The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1896-07-31
Gen. Jane. n. Weaver Of Iowa.

Colorado yielded to New York and Hon.
LATE Pence assembled the platform. He lost
no time in coming to the point. Immedi-
ately he mentioned Mr.. Sewall's name It
was greeted with loud applause. mingled
with liberal supply of Kisses. His speech
took the shape Of an argument. but his
tone was defiant from the beginning. He
said that he had met fifteen populists to-
day who were opposed to Sewall. whose
average term Of service IL the party was
twenty-thrcc years. He asserted that he
had no personal interest in Scwalrs sue
cess. ''Thc vice presidency" he said, "does
not amount to much unless the president
Is consunnt!ye, and Ei.ly Bryan is not
consGnlptive." Personally he would pre-
fer Skinner or Watson, but he wanted to
succeed in defeating Mckinley. AZ Mr..
Pence proceeded, the convention Quieted
down and Mr.. Pence, after the first burst
OF disapproval. was interrupted only by ap-
plausc.
Donne11y Fnvors Watson.
Ignatius Donnelly of Minnesota eloquently
seconded Watson's nomination in behalf Of
his state. The whole movement, he said,
was caused by al insurrccticn against the
money lenders, and 1t would be folly to
nominate man worth S6,OOO, 600 and inter.
ested in half of the railroads Of New Eng
land. The Populists of the. country. he de-
clared, rather than vote for such man,
would see him five hundred miles below the
lowest pit Of hell. He expressed the hope
that Watson's nomination would be made
unanimous They were willing to swallow
Democracy gilded with the genius of a
Bryan" but they could not stomach plu-
tocracy in the body of Scwall."
At midnight, just as the roll was about
to begin, Gen. Weaver of Iowa appeared
Mt the front of the platform. He called
attention to the latencss of the hour and
advised a nights meditation. He proposed
hot khn kn1,n L~1I
then adjourn. The middle-of- the-road men
howled him down. Chairman Allen severe.
~ rebuked the convention. He severely
reprimandetl the delegates. who. he said,
had howled down some Of the most dis
ting uished men in the party, and ordered
the roll call to proceed.
Arkansas strrted on with TWENTY-FIVE
votes for Watson. Tom Patterson Of Colo
RADIO cast the forty-fve votes of his state
Tor Sewall amid round of APPLAUSE from
the Bryan men. Some one jumped up and
challenged the vote. claiming that he
wanted his vote recorded for Watson.
Mr.. Patterson denounced him as an inter-
loper. and he proved to be on investigation
member Of the contested delegation that
had been excluded Indiana gave her
thirty votes to Watson. Kansas gave Sew.
oil sixty-two of her ninety-dve votes.
Watson. Maryland divided her vote be.
tween Sewall and Watson. It looked az II
Watson might be nominated on the first bal.
lot until North Carolina cast her ninety
i've votes for Skinner. Tennessee for Mimms
and Texas for Burkitt. This split up the
large delegations. Later when the roll call
was completed, however, Texas changed
her vote to Watson and there were other
changes in favor Of the Georgian. Theu
Col Burkitt Of Mississippi went to the
stand and withdrew his name.
Then Mimms withdrew in Watson'R favor
The Georgian already had votes enough to
nominate, but the vote of Tennessee VII,
finally transferred to hie column Some
one made n motion to make the nomination
unanimous. and 1t was carried with q
vhoop. Immediately the middlc.of- the-ront
men grabbed their banners and started q
demonstration. but suddenly. without warn
ing. the lights went out and the convention
was left IN total darkness. Pandemoniuu
reigned. Men shouted out of the inky black
ness. others sang and few cursed. Tie
band struck up a lively mir. A few candle.
were brought in to the press tables. and thu
| delegates crowded about them, pushing and
swaying In the hickering light. Several sug
gested that 1t was nh ill-omen. but cliOru,
Of voices shouted that 1t was put-up Job.
Then some one called ATTENTION ~ the
fact that the nomination of Watson was an
nounced at exactly sixteen minutes Of one
This tickled the middle-of.the-rond n,ei
| and they shouted "hurrah. hurrnll." A few
minutes later the lights were turned o.
and after quiet was restored Congressman
Howard OF Alabama moved an adjournment
until o O'Clock tomorrow morning and the
motion was carried.