The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-07-03
THE PEOPLES PARTY MEETS.
JUDGE GRESHAM FLATLY DECLINES
To BE ITS CANDIDATE.

To BE ITS CANDIDATE.
Weaver 10 the Only Man who ssems to
Want the Prize-A Strong Combination
to Bent Hips-The North Wants the
South 10 Name the Csnd,date-A Love
Feast In the Afternoon. with KGna'ius
Donneily as the Chief Attraction.
OMAHA Mob. July 2.-Thc chance to be
| President OF the United States which the Ma
tional Convention OF the Peoples party will
| offer somebody on next Monday isn't exactly
| brilliant but the two or three who could have
had the honor have modestly turned their
| backs when it was unoflicially rroffered them.
| Until late this afternoon 1t seemed probable
that Judge Gresham would be nominated al
most unanimously. in spite OF his declaration
| that his nnme would not go before the Conven-
| ton with his consent His friends translated
| his refusal Just as Blaine's supporters at
| Minneapolis construed his almost identical
declaration OF his position In his February lot
| ter. But there came finally q positive state
ment from Judge Gresham to the effect that
he would not accept any nomination nor any
platform.
This makes really interesting coup detat
impossible. and the Republicans Of several
Western States will receive the news with
signs OF relief Now the problem with dele
gates who have any political shrewdness Is
how to beat Weaver. for the former greenback
leader seems to be tho only willing man In
sight.
The lack OF leadership Is painfully felt.
year ago the movement had but two men who
were fitted to lead party. Neither is here
to-day. President Polk OF tho Farmers Al
lance was one. He was not great man. but
his Judgment was good. and he commanded
a stronger personal following than any
other man in the Alliance and its allied
leaders. He would certainly have been the
nominee Of his Convention had he lived. The
other man whose absence Is felt almost as
disastrously is 1. F. Livingston OF Georgia.
Equipped with all the qualities OF the Abraham
Lincoln type he might have been the chosen
son OF the new pnrty He demonstrated his
powers signally at tho Cincinnati Conference
whom by u speech second only to Bourke Cock
rams in eoQuence and force he compelled tho
attention and admiration OF an audience
almost unanimously hostile to his mes
sage Of warning. SO strong Is he
in Georgia that with the Democratic
nominee no could easily take the electoral
vote Of the State out OF the Democratic column.
He declared openly almost up to the time Of
the St Louis conference In February that IL
} the Democrats nominated Cleveland or any
other anti silver man. and failed to recognize
session OF Congress. he would throw all his in
fluence In favor OF the Peoples party in the
South. He has not been heard from in Omaha.
and he continues to keep strictly in line with
} the Democratic majority at his place in Con-
! gress.
There is one man and one man only who Is
| actively seeking the first place on the Peoples
ticket. He Is Gen. James B. Weaver. and he is
, managing his canvass very shrewdly. He be-
kha or ~ hof t,,o hmm
would end In a positive declination from the
Js.dge. With o view of keeping other Gun.
{ didates in the background he and his friends
: have been industriously adding to the Gresha N
talk. They calculated that tho withdrawal Of
Judge Gresham would leave Weaver the only
, available man to fight, and they were almost
right
t Tho probability is that II Sunday did not in
!. tcrvene before the nominating session Of the
: Convention. Weaver woulds be nominated
: Many OF the Northern and Eastern delegates
8 realize that Wenvers name would be almos
J. tho weakest one they could put a
O the head of the ticket. and there will
Y be most determined effort made
d from now on to prevent such action o
l. tho Convention. Some ofthe strongest men here
will work to this end. and it most likely theI
h morrow Of many Of the leaders from all part'
Of the country, ostensiby for the purpose os g
O design cd to prevent " eavers nomination.
y The New England delegates. some srvent!
IL starting for Omaha to pledge their support t
when the s3 NTH delegates nigh
S When they oined the New sfM
r. with the arransenents, Minnesota under tn
sad Enaiips Donnely an5 oth Az 4s!ssrss
d movement move was tho only thing that threat en- &c
nsss es viii RA 3: at s on aHSs
. however. the Northern and Eastern dele gate
l. who make this offer to the South have eXpeetc,
sun, SUPPORT TSeg nd Somewhat to their ip ds"p
y. Pontmont, and disgust. that two Or thre
= to advance the nomination Of .uen. Weaver
The Aort6ern dsseSaes many o. them
wstson wS oi G sss e
l. straishtout Alliance Contingent in tho HOUSE
S c s ss he
l. to his present sent In Congress. FAR NOR
substantial honor than to DO made the figure
ia head OF u hopeless cause.
1t that N Watson nm must be- compelled to accept
dssd sSn
PRESIDENT milf # the &C. caiSTns aans'
oathsn ma1 VII fhe fs stuato
o. now Obtains that tho South, is ANXIOUS t
VI nominate Northern man. while the North In
is S judr ep Greshams POSITION was finally asce,
ny bosney Trr ami Others AK
ID ing ifho. would accept IA nomination upon tn
& st. Louis conference platform This repl
r. came from Judge Greshnms son:
"a CHICAGO. ILL.,. July q
A. &C. D. Weare Ignaiu Don"ey Gs" Tir'e'' and John
u Hdyr, OMAHA
" Following received from Orleans. Ind:
I'd "'Your uncle died last night Meet vol
a. mother this afternoon. You can say that
NJ would not accept on any piat AZ
to Ss So%s Ia ~
% The Convention held two sessions to.da
at It transacted no business OF any importan a
=. the material OF IT, composition. It is n,
w. like any nominating Convention that ev'
V, made up both from, the ranks, q the di
~ contrnted and from tho political theorists
10 i inc Tho farmer who wants No
H. deal that will raise the price Of his corn an
row with the professional labor demagogl
is and the weaver of flne-spun theories !
geihnr somehoW without QuarIelllng.. 1t