Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-07-06
GEN. JIG. FIELD OF VA.
NOMINEE OF rhE PEOPLES PARTY
FOR vIce-PResIDENr.
Presidenoy--GcneralC Convention
Aftermath.
rBy telegraph to the Dispatch.l


OMAHA, NKB., July 5.-The Old Guard
has won and General James b. Weaver, OF
lows. is the candidate of the Peoples party
for President Of the United States. For
FIVE days II has been manifest that OF ai
the leaders of the new party Generhi
Weaver was the choice of vast majority
but the peculiar availability of Judge
Gresham overshadowed his personality,
and it was not until the distinguished
jurist positively declined obe candidate
that the delegates turned TO their own
ranks and with almost one accord selecteu
the veteran Greenbacker as their standard
bearer. There were some who feared his
Greenback predictions might Affect MS
availability, and 1t was these gentlemen
who brought Senator hyle, OF South Da-
kOta. to the front, but the sentiment that
one OF the Old Guard should be selected
to lead the party was overwhelming, ana
Meaver's triumph finally was most COM
plete.
Indeed. the failure OF the Gresham move
ment reacted promptly and powerfully IN
Weaver's favor. The friends OF the lowan
have contended for several dayS that those
who persisted in booming Gresham after
his practical refusal to be a candidate were
actuated solely bv desire to defeat Wea-
yer. and when the Gresham moyement
finally collapsed the waverers turned
unanimously to Weaver.
THE KYLE CANDIDACY.
Senator Kyle's candidacy was effective
only in Illuminating the South Dakota
friends of the Senator. His own state
delegation have always insisted that KYLE
was not a candidate. and the Senator HIM
self teegraphed that he did not desire his
namo to be presented 10 the convention
Despite this, however. The anu-Weayer
men, in the flush Of their first ephemeral
success. wired Kyle that he was the con-
vention's choice and that harmony de-
manded his nomination, and thus hnally
succeeded IN getting statement from the
Senator that II his nomination was demand
cd by the convention III the interest OF
harmony he supposed he could not decline.
Upon thus conditional assent the anti
Weaver men placed Kyle in nomination
and made strenuous attempt TO carry the
convention, but even the eloquence OF the
popular Bob Schilling was insufficient to
stem the Weaver tide, which had been
sweiled by the sudden reaction IN favor OF
the Old Guard.
FIELD FOR THE vICE-PREsTDENCY.
Ex-Confederate General James G.. Field,
OF Virginia, was then nominated Tor vice.
President.
General Weaver and General Field, the
newly-made nominees, were brought on
the stage and gwen aD ovation. Each
made a spirited address, and at \. NJ. the
convention adjourned sine die.
THIRD-PARTY EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
OMAHA, July 5.-The National Committee
of the Peoples party met this afternoon
and organized by electing the following
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OF Illinois, chairman; j. ii. Turner, OF
Georgia, secretary; }. II. Davis, Of Texas
George Washburn, of Massachusetts; ".
o. Strickler. OF Nebraska; lgnatius Dom
nelly. OF Minnesota; q. +. Gather, OF
Alabama, and NJ. G. Rankin. of Indiana.
The committee has-under consideration
a proposition TO make its headquarters at
Omaha.
GrueraI Weaver's Career.
James B. Weaver was born IN Dayton,
Ohio, June Il, 1888, and was graduated IN
1854 at the law school of the University OF
Ohio. Enlistlng as private In 1861 IN the
Second Ohio Infantry he had risen TO ma
ior by October OF that year, was commis-
stoned colonel October Il, 1862. and on
March 13. 1868, was brevetted brigadier-
general for gallantry in the field. lie
resumed the practice OF law after the
war. was elected district attorney OF the
Secoud Judicial District OF Iowa IN lSt6'
was appointed assessor of internal revenue
for the Sixth District III 1861. and served
two ,ears. Becoming editor OF the loled
| Trib1ne. he was elected to Congress, taking
his seat March 10, 1879. The national
Greenback- Labor party nominated HIM
| for the presidency in 1850, and ne received
| 3O7. TAO votes. Two years later he was re-
turned to Congress, and was reelected IN
| 1856.
General James G.. Field, who was
nominated for Vice-Presdent on the PeO-
pIe's-party ticket. was born in Culpeper
| county, Va, about the year 1898. tie Is
son of the late Yancey FIELD, OF tha'
county, and nephew of the late Judge
| Richard Field. He received couIaon-
| school education, clerkod ior aIne IN IN
country store, and IN 1s49 went 10 Se,i-
| fornia as clerk 10 Paymaster Henry hlli,
| of the United States army. lie was IN
| California when the convention assembled
which framed the Constitutlonuponw whlch
| that State was admitted into the Union,
and was secretary of the body. lie
remained in California some years and
| then returned TO his native State and COM
| menced the practice OF law IN the coun-
| ties of Culpeper, Orange, Greene, sladlso D.
| and Fauuuier. During the war he was q
/ T,
| 4 p. HilPs DIVISION, and subsequently held
the same position III Hills Corps. At the
battle of Cedar Mountain he lost log.
After the war he was commissioned q
| general of militia.
In 1877 Attorney General Raleigh l. Dan
| iel was nominated to succeed himself, HeI-
iiday being the nominee for Governor.
| Mr.. Daniel died during the canvass, ihe
| State Committee met ana noinlnate9 uehi
eral Field in his stead. and he was electe
and served 10y election the four years OF
Holidays administration. BY appoint
ment of Governor hemper. however, nc
had also filed Mr.. Daniels unexplred term
He was succeeded by Frank 5. Blair.
| General Field allied himself with the
Readjuster movement, but did not follow
Malone into the Republican party. lie
of the Peoples party which assembled at
| sanger Hall in this city on the 23d OF last
month. and which elected delegates to the
| Omaha convention and named all electoral
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