The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-07-22
QUESTION AS TO sEWALL.
TERMINED TO NAME A NEW
MAN.
,OLT is CONFIDENTLY EXPECTED.
No Matter What the Convention May
Do All the Factions Cannot be
Satisfied.

tomorrow, the former in the hall in
which the Republican national con-
vention was held five weeks ago, and
the latter in music hail. where Grover
| Cleveland was nominated in 1888. In
terest in the silver convention has
been completely eclipsed by the bitter
struggle among the Populists over the
question Of nominating or indorsing
Bryan. The programme of the silver
convention is cut and dried. There is
no division Of sentiment. Congress
man Francis Newlands, Of Nevada,
will be temporary chairman, and Will
liam P ST. John, the New York bank
er, permanent chairman. They will
deliver their speeches, a platfrom of
single plank in favor of the free
coinage Of silver at 16 to l will be
adopted, Bryan and Sewall will be in
dorsed an the convention will adjourn.
The Populists, on the other band, are
rent and torn by internal dissentions
and the contending factions will plunge
Immediately into fierce and deter
mined fight which may be prolonged
four or five days and which from pres
ent indications, will probably result in
bolt, no matter which faction pre-
of the convention, comprising as 1t
does many whose opinions on all ques-
tions seem to be diametrically opposed
and who hold and advocate those
opinions with a bulldog tenacity that
neither argument nor suasion seems
able to shake, the conflicting interests
and the conditions that hedge the sit
uation about, would stagger the old
est political prophet were he to at
tempt to forecast the result with any
thing like detail.
The Bryan men still appear to be
In control and the leaders are very
confident that they are in the majority.
Practically all the trained and ex-
per1enced generals are aligned with
them. They have the advice and
counsel of Senator Jones and the
shrewd Democratic managers, who
are vigilantly watching every point
In the battle, and able allies among the
Republican silver boilers and the del
egates to the silver convention. They
nave very thorough organization for
systematic and effective work. To-
day they were reinforced by the ar
rival of 500 Bryan Populist shouters
from Nebraska headed by Gov. Hol-
comb, 15O energetic Populist workers
from Kansas and many from other
parts of the West. They are passing
upon the middle of the road delegates
the view that the situation presents
the single issue, Mckinley or Bryan:
that the Western Populists insist upon
grasping the opportunity to vote on
| the silver issue where their votes will
count and that failure to nominate
SPLIT THE PARTY
wide open and cause dissensions that
will never heal
They confront the Southern delegates
and scattering squads from other sec
tions who want to keep in the middle
Of the road and have mo truck as
some of them express it, with either
of the old parties, especially the Demo-
cratic party, with which they have
been at war. While strong of convic-
ton and vociferous in their declara-
tions that they will never surrender
| the middle of the road delegates are
practically a disorganized crowd They
keep up great deal of enthusiasm at
their meetings, and loudly claim as
high as 400 majority in the convention
| The hotel corridors ring with their ora
| tory and the applause of their follow
ers, but their claims Of victory cannot
be figured out on paper unless in the
| final contest those who insist upon
compromise should side with them.
| In certain quarters, however, they
| appear to have unQuestionably gained
strength. In Washington state for in
stance, out Of IL Bryan men who came
| in the delegation, they claim to have
| captured all but 2. They argue that
they have disrupted both the old
political parties and with four
more years of old party rule.
! they will be able to sweep the
| country. Their meetings are the fea-
! ture Of the convention thus far. At
| the meeting today some one raised the
cry that man named Silas Ross, of
! Buffalo, was here in the interest of
] the Republican managers to prevent
| the Endorsement of Bryan, and a fight
was only averted by the discovery
that the man at whom the assault was
| levelled was some one else.
| The National Reform Press associa-
tion is backing the middle of the road
delegates with all the power it pos
sesses. Altogether they are making a
deafening noise which, as Senator AL
len said, creates an impression of num-
| bers and strength.
Despite the wild claims Of the shout
| ers, it was APPARENT today that some of
| their leaders were weakening. They
| were talking in a more temperate
strain and were suggesting compro-
| misses as the best road out of the tan
| gle Cyclone Davis, for instance.
| prepared a resolution which ne said
he would offer, declaring that in order
| to defeat Mckinley and the gold stand
| ard the Populists should agree upon
common electors. Riffs in the lutes of
several of the Southern middle-of-the-
road delegates were also discovered
notably in Texas. The out-and-outers,
/ If they should control, are all at sea
as to candidate. Paul vandervoort,
| of Nebraska, and Eugene v. Debs are
| about the only names canvassed since
| Congressman Towne, of Minnesota.
arrived today and announced himself
for Bryan Although the Bryan man
| ayers seem con1idant of success, they
| are by no means out of the woods. The
1 compromise propositions pressed upon
/ them are the principal source of their
| anxiety.
| Senator Butler, of North Carolina. is
essaying the roll Of peAcemaker All