The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-07-21
ARE THEY REPRESENTED :?
HAVE THE POPULiST VOTERS A
VOICE AT ST.IOUlS?

bv Either Primaries or Conventions.
Are the Populists of North Carolina
represented at the ST. Louis conVen-
ton?
Senator Marion Butler is there ana
a number of members of Senator Ma
rion Buffers committees are there
North Carolina is entitled to ninety
five delegates at ST. Louis.
How many have the great body of
populist voters in the State body al
lowed to select? Have any of them
had opportunity this year in regular
primaries of their party to express
their sentiments? How many dele
gates have been elected to st. Louis
by regular Populist conventions?
The Populist voters of the State are
beginning to ask themselves these
questions.
Senator Butler and his central COM
mittee met here, elected themselves
delegates to st. Louis, and apportioned
the other delegates to the various Con-
a
the two delegates were appointed by
the executive committee, and the COM
mittee fixed things so quietly that not
even the newspapers knew anything
about it until several days afterward
Senator Butler is the recognized
leader of the Populists at St. Louis
who favor the nomination of an INDIE
nendent Populist ticket, to antagonlZe
William j. Bryan.
The New York Journal, the leading
newspaper of New York and the only
one fighting for free silver prints dis
patch from its special correspondent
in st. Louis. az follows:
"Hanna's Doodle has made its APP
pearance in this city, if what the Bry-
an leaders say be true. They are bold
lv charging that MeKinley's manager
has sent a corruption fund into St.
Louis for the purpose of having third
ticket nominated by the Populists
when they meet next Wednesday. Pow
ell CLAYTON, the Republican National
committeeman from Arkansas, arriv-
ed here last night and has been circu-
lating among the anti-Bryan Popu-
lists very freely to-day. Mr.. Clayton
SAYS that he has merely stopped off for
a few hours and viii leave for home
Immediately.
''The anti-Bryan talk increased in
volume to-day. Cyclone" Davis, of
Texas. is the ostensible head and
front of the anti-Bryan movement. He
pervades the hotel corridors, quickly
gathers around him a score or more
of admirers and lays down the law
fiuently and emphatically. Mr.. Davis.
while possessing much force himself
owing to his positive views on the ne
cessity of keepink the Populists party
alive by naming a third ticket, is in
reality only the representative of Ma
tional Chairman Taubeneck. Sem
geant-at-Arms Mcdowell and Senator
Butler, of North Carolina. All of these
persons place party supremacy above
all other considerations.
''Color is given to the report that
Hanna's cash has been used in certain
quarters in St. Louis by the actions of
the anti-Bryan shouters. These men
have opened a big headquarters in the
Laclede Hotel and are distributing
cards and literature of various kinds,
which endeavor to explain the wisdom
of putting up third ticket. The local
Populist daily paper contains screeds
embodying the same idea. 1t was j. W.
Turner, secretary of the National EX-
ecutive committee of the Populist par
ty, who first gave utterance to the be-
lief that Hanna is spending money
freely to prevent Bryan's indorse-
.Nment Mr. Turner is cautious and
says he would not give expression to
the opinion he holds were it not for
the open boasts he has heard on the
part of the Republicans, who predict
Bryan's reputation by the Populists.
Mr.. Turner arrived this morning"
DR.. McCallum, one of the leading
free silver men of New York, says in
an interview over his own name:
'.The men who are controlling the
gold forces stop at nothing. The gold
plank in the Republican platform was
submitted to Mckinley two days before
the convention, and he had the alterna-
tive of standing upon that plank or
running his campaign without money.
An Eastern delegate was the agent
through whom this was done. They
tried to control the Democratic con
vention, and they realize that in diyid-
ing the silver vote is their only hope
of defeating Bryan. They are not,
however, advising a ticket for gold
Democrats.
unable to raise sufficient money to at
tend the convention who are now urg-
ing a straight Populist candidate. |
They now have money and are going |
to st. Louis"
Senator Butler was in conference |
with Senator Jeter Pritchard the night |
before he left for ST. Louis. Pritch- |
and, who once was regarded as a silver |
man, has come out squarely in support |
of the single gold standard as adVocat- |
ed in the Republican platform. He |
is the recognized representative OF Nc
Kinley in the South, and is said to be
promised a place in the cabinet If Nc
Kinley is elected.
This is making the people open their
eyes. -
There is coming upon from the rural
districts all over the State young |
cyclone or protest from many of the
PopuIists, at the attitude OF Senator
Butler in opposing the endorsement |
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