The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-07-19
POPUL|STS
WILL BOLT,
Straight Members of the
Party Cannot Indorse
Bryan.
BRIBERY NOT TOLER-
ATED BY THEM.
mo Trimmings, No Fusion" on
the Banner of the Honest
Champions.
DESPERATE APPEALS TO THE
WEAK AND CORRUPT.
So the lettering Democracy Will
Dance to Death to the Music
of Silver Waltz.
DESPERATE APPEALS TO THE
WEAK AND CORRUPT.
"The Ca1l's" Headquarters, }
st. Louis, Mo-, July IS

waltz on the floor of the PopuIist con-
vention next week. Bryan will not be
indorsed, say the middIe-of-the-road
men. If through any inexplicabIe pro-
cess of bribery and corruption he should
be, the straight Peoples party men will
walk out of the hall, hold another con-
vention, reaffirm the PopuIist platform
and nominate straight Peoples party
candidates.
The middIe-of-the-road men are or
ganizing and have thrown out their ban
ners with the notices ''No trimmings;
FUSION The desperate Democracy
is appealing to the weak and corrupt,
but there are not many of such in the
Peoples party.
The South is almost a unit against
fusion, and there is very bitter feeling
against the Bourbon Democracy, which
has reviled and prosecuted in vain at
the door Of the convention hall.
JOHN PAUL COSGRAvE.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, July 18.-Events are
thickening as the delegates begin to arrive
and all indications point to a severe and
prouacted struggle between the straight
Populists and silver Democrats who are pa
admitted that the South will stand up for
the principles of the party and will oppose
any alliance with the enemy, while the
advocates of fusion and Endorsement are
strongest in the West.
There is great deal of consultation,
mingled with much mystery, around the
headquarters of the National committee.
There has been much coming and going of
men prominent in the councils of the party,
and many mysterious meetings behind
closed doors and private conferences in
accustomed places. Since Chairman Taub-
eneck returned from his hurried and silent
visit to Chicago he has seemed to have
put on the tabled boots of invisibility.
When reporters call he is now always en-
gagged and unseeable.
Last night Chairman Rozelle of the
Missouri State Populists departed hastily
for Mexico, Mo.
All these mysterious movements seem
to be connected with the question which
is now agitating the Populist delegates
and silver men, that of indorslng the
Democratic candidate for the Presidency.
Up to twenty-four hours ago it looked as
though certain leading Populists had been
chasing the Democracy all over the
sentatives of their party make some over
lures looking toward q fusion OF forces
which would result benefcially to both
parties. Some of the Populist leaders have
been very much alarmed lest fusion
should be agreed upon terms which would
strip them of the political power and in
huence which they now hold within the
party, and instead of waiting coyly, finger
-
make his proposal of undying affection
the shameless Populist hussy is betraying
her eagerness too publicly, and is actually
chasing the bashful Democrat all over the
United States. But within the last twenty
four hours the pursued has become tired
of running and has halted to pop the
question.
1t was given out last night very vaguely
and nysteriously that Democratic ennis
sary named Captain Hickman of Missouri
had arrived and was IN secret conference
with the Populist leaders who are already
here on the ground. The object of the
conference was said TO be a union of the
forces and settlement of the terms on
which that union might be effected SO as
to be satisfactory and profitable to both
sides.
T.
the rapid falling away from their party.
and have made up their minds nor oniv
to make overtures to the once despised
Peoples party, but to make almost any
kind of concession, for they realize that
even considerable sacrifice is better than
total defeat at the polls next Novem Der.
They have very hard task before them.
While they have the bulk of the Populist
delegations from the silver States. thew
have not all its membership, for even in
those States there is good sprinkIing of
middle-of-the-road men, who are PopuIists
from principle and who do not believe in
making alliances with evil. Then there is
the solid South against fusion or indorse.
ment, and the majority of Populists from
the Atlantic States likewise.
Another hitch in the programme will be
caused by the fact that the Populistic
platform does not favor monometallism
1t fayors money as defined by all the
writers on political economy, which is "a
medium of exchange or a representative of
value, possessing no intrinsic value itself
(and therefore not subject to monopoly
and deriving the quality Of its representa-
ton from the seal and authority of the
Government"
The fusionists appreciate the odds
against them and the magnitude of the
tight that is on their hands, and are now
devising ways and means whereby the
rough edges of contact may be smoothed
down, and whereby both factions of the
Peoples party may unite upon a common
plane IN extending helping hand to the
drowning Democracy. Many schemes 10
this end are being considered. One is a
division of the Presidential electors, an
other is division of Congressional candi-