Omaha daily bee., 1896-09-03
BOTH WOULD LIKE TO run
Dunn and Gregory Have Objections to Being
Sidet1aCBed.
THEY ARE ANXIOUS TO STAY IN THE RACE
PopuIists and Free silver Men Fail
TO Fuse on ~ Candidate for
Congress- from This
District.

Despite the fact that there are already Two
free silver congressional nominees from TINS
district, named by no less than three Tree
silver conventions, the free silver party sun
considers itself without a free silver con-
gressional nominee. This delectable con-
dition of affairs Is bothering the members
Of the PARTY, but not half as much as the
members of the nonpartisan free silver con
ference which was held yesterday. ii
anvbodv can tell the members where they
are ot. they say that the guess will be thank
fullv received at the Jacksonian club head
quarters on South Fifteenth street. "nele
the conference was held.
II Is very certain that the democrats
won't swallow Judge d.. ID. Gregory, the
nominee OF the free silver republican anu VI
the populist conventions, and it is Just as
certain that the pops and the Tree SILVER
renuhlicans won't down Ignatius Dunn, the
nominee nj the democrats. With such a
situation confronting them, the members Oh
the conference don't know Just what 10 w
and as a consequence they are worrying -,
Dunn is quoted as saying that he VIII!
withdraw, but only on condltlon thal
Gregory does likewise. He says that ne eau
only do so on this condition, When 'ne
democratic convention repudlated HreBoIy
after his name was presented ihe ppPs
and the free silver republicans aunt .h".
the ~position Is tenable, but they say thaI
they are able to look beneath the surface
and to find that this is a deep laid scheme
on the part of the out-and-out democrats "
whom Dunn is one. They say that TINS
element wants another straight democrat
for the nominee If they can't have Dunn ana
will use all their efforts to obtain such'
NEITHER SIDE GIVES IN.
The pops and free silver republicans won't
have Dunn on any condition. Judge Gregory
himself says he is willing to wlthdraw' pui
so long as the two conventions hoihinateu
him and elected congressional committees
for him he can do nothing else than place
himself in the hands of the committee me
republicans will die in the last ditch for
their nominee and stand for him Just as
nat as they did in the conference between
the delegates from the three conventions, by
which means they obtained his selection
The pops, while they are not particularly
in love with Gregory, won't have Dunn pe-
cause they say that the democrats were
guilty of treachery in going back upon the
selection of the conference.
whoever the conference committee
chooses will be the congressional candidate
When the three conventions made their
nominations everybody knew that they car
ried no weight with them. The delegates
in the conventions themselves knew IT. bet
ter than anybody else and so showed when
they gave the authority to their conRres-
sional committee to select the candidate Il
TIE nominee WllElTtW. Sdil a u IN
democrat today. the conference COIL
mittee Is composed principally of members
of these congressional committees its choice
will very evidently go upon the tickets
The conference committee was scheduled
TO meet at 10 o'clock yesterday morning, but
when the tine arrived there were only one or
two of the members on hand. AS the
morning advanced others began to drop IN,
and at II o'clock the seven democratic mem
bers were all there. They went into eN-
%ecutive- meeting with themselves and dis
cussed the situation. Later five members
of the pop section arrived and went into
conference with the democrats. At noon 1t
was announced that nothing was done and
adjournment was taken.
At 1 o'clock the conference committee
reconvened with representatives,. Another
hour and a half was spent behind closed
doors and then the members filed out, APP
parently no wiser than when they entered
No decision was reached, II the members
are to he believed. The committee is to
meet again next Saturday afternoon at z
o'clock.
The situation appears to be of the ma
ture of a deadlock. Neither the supporters
of Dunn nor those of Gregory seem to de-
sire to take the first steps in the withdrawal
of the names of the candidates. Such being
the case, the committee had nothing to
work upon.
Neither of the candidates have with.
drawn" said one of the committeemen
after leaving the hall. therefore we can dc
nothing
Mr.. Dunn sent to the committee a pro
posal to submit the matter to arbitration by
a board to be composed of one free silvel
representative, two democrats and two pop
ulists of known standing from outside thu
district, and agrees to abide by the decision