Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-07-24
ALLEN WAS CHOSEN
Permanent Chairman Of the Populst
Convention.
MAJORITY OF OVER 4 HUNDRED
MiddIe-of-the-Roaders Voted for
Campion.
DETAILS OF THE SESSION

He was plainly very weary from the eff
forts of several days hard campaigning.
He Strengthened himself Up with some diff
Guilty and brought his umbrella handle
DOWN with crash on the chairman's table,
II this Is populist convention he
shouted in a husky. unsteady voice, "for
Gods sake don't get into the democratic
hand wagon
TIE crowds laughed and the middle-of
the-road man went carefully down the
steps and disappeared in the direction of
the Texas delegation. Among the distin-
guiSEed guests on the platform was Mrs.
"A. Fl. Cardin, the wife of the national COM
mitteeman from Kentucky. She Is a very
pretty woman ard attracted much atten-
ton. She came to oppose woman suffrage
plank in the platform, but did not go be-
fore the committee on resolutions, as the
sunraSists themselves decided not to make
the fight.
Perfect order was maintained while the
delegates were gathering in their places
and there was 10 demonstration as the
leaders entered.
At exactly $50 Temporary Chairman
Butler raped the convention to order ana
tlalS would submit q report. His announce
nent was taken up and repeated by SUD
chairmen stationed III various parts Of the
Eall. delegates In remote portions of the
=
could not hear what was going on.
The Trouble Began.
Delegate Warden of California. chairman
of the committee. read the report. The por-
ton relative to delegations where there
were 70 contests was agreed TO- and then
the trouble began. The delegates from sew
eral middle-of-the-road states cried out 10
protest. and when Mr.. Patterson of Colorado
moved that the convention take up the con-
tests In alphabetical order of states Harry
Tracey of Texas took the stage and OBJ
jected. He wanted them taken up in the
order reported by the committee.
Mr. Patterson denied that the committee
lad submitted them in any order. The
committee. he said. had simply enumerated
the cases.
Mr. Brooks of Missouri drew a howl of
approval from the straghtouts by rising
to point of orGer that. il Mr.. Patter-
sons seat was contested, he had no right
to the privileges of a member of this con-
vention until his title to his seat was con-
firmed.
The Bryan shouters. however, got their
chance to shout when Chairman Butler
overruled the point of order. saying that
Mr.. PatterSonS name was the temper
airy roll and he was entitled to all the
privileges of membership until he should
be unseated.
Patterson's resolution was put and car
ried. The Colorado contest was then taken
UP and a motion made to adopt the report
of the committee recommending the seat
ing of what is known as the Paterson
delegation. At tine suggestion of Mr.. Pat
terson. however, the matter was laid aside
for hour
The Illinois case was taken up then.
The majority reported that the two dele
cations from Cook county be seated and
the vote divided.
The minority, signed by fourteen men,
bers of the committee. recommended that
Dr. Taylor's delegation be seated
Virginia delegate moved the adoption
of the majority report and Delegate Moran
of Nebraska moved to substitute the minor
ity for the majority report. After some
wranslng it was agreed that there should
be fifteen minutes for debate on each side.
Chairman Palmer of the Illinois delegation
upheld the report in favor of the Taylor
delegates.
Majority Report Adopted.
After speeches on either side vote was
taken by states. After the ballot was
closed a number of changes were made
and the vote was officially announced as
GG5 for the majority report and G42 for
the minority.
While the vote in several instances SEEM
ed to be Bryan and anti-Bryan 1t was not
test vote in any respect. Alabama,
which Is for Bryan. for instance. cast half
her vote for the majority and half for the
minority. Georgia, which is opposed to
Bryan. cast her 81 votes for the majority
report. while Kansas which is solid for
Bryan. gave 81 votes for the minority and
two for the majority report.
Delegate Wilkins of California CHALLENGED
Colorado's right to vote, but the chair
ruled that the delegation could vote Her
Al votes went for the minority report
The anti-Bryan delegates voted solidly for
the majority report. but some of the Bryan
delegates also voted that way When
Texas cast her 1O8 votes for the majority
report. which gave half the contested seats
p no nn1H 1o1o
readers howled themselves hoarse.
Bryan Man Unscated.
The Missouri contest was withdrawn.
Five minutes was given each side of the
Wisconsin case. involving one seat Mr..
Cole. who had been seated by the national
committee, stated he was Bryan man
and for that reason he was not to be al
lowed seat. He appealed to the fairness
Of the southern delegates to seat HIM
President was greeted with cheers by the
Bryan men. The majority report unseat-
ing Cole and seating Isaacs was adopted.
LATE Pence's Criticism.
LATE Pence. the former Congressman
from Colorado. who was at the head of the
New York delegation called for the report
OF the committee on permanent organiza-
ticn. In doing so he made some rather
sharp comments about the time the con-
Fent1On had frtttered away.
Several delegates attempted to move an
adjournment until o'clock, but Mr. Pence
refused to yield the floor for such motion
But when E. A. Cooke Of Virginia. CHAIR
man of the committee on permanent or
ganization. came forward to make his re-
port dozen delegates jumped to their feet
and protested that a report from another
committee was not In order until the re-
port Of the committee credentials as a
whole had been agreed to. Mr.. Washburne
of Massachusetts. who was temporarily in
the chair. ruled the points not well taken
He also declined to entertain an appeal
9 The report of the committee on permanent
organization was then read. The announce
ment of the selection of Senator Allen of
Nebraska for permanent chairman was the
signal for wild Bryan demonstration
which lasted several minutes John W.
Hayes of New Jersey was selected for sec
rotary and other temporary officers were
made permanent.
Mlddle-Of-thc-ROade Cheer.
The minority report naming James E.
Campion of Maine for permanent chair
man set the middle-of-the-road men on fire
The Texas and Georgia delegates climbed
on their chairs and yelled like Indians
Several large middle-of-the-road banners
were paraded through the aises.
The western delegates as q rule took no
part in the demonstration.
When order was at last restored the