The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-16
NOT STRAIGHT SILTERITES.
Colonel Berry Tells of the Men Wht
Oppose Mr.. Siblev.

NOT STR FLIGHT SILTERITES.
Oppose Mr.. Sibley.
LOS ANGELES, CAL, Nav ia San
Francisco press dispatch dated Tuesday
stated that owing to the efforts of General
A. J, Warner, chairman of the National
Executive Committee of the American BIZ
metallic party, to boom Joseph G. Sibley
for the presidency in 1896, the late visit of
these gentlemen to California has not pro-
duced the expected results for free coinage
and that one of the effects of it had been
the fat secession of the State Silver League
from General Warmers organization, which
secession is represented to have occurred
at a meeting of the executive committee of
said league held in Los Angeles last Satur-
day.
Colonel John R. Berry secretary of the
Los Angeles League of the American BIZ
metallic party when shown the dispatch
by an Associated Press reporter, said:
1.-THE fact is that all there is of the So
called State League is the so-called execu-
tive committee, and all there is of that
committee, so far as its active members
are concerned, is q quartet of ex-Populists
who were members of the local free silver
movement started here last winter, who
refused to join the Republicans and
Democrats associated in that movement in
indorsing the National movement of which
General Warner is the executive head.
The names of this quartet are: Enoch
Pepper, Alva Udell, H. II. Savage and
John Robson.
"These men were leaders in factional
I'M bo porn1icf rtv har 10 f,H
account of which Pepper had to resign his
position of chairman of the Populist
| County Committee before the campaign
ended. Something ought to be known of
Udell in San Francisco from his being
mixed up in the Benson land frauds
pepper was elected chairman of the
executive committee of the local move
ment (Which assumed to be d State COM
mittee, although its members all resided
in Los Angeles) as a last choice, no one
| else being willing to take the Office because
| these ex-Populists had succeeded in load
| ing it down with an imitation proposition,
declaring for a volume of currency equal
to Is per cent of the domestic trade of the
country, and plan of organization, which
was prepared by Udell, which required the
chairman of the committee to appoint
nearly 5000 committeeman in the voting
precincts of California. For three months
| this committee met and never could get a
quorum. When the National movement
developed the committee voted to fall in
| line with it. A week afterward the Popu-
lists aforesaid repudiated this action and
walked out of the meeting.
'sThe rest of the committee went on and
organized the Los Angeles League of the
American Bimetallic party, which now
| has upward of 500 members.
When Warner and Sibley came to San
| Francisco the Pepper Uden crowd flooded
them with letters and kilograms. They
! first attempted to get recognition. Failing
| in that they next attempted to prevent
Warner and Sibley from coming to Los
Angeles to hold q meeting and failed in
| that also.
| when Warner and Sibley came to Los
Angeles these men renewed their attempts
! for recognition, but again failed, General
Warner telling them that they could not
expect recognition on platform contain
| ing plank that is not in the platform of
| the National movement, which is the Is
per cent plank referred to. AS last re-
sort Udell tried threats, notifying General
|
mands they would do just what they had
done-proclaim their opposition to the
National movement and continue a side
show of their own.
General Warner was disguised with their
methods and stood firm. Warner and Sib-
| ley left Los Angeles last Friday. Before
they left, H. I'll. Savage told General War
ner that they had concluded not to execute
the threat Udell had made. This threat
was in writing. On the next day the So
called act OF secession was passed.
lone will be more amused than War
ner and SibIey on learning that Pepper,
Udell ct al. have seeded from the Ma
tional Free Silver movement and are going
to get up national movement of their
own"
SiIrer Men Organize.