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would have sent me TO Congress and kept me
there as long as cared to stay"
vANDERvOORT BOILs OVER.

Paul Vandervoort. Of Nebraska president of
the Reform Press Association. was especially
severe in his criticisms of the arbitrary and
high-handed rulings OF the permanent chair
man OF the Convention. Senator Allen He said
Il don't think l ever saw a convention con-
quoted In more outrageous manner than this
Ohe IN bringing about the nomination OF Mr.
Bryan The action Of the Silver party In acting
as an annex to the Democratic party and the
P.utocratlc and corrupt methods OF the leaders
or the Democratic party: the outrageous rul-
lngs or the galvanized Democrat who presided
over thr Convention aided and abetted by the
packeE delegations who, many of them repre-
sented rotten boroughs, with no Popuist con-
sutuents, and who, in a mass, represented an
organized appetite for spoils. assisted by every
LOpuist of1ceEolder who has received high
ONCE at the hands of our party except Senator
Butler and Congressman Howard Skinner and
others. OF North Carolina and Alabama accom-
plsheu an outrageous betrayal OF the nobest
movement that has ever existed in this country.
l nave nigh opinion and the utmost respect
Tor w. j. Bryan. and If Thomas r. Watson is
recognized as the legal candidate of both tickets
would feel inclined to trust Mr. Bryan. The
whole rank and file of the Populist party and
all of the press will resent the old party meth
ods by which the Convention was controlled.
We Will wait and see. but the great disappoint-
ment Of the noble rank and file when they hear
or the butchery Of the Populist party Will make
1t very difficult to rally them fer the Demo-
cratic ticket They will not he delivered unless
the ballot-box suffers sent to the rear and
their noble candidate for Vce-President is
treated with absolute fairness. II they attempt
to ignore Mr. Watson and retain Sewall on the
ticket the great mass of the party Will never
submit."
Then Mr.. Vandervoort drfted into a discus
sion Of politics in Nebraska, and told Of how 1t
was intended TO checkmate the POpulist-Rryan
following unless they came to terms.
OPEN REVOLT AMONG TEXANS.
Something Of the feeling of the Texas dele
cation. which held out to the last against nomi-
mating Bryan. and are now threatening to put
up a separate candidate for the Presidency. Is
reflected in the following statement from Marion
Williams. one Of the delegates
THE action Of the Convention is unprece-
dented In the history Of political parties. Dele
gates have been seated In this body who are
not Popusts. and IT is their desire to turn this
Convention into ratification of the work or the
Chicago Democratic Convention. The Populists
counted for the naming Of the Democratic party:
We ready and willing TO vote for Bryan If
he will indorse the platform of our making. and
will go home and loyalty and faithfully sup
port him. If he does not do so, | cannot sup
port him. and 1t is my opinion that the Popu-
list party of Texas will either vote for Mckln-
ley or go fishing. Not that we indorse McKin-
leyism but we think it would he better to elect
him and bring on the crisis than to have four
years more of Democracy which Will only re-
suit in four years more Of broken promises. and
at the end Of that time the rotten old party OF
ballot box suffers will be again bowling for
another chance to starve the people to death
Every delegate from my State to the Chicago
Convention would have supported the nominee
of the Democratic party had It declared for the
gold standard. and we have no confidence IN
them"