The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-07-18
POPULIS7S GATHERING.
Plans for the St. Louis Con.
vention Will They En-
dorse Bryan2

ST. LOUIS. July 1s, 1S9s-Delegates to
the two National Conventions, to be held
in st. Louis next week. have begun to
arrive in punches. Arrangements are
rapidly being completed and by Tuesday
everything will be in readiness The
Popuiist convention promises to be the
hveliest ever held by that party. There is
every indication that the sessions will be
stormy from beginning to end. The fight
will be over the endorsement of Bryan
and Sewall. the Democratic nominees.
The middle of the road Populists will
want to put up ticket of their own
but the rank and file of the party seem
to favor indorsing the Democratic candi-
dates There will be meeting of the
Executive Committee this afternoon, at
which the temporary organization win be
decided on and the matter of candidates
taken up, but it is not likely that any
statement of the decision of the commit
tee will be made public. Chairman
Taubeneck returned from Chicago this
moEning. 1t is common report here
that his visit to Chicago was mainly to
confer with Howard Taylor relative to
the stand to be taken by the Illinois dele
CATION on the work of the Chicago conven-
tion. Sergeant Mcdowell said
this morning that if his information was
correct the delegations from Illinois, In
diana and Ohio We're all to vote against
Bryan and Sewall at the Populist Conven-
fion next week.
About twenty-five delegates to the
Populst Convention attended a meeting
of the ST. Louis Central Committee last
night and listened to speeches of Owen
of Tennessee, Coqstrop of Colorado Reid
of Iowa and others in favor of the
middle of the road course action" After
the speech making the committee held
an executive session and adopted the fol-
lowing resolution
Resolved, That while the plutocratic
newspapers and especially Democratic
newspapers, are publishing brazenly that
Populfst individuals and organizations are
endorsing Bryan to such an extent, as
to indicate that the National convention
would probably nominate or endorse
Bryan, yet all the information coming
from Congressional conventions and the
Peoples party press shows plainly that
80 per cent. of the Populist voters are in
the middle Of the road and that the
convention viii nominate none but a
Populist, and that this committee lend
its aid to further that result
The National Silver Convention will be
held in the Grand Music Han at the
Exposition Building next Wednesday. The
opening session will begin about ten
A. M. SeTgeant1at-Arns Dowd has COM
pleted arrangements for decorating and
adjusting the hal for convention pur-
poses. A number of employees are en-
gagged in fitting 1t up for the occasion.
The telegraph companies strung their
wires into the building yesterday
Mr.. Dowd said today:--'sWe will have
Dig convention here and place in nomi-
nation a State and National ticket There
viii be fully LOO delegates and alternates
IN attendance am unable to say whether
the convention VIII endorse Bryan There
IS a strong sentiment in his favor among
the members Of the Silver party. | wish
1t understood that the National Silver
party viii be separate and distinct from
the Popul'st Convention which convenes
on the same date
MIR. W 2. st. John, the gentleman
slated for Permanent Chairman of the
Silver party's convention. drew salary
OF $4,000 a year for thirteen years as
president of q New York bank When he
gave up the presidency and the salary
with it last month, II was claimed that
he could have retained both W simply
keeping bis currency views 10 hifnseI{.
Francis r. EsW1 1anIs who + to serve as