Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1896-01-22
POPS TO MEET JUL q
Date for the National C puncil
Decided Upon.
THE APPORTION MENT
Issues to Come Before the Convention
Discussed by Members OF the Ex-
ecutiye Committee.

st. Louis, Jan. 17.-Seventy-fivdm mem
bers of the national committee of the
peoples party assembled at the f4indell
hotel at IL: 80 a. m. Chairman III. f.
Taubeneck announced that the time up
to 1870 would be devoted to hearing
suggestions as TO the time and place
of holding the convention and what the
platform should contain. SHeeches
We're limited to five minutes each.
Captain Charles A. Power of Terre
Haute, Ind, said silver was the para
mount issue, and If the populists would
confine themselves to that they would
win.
Mr.. Clemmens of Topeka, Kar =, said
one of the planks of the Omaha plat
form was government ownership of
railroads; that plank had been phrticu-
larly assailed, and now that very
thing was represented to congress in
such a way as to make it impossible
that any honest man could grant an
extension of the Pacific road de bt
Mr.. Earl of Nebraska advocated the
organization of a subscription bureau
within the national committee to in
crease the circulation of populst pa
pers, and declared that if he had $780,
900 he could buy up all the leadi ng pa
pers and magazines of the large cities
for the peoples party.
Mr.. Harvey of Texas wanted the fin
ancial question forced to the front. and
Mr. Hubbell of Indiana wanted over
lures made for union with the great
bimetallie organizations which will
meet in Washington on the 22d inst.
Mr.. Grillo of Illinois did not want
the Omaha platform overshadoWed by
the silver question, while Mr.. Jdnes of
Illinois did not want the Omaha plat
form discussed
Ralph Beaumont of Oklahoma said
this committee could not make d plat
form, but had only to consider the time
and place of holding the convention.
Then several others spoke briefly, and
recess was taken until 2 o'clock. when
the executive committee went irto ex-
ecutiye session. The entire afternoon
was taken up with the discussion of the
matter OF representation at the ma
tional convention.
This question was finally referred to
the committee, with orders to report at
the evening session.
JULY 81 THE DAY.
The claims of St. Louis, Milwaukee
and indianapolis We're put forth, the
representatives of each city agreeing to
provide halls and a sufficient ambunt of
money to meet incidental expresses. 1t
was agreed to postpone the hea ring of
the other delegations until O'clock to-
morrow morning,
1t was practically decided to call the
convention to meet July 81 and to fix
the representation at one delegate for
tor
gresham and one for each 2oOD votes
cast by the populists at the last ma
tional election.
PRESIDENTIAL TIMBER
Within the past few days the fhct has
been made public that there is a strong
sentiment in the party favorable to the
selection as its standard bearer of the
venerable Lyman Trumbull of Chicago,
who prior to the Greely campaign serv-
ed three terms in the United States sem
ate from Illinois, and who of late years
has been conspicuous for his written
and oral opposition to the cen Eraliza
tion of government and the acdumula-
ton of capital In the hands of a few.
OF an address on these subjects which
he delivered at great meeting of popu-
lists in this city year and half SINCE
several million copies have been printed
and circulated. Despite his SO YEARS, he
is as mentally and physically active
and vigorous as the average man of As
or 30, and there are reasons for believing
that he could be persuaded to Fad the
peoples party in the coming cam
paign.
As second choice feeling lei ans al
most unanimously towards Senator Ma
rion Butler of North Carolina, while
senator william V. Allen of Nebraska
appears In the light of a dark horse.
The only name 50 fan mentioned for
second place on the ticket is Horace
Taylor, one of the national committee
men from Illinois. There seems to be a
consensus of opinion among the mem.
bers of the committee that the country
east of the Alleghenies will not be con.
sidered in making up the ticket Should
western man receive the nomination
for president, the vice president will
come from the south, and vice versa. II
Is also understood that at least one al
the three gentlemen named for the
chief nomination has bv reouesE n1acaf
upon paper his views of the a lestion,
upon which union of all reform eIe
ments might be effected without antae
onizing other radical interests. md mi,
expression of opinion will be FIRE civ con
sidered by the committee before tssulns
Its call
CONVENTION BIDDERs s.
seven cities are in the field for IN,
privilege of entertaining the hatinna
populist convention, and which II is az
pected will attract no less tha n 10 on
people to the point where 1t NAV i,
thar, ,,.i,, sa'es and alternates aloni
go a. ieast 2b0O. The claim
Aatsasi omaha, Atlanta, In