The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-16
WAITE IN THE SWIM.
COLORADO POPULIST PULLING FOR
BRYAN AND SEWALL.
PopuIist Editor Flynn, of San Fran
cisco, Believes the Democratic
Ticket is Il Winner.

ST. LOUIS, July 15.-It becomes more
and more evident each day as the time
for the meeting of the Populist ma
tional convention draws near, that the
members of that party will clash over
the endorsement of Bryan for president
Letters from all parts of the country
are pouring into the national commit
tee headquarters, some demanding and
some denouncing the endorsement of
the Democratic ticket, and everything
indicates that there is a decided Diff
ference of opinion. The opinions OF
some Popuiists here is that the party
; is near the danger line of split over
the question. They express the hope
however, that some definite plan OF
action agreeable to all can be decided
upon at the meeting of the national
executive committee here next Satur-
dav. MANY of the Populist leaders
| are awaiting the coming of the free
silver. senators who bolted the Republic
can convention Upon the course they
/ take will depend, in a measure, the &C
ton of the anti-Bryan following II
the Republicans come out openly for
opposition may not make much OF
fight.
The headquarters of the national Fom-
nittee IS beginning to show signs that
the national convention will soon meet.
| Chairman Taubeneck and his assist
ants are busy completing the prel1m1-
naries and preparing for the big rush
of PopuIists expected Saturday MI
Taubeneck still declines to discuss the
movement in favor of Bryan and sew
all. His invariable statement IS;
have nothing for publication"
Ex-Governor Waite of Colorado, who
will head a contesting delegation from
that state, is out for endorsing Bryan
and Sewall and will begin work for 1t
when he arrives.
The biggest fight next to the one
endorsing candidates will be that over
the platform A wing of the party.
headed by Chairman Taubeneck. Ser
geant alarms Mcdowell Chairman
RozeHe of the Missouri state commit
tee. and many of the members of the
national committee propose to make a
fight for the adoption of the Omaha
platform instead of an endorsement OF
the Chicago declaration. In discussing
the probable action of the Populist
convention in the matter of endorsing
w. J Bryan for president, Mr.. j. 1.
Flynn. who is a delegate at large 10
the American Bimetallic convention
from California and also editor OF the
Populist of San Francisco, said:
There may be some doubt ABOUT
what the convention viii do, but there
is none about what the Populists them
selves will do They will vote for Bry-
an almost to a man.
"The fact that Bryan stands upon a
Democratic platform-and especially
such platform as was constructed at
Chicago-is no disqualification. There
is very little difference between the
Omaha platform and the Chicago plat
form"
Hon. George Keeney, general organ
izer of the National Silver party, with
headquarters in New York city, is mere
to attend his party convention which
convenes next week
'There has been for MONTHS said MI
Keeney, "a bitter fight in New YORK
between the representatives OF plutoc-
cracy on one side and the middle class
, es and daily wage-earners on the oth-
er. and it is going to be mercer Iro rom
now ON until the election. 1t mas peSn
among my duties to labor among the
last named classes and l think they
will win.
II have made careful canvass of
the whole state, hut put in most OF the
time in New York city and Brooklyn.
In the northern and western part or
New York the agriculturists ana VII
culturists are for free silver, prospect
i've of party. just as surely as the same
classes are in the west and south.
Mckinley and Hobart cannot come
. down to the Harlem river with $4,000
t majority They would need at least
100000 to stand any kind of a chance
OF carrying the state.
at did not take me long in mixing
with the labor organizations TO find
they were as much if not more bitterly
: opposed to Wall street as the farmers
of Kansas. They were ready to rally
to any standard that would give them
a glimpse of freedom and promise OF
better times.
From them I went to the smaller
mercantile class. I found them OF me
same mind, but afra,S to say SO, oe-
cause the moment they showed their
hand they knew their stores would De
closed by the autocratS from whom
they obtained credit
'I went to the organization known
{ as the Young Democracy, which polled
, 1000 votes in the last election, and I
) laid our cause before Them Tammany
was irving to crush them They saw
their opportunity and assured me they
would act Independently of Wall street
! domination. 1t was under their aus
nices and that of the silver organiza-
| tion COMPOSED of all elements that
got up the meeting for Senator Tillman
at Cooper Union.
'grhere is nCi- a state in the east in
which Bryan has not q good fighting
. chance and there must be no hesitancy
!, in waging war there. He will be met
, by volunteers all along the line"
Ex-Attorney General w. Fl. Standish
: of Grand Forks. N. D., chairman of