The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-08-13
STROWD NOMINATED
Populist District Convention
Lasts Just Half an Hour.
CUT AND DRIED AFFAIR
Bailey, of Nash, Nominated tor
District Elector.

Ohio Wilson REFLECTED Chairman, and
James Amos, of varce, Made Mem
Der of the Populst State Executive
Committee Strowd Says Both Old
Parties Are On Their Knees,
The Populists of the Fourth dis
trict yesterday re-nominated Capt. W.
f. Strowd, of Chatham, for Congress.
The convention was a eut-and-dried
affair and lasted just half an hour.
At 4:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon
S. Otho Wilson, district chairman, call
ed the convention to order. He an
nounced as temporary chairman DR..
ID. Reid Parker, of Randolph, and as
temporary secretary j. i. Spence, OF
Chatham.
The temporary organization was
later made permanent.
DR.. Parker in taking the chair said
he had no speech to make; the talking
was to be done before the people.
The counties were entitled to the
following number of delegates each:
Chatham, Al; Franklin, 80; Johnston,
IS; Nash 20; Randolph, 10: Vance, 10;
Wake. 63: total, 214 All the counties
were represented. but only a fraction
of the number of delegates were pre-
sent.
When Chairman Wilson dropped the
gavel there were half a dozen i'll the
galleries and not more than n hundred
in the body of the hall.
z. T. Garrett, of Vance, put Mr..
Strowd in nomination. He said the
gathering should be simply a ratitica-
ton meeting TO ratify what was done
two years ago. Strowd's record "as
Populist," he said. was equal to the
record of any man in the. United States
At this there was some applause. 'I1e
stands for suffering humanity he
said. "dnd has both feet on the Omaha
and st. Louis platforms"
He then branohed off suddenly from
the matter in hand, said he would be
glad to talk some about the situation,
and exclaimed: Eve are now assem-
bled here in vital meeting which
means either the life or death of the
Populist party" He stopped there and
intimated that they might look out
for him in the night caucus.
Then he mentioned Mr.. Sbrowd's
name, and there was applause and
cheers.
Nat Macon said, "Franllin arises in
all her pride and power and the might
of her majesty to second the nominal
ton" Ohio Wilson promised Strowd
1000 majority, which Bailey, of Nash,
cut down by promising 1000, and Mas
sey explained that Johnston will 60
larger for Strowd than it did two years
ago" whatever that may mean.
Strowd's nomination was there made
by acclamation.
Mr. Garrett brought Mr.. strowd
forward.
Mr.. Strowd thanked the convention
for the confidence reposed in him, and
said it should never be betrayed.
He said: Il have had the same hard
ships and gone through the same suf-
ferings that YOU have and I know your
situation and I know your needs.
81 congratulate the Populist party
on what it has already accomplished.
1t has thrown bomb-shells into the
camps of both the lod parties and
created confusion. Instead of being
rotten-egged as we once were these
old parties are both down on their
knees now. begging us to pull them out
of a hole. You have forced the financial
question to the front, and have COM
"
ate a man who is of us. William j.
Bryan. (Cheers.) And we have NOM
mated as his running-mate a man in
every sense his peer and equal, Tom
Watson. (Cheers.) We have disrupted
the Republican party and driven the
Democratic party into our own camp.
We can't afford to play minnow to
anybody's perch or Jonah to any whale
on earth. The mission of the party is
to put the government back into the
hands of the people, where it belongs
and it will be needed long after the
silver question is settled"
He said the Populists at ST. Louis
did the only right thing they could do
when they nominated Bryan and Wat
son.
Nominations for district elector
We're declared in order and Nat Macon,
Of Franklin, nominated W. s. Bailey
of Nash He said: 81 nominate a man
who will tote our banner to the front,
with 16 to / in great big silver letters
nailed to her masthead, big as the
moon. Our ship is named Ieyiathan
and she has a plank nailed to her with
the letters Room for ALL She can
knock all the old stumps up from the
political battle-ground and can run
over lJtl1OCIdtiC hdtllIi1S anu IbtiJublI-
can Radicals" (Applause)
On motion of Atwater, of Chatham,
the nomination was made by acclama-
ton.
Mr. Bailey came forward and pledg-
ed himself to do all in his power for
silver and Populism, Bryan and Wat
son.
AS he walked to his seat Macon met
him in the aisle and said: sFYou came
to Franklin and lightning and I'll thun-
DER
S. Ohio Wilson was re-nominated
for district chairman by the committee
and was elected.
S G. Satterfeld
S. G. Satterwhite nominated foI
member of the State executive com
mittee James Amos, of Vance. There
were cries OF "Who is he?'' Lets sec
him. but he didn't show himself tc
the delegates. There was no second