominee of the Chicago convention for
president, accompanied by his wife and
three children, left Salem, Ills , for his
home in Lincoln, Neb., early this morn-
ing. At each of the stations where the
train stopped Mr. Bryan got off and shook
hands with the people who had oometo
see him. He made no speeches. .
The number of persons at the stations
varied from half a dozen to threesccre.
There was an exception at East St. Louis "
when the train stopped at about 8 o’clock
for ten minutes. There were about 200
railway employees on the platform who
shouted and struggled to shake his hand.
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There ware cries for a speech, and in re-
sponse he said:
“People have a cuiissity to see the
nominee for the presidency and shake
him by the hand. 1 have been there my-
self and crowd-r"! wound a train to shake
hands with a prehiseazial nominee, even if
I did not vote for him. I don’t know
whether here it is all curiosity or not. You
can’t tell much about a man by looking at
him. I think it is far better to take the
platform and study it and decide whether
you like it, and I can say to you that Mr.
Sewall 3nd myself stand on the platform,
and if we are elected We will carry it out
to the letter. It presents policies which
are important and will be good for the
masses of the people. We believe that
when prosperity is brought to the produc—
ing classes of this country it will win its
way to the other classes. There is no legis-
lation which is good if it does not reach
the masses. Prince Bismarck, in a speech
made to the farmers a little over a year
ago, said that the farmers must stand to-
gether and protect themselves from the
drones of society, which produce nothing
but laws. The producers of the country
are just as much entitled to the fruits of
industry and to consideration as those who
consume the things produced.”
There were cheering and waving of hats
when he finished and the train pulled out
for St. Louis.
The Prospect of Indorsemcnt.
ST. LOUIS, July 17.—It becomes more
evident every day, as the date of the meet-
ing of the Populist national convention
draws near, that the party will have a
clash over the indorsement of Bryan for
president. Letters from all parts of the
country are pouring into the national
committee’s headquarters, some demand-
ing and others denouncing indorsement of
the Chicago ticket, and everything indi-
cates that there is a decided difference of
opinion as to the best action to be taken
at the convention. It is the opinion of
some of the Populists here that the party
is in danger of a split over the question.
They express the hope, however, that some
definite plan of action agreeable to all can
be decided upon at the meeting of the na-
tional executive committee.
Many of the Populist leaders are await~
ing the coming of the free silver senators
who bolted the Republican convention.
Upon the course they take will depend in
a measure the action of the anti-Bryan
wing. If the silver Republicans come out
openly for Bryan and the Chicago plat-
form, the opposition may not make much
of a fight. Mr. Taubeneck still declines to
discuss the movement in favor of Bryan
and Sewall.
The biggest fight next to the one on in
dorsing the candidates will be that over
the platform. A very strong wing of the
party, headed by Chairman Taubeneck,
Sergeant-at-arms McDowell, Chairman
Rozzell of the Missouri state committee
and many of the members of the national
commit-tee, propose to make a fight for the
adoption of the Omaha platform, instead
of an indorsement ofthe Chicago declara-
tion.
George P. Keeney, general organizer of
the National Silver party, is here from
New York to attend his party’s convention
next week. “There has been for months,”
said Mr. Keeney, “a bitter fight in New
York between the representatives of plu-
tocracy on one side and the middle classes
and daily wage earners on the other, and
it is going to be fiercer from now on until
the election. It has been my special duty
to labor among the last mentioned classes,
and my candid opinion is they will win.”
Populist Platform Suggested.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 17.—-E. W. War-
dell, chairman of the Populist state central
committee of California, and J. Taylor
Rogers, Mayor Sutro’s secretary, have pre-
pared a platform which it is proposed to
present to the national Populist conven-
tion to be held in St. Louis next week.
The financial plank is as follows:
“We demand a national money, issued
directly by the general government, only
as a full legal tender for all debts, and is-
sued without the agency of any private
corporation or bank, and in circulating
volume subject to law and responsive to
our needs, and speedily to be increased to
$50 per capita of the entire people. Such
money shall consist of gold, silver and pa-
per, each dollar thereof endowed with the
same function imparted solely . from the
stamp thereon and not dependent for its
money value upon the price of the ma-
terial used. Each dollar shall be inter-
changeable with but not redeemable in
the other and shall be denominated re-
spectively gold, silver or paper money, all
national debts being payable in either, at
the option of the government.
“As the United States is a free and
powerful nation, and the financial and in-
dustrial liberty of its citizens should be
independent of the action of any other
government, we demand the free and un-
limited coinage of gold and silver by the
United States at their present legal ratio
of 16 to 1 without reference to the course
of any foreign nation.
“We demand that all national banks be
abolished, and in lieu of them that the
government establish a postal bank in
each city, town and village of the United
States containing a population of 1,000 or
more.”
The platform also declares for the recog-
nition of Cuba and against the refunding
of the Pacific railroad debts.
Kansas Prohibitionists.
TOPEKA, July 17.——The Prohibition
state convention met with 26 delegates
present and nominated Horace Hurley of
Junction City for governor, George Hol-
lenberry for lieutenant governor, H. H.
Geyer for secretary of state. John Biddl-
son for treasurer, T. D. Talmadge for
auditor. J. T. Merry for attorney general
and Mrs. Virginia Grover for state super-
intendent of public instruction. A full
ticket of ten presidential electors was
also nominated. The platform indorses
the national platform adopted at Pitts-
burg on May 27, and includes also free
silver. woman suffrage, etc. The speakers
scored St. John, Helen M. Gougar and J.
Ellen Foster, and said they were better
out of the party than in it.
For a Gold Standard Convention.
POND DU LAC, Wis, July lit—Senator
Vilas has prepared an address to Demo-
crat-s of Wisconsin advising them to de-
nounce the action of the Chicago conven-
tion and co-operate for another conven-
tion. He has submitted it to General
Bragg of this city. General Bragg has also
prepared an address, which he will sub-
mit to the delegates at large to that con-
vention. The general declares it his con-
viction that the preservation of the Demo-
cratic party organization is dependent
upon the calling of another national con-
vention and the nomination of candidates
on a Democratic gold standard platform.
Kentucky Populistl Favor 1 Bryan.
PADUCAH, Ky., July 17.——Ellis Dickey,
editor of the Paducah Herald, the principal
organ of the Kentucky Populists, said:
“We expect about 2,000 delegates and
Advertise inlthe Glzrrrr.
friends of the Populist movement to at-
tend the state. Populist convention here
July 20. deill go to St. Louis unin-
structed. However, it is the wish of the
majority of the delegates from this state
that Bryan and the Chicago platform be
indorsed. If the Democrats treat us fairly,
there need be but one platform and ticket.
In the event the St. Louis convention in-
dorses Bryan then there will be no Popu-
list ticket in thiscongressional district."
Carl Brown a. Delegate.
WASHINGTON, July 17.—-The Populists
of the District of Columbia elected dele-
gates to the convention at St. Louis,
headed by Carl Brown,
known in connection with the CoXey
mov'ement. The resolutions adopted de-
clare among other things that “Ben. W.~
J. Bryan of Nebraska has at all times been
a consistent advocate and defender of the
most vital issues we are fighting to estab~
Iish,” and the delegates are instructed to
cast their votes and use all honorable
means to secure the nomination of Bryan
and Sewall by the convention.
Bryan May Address Philadelphians.
PHILADELPHIA, July 17. -- William J.
Bryan, the Democratic candidate for res-
ident, is expected to be in this city a cut
Aug. 1, and arrangements are making to
have him address a mass meetin at the
Academy of Music. R. S. Diffende fer, the
Pennsylvania member of the national
committee of the American Silver party;
A. S. Devlin, state organizer of the party,
and other local silver men have the mat-
ter in charge. Mr. Bryan’s visit to this
city will be an incident of his trip to New
York, where he will be notified of his
nomination.
The Bolting Republicans.
COLORADO SPRINGS, July 17.—Congress-
man Hartman of Montana and Senator
Dubcis of Idaho are still at Manitou await-
ing the arrival of Senator Teller and oth-
ers of the bolting Republicans. They say
that the conference will be held on Friday
or Saturday of next week, when they will
decide upon the address to be issued.
Only Bryan’s Name Heard.
GRAND ISLAND, Neb., July 17.—The city
is full of delegates to attend the state Pop-
ulist convention. Around the hotel lobbies
the name of Bryan is heard as the only
feasible candidate for president. Only one
delegate, Daniel Burr of Omaha, opposes
Bryan. A Bryan delegation will be sent
to St. Louis.
Echels \Vants a Gold Ticket.
WASHINGTON, July 17.—-Mr. Eckels, the
comptroller of the currency, has returned
to Washington from the Chicago conven—
tion. He believes in putting a gold stand-
ard Democratic national ticket in the field
as a means of accomplishing the defeat of
the free silver candidates.
Bryan’s Friends In Minnesota.
FEReUs FALLS, Minn., July 17.—State
Senator E. E.Lowmen was nominated for
congress by the Populiszs of the Seventh
district. The sentiment of the convention
was in favor of indorsiug Bryan for presi-
dent and adopting the platform on which
he stands.
The "United States Silver Party.”
CHICAGO, July l7.—A dozen free silver
men incorporated the “United States
Silver party," and the secretary of state-
has form. ded the papers to the
_ head-
quarters this city. ' .
‘ 1 he Fair \Vill Contest. ,
SAN I- at-TCISCO, July 17.‘——Mrs.- Has-
kins, the friend of Mrs. Nettie Craven,1who '“
claims she was the-contract'wife of the
late James G. Fair, has testified that Sen- .
ator Fair wrote the pencil will on a pad of
writing paper, and subsequently she found
a bit of paper adhering to the pad. This
bit fitted into a torn corner of the pencil
will which witness gave to Reuben Lloyd,
one of the attorneys for Senator Fair’s
daughters.
Threatened Strike of Minors.
PITTSBUKG, July iii—The coal miners
of the Monongahela and Youghioghcny
rivers are holding a gcint convention at
Monongahela City to decide upon a course
regarding the reductions oflered by the
operators in the upper pools. Anumber of
the mines have been idle for some time be-
cause the operators posted notices of re-
ductions, and a general strike of the river
miners may be ordered.
Senator Tillman's Daughter Killed. .
ATLANTA, July 17.—A special to The
Journal from A beville, S. 0., says: Rev.
Robbie Lee, Miss Addie Tillman and an-
other young lady whose name cannot be
learned, were killed by lightning at Bre-
vard, N. G. Mr. Lee was a son of Professor
J. F. Lee Of Due West, 8. 0., and was pas-
tor Of the Episcopal church of Yorkville.
Miss Tillman was the oldest daughter of
Senator Tillman.
Guilty of Criminal Negligence.
OMAHA, July 17.-—A dispatch from Lo-
gan, 1a., says that the coroner's jury
which has been investigating the wreck
in which 27 lives were lost has returned a
verdict holding the engineer, Montgomery,
and the conductor, Reed, of the excursion
train guilty of criminal negligence. War-
rants have been issued.
Mrs. Fleming as a. Star.
NEW YORK, July 17.-—David Kraus,
who claims to represent Mrs. Mary Alice
Fleming, called on a theatrical agent and
announced that Mrs. Fleming intends to
go on the stage. She is now taking elocu-
tion lessons, Kraus said, and is willing to
accept a $1,000 aweek engagement to star
in melodrama.
A Circus Tent Blown Down.
NEW YORK, July 17.—During the thun-
der squall today a circus tent at Ninety—
ninth street and First avenue was blown
down. At the time 22 men were sleeping
in the men’s dressing room and 10 wom-
en were in another tent. A third, tent
contained 28 horses. No fatalities are re-
corted. __
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