Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-05-09
AN A. P. A. CRISIS
Trouble Feared at the Coming su-
preme Council Meeting.
MUCH POLITICAL PERTURBATION
Delegates Views on the Advisory
Boards Action.
T H I RID p A RTY T A L K

""The crisis in the history of the A. P. A.
| has been reached" said a prominent dele
gate to the Supreme Council meeting to a
| Star reporter this morning, land 1t will
| take the combined wisdom Of the order to
adjust matters to prevent cur going on the
rocks This was all the delegate would
| say, but it expressed the opinion of many
| members of the order. Probably major
| ity of the men who will attend the Su-
preme Council convention next week look
| upon the present meeting the most
| important in the history of the order A
| few believe that everything will be har
| monious and that the order will grow in
strength and power instead Of deterior
ating
Many Delegates Here.
Many of the supreme officers and dele
gates arrived in the city last night and
| this morning. and the corridors of the
| National Hotel today are full of men
| wearing A. P. A. badges. OF the supreme
| officers who are here may be mentioned J.
| H. jackson, supreme vice president, Fort
WORTH Texas; F. c. Campbell, supreme
! treasurer, Minneapolis; E H. Dunbar, su-
preme secretary of state, Boston, and Fl.
A. Thompson, member or the executive
| committee of the advisory board. OF the
state president of New York; Thos. S.
King, immediate past president of Ohio;
| Col. John w. Echols, state president Of
Georgia; D. c. Meeker, president of Ken
lucky; w. j. Palmer and H. H. Cullum,
delegates from Montana J. B. Burke, one
| of the District of Columbia delegates,
mingled with the others this morning. 1t
is learned that the District delegates are
Mr. Burke Oscar Nauck and Rev. DIR.
VIM. Fl. Gottwald.
Supreme President Traynor and Supreme
Secretary Beatty did not reach the city
yesterday, as was expected, but will be
here this afternoon.
Supreme Vice President Jackson was ask
ed this morning for an interview on the po-
| ltical outlook. Mr. Jackson said he did not
lave anything to say about the political
erd of the meeting, but he believed every
thing would come out all right. The coming
nee ting, he said. would be one of the larg-
est in the history of the order. Mr.. Jack
son said that the order is increasing in
lumber in Texas at the rate of 1,OoV
month, and is increasing in the other states
in the same proportion. There will be two
delegates from Texas and three from the
Indian territory, where the order has many
councils. Mr.. Jackson is said to be popU
list, and Texas people who know him say
| he is one of the shrewdest lawyers in that
state.
Political Perturbation.
The talk among the delegates this morn
ing is on the subject of politics, and the in
| dorsement or defeat of the action of the
executive committee of the advisory board
| in declaring that Mckinley is antagonis;ic
to the order. Abundant evidence was found
of The Stars story of Tuesday that there
will be a squall the coming week. The
wide-awake delegates see il ahead, and
those who love the order are doing all they
can to bring about harmony and to pre-
vent trouble.
Some of the members of the executive
committee which made up the report
| against Mckinley now see that there is 60
ing to be serious opposition to their report,
and they are preparing to make the best
showing possible. 1T looks now,' one of
the executive committee members said 10 a
Star reporter, that there are too many
men who are republicans first and A. p
AS afterward. Those of us who put our
order ahead of our party may find that we
are going to have trouble with the parti-
sans"
Kentucky Delegate Talks.
1t is said that the kentucky delegates to
the Supreme Council WILL vigorously fgh,
the opposition to Mckinley, and will de-
| mani undoubted evidence against him be
fore they will consent to the Supreme Coun-
Gil indorsing the action of the executive
committee. When asked about the posi-
| ton f-the Kentucky delegates this morn
! ing, State President Meeker said to Star
| reporter:
Kentucky is urequivocally opposed to
| the Endorsement of any candidate of any
party for the presidency and she is op-
posed to the fcrma ton Of new party at
this early stage in the contest. We are
| also oppos, to the A. P. A. becoming a
| partisan organization. We are opposed 10
| the unjust discrimination of any board or
committee against any presidential candi-
! date, and we will be governed by nothing
| but the law of cur order and absolute
proof"
Those who are against the executive
| committee declare exceeded
| thcrity in making public its findings
against Mckinley. The adherents of the
committee say that it had full power.
The friends of the executive committee
| say that the Supreme Council will fully
| indorse its action. They say further. that
Supreme President Traynor will uphold the
| that he made a private and personal in
vestigation INTO Mckinleys attitude to the
A. P. A., and that he found evidence which
warrants him in upholding the executive
| committee The founder of the order,
Supreme Past President Bowers of Iowa. is
also said TO view the action of the execu-
| tive committee correct.
The position the Ohio delegates will take
| in the Mckinley fight will be Interesting
| There will be eight Ohio men here and all
! of them are republicans, it is said. They
| look upon the situation as critical, so far
as the good of the order is concerned
Third Party Talk.
Amid all the political talk that is going
on, and which will increase, comes in the
| idea Of fusion with the silver men and
populists. This idea will be bitterly cp-
| posed by old party A. P. A. men, but the
new party men will try to point out the
advisablity IF such a course when the old
parties are going to jump the A. P A.
either in their platforms or by the nomina-
ton of men hostile to the order
Annual Clerks for the House.
The House late yesterday afternoon by a
vote of 13O to los passed a resolution nro-