The San Francisco call., 1896-07-20
BRYAN MEN LOSE HOPE.
Continued from FIRST Page.


pink face and snow-white whiskers and
eyebrows, was Senator Stewart of Nevada,
who is here experimenting an army OF
silver spielers.
The latest accession to the ranks of the
trimmers is James B. Weaver of Iowa,
who ran as candidate for the Presidency
on the Greenback ticket and, afterward,
for the same position at the head of the
Peoples party ticket. He told me with
an almost ludicrous Inconsistencies of
the Inconsistency that he was in favor of
the Endorsement of Bryan and Sewall. 1t
is likely that before this convention is
ended General Weaver will be placed in
the middle of the road in a snowstorm by
the indignant Populists.
To-day being Sunday, many OF the dele
gates were away from headquarters, rid
Ing down the Mississippi on steam boats
or quatfing beer in the suburban gardens,
SO that the silver spielers had not very
much material upon which to wag their
jaws. There was pretty large crowd at
the Laclede Hotel, at the headquarters of
the middle-ofthe-road Populists, and sew
eral unlucky spielers who had gone thither
under the impression that these people
had wheels in their heads found to their
chagrin, after hard and disastrous bat
tie, that those particular kind of wheels
were made to turn only one way, and that
they were not built with an eye to reverse
movement.
Southern chivalry declared itself TO-DAY
In its usually picturesque manner. A
gentleman had escorted a woman reporter
and her panion-an Oakland, CAL,
girl OF French parentage-to the LindelI
Hotel to introduce them to Senator PETER
and few of the ex-Governors of the
Southern States now here in attendance
on the Populist Convention. The French
girl is contralto singer in the operatic
troupe playing in "Uhrig's Cave" is 20
years of age and is as pretty as Delaware
peach, with ripe red lips, a complexion of
pearl and large black eyes of the melting
kind. Four ex-Governors from Alabama,
Georgia, Mississippi and South Carolina
were introduced to the ladies and gal
lantly invited them, should ever they hap
pen to be within hundred miles of the
ex-Governors residences, to pay them a
visit and partake of the generous and re-
fined hospitality for which the people of
the South are distinguished.
After the ladies had boarded the street.
car for home, the person who had escorted
| them was surrounded by delegation OF
| gallant Southern gentlemen, who were
loud in their praise of the beauty of the
| dark-eyed lady reporter. On being in
formed that the young lady was not re-
porter but an opera singer, the ex-Gov-
| ernors exhibited the greatest curiosity to
learn where she was singing. Tonight
the audience at Uhrig's Cave was increased
by eighteen Populist delegates from the
sunny South. and among them were four
ex-Governors. When the young lady ap-
peared upon the stage she was greeted
with four magnificent bouquets and an
outburst OF applause so prolonged that the
! managers instantly increased her salary
$40 a week.
Straight Populists are indignant over
| the false reports sent from here by Demo-
cratic newspapers and newspaper CORE
| spondents to the effect that Bryan will be
inoorsed. The ST. Louis Republic. DEM
ocratic paper, has been saying every dsy
| that Populist leaders have been declaring
| for Bryan, while the fact has been that
| they we're opposed to him.
careful canvass made tonight at the
naiuuie-Ol-Iue-TOaO 0eaQQ uarterS Dy Il. a.
Southworth, chairman of the middle-of-
| the-road delegation from Colorado, and by
j. II. Gilstrap OF California. shows that
the entire South, together with California,
Texas and Wyoming, are solidly opposed
to indorsing Bryan or any other man, and
| are in favor of putting up straight Popu-
| list ticket
ut will not be healthy for any Southern
| delegate to vote for fusion ana then go
home; he would better stay up North, u
remarked Mr.. Southworth dryly.
The candidates mentioned for the Presi-
Dental nomination on the Populist ticket
| are: President VRndervoort of the Indus
| trial Legion of Nebraska, Senator PETER
of Kansas, and Daniel Page, the head of
the Farmers Alliance of Virginia. Con-
gresham Towne, silver bolter from the
Republican National convention, is also
mentioned, but the straight Populists
think that there are enough able men in
the party to I'LL all places on the ticket.
| The fact that Senator Stewart is losing
his temper is looked upon as an indication
that he is not making any headway. He
| remarked tonight. "Middle-of-the-roa
Popu4iet = middle of -" When men
who look like Sa nta Claus begin swearing
they cannot feel particularly happy.
JOHN PAUL CosGRAvE.