Birmingham state herald., 1896-04-28
SWALLOWED UP Not More Than Eighty Dele
 gates in Attendance. RESULT OF THE CAUCUS They Easily Defeated KoIb and Howard for
 Temporary Chairman. THE REPUBLICANS ARE BADLY MIXED Vaughan Wants Straight Ticket for Sound Money-The Pops Want Straight
 Ticket for Free Silver-M oseley
 Wants Straddle.
THE REPUBLICANS ARE BADLY MlxE[

Montgomery, April 27.-(Special)-It looks tonight like the democratic party has swallowed up the populist aggrega- ton sure enough. If there are more than seventy-five or eighty delegates here to attend the populst state convention to- morrow they are hiding out. They eau cussed tonight, and R. F. Kolb, Congress man Howard and Frank Baltzall were placed in nomination for temporary chairman of the convention tomorrow. Baltzell won out easily. Warren s. Reese, Jr., was chosen secretary and Messrs. Brock, Harris and Woodruff assistant secretaries. A north Alabama populist, [. leader in the party, and member of the legislature, said tonight that the popu- lists would nominate straight populist ticket, headed by Hon. A. T. Goodwin, and would incorporate 16 to plank in the platform. He said they would ask all free silver republicans to vote for their nominee, but that they would not straddle nor compromise their principles to gain republican support Of course they can not hope for much on this showing. Col onel Taubeneck arrived tonight and will try to rally things At midnight tonight the republicans appear to be badly mud dled.
 Both the anti-McKinley or Moseley factions and the Mckinley or Vaughan factions stand firm and insist on all of their demands. The Vaughan men claim that out of the 432 votes in the state convention 360 are uncontested, and 72, representing thirteen counties, are con tested Out of the 360 accredited dele gates the McKinleyites claim to have more than majority of all the delegates. They say they have proposed peace of- ferings regarding the seating of the con- testing delegations, but under no circum- ho Ch "A tain the chairmanship of the state execu- tive committee, which gives him the par ty machinery. As intimated in former telegram, two republican conventions ap pear to be certainty. The indications are that McKinley's following will put out a straight republican state ticket, headed probably, by General Burke of Jacksonville, and will adopt a platform declaring for sound money and liberal tariff taxes. The opposition will under take, it Is believed, to fuse with the pops in the state election, but whether they will swallow the 16 to 1 plank is not known.
 all of the contesting delegations will be admitted to seats in the house. and that probably a day or two will be spent In untangling the knot into which things have gotten. There are 300 or 400 white republicans, nine-tenths of whom are
 
 night. There are certainly more white republicans in the city now than have attended republican state convention since the war. The anti-McKinleyites claim, on the other hand, to have 101 of 182 uncontested delegates, and that there are fifteen contests; that no formal prop ositions for peace have been received by them that several members of the state committee asked the chairman to call meeting, to which he replied that the committee would be called together as early tomorrow morning as quorum of legal members should arrive in the city; that the main features of the anti-Mc- Kinley platform will be fair elections and fair count that the tariff and financial fea lures will be relegated to the national convention. Dr. Moseley expresses conf- dence in his reelection as chairman by fully two-thirds of the convention. It is evident from the showings claimed by the two sides that one or the other is fig uring very wildly in the matter.