Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1896-07-22
POPULISTS CONTEST.
On One Side II Is a Struggle for the
Life Of the Party,
On the other IL II Fight to Secure =
Compromise In Favor OF Brysn-Hon-
A. ID. Maxwell. of Illinois. Gives
His Views on the situation.

ST. LOUIS, July Il The battle be-
tween the factions of the populist party
is growing ficrccr and by next week
will bc at white heat On one side IL
is a fight for the life of the organiza-
tion. On the other hand IL is "a strug-
gle to secure n compromise in favor of
the democratic standard bearer 80
far no state convention has declared in
favor of an uncompromising stand.
The best that has been done has been
the securing of uninstructed delcga-
tions.
Mr.. Mcdowell, along with Mr.. Tau
benc:lI and others of the official fam
lily, ore taking the ground that party
organization must be preserved.
Hon. A. ID. Maxwell, the populist
state chairman in Illinois and the big
gest party leader in that state, arrived
Thu rsday.
while it is true that n large ma ior-
ity of the populists seem in favor OF in
dorsing Bryan" said Mr. Maxwell,
lit is with the belief that he
will accept the populiss platform
and recognize the Importance of the
party. both before and after the cleo
ton. The leaders of the peoples party
know that they have more votes than
the democrats in Oregon, North and
South Dakota, Wyoming. Oklahoma,
Nebraska. Kansas, Colorado Mlnneso-
ia, Nevada and North Carolina. They
also know that the democrats can
neither carry any of these states
nor Illinois, Indiana or Iowa
without the aid of the populist
vote, and, knowing this, they are not
going TO indorse Bryan unless they are
amply assured that they will get what
is due them in the way of recognition.
They fear that, though organs inten-
tions are all right, in another four
years Hill and other gold leaders will
effect compromise in the democratic
party and get back in the machine
lyon can be assured that Bryan will
not be Endorsed unless ne will accept
the populist nomination on the entire
Omaha platform and become our candi-
date as well as that of the democracy.
In spite of the strong showing made
by the anti Bryan wing. the prediction
is freely made that it will go down To
quick defeat when the main body of
the delegates reaches st. LOUIS.
Only few leaders have come in vet,
uhA u'ASHa'So dTc cNlucntly llulnB
their departure from their homes so as
TO reach here just in time to go into
the convention.
There will be no marching clubs, no
brass bands and very little of unusual
excitement.
The national executive committee.
which will meet Saturday, will start
rolling Il boom for a middle of the
road populist to preside as temporary
chairman of the convention, which will
meet Wednesday next.
Cyclone" Davis will probably cap
ture the honor. He was the first choice
of the leaders in the city Thursday.
Next in the race for the honor of pre-
siding temporarily over the convention
is Senator Marion Butler, the Sage OF
Honeycutt," North Carolina.
Senator Butler is said to be opposed
TO indorsing Bryan.
The ropulist convention will bC
slightly enlarged by increased repre-
sentation from the territories Indian
territory, Alaska and Oklahoma viii
be admitted to the convention, whose
mem bership will now be 1890 if full
quotas of delegates are sent.
The press arrangement will be prac
tically the same as those of the repub
lican convention, almost the same seats
being assigned to the greater newspa
perS as before.
The arrivals Thursday were few anC
| generally unimportant ones.