The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-18
PLANS OF THE POPULISTS.
THE OUTCOME or THE ST. LOUIS
CONVENTION N DOUBT.

posed Endorsement of the Ticket
Nominated by the Democrats at
ChicngO-Windle Withdrnws ns IA
ernOr.
ST. Louis. July 1.-THE executive COM
mittee of the peoples party national
committee will meet here tomorrow ana
will decide upon the recommendations TO
be made 10 the national committee as
to the best course TO pursue by that party
next week. The committee is in favor CT
nominating a ticket and making a party
platform not unlike the one drawn up at
Omaha. At the same time the temporary
officers Of the convention will be pracu-
cally decided upon. Cyclone" Davis OF
Texas will very likely capture the first
honor. Senator Marion Butler OF North
Carolina and Thomas Z. Petit OF owens
boro. Ky. are aspirants for the place
and may give Mr.. Davis close race.
Senator Butler Is said to be opposed
to indorsing Mr.. Bryan or any candidate
Of any other party. Mr.. Petit is in favor
of indorsing Mr.. Bryan.
All of the delegations and populists who
want a separate ticket and an lndepend-
ent populist organization are expected to
be present at a meeting at o'clock on
| Sunday for the purpose Of crystalzing
| the anti-Bryan movement. Then the cam
| paign against Mr.. Bryan will be formal
| ~ opened.
! The populists are highly pleased over
| the Withdrawal of c.. A. Windle of Fair
/ bury. ILL.,, the nominee Of the prohibition
| party, for lieutenant governor OF that
| state. Mr.. Wndle withdraws his name
! in order that he might come out for Bry-
] Chicago
! Among the late arrivals are X. A.
| Southworth and G. c. Hackstah, two
| middle of the road populists from Col
| orado. Mr.. southworth is now secretary
| of the Farmers Alliance. The gentlemen
! have opened an anti-Bryan headquarters
! at Hotel Barnum. on the other hand,
| Col. Bailey OF Oklahoma opened his Bry-
| an boom by swinging an oklahoma Bryan
| banner 10 the breeze I'm front OF the Lin
| dell hotel. Col. Bailey says he Will have
| several hundred Bryan boomers here next
| Monday from Oklahoma and Kansas. The
| colonel Is a veteran campaigner. he
| managed Jerry Simpsons candidacy for
| congress until the republican landslide
| buried the Kansas statesman out OF sight.
| Sergeant-at-Arms Mcdowell has made
| arrangements with the st. Louis pOpulists
| to furnish men to take care of the crowds
| at the convention hall. Mr.. Dowd, the ser
| geant-at-arms, will proceed at once 10 or
| ganize a corps of assistants. He is going
| to have fifty doorkeepers, the same num-
| Der Of assistant sergeanta, twenty-five
pages and about as many ushers.
"1Nhe silver party convention Is going 20
be big affair" said Mr.. Dowd this morn
| ing.
Senator Teller will be here and so will
several other Colorado silver men. Mis-
| souri, Nebraska, Idaho, Minnesota and a
number of other western states win send
| full delegations.
Mr.. Dowd says that the two conventions
next week will not be united. "A confer
ence committee on nominations may be
| appointed and If the silver party's con-
| vention decides 10 support the Chicago
| ticket every effort will be made by the
Music hall crowd TO- secure similar action
from the populists," said the gentleman,
but we shall not march to their hall or
they to ours. Nor will there be any joint
agreement as to the platform. We shall
confine our platform to the one question
Of free silver coinage. The popuhsts may
attempt something more"
George f. Washburn of Joplin, member
of the national executive committee and a
national committeeman of the populists,
arrived to-day to attend the committee
meetings of Saturday and Monday. Mr..
| Washburn Is of the opinion that some
method OF the union Of the silver vote
closes. He looks upon the situation In
the south as delicate TO deal with owing
to the social element entering into politi-
| cal affiliations in that sections. The east
and west he considered as easily to be
| brought together.
G. S. Taylor, populist delegate from
Philadelphia, fayors nominating rather
| than endorsing Mr.. Bryan, on the ground
that the populists cannot surrender their
| convictions and organization to democ-
racy and abandon certain principles they
have been fighting for.
IF the democrats will give us our share
of the electors there will be no difficulty
in the way of united action for silver, "
said Sergeant t-at-Arms Mcdowell, when
| discussing the political situation In a group
of party friends to-day. The discussion was
| upon the advisability Of and method of fur
| therinR the silver issue.
The feeling Is growing among the popu-
lists who are arriving that some sort OF
| unity OF action Is necessary and most of
| them turn to electoral fusion as the best
method Of aiding party organizations, and
at the same time striking a good blow for
| silver parity.
The reform press association, composed
OF editors of popultst papers. will meet TO-
| morrow The session Is more for the pur-
pose of discussing the work that should be
done by the peoples party press than for
| anything else. 1t has no official connection
with the national convention.
Topeka, Kans.. July 1.-THE American
silver party state convention, composed
of over 300 delegates. representing four
fftbs Of the counties in the state. yester-
| day afternoon elected 60 delegates to st.
| Louis and instructed them to vote as a
unit for William ]. Bryan for President.
The republicans were in full control of the
| convention, comparatively few of the del
! egates being populists or democrats. OF the
| II delegates at large all are republicans
| except three. The resolutions commended
| Senator Teller and his associates for bolt
ing from the national republican conVen-
ton.
TURNED DOWN TOWNE.