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 St. Louis, Mo-, July 24.--All is conten- ton, turbulence and acrimonious de- bate at the popullst convention. The middle of- the-road men propose to die in the last ditch. NO bolting" appears to be the one thing decided upon. This afternoon at o'clock the party plat form was submitted by General Weaver to the conference committee of the silver party and before it comes before the populist convention. Talked of Having Another Populist
 Convention.
 The Texas people who are endavor- ing to hold the anti-Bryan delegates together and obtain an agreement to bolt in case the ticket or platform are not acceptable to the middle-of-the- road contingent, were in session at their headquarters nearly all night and again this morning. There were fiery speeches made both for and against, but there was not definite decision, the cooler heads seemingly having prevail ed upon the radicals to wait until &C., tion was taken by the convention be- fore deciding to bolt. The plan that finally met with most favor was for all the delegates to remain in the con- vention until the end and call 0 con- Vention of their own, to assemble im- mediately after the adjournment, for the purpose of nominating a straight populist candidate on the Omaha plat form, with one or two added blanks This plan was finally set aside and the Texas men finally decided to come into line.
 It was suggested in the hotels last evening that the convention might conine itself to the nomination of Bry- an for president, leaving the place of vice president on the ticket vacant. But it is scarcely possible, that such course will be adopted, and the nomi- nation of Bryan and Sewall appeared early this morning to be almost posi- lively assured.
 The series of victories won by the Bryanites yesterday discouraged even the most rabid of the middle of-the- roaders First the majority report of the committee on credentials, giving the contending factions of the popu lists of Cook county half vote each, was adopted by the convention by 655 to SAP, the anti -Bryanites generally vot- ing no. Then General Weaver, Bryan ite was chosen chairman of the reso- lutions committee over Jerome Rear bey, anti Bryanite, by 22 to 21. Finally Senator Allen of Nebraska, who is looked upon largely as Bryan's personal representative at St. Louis, was elect ed permanent chairman of the conven- tion by vote of 75S to 564 for Cam pion, upon whom the anti-Bryanites had united.
 WA The Proceedings.
 Convention Hall, St. Louis, July 24- The populist convention was called to order by Senator Allen, permanent chairman, at 10:05 o'clock. Prayer was offered by Rev. M. Williams of the Union Methodist church of St. Louis.
 A gavel constructed in the state of Ohio out of forty eight different kinds of timber, representing every state, was presented to the chairman by Delegate Denoe of Ohio as a middle of the road' gavel, and it was accepted by the chairman. During this presenta- tion ceremony couple of fantasticallly attired individuals ascended the plat form. They were dressed to repre- sent the characters of Uncle Sam and Columbia.
 Uncle Sam was represented by a pretty well konwn character from Stat en Island named Lloyd, and Columbia was the Sweet Singer of Arkansas" !" Mrs. Pennington who entertained the convention with a song. This pair of ec- centricities were introduced to the con- vention by the chairman, as couple of important characters
 When this performance was at an end the states were called for the ap- pointment of a delegate to act on the conference committee with the silver convention. When the state of Texas was reached the spokesman of that del- egation declared indignantly that Tex as had no name to present for such a committee.
 The minority report of the committee on rules was read. It required the nomination for vice president to be made before that of president.
 Ignatius Donnelly opposed proposi-
  ting the candidates for president and vice president to name the chairman of the populist national committee Green of Nebraska stirred up great op- position by advocating the proposition of the committee
 Congressman Howard of Alabama op- posed the selection of the chairman o1 the national committee by the nomi- nees and favored the selection of vice president first.
 An explanation was given as to the proposition of the selection of a chair man to the national committee, but the plan did not satisfy Ignatius Donnelly of Minnesota, who said in indignant tones that it seemed as if very little would be left of the peoples party after it got through it's work, excep its national organization, and he die not wish to see that national organiza. tion put into the hands of the demo crats, as It would be under the pro posed rule. While he was ready to sup port MT. Bryan, If that gentleman should be the choice of the convention he was not in favor of permitting { democrat to become the head of thu populist national committee. (Cheers
 After the fanaticism and folly O this hour'' Mir Donnelly continued ''has passed away, we want to recloth the skeleton of the party with flesh
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