Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-05-12

be adopted. and that the order will be ar
rayed in the coming fight against McKin-
ley.
While this confidence is manifested by
one side. the opposition is equally as con-
fdent. Vice President Jackson, who is a
candidate for supreme president and who
IS one of the leaders for. Mckinley said
that he had predicted how the matter
would end and he believed, he was old
enough as politician to know that he was
right. 1t will be remembered that in an in
terriew in yesterdays Star he said that the
campaign committee would be defeated.
Supreme Secretary OF State Dunbar is also
opposing the committee.
How 1t VIII BE Done.
The men who are fighting the campaign
committee say they have no desire to hu-
initiate the members of the committee and
to charge them with improper conduct in
promulgating their opposition TO McKin-
ley. They say that it can be proven that
Mckinley has not been any more hostile to
the y. L. a than other candidates. who
were not condemned. TO make the punish
ment of the committee light. the Nc fiinley
men viii simply introduce i'll council res
olution that the work CT the campaign com
mittee was Illegal, and that therefore, its
action was null and void The adoption of
this resolution would remove the ban of
Il. p. A. opposition to Mckinley, and
would he q Cuict letting down. as il is eX-
pressed for the committee.
The resolution, II is s;t.a, viii not be jim
troducCd until after the mckinley me-:
have introduced rsbuttai evidence, SHOWING
that Mckinley is net hostile 10 the order
This rebuttal testimony will it is claimed
contradict a number of the aifidavits in
the possession of the campaign committee.
What the Other Side VIII Do.
The campaign committee and its friends
have a plan of their own. After present
ing their evidence they will say: Now. If
tbs testimony is not sufficient against
Mckinley we propose 4 committee of FIVE
70 leave here at once to go to Major Nc
<inley and propourd certain questions to
him to be answered without straddling or
evasion. We propose that he shall answer
these questions in is own handwriting. If
his answers are satisfactory then we VIII
agree with you that he has been done an
injustice. II this plan isn't fair. what IS?
1t VIII Start Tonight.
The fight will start tonight when the tuli
advisory board Will meet to hear the re-
port of the campaign committee. Then the
advisory board VIII report to the Supreme
Council tomorrow or next day None but
members of the advisory board will be al
lowed at tonight's meeting. One rule Of
the order is that every meeting shall be
attended strictly by those having a right liz
it. For nStance, wne1 the Supreme Coun-
Gil is III session, member of the advisory
board cannot be present unless he is a
delegate from his state. No person who is
rot a DELEGATE is given admttance. There
will be several sem.-open sessions during
the conventions, which will be attended by
members of the order who not dele
gates.
The Financial Question.
While the Mckinley and anti-Mcknley
men are lining up for their little affair the
financial questions are being brought in.
certain element which believes that
neither the republican nor democratic pres
idential rominees will be favorable to the
A P. A wants the order to unite itself with
the various silver parties to meet at st.
Louis in July. One of the leading men ad
vocating this idea is said to be Col. E. H.
Sellers of Detroit, president of the Asso-
ciated Patriotic orders. Col. Sellers is even
said to be cooked and primed tor call for
a convention of representatives of the pa
triotic orders throughout the country, to be
held at St. Louis on July q, day in ad-
vance of the conventions of the silver ana
populist parties. Col. Sellers, it is limited
is loaded with political ammunition to in
duce the supreme council to take this
course
President Traynor is understood to be
favorable to such a movement. He believes,
it is said that this is the opportunity for
the order The financial question Will not
enter into the selection of q supreme presi-
dent, but Mr.. Traynor is said to be favora-
BILE to the election of Col. Won Fossen of
the state of Washington, who is a silver
man.
Something of Mr.. TraynOr.
President Traynor was born at Branford,
Canada. July 4, 1S45 and came to this
country Which, he was twenty-one years old.
He says he was born among the Six Nation
Indians, and was educated in log school
house. He elected president of the
American Protective Association in 1893.
At that time, he told a Star reporter, the
membership was about 1000. Now, he
says, it is over $500, ZOO. He says there are
councils of the order in every state and
territory in the Union, and that it has been
firmly established in England. Germany
and the Netherlands, besides in Hawaii,
where it Is fourishing.
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