The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-07-21
OBJECT TO A PLuTocRAT.
Is TIED TO THE CHICAGO
TICKET
Silver Convention Men VIII Make
Il Short Work sOf Indorsing
Bryan.
Snecial to tha Globe.

with 1t. The weather is slltry
and still heating Tsss bd-metallic lea
que meets in nationaf convention Wed
nesday in the exposition building at
the same time and hour the Populists
meet In the auditorium where McKin-
ley was nominated. When landed at
the Union depot today, I was sur
rounded by gorgeous female with
big roses on her hat, who asked me If
was delegate, at the same time
thrusting a card in my hand, announo-
ing that the Middle Of the Road" head
quarters was at the Laclede hotel. I
told her l thought would go up town
In street car and presumed they ran
their cars in the middle OF the road"
She gave me a seraphici smile, as much
as to say that I must De a delegate
or | would know more. I found the
Southern and Planters, (which were the
center of the earth last month. as bar
rem of people and interest as a church
when the weather is, favorable for
bicycling. The Laclede, too, despite my
female friend, is as yet of little account
and everything centerS at the LindeIl
hotel. Here there is a throng with cor
ridor oratory galore. On the outer porti-
co is big banner inscribed Bryan
Populist Headquarterea for Bryan"
Within, men wearing blue ribbon bad
bes inscribed "W. j.. Bryan were
numerous, while Nebraska people were
thick with badges bearing the portrait
of Bryan and inscribed "No Crown of
Thorns, No Cross of Cold
wired you from Chicago that these
words would be the shibboleth of the
campaign and the prediction is COM
Ing true, there are not large number
of delegates. in the city. tonight, but
tomorrow they are exnected in droves.
They are not the class of people who
come early and stay late The conven-
tion itself will have 440 more delegates
than the Republican tor Democratic,
as they apportion their representatives
by, the sPopulist vote. Instead Of on the
congressional representation of the
state. The outside strikers already are
overwhelmingly for Bryan, but the
Populist leaders are very considerably
divided. While the Bryan men are con-
fident that majority of the conven-
tion will favor Bryan and Sewall, it
will not be surprising if there is bolt
and simon pure Populist ticket put
up. The Popuffst executive committee,
of which Taubeneckt is chairman. Mr..
Donnelly and Cyclone Davis Of
Texas, are prominent members, ad-
journed at eight tonight After several
Populist, nominee for president four
years ago, Mr.DPatterson, editor of the
Denver News, and Senator Stewart,
of Nevada. The three last named are
ardent for Bryan's nomination. All OF
the executive committee except Strick-
Ter. of Nebraska,
DREW THE LINE ON SEWALL-
and while they said they would ac-
cept Bryan, Sewall was plutocrat, ma
tional banker. ETC., and under no cir
cumstances would they accept him and
If the two must be linked together
Bryan must go over board with the
tail of the ticket Weaver and his
friends said this was impossible They
must take the whole dose, and confer
ence adjourned, without result. Of
course, this was only the individual
view of the executive committee and
the matter will have to be fought out
in convention when the delegates ar
rive, but it would have smoothed the
way If this conference could have
agreed. Donnelly told me tonight that
the sentiment against Sewall was very
strong and he did not think Populists
would stand It. He said the Populists
had worked up the silver sentiment
after years of labor and now the Dem
ocrats had stolen their platform and
asked them to accept the ticket, in
part plutocratic.
This appears to be likely to be an
other sectional convention; Southern
Populists are opposing Bryan and
Western favoring. Democrats in the
South form a sort of. four hundred aris-
tocracy and the Southern Populists
who originally were mostly Democrats
are despised, even more than Republi-
cans. Southern Democrats have had
fhn mi Il &
and the new men of the "Cyclone''
Davis stamp think 1t is time for the
worm to turn and refuse to accept the
demands of their former enemies, even
II 1T results in the loss of Bryan and
the silver Cause. AS one prominent
man said to me tonight: IF we in
dorse Bryan we simply have a Dem
ocratic party, and If we reject him the
Democratic party will go to pieces and
we will control the country 1t may
postpone free silver but we would
rather wait for that than put the Dem
ocrats who have treated us so insult
ingly in power"
In spite of all this talk think Bryan
and Sewall will be accepted by the ma
Jority, but do not see how the men op-
posing can avoid boiling any more than
the gold standard Democrats at Chi,
cago could. Hence the
PROSPECT FOR TRIPLETS
is good. Gov Stone, of Missouri. and
Senator Jones, chairman of the Demo-
cratic national COMMITTEES, are at the
Planters pulling Bryan wires. AS in
d1catlve Of the feeling the middle of
the road Populists are declaring that
the owners of silver mines have their
agents here with financial arguments
for Bryan, while the Bryan men de-
clare that Hanna's financial agents are
working the middle of the road Popu-
lists it is apparently good thing
push 1t along) to belong to third
party, balance-of- power machine
On my train today there was one del
egate with a leg cut off at the hip.
another with an arm gone at the shoul-
der, and a third with q wooden leg
This shows the intensity of the Popu-
list movement when they attend their
conventions in fragments.
The free silver convention is expected
tc indorse Bryan and Eewall with q
whoop. Martin III. Tew, of Minnesota.
is working the presidential boom for
Towne, but the silver men say when
Towne arrives tomorrow he will
squelch it. The Minnesota special, with
the Populfst and free silver delegates,
Is due tomorrow forenoon, and when it
comes business will begin. Anything
done before Minnesota got here would
have to be done over In the barroom
at the LindeH they have an automatic
organ playing a list of. twenty tunes
the last one is Ben Bolt. Perhaps this
is significant of a coming event casting
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