Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1894-09-21
POPILEIS WILL NOT NOMINATE
NOT STRONG ENOUGH FOR THAT
IN TIE NINTH.

The Third Party Folk Hold Their Con-
vcntion and Have Considerable Tall,
| WIN. Bumgarncr Is surely Chair
man Now.
| The Populis.s of the Ninth Congress
sional district held their convention here
yesterday. 1t was livelier than would
have been expected of a convention Of its
size, and furnished an opportunity for
the clearing of what to some seemed a
my stery as to the identity Of VIM. Bum
garner, who was said to be the chairman
ofthe Congressional committee. Incident.
ally it gave Mr.. Bumgarner opportunity
to state publicly that he intended to
have his CITIZEN stopped.
1t was nearly 4 o'clock when Prof. G
w. Hahn OF Haywood called the body
to order and inquired if Mr.. Yancey, who
was elected chairman two years ago
was in the house. There was no answer
in the affirmative and the Professor
asked Rev. John Ammons of Madison to
take the chair, which the reverend gen.
,leman did after short speech Of thanks
for the honor. Prof. Hahr was made
secretary. A motion was made that
after the appointment of committee o
three on credentials the body should ad.
iourn until 5 o'clock in ORDER to give
Chairman Yancey, who was expected on
the train from the cast, time to get up
town. This prevailed and the committee
was made up of c. l.. Jervis of Madison
A. ID X. Wallace of Rutherford and A. NJ
Parker of Jackson.
Ready For business.
The delegates went into caucus at the
Western hotel. and it was 6:10 when
they rcasscmbled for work. Commit
teeman " allace read the report of the
commmittec on credentials, which
showed the following delegates present
from the counties named:
Buncombe. Jas. N. Morgan, Samuel
Archer, w. l.. Henry; Haywood, 6 W.
Hahn, A. L. Ward, Eli Ferguson; Hen
derson, ]. W. Freeman; Jackson, A, M.
Parker; Madison, Rev. ]. Ammons. f.
Bryan, {. Il. Iervis; Macon, T. c. Bryson;
Mcdowell, Brown and Patton; Swain,
]. W. Robertson.
Chairman Ammons announced that
unless some objection to the report was
heard he would not deem it necessary to
put the question to vote. There was
no objection and the report stood
adopted.
Next, the convention wanted a per.
mancnt chairman. and two delegates
nominated Rev. Ammons In doing this
the mover and second sat still and the
chair promptly informed them they must
rs. when addressing the chair. They
rose and Mr.. Ammors was made pcrma
nent chairman by a rising vote. He said
| if it were not so late he would make a
speech, but went no farther than t.
thank the convention Tor placing him il
the chair.
Prof. Hahn was el cted permanent sec
retary.
| \ Resolution Comes Up.
Delegate Wallace offered a resolution
which had Prof. Hahn's signature, an,
which read as follows:
Whereas. the State convention of th'
Peoples party and the State convention
of the Republican party have agreed upoi
lco-operation in the present campaign
and
Whereas, the strength of the Peopl. I
party in the Ninth Congressional dis
trict is not sufficient to elect candidate
Of our own
Resolved, That in view of the presen
situation that this convention make NJ
nomination"
Samuel Archer followed this with al
amendment to strike out the preamble
and spoke to it. 81 have spoken for th
principles of the Peoples party" he said
land nv votes have been given for thos'
principles. In 1883 we elected nothip.
in the way of representatives to Con
grcss, although we had 10000 votes il
Missouri and Jag, 900 in the nation, bu
in 1892 we elected nine Representative
and three United States Senator's
have been charged with acting contrar,
to the policy of my party in this cam
paien. helped in Missouri aud at Gin
cinnati to formulate the political prin
ciples which were mainly adopted by th'
Peoples party at Omaha in 1892 ant
have lived up to them cannot
agree to the preamble. 1t is condem
natory OF somebody"
Here Seaborn l. Harris Of Rutherford
caught up the preamble and going owe
to Mr.. Archer said, amid cheers, "Wht
is condemned in that?"
Mr.. Archer read it aud said 81 beg par
don; had misunderstood the reading o
lit, thinking it was another preamble w
had under consideration. | with
draw my motion to amend" Contin
uing, Mr.. Arch,r jumped on coali
tion in nu uncertain way. "lt," he said
we had gone forward without a seeming
coalition we would have received nearl,
100000 votes in the State, Aud the.
would not have been for the Republican
party, but would have been clean votes.
MIR. Harris made the point of ordc
that there was no motion before tn
house, but Mr.. Archer was allowed t
proce, d by the chairs ruling. He said
"We might have been successful or W
might not, but we would at least hav
been standing honorable. There wa
some cheering here, and a delegate re
marked that it must have cone from til
Democrats. They vote the way the
kick and VIC are down. Both OF the oil
parties are down on us, don't you know
it? These are the indications TODAY, a
we know Of kilograms passing from on
r OF the Congressional candidates near
:. ing Richmond PEARSON asking tha
delegates favorable to coalition be sen
here. That is as dishonorable az til
signing OF the wonGerful demands "
hear so much of. ! fear for success.