The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1894-06-30
Jamestown Convention.
From correspondence Of st. Paul Pioneer Pros

JdEleoLOWN convention.
FROM correspondence" Of st. Paul Pioneer Press,
JAMESTOWN, N. d., Special, June H.
after me the delugc," said Louis XIV,
and fifteen years later the overt acts of
the French revolution commenced which
deluEed Paris in blood. After the popu!ist
state convention of North Dakota which
has just completed Its work. what? Not
Il bloody revolution, nor yet Il political
storm and tidal wave but Il dead calm, and
people wonder what all the fuss and
1eathers was about. The sun rises and
sets, the moon waves and waucs, and the
stars III the armament twinkle as benuti-
fully as before. no star of Bethlehem
arose and took its station over jamestown
as Il miraculous sign that Il savior of the
country had appeared to close up tho old
political disPensa.ion and usher in the
new. The local press divided its space
and attention almost equal between the
fopullst convention and the struggling
sdoaGs OF CoXeyites that either by coinci-
dence or Encouragement appeared in our
little city at the same time. Tbs only
thing, if antThing, remarkable about the
Two circumstances referred to-, was tho
cohesive attraction between the adnerertc
Oh INC two. The Co1eyitcs had as clo-
qhant a speaker IN the person of "Gcn..,
Je'frlcs as tho populists had in Robert
ocAi'l'hg tho scientific anarchist" rs he
defined himself. from Milwaukee. These
:p'akers both rode the same hobby, and
the gIst of their speeches Indicated That
'hey were both headed III The same direc-
ton and bound for the same destination.
With the difference that Schelliny travelled
III the plush seat Of a palace car ut the
expsnce of the Populist central comm;ttec.
"'ll' JeHaias "swung under" and rode on
the trucks at the OK pence OF the railro,d
compr,y.
PERSONAL OF THE CONVECTION
but TO the convention. All hut four or
hVe OF the counties III the state were rcnre-
seh5ea' aud 1t Is but fair and Just to saw
that tho personnel of the conyen.io, wing
f'ghly res p@ctthle, and the same NAV be
SAID OF the ticket nominated. 1t is wortby
VI remark, however, that Richianu county.
which two years ago gave the neuo.por
fusion ticket 2G3 majority. failed to shov
up With a single delegate at this conven-
'ioh. Nor was any explanation made as
- why this was thus. Such Il reo,oc,
~ lot nave occurred without u cause
and the presumptiye cause of this apathy
Is thai iich'and county has had her fill o:
Populis!!n and does not care for any NOR,
at dat oojitial diet.
AZ the Pioneer Press reaches every por.
0ti'0 OF the state, the surest ana ujickes,
way to reach all the people OF the state is
through tho Pioneer Press, and your CORE.
spondent will give tho "true inwaruness'
or that convention without prejudice or
exaggeration, which tho writer believes
Will contain at least some points OF infor.
nation which the people obtain IN nc
other way.
The convention was proceeded by a two
days session of tho annual meeting of the
State Farmors Alliance. Moss of the
representatives attending the Alliance
meeting were also delegates to the Popu
list state convention, and were Tins mile
10 XIII two birds with one stone,'' or, il
Other words, to attend both meetings al
the expense of one railroad fare, which
was a commendable scheme Of economy
In addition to this they were first on guard
which afforded them al opportunity t.
saw wood" and so shape the prelimin
aries that the convention would nave it'll,
more to do when it convened than pilo u,
the wood and go home. The averag,
Populist has had training in the old politi
cal parties in the arr and scene of manip
ulating conventions. and they wer,
evidently apt scholars, for they are un
questionably adopts in the art. How wei
these "prellminaries" had been arrange
can be very accurately compvehended up
on the statement of the ract that Will
Tor most OF the positions several name
were presented all but one vanishe
through the hole-in-the-wall of with
drawal before tho final showdown 70
nomination came, and the one remaining
for each position on the ticket was nom
mated by reclamation, except the thre
railroad commissioners. Ii such a thin
had occurred in a state convention @
either of the old parties it would hay
been openly charged and generally be
lieved that the thing had been.
s'FIxnD'' BEFOREHAND; +,
but such a Encouragement cannot be sus