The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-08-05
BOB SCHLLLING FURIOUS.

Our Olu IFl0QQ BOO SCnllllnQ Is on
the war-path. We find the following
in the Chicago Times-Herald of July
30. We hope he will cool down before
the thirty days are up. and support
Bryan. 1t was a mistake but it can
not be rectified now; and boiling will
only make things worse. There are
too many great interests at stake to
fly to pieces now. Keep up the party
and be ready for the next battle two
years from now. -
Bryan does not swallow the Populist
platform, bait, hook and all, in thirty
days. the middle Populists
will bolt and nominate Colonel S. f..
Norton of Chicago.
This Is the atefnent made by Rob-
ert Schilling, the Wisconsin member
of the Populist national committee in
his paper today. In addition to this
he makes bitter attack on the pro-
ceedings of the St. Louis convention,
which he says grossly violated both
parliamentary law and common de-
cency. Mr.. Schilling was one of the
delegates-at-large from Wisconsin, and
took a leading part in the work of the
convention up to the time that the
"wire-pulling politicians" got posses
sion Of the helm. This is what he
says in his paper, The Advance, of the
proceedings:
IA man claiming no allegiance to the
only reform party that is worth con-
sidering has been nominated for
President. He has not accepted the
nomination, and in all proba bility will
not be asked to do so. Neither will he
admit that he stands on the platform,
though he may indorse it's principles
His Endorsement was secured by
means that are, questionable, to say
the least. The wire-pulling, profess
sional politicians in the party sue
ceeded by the grossest violation Of
parliamentary law and common de-
cency, and by the Introduction of
the unthinking delegates who assisted
the spoils hunters, in defeating the
old guard and the men who we're de-
termined to stand in the middle Of
the road. Senator Allen of Nebraska.
who occupied the chair, 'tyranniZed
over the convention in a manner that
would have disgraced a backwOods
schoolhouse.
The question now is, What is to be
done? Audit is a serious question
sOSerious that it should be carefully
considered. The middle-of-the- road
delegates held conference after ad-
journment and decide to wait thirty
days. II Bryan does not indorse the
platform or accept the nomina ton by
that time, they propose to consider
Colonel S. F. Norton, of Chicago, the
next highest candidate, the nominee,
and cast their votes for him.
The Milwaukee Populsts were from
the first middle-of- the-road men. and
they all came back from St. Louis
boiling over with rage at the manner
in which they were turned down. It
was supposed that they would settle
down after time and take their
medicine. From what the Advance
has to say. it is clear that they have
no intention Of doing anything of the
kind. Should the present plans be
carried out it would cause no little
trouble to the fusionists here in this
city, where they have assumed all
along that q Democrat Populist would
be returned to Congress in place of
Congressman Often. It will also
cause q bad split in the party in the
state, and with the desertion Of the
gold Democrats, will make future
prospects anything but rosy for the
Bry antics.