The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-07-30
POPULIST CONVENTION
Detailed Proceedings of the Last Day
ut st. Louis.

st. Louis, July 25.-Thcre was mex
tricable confusion on the floor of the M
dltorium just before the convention met
To-Day. Delegates stood about in animat-
cd groups discussing the situation and
what was best to do.
The Bryan feeling was very strong
but the telegram from the Nebraskon
declaring thar he would not accent the
nomination rendered the situation cboot-
lc Many desired to nominate BRYAN in
the face of the telegram.
Mr. PATTERSON of Colorado, Ex-Governor
,-eWelllng of Kansas. counscled the en-
uorselnent of Bryan instead of nomina
tl0i' pointing out that the endorsement
winch did not require an acceptance. was
the best way out of the tangle
cyclone Davis and other radicals.
however, insisted that he could not re-
luSe' ana if he did the responsibility for
tle disaster at the polls would rest on
the democracy and not the populists.
senator Allen called the convention to
order at $50 and announced that tho
nrst thlnS III order was the selection of
lhe national committee and then to nomi-
nate candidates for president. Several
resolutions were presented without road
ing. '''''' ie''''-
Chairman Allen then called for nomi-
nations of president and Judge Green
OF Nebraska took the stage to place Rry
an IN nomination, but he was retired by Il
point OF order that the states must he
called i'll alphabetical order.
When Alabama was called Governor
holb yielded TO Gen. Weaver of Iowa,
but Col. Gather of Alabama GOT to tbo
platform first and injected a speech about
joining the cotton fields of the south With
the wheat fields of the west.
AT the conclusion of his remarks Gen.
Weaver came forward and formally
placed Mr. Bryan in nomination. He
spoke s"follows:
WEAVER NOMINATES BRYAN.
I'm that midnight discussion between
Brutus and Cassius concerning the con-
tempIated battle at Phillippi, Brutus
urged that their cause was rife. their
legions brimful at the height and ready
to decline. Said he:
There is tide in the affairs of
men, which, taken at the flood. leads on
to fortune; omitted, all the VOYAGE of
their life is bound in shadows and
miseries.'
And then, in dramatic climax, he ex-
claimed:
-" On such full sea are we now
afioat, and we must take the current
when 1t serves or lose our vultures.'
For twenty years we have been
pleading with the people to espousc the
sacred cause which is at stake in this
campaign. We have constantly urged,
through good and evil report, that our
principles were more important than
party associations: were above all con-
sideration of private fortune or the
petty and feverish ambitions of men.
We have thus far suited our action to
our words. Through five presidential
campaigns, stretching from 1876 to 1892,
you correctly estimated the purposes of
old party managers and events have sus-
tanned every specification in your in
dictment against them. Millions of
honest men in the old parties were de-
ceived and turned into an bush and be-
trayed; but not single one of your
pickets has ever been caught mapping or
been taken by surprise. TO your de-
voted efforts is largely due the revival
of economic learning in this country,
which has enabled the democratic party