The herald., 1896-07-25
THE POPO7IST CANDIDATES
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johnson of California also seconded
Watson's nomination.

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Immediately he mentioned Mr.. Sewalls
name it was greeted with loud applause,
mingled with a liberal supply of Kisses.
His speech took the shape of an argu-
ment. but his tone was defiant. He as
serted he had no personal interests in
Mr.. Sewalls success. "The vice presi-
dency." he said. docs not amount to
much unless the president is a consump-
tive, and Billy Bryan is not consump-
tive"
Personally he would prefer Skinner or
Watson, but he wanted to succeed in
defeating Mckinley.
AS Mr.. Pence proceed = the conven-
tion quieted down, and Mr.. Pence. after
the first burst of disapproval was in
terrupted only by applause.
Azman Murphy seconded Watson's
nomination. At the close of Mr.. Mur-
phys speech, Harry Tracey of Texas
arose and asked whether, if Watson
should be nominated, he would remain
on the ticket until election.
Yes, SIR" came the response, Yes,
sir: until hell freezes over"
This was plain speech and it brought
| the convention to its feet in a burst of
applause.
Stockwell of Indiana seconded Wat
sons nomination. as did Foster of Kan
! sas. Burnham of Tennessee spoke for
A. l.. Mimms and Mr.. Miller of Illinois
seconded the nomination.
Prof. l.. c. Bateman of Maine. the Pop
| ulist candidate for goveronr, nominated
| Mann Page of Virginia, president of the
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r. r. Taylor of Michigan seconded the
nomination of Watson.
Frank A. Fogg of Michigan seconded
| Mr.. Sewall. He brought out an ava
lanche of Kisses by saying that when he
had undertaken to walk in the middle of
the road, he had been allowed to stop in
the middle of the road and that his cam
paign expenses had never been paid.
Continuing the relation of experience
he said that when he was a candidate
Sewall had sent him $500 for campaign
expenses.
The speech was not at all to the liking
of the convention and Mr.. Fogg left the
platform amid a storm of jeers and
Kisses.
1gnatius Donnelly of Minnesota elo-
quently seconded Watson's nomination
on behalf of his state. The whole move
ment, he said. was caused by an insur-
rection against the money lenders and
it would be folly to nominate a man
woth $6,000,000 and interested in rail-
roads of New England The Populists
of the country he declared rather than
vote for such a man would see him 500
miles in the lowest pit of hell He ex-
pressed the hope that Watson's nominal
tion would be made unanimous.
They We're willing to swallow Demo-
cracy gilded with the genius of Bryan,
but they could not stomach plutocracy
in the body of Sewall"
George Abbott of Nebraska made hit
in humorous speech seconding Watson.
He said that COW with two tails was of
more utility than COW split wide open
He reproved the convention for having
failed to give more attention to Ignatius
Donnelly, the father of the party. Mr.
Rogers of California spoke for Nevada,
seconding Mr.. SINNERS nomination.
At this stage of the proceedings Mr.
Darrow of Illinois moved that the sec
ondinG speeches be limited to two
speeches for each candidate The mo-
tion was declared out of order, but it
was made apparent that the convention
was at last growing tired of oratory
There had been four hours of it, and there
were many expressions favorable to Mr.
Darrow's motion. Nevertheless, the
speeches continued.
a. II. Henry of North Carolina occu-
pied New Hampshire's time He took
firm
convention was so impatient that he did
not have an opportunity to mention his
preference. The demontsrat.-n on the
part of the audience had by this time
become so pronounced that it was next
to impossible to hear either the names of
the speakers announced by the chair or
what they said.
Mr.. Crandall of New Jersey was cried
down, as We're several others who sought
to be heard. The convention was good
natured but unruly. There was a pro-
longed period of cat calls, yells, laughter
and paper throwing. but it was evident
that there could be no more speaking for
the time unless the speaker should have
something exceptional to say Mr..
Crandall began by trying to laugh it all
down, but could not get the opportunity
to speak. AS he returned to his seat
the crowd pelted him so Justify with
paper Wads and other missiles that he al
last gave up the attempt to speak and
took his seat.
All the evening the out-and- out Bryan
managers had been comforting earnest
ly over the situation. They had coun-
ciled with Chairman Jones' who was in
direct telegraphic communication with
CANDIDATE Bryan. Rumore flew about
among knowing ones, but the conven-
ton was in profound ignorance of what
was going on. The delegates were lis
tening to the nominating speeches on the
theory that they were nominating a
running mate for Bryan. When New
York was reached Mr.. Pence, on behalf
of that state, yielded his time to Colo
roda. AS Tom Patterson, who has been
one of the most earnest and active Bryan
managers. arose in his cahir, the con-
vention held its breath. sensation of
some sort was anticipated, but it did not
occur. The action of the delegates made
it unwise to spring the sensational fact
that Bryan would not accept the nomina-
tion on the terms the convention pro-
posed. Mr.. Patterson on behalf of Col
orado simply seconded the nomination
of Sewall The convention Kissed this
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