The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-21
REACH AN
AGREEMENT
Democrats and POpuliStS Of
Idaho viii Fuse.
THE ARRANGEMENTS MADE
Boiling Republicans Are Laid on
the Shelf.
How the Nominations Are Distrib-
uted-Hon. j. H. Hawiey, n Candi-
date For Senator, Repudiates the
Arrangement and Declares That
He VIII Take the Stump and OPP
pose It-Three PopuIists Bolt.


Gratis and Populists have agreed to
fuse, and the boiling Republicans are
left out in the cold. After three days
filed with anxiety and torture and
characterized by many features I'M
pleasant to the participants. the two
parties have agreed upon a basis of
fusion, and all that now remains is for
the Democratic convention to officially
ratify the action of lis conference COM
mittee.
Under the agreement arrived at at 2
o'clock this afternoon, the nominations
will be
DISTRIBUTED AS FOLLOWS:
To the Presidential cleo
tors, supreme court justice, governor,
attorney general, treasurer, mine in
spector.
To the Populists-The legislature, the
senator, congressman, lieutenant gov
ernor, secretary of state, state auditor,
superintendent of public instruction.
The fusion idea was fought bitterly
by the middle-of-the-road men, VINO
were given the hearty support of Du-
bois and the other Republican boilers
The serious bone of contention was the
senatorship, and the Duboisites several
times came near disrupting all the pre-
arranged plans, and stampeding the
conference commit tee. The result of
the prolonged conference has been to
embitter a number of those who fought
the fusion with such logged deter'min-
alton. Among them is Hon. J. H. Haw-
ley, candidate for senator When
he learned the Democrats had agreed
to give the Populists the senator he
declared publicly that he would take
the stump against
THE ENTIRE ARRANGEMENTS.
The convention will meet tomorrow
and commence the work of nominating
the combination ticket. In this con-
ference the Democrats have come off
victors. The Populists at first asked
for the earth. They wanted the
senator and enough STATE officers to
control affairs at the capital, but the
Democrats had decided long ago to
take all the responsibility of the man
agement of the affairs of state in the
event of the action of a fusion ticket
and enter the fight. They won the day.
Three of the Populists who opposed fu-
sion bolted the convention.
ALL FIRST REPORTS
were received and discussed in execu-
tive session by each convention. The
first report was presented shortly af-
ter 10 o'clock in the morning. The re-
port Of the Democratic convention con-
tanned no recommendations, but simply
told the story of what had been done
by the conference. The Populists, the
committee stated, had made demands
both exorbitant and unreasonable and
of such a nature that tine committee
could not accept them. The Popu1ists,
the committee said, demanded not
only the senator, but enough of the
state officers to control all the state
boards. 1t was the opinion of the
committee, however, if the Populists
were given the congressman or sena-
tor they would recede in so far as the
state officers demanded were con-
cerned, and would leave the more i'm
portant to the Democrats. Some of
the delegates urged the convention to
give the Populists the senator, and
this proposal was vigorously combatted
by others.
A HEATED DISCUSSION.
After a heated discussion resolution
was introduced, recommending that
each Democratic county central COM
mittee see to it that the Populists Sc
cured a majority of the legislative
ticket A substitute was introduced tx
the effect that Democrats and Popu-
lists come together after the legislature
meets, but this was voted down-1O5
to %.
The resolution was then adopted by
a viva voce vote. At 1890 the Demo-
cratic committee was turned loose,
with a definite understanding that they
were not to recede from their position
with reference to the state admins
tration
The convention adjourned to
o'clock, and at that time, the COM
mittee not being ready to report. an
adjournment was taken until 5.
In the meantime at 2:30 the commit
tees of conference met again, and after
a long parley the Democrats made the
Populists
THIS ULTTMATUM:
To give the Democrats the governor,
attorney-general supreme court JUS
tice. treasurer and mine inspector.
To give the Populists the senator,
the congressman, lieutenant governor,
state auditog, superintendent of public
instruction and secretary of state.
The Populists went back to their con-
vention and returned, asking for the
treasurer. The Democratic conference
committee was willing. so it is said,
to concede them the treasurer, but the
convention refused to submit to it.
Back and forth from convention to con-
vention conference room, the two COM