Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1892-02-25

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pressions of despair that ANYTHING i'm
portant would be soon accomplished
were being given voice privately among
the delegates.
The third party fight In dead earnest
was suddenly thrown iuto the conven-
ton by the committee on credentials
seating Post and Branch, the two third
party de lcgates whom IL sought to shut
out. Post IN n general scramble for
the floor got In first and in the bitter
est speech heard in the convention de-
nounccd Congressman Livingston of
Georgia as attempting TO hand
over the alliance in that state
bound hand and foot TO the dem
ocratic party. The excitement aused
by this accusation was intense and
scores OF delegates ran about waving
their hands like so many bedlamitcs.
After an exchange Of hot personalities
by Moses, of Georgia, Ellington, Branch
and others, the report OF the credentials
committee was finally adopted by a
large mnjority-a substantial triumph
for the third partyiteS
The row among the Gcorgians con-
tinued for fully an hour and was only
ended by the sergeant-ar-arms, club in
hand, forcibly tanning the warning
southerners down in their seats.
When quiet had been measurably re-
stored the long list of the members of
the platform committee was finally
completed and read, making a total Of
nearly $50 members The announce
ment of Post as the platform commit
tecman from Georgia nearly started a
personal enc lunter between him and
Moses, fellow Georgian. The conven-
ton us whole was now thoroughly
disguised with the Georgians aud
plainly showed IL with misses and
cat calls. Jerry Simpson turned
the whole dispute into ridicule by
suggesting that half the Georgia dele
gates be apportioned TO Alaska to give
them u chance to cool oil. A colored
delegate standing on railing started
TO deliver n howery Grafton with
which be had plainly long been burden
ed. Astronomy and politics and hun
bred other heterogeneous subjects we're
de igntfully mixed, and when he had
concluded twenty minutes bewilder-
ing rambling talk Secretary Hayes
came forward with a state nent that
brought out audible signs of relief and
weary cheers II was that the Geor-
giaus had at last settled their fight,
Post being made platform representa-
tive from Georgia and Wilson, an anti
third party man, the Georgia mem Der
of the anti-option committee.
The breath of the delegates was
taken away later on by Willitts, of
Kansas, national lecturer of the
Farmers Alliance, when, after half
hours roll calling, the special commit
tee was completed TO frame the pro-
posed resolution asking OF congress the
passage OF the anti-option law. lie
moved that the convention demand the
passage of the sub-treasury bill as a
means of relief for the people instead
of petititioning the Washington solons
to enact the anti-option law.
Wheat lecturer for the knights Of
Labor was the first Of the delegates to
pull himself together and moved to lay
Willis motion on the table and on q
vote the S b-treasury substitute was
showed under,
Kelly, OF Kansas, offered a resolu-
ton that the appropriation pending in
congress for permanent census bureau
be Endorsed II provision we're made for
continuing the investigation of farm
mortgages as a permanent part of the
work OF the bureau. Jerry Simpson
championed Kelly's motion and his eff
forts we're heartily seconded by Con-
gresham Livingston, Of Georgia, who
also seized the opportunity to repel
earnestly, almost tearfully, the accu-
sation that he ever wrote or uttered
one word favoring turning the Georgia
alliance into the democratic camp.
The convention after some desultory
discussion adopted the census resolu-
ton by an emphatic vote.
Wilson, OF Georgia, offered reso-
luton that the convention petition con-
gress for the adoption of the pending
bill for the free and unlimited coinage
Of silver. Mr., Livingston fought hard
10 have this resolution carried
Tracy. of Oregon, apparently at the in
stance OF Kansas men, near whom he
was seated, tackled on an amendment
demanding the passage OF sub treas.
ury bill. Protests against the con-
alteration OF resolutions outside of the
platform committee were voiced by
Willitts, Of Kansas, and others and put
the free coinage resolution In immi-
nent danger of fiat defeat but II and
tts suB-ttess,Ty TIL wegS apslly vSdszed