The San Francisco call., 1896-08-15
He Worked in Congress With
His Third Party Col
leagues.
THERE ARE COUNTER.BLAsTs.
Fears That the Placing of a Peoples
Party Man in the Field Would
Elect O'Brien.

The Populists have not succeeded in get
ting what they expected from the Democ-
rscy in the matter of the proposed fusion
on Congressman, particularly in those
districts in which the Democracy feels
well and strong. Negotiations had been
pending for some time between the two
parties with reference to a candidate for
Congress from the Fifth District, but no
agreement could be reached, and the Con-
gressional Convention which will meet in
San Jose to-day will nominate a straight
Populist.
Taylor Rogers, Mayor Sutro's secretary,
is the man slated by the party for that
Office, and he will doubtless receive the
nomination.
Mr.. Rogers occupies a unique position.
He was a member of the Populists' Ma
tional Convention at st. Louis last month,
and Mr.. Bryan is his candidate. Bryan is
fer the unlimited coinage of silver, while
MIR. Rogers is a fiat-money man and has
written very entertaining book embody-
ing his thoughts TO the effect that gold
and silver are comm odities and therefore
not true money.
As Bryan and his silver clients are the
nominees of the Peoples party as well as
do the split act in attempting to stand
upon his book and upon Mr.. Bryan's plat
form at one and the same time.
But there's no knowing what man can
do when lie is in politics.
Democratic leaders have fixed things
with Popuhst leaders with reference 10
the Congressional fight in the Fourth
District, and it is now conceded that no
candidate will be nominated against Judge
Mcguire in that district.
The Fourth District delegation held a
meeting just before they went 10 st. Louis
and decided not to take any action with
reference to a CONGRESSMAN until after the
session of the National Convention. They
have not formally met since, but they
have come to al understanding that Ma
guire will be acceptable to all the members
of the Peoples party.
''Magmre is with US on the financial
question:" said Carlton Johnson of the
Peoples party State Central Committee
Yesterday and he has worked with the
Populists in Congress on other measures.
20 Brien will get considerable of the
irish Democratic votes, as ne has many
friends in the district, and it therefore
would not do to endanger Maguires cleo
ton by putting up third candidate"
r. Z. Bush, secretary of the People 8
party State Central Committee, resents
the imputation that he has been muzzIed
by the remainder of the committee. He
said yesterday that he had referred re-
porters and other neutrality-suspicious. to
Chairman WardaIl for whatever informa-
tion he might choose to give. Mr.. Bush
declined to wear a muzzIe for any man or
set of men.
There is something back of this little
episode Populists are not giving out TO the
reporters. 1t will be remem bered that at
q meetiag of the Peoples party County
Committee in Mozart Hall several weeks
ago communication was read from Sec
retary Bush in which he asked several
pointed questions with reference to the
proposed fusion with the Democracy.
The communication was not received
with very good grace and ]. Asbury
Johnson and others objected to its being
read on technical grounds, but it was read
notwithstanding and was published in
The CALL. Its tenor by implication was
uufavorable to fusion.