Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-07-22
SENATOR BUTLER
Chosen by the Populists to Be Tenn
porary Chairman.
LIVELY SESSION OF FHE RADICALS
Charges That Their Leaders Have
Sold Them Out.
OPPOSITION TO SEWALL

The populist national committee yester-
day at ST. Louis decided upon Senator
Marion Butler of North Carolina for tenn
porary chairman. The selection was eff
fected without much apparent opposition.
but there was an adverse element present
which would have manifested itself if the
committee had not been so evidently favor
able to Butler.
His selection was accepted as a victory,
IN the committee at least, for those who are
opposed to the nomination of both Bryan
and Sewan 1t was at first the plan of the
Bryan and Sewall advocates to put up Gen.
Weaver for TIE position, but they changed
at the last moment to Gen. Field of Viz
ginia, who was on the presidential ticket
with Gen. Weaver four years ago. They
believed that the opposing faction would be
divided between Butler and Mr. Hines of
Georgia Mr.. Hines was, however. not
placed in nomination, leaving the ''straights''
united upon Senator Butler
Gen. Field was placed in nomination, but
when it became apparent that Hines was
out of the race. and when the committee
men from one state after another rose to
second the Butler nomination, Hines friends
withdrew his name and allowed Butler TO
be nominated by reclamation.
senator Euller was placed IN nomination
by w a Guthrie, North Carolina, who eUiO-
Sizsd him as the of a North Carolina
farmer, and spoke OF him as a patriot and
philanthropiSt. He said that Senator But
Ter was the youngest man who had occu-
Pied seat in the Senate since The days Of
Clay, and that he had won and worn his
laurels there most worthily.
Numerous seconding speeches were made
and the nomination was made by acciana-
ton, amid yolley of applause.
j. W. Hayes OF the knights of Labor and
W. ID. Vincent Were chosen temporary Sec
retaries.
Considering Contested Seats.
The national committee at it's afternoon
meeting took up the various contests for
seats. the Illinois contest being the first in
order. This contest involved the seats of
the twenty-five delegates from the con-
gressional districts comprised in the
city OF Chicago. 1t was charged that
the conventions Were irregular and each
side claimed that the other was COM
posed of men who were not popu-
lists One of the delega lions was headed
by III. S Taylor and the other by VIM
Burns. who. as an officer of the American
halfway Union, was imprisoned with Eu-
gene Dees after the Chicago strike.
Speeches were made by both Burns and
Iayior. VINO went over the merits of the
controversy in detail and INDUCED m mu-
tual examinations. Burns claimed that the
Taylor people We're not populists He
charged them with Uncertainties in con-
nectiOn with the cause Of he men enca gnd
In the great strike and insisted that the
idE!orlteS htd taken position against the
interests OF the party il signing the Chi
caGO manifesto in the interest of Senator
Teller for the presidency.
The contest was decided by the adoption
Dy the committee Of a motion offered 10y
ISnAliIS DsnleIiy. giving each member OF
both delegations half vote. the vote in
favor of This motion being 10 to Is
The Ohio case followed. This controversy
applied to the nineteenth Ohio district in
FoiVlng three district seats and Indirectly
the seat of one deIegata-at-Iarge The dis
trict contestants on one side were R. IL
smith, }. B. Miller and Carl NJ Newton
and on the other J. N. H. Frederick. ]. c.
Dooliitle and ". II. Webster
me only issue was to the regularity
OF the cal! for the conventions. The smith
convention was called by the state commit
tee and the Frederick convention by the
congrs ssional committee. The national
committee took the position that the con-
gresSicnal call was regular and seated the
Frederick delegation This decision had the
effect of deciding the state contest between
Hugo Pryor and John Sites in favor of
Pryor.
Police were stationed outside the doors
OF the hall in which the committee held
1ts evening session, and they were fire.
Guently in demand to prevent personal
encounters between the contesting 6elega-
ticrs from Chicago. There was one flsti-
cum between II. 5. Taylor. the leader OF
the regulars. and Seymour Stedmau OF the
oIresing delegation. Bad blood had been
brewing all day and when the two met
III the corridor outside the hall they snranp
suddenly at each other, and only TIN, in
terference of the crowd prevented serious
results. Neither vas hurt but as IT was
very evident that some one was likely to
be the police We're called in to preserve
the peace.
The Illinois case was again under con-
s:deration in the committee room. The
committee mad decided to reopen the con-
test upon the request of the members of
the delegations whose seats were not con-
tested AMI who had unanimously declared
that the Taylor faction were entitled 10
the seats.
Taylor Men Seated.
After an hours deliberation the COM
mittee reversed its decision of the after
rocn. which gave half vote to each MEM
Der of both delegations. 1t decided
at night by a vote Of 30 to "a to seat the
Taylor delegation. There was considera-
lie feeling in the committee over the con-
test. and ii was especially intense among
some of the Chicago people on the outside.
They declared the committee had been
packed. and that the nights action was
necessary to sustain Mr.. Taubeneck In his
position of national chairman. The Tau
beneck-Taylor people We're much elated
press their claims for seats before the
committee on credentials.
The contest from the eleventh Missouri
district was decided in favor of Frank E.
Richie. who contested the seat claimed
by John L. Talbot 1t was insisted that
the election of Talbot as delegate had
been determined in the district conven-
ton by the votes of six men, who after
ward made afiidavits that they were demo-
Gratis. Louis Quallmet2 was seated from
the East st. Louis. ILL.,. district in place
OF Mr. McDiil. who had moved from the
district.
The contest from the fourth Wisconsin
district delegation, Rublee A. Cole and