The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-01-13
MAY BE sTAND1RD BEARgE.
Judge Trurnbuli May be Selected to Lead
 file populist Party.

Chicago. Jan. 12.-Lyrlran TrnmbuM of this city, who, previous to 1855 was succesI9ively representative in congress and justice of the state supreme court and Who for the three terms beginning that year and ending 1873 represented Illinois in the United States. senate. may be the standard bearer of the populis't party in the approaching cam paign. While no official overtureis to that effect have yet been made Vl him it is understood his avatlabflIty VIII be canyaseen at the meeting of the ma tional committee, which is to be held at St. Louis on Friday to decide on the time and place for holding the na- tional convention and that number of the committee representing states i'll wfihc the pj9pulists have material strength will be favorably disposed to- ward Judge Trumbull's candidacy
 The other name likely to be talked of is that Of United States Senator But Ter of North Carolina. United States Senator w. " Allen of Nebraska, how ever, is regarded in the light of a dark horse and may be brought prominently to the front such declinations or other circumstances tend to place Judge Trumbull or Senator Butler outside of the pale of consideration No other man has been mentioned as the nomi- nee of the party A national commit teeman from a far western state who was here to-day said that it was emd- neirtly desirable that at its meeting next week the popuFst committee should disIcuss the outlook for presiden- Gial timber He believed that either Judge Trumbull or Senator Butler would be highly acceptabl not pndy to popullsts but also to silver and re- form clements, and with the name of ona or 'the other We might kindle en- rhusiasm that would sweep over the country''
 The first iritima!tion that his name was being seriously spoken pf i'm con- necrlon with the first place on the popu- list tialet was conveyed Ito Judge Trum- bull tonight. When spoken to on the subject he suggeKted that he had long since been out of politics and that more over his advanced age (eighty-twt-9
 
 being called again into harness. The judge, however, is as bright mentally and as active physically as the average man of fifty and while avoiding any absolute expression of opinion one way or the other his manner left the inference that ll= might be persuaded to place himself in the hands of the committee.
 Judge Trumbuil made an argument last year on the appeal of the officers of the American Railway union against Sfle sentence for contempt of court im- posed by Judge Woods. At a great populis'c meeting held here on October 6, 1894, he srt7ke upon tine causes lead ing to disconteni among the masses emphasizing the fact that deliver nee from oppression of privileged monopo- lies and millionaires could be had only through the balios" He dilated upon the encroachme2e bf federal courts up- on the constitutional rights of She people and declared himself in favor Of reha Utilization of silver. This speech. wh3ch has obtained a circulation of sev- eral million copies. is regarded as d tex book ang,lg the various elsmenss that make up the popu5ist party,