The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-07-16
NEAR TO THE DANGER LINE.
SOME OF THE LEADERS FEAR A
SPLIT OVER THE CUES
TION
strons wing of the Party Prefers
It to the Declaration Made mt
Chicago.


the time of the meeting of the pom
ulist national convention draws near
tnat the members of that party will
clash over the Endorsement of BRYAN
FOR president. Letters from all parts Of
.he country are pouring in to the ma
tionai Commute headquarters, some de-
iianoihs and some denouncing the in
uolselhent OF the Democratic ticket.
ana everything indicates that there is
d decided difference of opinion as to the
pest action to be taken at the coming
convention 1t Is the opinion of some
OF the Popul1sts here that the party is
near the danger line of a split over tha
question. They express the hone. how
ever, that some definite plan of action
agreeable to all, can be decided unon
at the meeting of the national execn-
i've committee, which Is to be held hero
next Saturday.
Many OF the Populist leaders are
awaiting the coming of the free silver
senators, who bolted the Republican
convention Upon the course thew
take VIII depend in a measure the ac-
ton OF the anti-Brydn wing. If the
sIVer Republicans come out openly for
bryan and the Chicago platform. the
opposition may not make much of
fight. "
The headquarters of the Popu1ist ma
tional committee are beginning ia show
signs that the national convention will
soon meet. Chairman Taubeneck and
MS assistants are busy completing the
preilminaries and preparing for the big
Iush OF Populfsts expected Saturday.
MI Taubeneck still declines to discuss
the movement in favor Of Bryan and
oeWaH His invariab1e statement is ~
nave nothing for publication"
Ex-Gov. Waite, of Colorado. who will
mead the delegation from that state. is
out Tor 1Ldorsing the Bryan and Sewau
ticket, and will begin to work for II
as soon as he reaches ST. Louis. He is
backed by the delegation from Col
orado. The advance guard Of the Ten
nessee delegation, which is here, has
a fuil-hedged vice presidential boom
for w. III. Mimms, of that state Elk
Gov. Buchanan. who has charge of the
Mimrns boom. does not like Sewa1I, but
is not strongly opposed to Bryan If
it could be so arranged that the Demo-
cratic presidential nominee could be
given first place and Mimms second,
the Tennesseeans would be satisfied,
it is said
The biggest fight. next to the one
endorsing the candidates, will be that
over the platform A very strong
wing of the party, headed by Chairman
-Taubeneck, Sergeant-at-Arrns Mellow
ell, Chairman RozzeIl, of the Missouri
state committee, and many of the
L..
propose to make a fight for the adop-
ton Of Of the Omaha platform in
stead Of an Endorsement of the Chi
cago declaration
Hon. George P. Keeney, general or
ganizer Of the national silver party,
with headquarters in New York city,
is here to attend his party conven-
ton which convenes next week. There
has been for months" said McKeeney
"a bitter fight in New york between
the representatives of plutocracy on
one side and the middle classes and
daily wage earners on the other, and
it is going to be fiercer from now on
until the election. It has been my
special duty to labor among the last
mentioned classes. and my candid
opinion is they will win Northern
and Northwestern New York agricul-
turalists are for free silver, irrespec-
tive OF party, just as surely as the
same classes are in the West and
South
Mckinley and Hobart cannot come
down to Harlem with $4,000 majority
They would need at least 100000 to
stand any kind of chance Of carry
ing the state. It did not take me long
in mixing with the labor organiza-
lions to find that they were as much,
if not more, bitterly opposed to Wall
street than the farmers of Kansas.
They were ready to rally to any stand
ard that would give them a glimpse
of freedom and a promise of better
times. There Is not state in the East
in which Bryan has not good fighting
chance, and there must be no hesitancy
in waging the war there. He will be
met by volunteers all along the line"
John Andrew III. Patton, of Danvers,
Mass, member of the PopuIist COM
n1ittee by proxy from his state, reg
istered at the Lindell hotel to-day.
'sWiI the Populist convention en-
dorse Bryafl?" he was asked
Whether it will be straight out en-
dorsing or coalition I do not know, but
as q patriotic party, DESTROYS of re-
form, the Populists cannot and will
not dodge this issue, or throW any
thing in the way Of it's success"