The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-09-01
CANDIDATES. ron coNcnEss.
Nominations Made in Three Mime
sofa Districts

sofa Districts.
| Shakopee, Mimi, Aug. 25-Fiftv
| telesateS were present at the congress
| siohal convention of the Peoples party
lot tne Third district to-day. Chair
| man II. a. Swain. of the congressional
commlttee, called the convention to
| ORDER and fired the opening gun in a
| speech hostile to the interests of
Iusloh, stating the reason which made
necessary the holding of the conven-
ZION after, instead of before, the Demo-
cratic convention at Glencoe, and that
he had, when he found the movement
toward fusion formidable, written the
Democratic chairman, Senator Childs,
| demanding that such nomination be
| placed in the hands Of a committe to
center with the convention to-day. He
was confident that had this been done
results would have been far more IA
yorable, but that his demands had
! been ignored. committee of five
was appointed to confer with II. j.
Peck and ascertain his views on every
plank Of the national platform.
The committee reported that Mr..
Peck was in harmony with their prin-
clples with the exception Of govern
ment ownership of railroads and the
first Of these he felt that he could advo-
cate such a principle if it were made
safe by civil service regulations. AS
to the latter he had not had full TN
derstanding of the doctrine, but found
that he could support it as stated to
him by the committee
The resolutions adopted were for a
united stand by all reform forces on
the financial question. Mr.. Peck was
dominated, and a motion was made
! that the rules be suspended and he be
nominated by acclamation. Capt. J. X.
Lowe Of Meeker county, chairman of
the convention, was then nominated,
Hut the question was called for and the
motion was carried by a vote of 2S to
is. The nomination was then made
unanimous. and Mr.. Peck addressed
the convention, followed by Maj. Bow
lGr William Wilson, local silver Re
publican, Senator McHa,e and +. c.
Gibbs
Towne Nominated
st. Cloud, Mimi, Aug. 25.-Charlcs
a. T0Wre received unanimous en-
dorsement from the Peoples party con-
gressiOnal convention in this city to-
day. Il. IL. Austin of St Louis county
was the chairman of the convention
and A. Z. Brandt of StearnS secretary.
The resolutions ignore all other issues
| except that of money. William Shin
ton of Sherburne county made the
nomination speech in the absence of
John \. Keys Of Duluth. The conyen-
tion was slimly attended.
Day Nominated.
Window, Mimi, Aug. 25.-The popu-
list convention OF the Second district
to-day nominated Frank a Day for
congress. He was placed i'll nomina-
ton by l.. G. Long, and the seconding
speech was made by delegate from
Martin county. There were to have
been about 100 delegates in the conven-
ton, but only about fifty responded,
and the convention had to wait four
hours after it was organized for many
of them to come w. c. BenbOW was
chosen chairman Of the central COM
mittee. and Il conference committee,
consisting of ODell, Hodges, Lauman,
McGrath and Giles, was appointed to
confer with the Democratic committee
to arrange for Il joint campaign.
These committees will meet Friday
evening at Mankato. The resolutions
endorsed the st. Louis Populist plat
form. and endorsed Bryan and Lind.