The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-15
JUST TWO WAYS.
Two Plans to Come Before Pop
uIist Convention.
To IndOrse Bryan or to Fuse on
Electors.
MORE FAVOR BRYAN.
All the Big Leaders Favor In
dOrsing Him.
MORE FAVOR BRYAN.
Banker st. John May Preside
Over Silver Convention.

st. Louis, July 15.-The rush of poll
ticians to attend the Populist and silver
national conventions has not yet set in,
although a few of the leaders have ar
rived. Chairman Taubeneck and Ser
geant-at-Arms Mcdowell of the Popu-
list national committee, predict one of
the largest crowds that ever attended
a convention. Many of the best men
in the party will be here said Chair
man Taubeneck. There will be 1850
delegates, representing over 100000
voters. We have every reason to be-
heve that in point of numbers it will
far outrank the Republican convention
We shall meet in the same building,
which will afford opportunity to observe
the strong points of the difference"
Sergeant-at-Arm5 Mcdowell an
nOunced that the Trunk Line commits
sion, with headquarters in New York,
had telegraphed him granting one fare
for the round trip to start on the Goth
only, and to start on the return on the
18th and reach final destination not
later than the 28th.
AS the POpulistS begin to gather, it
is evident that there will be two prop
OsitiOns made which will form the chief
contention of the convention. One is
that the POpuliStS shall abandon any
idea of a separate and distince national
ticket and indorse outright the candi-
date and the platform of the Chicago
convention.
This proposition will be supported by
the friends of Senator Henry NJ. Teller,
nearly all the POpulist members of the
United States senate and the Peoples
Party leaders in many of the western
states. The west and the southwest
and the northwest are nearly solid for
the proposition to fndorse Bryan and
put up no other ticket. From the
south come delegates and Peoples
Party leaders VINO are not delegates to
the convention urging another PROPOSE
tion-to put up a presidential ticket,
adopt a platform, run presidential
electors in all the states where the Peo-
pies Party has an organization and
then, when the time comes to cast the
vote in the electoral college, let the
POpulists and Democrats combine on
the strongest man, whether that be
Bryan or the POpuliSt nominee.
Vigorous objection is made against
this on the ground that it would be
dangerous to the common cause of free
silver It would divide the strength of
its adherents and in some of the close
states. where one or the other holds
the balance of power, a division OF their
strength might give the state to Nc
Kinley.
The convention of the national silver
party, which cOnVenes in this city July
% at the Exposition building, will vie
in numbers with that of the POpulists,
which meets the same day. The ma
tional silver convention will have 1900
delegates and as many alternates. COM
ing from every state in the Union, the
representation being based on the eSti-
mated strength of the silver advocates
at the ratio of Is to l, irrespective of
former party affiliations.
The call for this convention emanated
from a conference of the friends OF sill
yer held at Washington, January % and
% last and was signed by A. J. War
ner, president of the American Bimetal-
lie league; H. G. Miller chairman ma
tiOnal silver committee; r. G. Cham
bers, president National Bimetallic
union; J. NJ. Devine, secretary Ameri-
can Bimetallic league.
DR.. J. J. Mott of North Carolina, who
was elected chairman of the executive
committee, has been in the city sew
era1 weeks making preparations for the
convention He says the convention is
going to be representative, both in
numbers and persOneI.
It is understood that William P. st.
John of New York, who a few days
ago was forced to retire from the p~esi-
dency of the Mercantile National bank
of New York on account of his advO-
cacy of silver, will be the chairman of
the convention and that either Stewart
of Nevada or Congressman Newlands
of Nevada will be the chairman of the
committee on resolutions.
DR.. Mott stated that the convention
would he in session at least two days
He said that while there was a quasi
understanding between his party and
the Populists in behalf of the interests
of silver there was as vet no agreement
unity of action as regards the presiden-
tial ticket to be voted next November.
He declined to discuss this question
further or the probability of either the
silver party or the POpulists indorsing
the Democratic nominee, saying that
rested entirely with the two conven-
tons He himself was here to look
after measures, not men,