The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-05-17

SibIey and Warner In GOOD standing
With California sIigeriter.

Los Angeles, May IA San Francisco
press dispatch. dated Tuesday, stated
that. owing 10 The efforts OF Gen. a. }.
Warner. chairman of the national exeeu-
tive committee OF the American Bi-me-
talIic party. TO boom Joseph q. Ssbley for
the presidency ia 1886. the late visit OF
these gentlemen 20 California had not
produced the expected results for free
coinage. and that one OF the effects of II
had been the ftt secession Of the State
Silver League from Gen. Warmers or
ganization, which secession Is repre-
scented TO have occurred at a meeting or
the executive committee OF said league
held in Los Angeles last Saturday.
Col John II. Berry. secretary OF the
league. was shown the dispatch. and to
an Associated Press reporter said:
'''rhe fact is that all there is of the So
called State Leag 10 is the so-called ex-
ecutIge committee. and all there is of
that committee. so far as Its active MEM
bars are concerned. Is a quartctte OF ex-
popuilsts who were members of the lccal
free silver movement started here last
winter. and who refused TO Join the Re
pablicsns and Democrats associated In
that movement In indorsing the national
movement OF which Gen. Warner is the
executive head. The names OF this quar-
tette are: Enoc Pepper, Alvs Udel. ii.
Ii. Savage and John Robson.
These men were leaders In a factional
row In the Populist party here last fall,
on account OF which Pepper had 10 re-
sign his positi5r as chairman OF the Pop
ulist county COMMITTEES before the cam
paign ended. Something ought 10 be
known OF Udell ~ San Francisco from
his being mixed up with the Benson land
frauds. Pepper was elected chairman of
tho executive committee of the local
movement--which assumed 20 be a state
committee. although Its members all re-
sided la Los Angeles--as a last choice,
40 one else heilg willing to take the
Office because these ex-Populists had sue
eeeded in loading II down with an infia-
ton proposition declaring for volume
Of currency equal to II per cent. or the
domestic trade of the country, and plan
OF organization, which was prepared by
tdeil. which required the chairman Of
the committee - appoint nearly 5000
committeeman In the voting precincts OF
California. For three months this COM
faltses met and never could get a QUO
rum. When the national movement de-
.eiope1 tbs committee voted TO fall In
line with It. week afterwards the Pop
ulists aforesaid repudiated this action
and walked out OF the meeting. The rest
OF the committee went on and organized
the Los Angeles league OF the American
Ei-metaliic party, which now has up
wards OF 800 members.
When Warner and Sibley came 10 San
Francisco the Pepper-tdell crowd Hooded
them with letters and kilograms. They
first attempted TO Ket recognition. Fail
Eng In that they next attempted % pre-
vent Warner aud sibley from coming to
Los Angeles 10 aald meeting and fail
ed IN that also. When Warner and Sih-
ley came 20 Los Angeles these men re-
newcd their attempts for recognition. but
again failed Gen Warner telling them
that they could not expect recognition on
a platform containing a plank that IS
not In the platform OF the national move
ment. which Is the Is per cent plank
above referred 10. AS last resort rdeil
tried threats. notifying Gen Warner that
unless he acceded 30 their demands they
wauld do tus, what they have done-pro-
claim their opposition 10 the national
movement ana continue a sideshcw OF
their own. Gen. Warner was Disguised
With their methods and stood nrm. War
nsr aud Sihley left Los Angeles last Fri
DAY. Before they left n. II. Savage told
Gen. Warner that they had concluded
rot 10 execute the threat r3ell had made.
This threat WAS ia writing on the next
day the so-called act Of secession was
PASSED. None Will be more amused than
Warner and SiAlcy or learning that Pen
per. Udell az al. have seeded from the
national free silver movement and are
going - set up a national movement OF
their own.'