The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-07-25

bers to the North Carolina delegation
and begged them to change their vote
and pledged many votes to Col. Harry
Skinner for Nice-President if North
Carolina would change its vote. Then
Col. Skinner mounted a chair and said:
"Mr. Chairman, North Carolina cast
it's vote TO nominate d President first,
after pledges from Kansas and other
States that afterwards a PopulisJ
should be nominated for Nice-Presi-
dent. Unless we can have better assur-
ances TO hat effect, we wild change
our vote.
The assurances did not seem to be
forthcoming. and Col skinner an
nounced that North Carolina would
change its vote. This turned the scale
and ii was the first victory for fha mid
dle-of- .he-road men. They made the
wal]l.Hg ring with an applause and
hurahing shat lasted for more than
half m hour.
Immediately d boom was started 10
nominate Harry Skinner for Nice-Presi-
dent. aud Senator Butler and other
North Carolinians busted themselves
cultiyating the boom.
Boyd. of Alabama, placed Skinner in
nomination for Nice-President.
Walter Henry'S speech seconding the
nomination of Harry Skinner was very
good if it could have been heard. He
could not be heard, and his gestures
were so original that The speech was
a pantomime that created great mer-
riment.
Major Guthrie. in seconding Skin
ner's nomination, said Stewart caused
him to change his politics. when the
Republican party became corrupt. /
left it, We want no gold standard or
Force bills He likened the Peoples
party to David, and said it was ready
to make a covenant with the young
orator of the Platte, whom he likened
TO Jonathan. He said the gold men
had put up golden calf and com
manded the people TO worship it. I'VE
want Bryan to hold the head of the
calf and Skinner TO skin it." He made
a very happy impression.
4 negro delegate-at-large from Geor-
gia. who is also an acting member of
the executive committee, seconded
Tom Watson's nomination. He re-
ceived an ovation. He says there are
10000 negro Populists in Georgia.
I.afe Pence nominated Sewall in the
speech Of the convention, making an
eloquent plea for no division among
silver men 4 Michigan man seconded
the nomination, saying that in 1880 he
ran for Congress on the Greenback
ticket in Maine. and that its success
was largely due TO Sewall. He declared
that part OF the delegates from Michi-
gan were Mckinleyites.
When Senator Stewart sought to
speak for Sewall he was hissed. Butler
Il. Il . h1A
insult.
To-days Chronicle prints the follow
ing:
..If the Populist convention should
endorse Bryan and reject Sewall what
effect would it have in the campaign p
was the question the Chronicle pro-
pounded TO the most important Popu-
list in St. Louis, and he wrote the
following reply:
1T would mean the election of Mr..
BRYAN with the Vice-Presideney in
doubt. The Peoples party would not
only perserve its organization, but
would come out of the campaign
stronger than it went in. If the con-
tinued considering of Sewall as Il
Democratic candidate should embar-
rass or make doubtful the result the
responsibility will rest upon the Demo
cratic managers. When the Peoples
party has approved what is right and
rejected what is wrong, it has done IFS
full patriotic duty, both for itself as
a party and for the best interests of the
country.
"(Signed) MARION BUTLER.
United States Senator, North Caro-.
lima
There is so much resentment by the
middle-of-the-road men against Butler.
that he win not be able to do rs
much for Harry Skinner as he eX-
pected. He will be given the respon-
sibility for leading the forces against
endorsine Sewall and for making the
iddle-of-the-road men take Bryan.
Their victory in defeating Sewall en-
boldens them and some Of them would
defeat Bryan if they could, but every
speaker praises him as a successor tc
jefferson and Lincoln.
JOSEPHUS DANIELS.