The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-18
POPULIST CLANS
Assembled in Convention at
st. Louis.
The National Committee Fixing
the Day and Place.
1T WILL BE THE LAST
Of the Big Conventions to Nom
mate Candidates.
Presbyterians Rally Loyalty to
Talmage's Defense.
1T WILL BE THE LAST

ST. LOUIS Mo-, Jan. i8.-The mem
bers of the national committee of the
Peoples party now in the city-about
! rs of then-assemb led in the ladies'
ordinary of the Linden hotel about
IL: 80 a. m., and were called to order
by Chairman Taubeneck, who an
nounced that the time up to 1870 would
be devoted to hearing suggestions from
delegates and others as to the time
and place for holding the convention,
and what the wishes of Populists in
the section of the country represented
by the speaker are, with regard to
what the platform should contain.
The speeches were limited to five
minutes each.
Captain Charles A. Power of Terre
Haute said the question at issue was
the currency question. People care
J more about money than anything else,
and they want an honest dollar above
all He said silver is the paramount
issue, and if the Populists would con-
fine themselves to that they would
| win.
Mr.. Clemens of Topeka, Kan, said
one of the planks of the Omaha plat
form was government ownership of
railroads. The platform had been be-
fore the people four years and had
| been scoffed at, torn to pieces and APP
1
ularly assailed, and now that very
thing is presented to congress in such
a way as to make 1T impossible for
any honest man to grant an extension
of the Pacific railroad debt.
Ralph Beaumont of Oklahoma sal
this committee could not make plat
/ form, but had only to consider the
time and place of holding the conven-
ton. Several others spoke briefly and
| a recess was taken until o'clock
when the executive committee went
| into eXecu tive session. The entire
| afternoon was taken up with a discus
sion of the matter of represen tation
at the national convention. This
question was finally referred to COM
mittee with orders to report at the
evening session.
A proposition which raised much
discussion and enough opposition to
| defeat it was resolution to empower
| the executive committee of the na-
! tional committee to make arrange
/ ments with the Bimetallic league to
! hold it's national convention at the
| same time and place decided upon for
| the national POpulist convention. SEN
ator Butler of North Carolina opposed
it. claiming that such action would be
demeaning to the Populists. He pro-
! posed that the Populist national COM
mittee decide upon the time and place
! of meeting and then invite the bimet-
allists and others interested to meet
at the same time. This was adopted
and a recess was taken for supper.
When the committee reassembled,
Ignatius Donneliy, General Weaver
and Senator Butler, to whom had
| been referred the matter of represen-
tation to the national convention and
the time of holding it, reported a res
olution, which was adopted, giving
the executive committee authority to
change the time and place if it shall
be deemed advisa bic to do so, but with
the restriction that the date shall be
between July and July %. The
| following apportionment was decided
| upon:
Each State is entitled to one dele
! gate for each Senator ana Congress
man, and one additional delegate for
each 2, 600 votes or majority fraction
thereof cast for Populist ca didates in
| '92, '94, or '95. the highest vote cast
controlling, and each Territory four
votes. This gives to each State and
Territory the following number of
delegates in the convention: Alabama,
! 54; Arizona, 4; Arkansas, 20; Califor-
MIA, 80; Colorado, As; Connecticut, q;
Delaware, 3; Florida, 8; Georgia, 81;
Idaho, 7; Illinois, 54; Indiana, 80;
Iowa, 80, Kansas, 81; Kentucky, 25;
Louisina, Is; Maine, 8; Maryland, 8;
| Massachusetts, 20; Michigan, 20; Min
nesota, 50; Mississippi, IS; Missouri,
! SO; Montana, II; Nebraska, 81: Ne
vada, 2; New Hampshire, 4; New Jer-
sey, y; New York, A; North Carolina,
95; North Dakota, 10; Ohio, 40; Ore
gon, II; Pennsylvania, ~; Rhode
Island, 4; South Carolina, II; Tenn
essee, "a; Texas, 95; Vermont, 4; Vir-
ginia, So: Washington, II; West Vir-
ginia, 8; Wisconsin, IS; Wyoming, q;
! Utah, 5.