The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-07-18
POPULISTS' PROGRAMME.
BCTLER WANTS 10 BE MADE TEN
PORARY CHAiRMAN.
A Warm Fight over the Question OF En-
dorsing the Chicago Ticket Tx
pected-So Fusion of Popuiists.

Committee or the Peoples ldFty Nat"@s
Committee Will meet here tomorrow ana
will decide upon the Recommendations 70
be made to the National Committee as TO
the best course to pursue by tina, Party
mex, week.
The committee is In favor Of nominating
a ticket and making party platform
not unlike the one drawn mp at Omana.
Al the same time the temporary onhcers
OF the convention will be practically oe-
cldCd upon. Cyclone Davis. or IeAas,
viii very likely capture first nonorS' sena-
tor Marion Butler. Of North Carolina. ana
Thomas :. Petit. or OwensDoro. NY, are
aspirantS for the place. ana may give
Davis "A close race. Senator Butler Is
said TO be- opposed to endorsing Bryan
or any candidate OF any other party.
PettIt Is IN favor OF endorsing Bryan.
The "mlGdle-of-the-road' men propose TO
crystalize the anti-Biyan sentiment by
public meeting Sunday afternoon at
O'Clock in the I.aclede Hotel All delegs-
tions aud Fopuiists who want a separate
ticket and an independent populist or
ganlzation are expected TO be present.
Then the campaign against Bryan Will be-
formally opened.
L.
The PopuIists are highly pleased over
the Withdrawal OF &. a. WindIe OF Fair
bury. H., nominee OF the Prohibition
party for Northumberland OF that
state. Mr.. Windle withdraws his name
in order that he might come out for
Bryan and the Chicago platform.
Among late arrivals are II. A. South
worth and George G. Hakstaf. two mid
dle-of-the-road" Populists, from Iowa. Mr..
Southworth IL National Secretary of tho
Famers' Alliance. The gentlemen have
opened an anti-Bryan headquarters at
Hotel Barnum. ON the other hand. Col.
Bailey. of oklahoma, opened his Bryan
boom yesterday by swinging an Oklahoma
Bryan banner 10 the breeze In front OF
the Lindel Hotel. Col. Bailey says no
will have several hundred Bryan boom
ers here next Monday from Oklahoma
and Kansas. The Colonel IL veteran
campagner He managed Jerry Slmp-
sons candidacy for Congress until the
Republican landslide OF 1894 buried the
Kansas statesman out OF sight.
Ser geant-at-Arms Mcdowell has made
arrangements with the st. Louis police
10 furnish men TO take care OF the crowds
at the convention hall.
THE SILVER PARTY.
Mr.. NJ f. Dowd, Of st. Louis. Is to
serve as sergeant-at-arms OF the silver
party convention, to be held at Music
Hall next week. He received his ap-
pointment yesterday from Dr. j. j. Mott.
chairman of the National Committee.
MIR. Oowd will proceed at once 10 or
game a corps Of assistants He is going
to have fifty doorkeepers. the same
number OF assistant sergeants-at arms,
twenty-five ushers and about as many
pages and messengers.
THE Silver party convention is going
TO be a big affair." said Mr.. Dowd this
morning Senator Teller will be here,
and so will several hundred other COL
orado silver men. Missouri. Arkansas.
Nebraska. Minnesota, Idaho, Montana
and number of other Western states
will send full delegations"
Mr. Dowd says that the two conven-
tions next week will not be united. A
conference Committee on Nominations
may be appointed, and il the Silver party s
convention decides TO support the chi
cago ticket every effort will be made by
the Music Hall crowd 10 secure similar
action from the Populists. said the gem
tleman, but we shall not march 10 their
hail or they TO ours. Nor will there be
any joint agreement as TO platform. We
shall confne our platform TO the one ques-
ton OF free-silver cInage The Popu-
Kansas Silvrritrs Endorse Bryan
TOPEKA, KAN, July 7.--The American
silver party State convention. composed
or over 800 delegates. representing four
nftns OF the counties In the State. yes
terday afternoon elected sixty delegates
TO the National Silver Convention at St.
| LOUIS ana instructed them TO vote as u
unit for william j. Bryan for President.
e..n a Of
the convention comparatively, most OF
the delegates being Republicans or Demo-
Gratis. or the delegates all were Republic
cans up TO the time OF the National Con-
yentlon. OF the forty-nine district dele
gates all but fifteen are Republicans.
The resolutions commended Senator
Weller and his associates for boiling tho
Republican National Convention. and in
structod delegates 20 tho National Conven-
| ton TO confer and act with boiling Re
pubncans IN an endeavor to soiidify all
| free-silyer forces.
Michigan silver Party.
LANSING, MICH. July 1.-THE state
silver Convention met here yesterday. A
number or gentlemen made ardent silver
| speeches. The report OF the Committee on
| RESOLUTIONS declared against the gold
| standard. for free silver at IL 10 !. and
| "favors the enactment OF law that will
| prohibit the making OF contracts that
| discriminate against any money produced
| Dy the Government"
The Committee on Permanent Orsaniza-
| ton recommended the adoption or tho
name orfhe Union Silver Party. called for
the appointment OF state Central com'
| mittee and an Executive Committee OF
| four members. the latter to consist or
members cho had formerly acted with the
Democrat Republican, Populist. ana
| Pronitat,onist5 parties.
rne state Central Committee was in
| structed 70 confer with the Democratic
ana ropuiist parties relative 20 taking
united action on nominations for state,
legislative, and county f-'e'7. Delegates