The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1896-07-23

ST. LOUIS, July 1S.-The national ex.
ecutive committee of the Peoples party
is holding q conference here today to ar.
range matters for the national commit.
tee and the convention, both of which
will meet next week.
Chairman Taubeneck is in Chicago.
Inquiry at the executive committee
headquarters failed to elicit any in.
formation out his visit there. One
paper stated that he went as an envoy
extraordinary, bearing terms of capitu.
lation from the "middle of the road"
Populists, to the natiohalal Democracy.
The paper then goes on to say:
The "middle of the road" people, led
by the men ho have control of the ma.
tional mach and who are exceeding)J
anxious to retain it, are badly fright
ened.
"For fear that an endorsement of
Bryan and Sewall, which is to inevi.
tably follow the convening of the Popu.
lists, would throw them out entirely,
the anti. Bryan members, most of whom
have some sort of office in the present
national organization, are said to he
eager to get terms which will leave
them in power,
"They have run up the white flag
and are prepared to surrender uncondi.
tionally if they fail to secure their
terms.
''They want the Democrats to agree
to the proposition that both parties
shall maintain distinct organizations
or, in other words, that the Populists
shall keep up their national organiza.
| tion-and both run electoral tickets
fha fa1 /.
date.
"Up to the time Chairman Taubeneck
started so hurriedly for Chicago the
machine Populists had received nc
comfort from the Democrats.
"The masses of the Peoples party
was so solidly for Bryan that there was
no hope in that direction.
Mark Hanna's men were confident
that they could hold the 'middle.o .of-the
road people in line, but Chairman
Taubeneck's trip to Chicago put then
at sea. Their mission was to prevent
an endorsement of Bryan if possible
and to create a split if necessary t
do it.
"The evident desire of Chairman
Taubeneck and his coworkers to get il
out of the storm has changed the situa
tion."
Inquiry among a number of the prom
inent Populists here failed to corrobor
ate the statement that Taubeneck hat
gone to Chicago to confer with Demo
cratic leaders there. 1t was stated thai
the object of his visit was to confer will
DIR. Taylor, a member of the nationa
committee and prominent Populist, a
to what should be done at the conven
ton in regard to placing nationa
ticket in the field by the Peoples party
The plan resulting from this confer
ence will be presented at the meeting
of the executive committee today.
"lf the Democrats will give us ou
share of the electors there will be N
difficulty in the way of united actio
for silver" said Sergeant-at-Arms Nc
Dowell OF the Populist national couven
tion in the course of an interview
Talks with other leading POpulist
showed this to be the situation, ther
being a well-defined feeling against en-
dorsing the Chicago convention ticket
The Populist plan is to divide tn
electors in each state according TO tn
Populist and Democratic parties, tn
stronger candidate to take all the elect
ors after the election. This they cor
tend will insure the election of a silve
man, whereas if each party put up
separate candidate and did not fuse o
I electors the silver vote would be d
vided and the fight for silver lost.