The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-06-28
THE PEOPLES PARTY
Making Preparations for Their
Convention at Omaha.
GRESHAM DECLINES THE HONOR
or Being the Presidential Nominee of That
fsriy-The Silver Men Want TO
Name the Candidate.

THE HERALD. THE people of Omaha
seemed to awaken this morning to reali-
cation of the fact that during the present
week a national convention would convene
in this city. The hotel managers are pre-
pairing for great crowd and in every hotel
in the city cleaning up and preparing is the
order of the day.
Ignatus Donnelly. II. V. Powderly and
many of the knights of Labor leaders will
be at the Willard. and Editor Vincent and
the Indianapolis Non Conformfst staff win
have headquarters there. General Weaver
will also have room at the Willard and
the Colorado silver league will entertain
their friends there.
EDWARD BELLAMY
will probably be at the Mercer. large
handsomely furnished room extending from
for the great writer.
The Massachusetts delegation will hold
forth at the Windsor.
V. o. Stricken, who represents Chair
man Taubenck, went out to the Coliseum
this morning and allotted space for the
United press, the Associated press, the
eastern papers and the Postal and Western
Union telegraph companies. Strickler is
of the opinion that owing to the refusal to
make special rates west of the Missouri ex-
cept for July 4, the railway will not bring
many delegates from west of the river ex-
cept from Nebraska and Colorado. but that
there will be many from the east and south.
Chairman Stricken says that the coli
scum building will bs in readiness for the
guests by next Thursday evening. The
arrangements for the chairs and elevation
on an inclined plane of all chairs outside Of
tie space allotted for delegates in tn centre
of the building, is far superior to anything
that has heretofore been made in the build
ing. A platform 100 feet long and 80 feet
wide has been built on the west side of the
hall for the chairman, secretaries, national
committee and the newspaper men, Here
will be the editors of the prominent indie
pendent newspapers of the country. After
these are provided for,
REPRESENTATIVES, OF TIE METROPOLITAN
PRESS
throughout the country will be assigned
places and the remaining seats will be al
lotted TO the editors Of the Nebraska
weekly papers. Stricken is very anxious
to provide facilities for every working
newspaper man VINO may be assigned for
actual work, but he is not disposed to fur
nish seats on The platform for newspaper
men who come to listen to the proceedings
and not for actual work He feels very
kindly towards the Nepraska press in gen
eral and will do his utmost to meet their
demands.
The convention hall will have seating
capacity of about seven thousand, with
ample space in the alleys and passageways
for two or three thousand more.
In case of crush committee rooms have
where also the telegraph companies will
be provided with ample working space.
The local Independents, who have for
the past few days beer carefully
NURSING vOLUPTUos HOPE
that Walter O. Gresham would expresssa
nomination at the hands OF the third party
in case it was rendered him, had their
hopes dashed to the ground this morning
! by q private letter announcing that he
would not allow his name to be considered
here The local leaders all expressed the
belief that his name would have added
more strength to their ticket than could be
secured in any other way, and that he
! could unquestionably have the nomination
| if he would have it. Although General b.
Weaver of Iowa seemed to have the sup
port of the local Independents UP to the
time of the return of the
DISCOUNTED SILVER MEN
from the Chicago convention, and the an
nouncement of their decision to come here
and seek satisfaction at the hands of the
independents, the sentiment has changed
and it is now openly asserted that Weaver
is no longer in it. The talk is all in favor
of q nominee from q mining state and
Stewart Of Nevada and Adams of Colorado
have the call, with Watson of Georgia for
second place. This. however, would
destroy the pleasing ALTERATION that many
OF the new movement have been counting
on. For while they counted on the Don
nelly and Davis-Ignatius of Minnesota
and ]. G. of Texas. The Polk and Pow
Derby caught the popular fancy, put the
death of one and the absolute refusal of the
other to be considered for either hrst or
second place necessitated the selection OF
another pair and Weaver and Watson were
set forth. Now comes the
SILVER SITUATION
with other favorites, but it has not yet
presented second place ''A'' to go with
Adams nor an upper case rs" to trot will
Stewart. Unless this deficiency can be
remedied the nomination of either OF the
mountaineers would not give full and COM
plete satisfaction.