Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-07-18
THE PEOPLES PARTY.
lis Executive Committee Preparing for
Next Weeks Convention.
QUESTION OF ENDORSING BRYAN.
"MiddIc-of-the- Pops, Who
Are Anti-Bryan, Have Opened
vention to he No Small Affair.

81. LOUIS, MO-, July 1.-THE EXecu-
tive Committee Of the Peoples Party
National Committee will meet here to-
morrow, and Will decide upon recon-
nendations to be made to the National
Committee as to the best course to be
pursued by that party next week. The
committee is in favor of nominating
ticket. and making a party platform. rot
unlike the one drawn up at Omaha.
At the same time the temporary Of
fcers Of the convention will be practical
~ decided upon. Cyclone" Davis. Of
Texas. will very likely capture the first
honors, Senator Marion Butler. Of North
Carolina, and Thomas s. Petit, OF
Owensboro', Ky, are aspirants to the
place. however. and may give Davis a
close race.
Senator Butler is said to be opposed
to endorsing Bryan, or any candidate OF
any other party. Petit is in favor OF
endorsing Bryan.
"The "middle-of-the-road" men pro-
pose 10 crystalline the anti-Bryan seni-
ment by means OF a public meeting sun
day afternoon at 2 o'clock in the Laclede
Hotel. All delegations and Popuists who
want a separate ticket and an inde-
pendent Populist organization are expect
ed 10 be present. and the campaign
AGAINST Bryan will then and there bd
formally opened.
PROHIBITIONISTS FOR BRYAN.
The Populists are highly pleased over
the withdrawal OF G. a. Wind'e. y Fair
bury. Ill. nominee OF the Prohibition
marty for Lieutenant-G Governor Of that
state. Mr. Windle withdraws his name
in order that he may come out for Bryan
and the Chicago platform.
Among late arrivals are r. A. South
worth and George G. Hakstah. TWO
"miidle-of-thc-road" Populists. from Iowa.
Nr. southworth IS national secretary Of
the Farmers Alliance. The two gentle
men have opened an anti-Bryan headquar-
ters at the Hotel Barnum.
on the other hand, Colonel Bailey, OF
Oklahoma. opened his Bryan boom yes
terday by swinging an oklahoma Bryan
banner 10 the breeze in front OF the Lin
dell Hotel. Colonel Bailey says he will
have several hundred Bryan boomers here
next Monday from oklahoma and Kan
sas. The Colonel IS a veteran campaign
or. He managed Jerry Simpsons cane
didacv for Congress until the Repubh-
can landslide OF 1Ssi buried the Kansas
statesman out OF sight.
Sergeant-at-Arms Mcdowell has made
Arrangements with the st. Louis police
10 furnish men 20 take care Of the crowds
at the convention hall.
SILVER PARTY CONVENTION.
Mr.. NJ. F. Dowd. OF ST. Louis. Is to
serve as sergeant-at-arms OF the silver
party's convention. 10 be held at husic
Han next week He received his ap-
pointment yesterday from Dr. J. J. Mott.
chairman Of the National Committee Mr..
Dowd will proceed at once TO organize
a corps OF assistants. He T. going TO
have fifty doorkeepers. the same
number Of assistant sergeants-at-arms,
twenty-five ushers. and about az many
pages and messengers
'The silver party convention Is going
10 be n big affair" said Mr. Dowd this
morning. Senator Teller will be here,
and so will several hundred other Colo
RADIO silver men. Missouri. Arkansas,
Nebraska. Minnesota. Idaho. Montana,
and n number Of other Western States
will send full delegations"
Mr.. Dowd says that the two conven-
fions next week will not be united. 4
conference committee on nominations
NAV be appointed. and. II the silver
narty's convention decides 70 support the
chicago ticket. every effort viii be made
hv the Music-Hall crowd 20 secure SINH
lar action from the Populists. said the
gentlemen "But we shall not march 70
their hall or they 10 ours. Nor VII there
be any Joint agreement a. 70 platform
We shall conhne our platform 10 the one
question OF free silver coinage. The Pop
ullsts NAV attempt something more
KANSAS sILvERITEs FOR BRYAN.
TOPEKA. KAN. July 1.-THE Ameri-
can silver party State convention. COM
posed OF over three hundred delegates.
A nd repre- senting four ffths Of the coun-
ties In the State yesterday afternoon
elected sixty delegates 10 the national
silver convention al 81. Louis. and In
structed them to vote as a unit for VII
liam j. Bryan FOR President.
The Republicans were in full control Of
the convention. most OF the delegates
being Republicans or Democrats. OF the
delegates. all were Republican UP 10 the
time % the national convention. and of
the forly-nine district delegates. all but
fifteen are Republicans.
The resolution commends Senator Tel
Ter and his associates for boiling the Re
publican National Convention. and in
struct the Delegates 10 the national con
vention 20 confer and act with bolting
Republicans in an enfeavor 70 solidiiy
all the free-silver forces.