The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1892-06-30
FAVCR BIDVVELL.
THE CALIFORNIAN LIKELY TO BE
NAMED BY PROHiBiTIONiSTS.

Many Advocates of Fusion With the Peo-
pies Party Among Neutrality-suspicious.
gates From the Pacific Northwest First
on the Ground.
CINCINNATI, June 2S.-General John
Bidwell, of California. who was con-
gresham from that state away back IN
the SOS, will be the standard bearer of
the national Prohibition party in the
coming campaign. The boom for Will
lam Jennings Demorest, of New York,
whose candidacy has been actively pro-
NOTED throughout the country, appears
to have been expended and the Californ-
ian's nomination is claimed by his friends
on the first ballot if not by reclamation.
For the second place, Joshua Lever
ing, small Baltimore coffee merchant
and of local note as a philanthropllist, is
in the lead with Henry Clay Bascom, of
New York, and A. A. Stevens, of Penn
sylvania, following close behind. The
contest of the opposing factions was in
augurated almost Immediately upoa
the arrival of the New York
delegation in the morning,
1t had been confidently expected
by the scattering Demorest following
from other states that this delegation
would be solid for the New Yorker. but
much to their dismay and chagrin it was
very speedily developed that he had but
thirteen out of the 100 and the majority
were for Bidwell. If the minority was
small, however, it was active and It
brought in its train good sized con-
tingent of young political workers, who
lost no time in going into the thick Of
the fray. Not even i'll Minneapolis i'll
the heat of the ante-convention cam
paign was as much vituperation in
dulged in as has been current during the
day. All kinds of charges were brought
against the Californ an and some of
these, of a character unlikely to fird
their way into type, were put upon
paper and passed around. The Bidweil
supporters, however, refused to return
the fight with the same missiles. They
contented themselves with the declara-
ton that the party did not want man
who sought the Office, saying the Office
should seek the man, and Demorest, in
their opinion, was incapacitated in many
ways from being an available nominee.
The national committee has decided
upon Ex-Governor John P. st. John as
temporary chairman, The movement
for fusion with the Peoples party,
which assemblies at Omaha on Saturday,
received something of all impetus from
a meeting held at the Palace during the
afternoon and of which Miss Frances
Willard was the promoter The oppo-
sition turned out in force but was out
numbered, and resolutions favoring fu-
sion were adopted. A telegram was
read from Senator Prefer urging the
convention to appoint a few discreet
persons to attend the Omaha conven-
ton for the purpose of comforting with
some of the leaders regarding fusion.
A resolution was adopted declaring
that friendly feeling exists between
the Prohibition and Peoples parties
upon the economic questions of the day
and commenting to the convention that
the national committee be authorized to
confer with the Peoples party with a
view to.a union. provided that the sup
preston and prohibition of the liquor
traffic be not left out of the platform.
A committee was appointed to present
the matter to the prohibition and Omaha
conventions.
At the Demorest oratorical contest at
Music hall Miss Minnie Warren, Of
Michigan, won the diamond medal.