The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-22
THE SALT LAKE HERALD WEDNESDAY JULY Y.

itself if the committee had not been so
/ evidently favorable to Butler.
His selection is accepted as victory
/ in the committee at least for those
who are opposed to the nomination Of
both Bryan and SewaE. It was al first
the plan of the Bryan and SewaH ad-
/ yocates to put up General Weaver for
! the position but they changed at the
! last moment to General Fields of Vir-
GINA, VINO was on the presidential ticket
] with General Weaver four years ago.
4 They believed the opposing faction
would be divided between Butler and
! Mr.. Hines, of Georgia. Mr.. Hines was,
/ however, not placed in nomination,
! leaving the straights united upon SEN
ator Butler. General Fields was placed
in nomination, but when it became ap-
parent -hat Hines was out of the race
and when the committeeman from one
state after another rose to second the
! nomination of Butler, Hines friends
withdrew his name and allowed Butler
to be nominated by reclamation.
Senator Butler was placed in nomi-
nation by w A Guthrie, of North
Carolina, who eulogized him as the son
Of a North Carolina farmer and spoke
! of him as a patriot and philanthropisG.
| He said Senator Butler was the young
senate since the days of Clay, and that
he had won and worn his laurels there
as worthily.
/ Numerous seconding speeches were
made and the nomination was made
/ by reclamation amid a volley of ap-
| plause.
]. w. Hayes of the Knights of Labor,
and w. D. Vincent were chosen tenn
porary secretaries.
The national committee at it's afternoon
meeting took up the various contests for
! seats, the Illinois contest being the first
/ in order This contest involves the seats
/ Of twenty-five delegates from the con-
I gressional districts comprised in the city
/ of Chicago. It was charged that the con-
ventions were irregular and each side
/ claimed the other was composed of men
who We're not Populists. One of the dele
cations was headed by H. S. Taylor and
/ the other by William Burns, who was
an officer of the American Railway union
/ and was imprisoned with Eugene V. Debs
! after the Chicago strike.
! Speeches were made by both Burns and
I Taylor, who went over the merits of the
/ controversy in detail and INDUCED in
mutual ordinations. Burns claimed that
the Taylor people were not Populists. He
charged them with lukewarmness in con-
nection with the cause Of the men en-
! gagged in the great strike, and insisted
that the TayloTites had taken a position
against
! in signing the Chicago manifesto in the
! interest of Senator Teller for the presi-
! dency. The contest was decided by the
! adoption by the committee of a motion Of
! fered by lgnatius Donnelly giving each
member of both delegations half vote,
the vote in favor of this motion being 40
to IS.
The hearing of the Ohio case followed
This controversy applied to the Nineteenth
OHIO district involving three district seats
nj a a
at large. The district CONTESTANTS on one
side were r. Nj. Smith, j. &. Milleryand,
Carl ID. Newton, and on the other j. NJ.
Frederick. j. c. Doolttle and NJ. H Web
ster. The only issue was as to the reg
ularity of the call for the two conventions.
! The Smith convention was called by the
! state committee and the Frederick dele
cation by the congressional committee.
The national committee took the position
that the congressional call was regular and
seated the Frederick delegation. This dis
cussion had the effect of deciding the state
contest between Hugo Pryor and John
Sites IN favor Of Pryor.
Police were stationed outside the doors
! of the hall in which the national COM
mittee he'd its session and they were fire.
qUenuy IN demand to prevent personal
encounters between the contrasting dele
cations from Chicago. There was one
flsticuf between Dr.. H. S. Taylor, the
man Of the opposing delegation Neither
was hurt, but as it was evident some
one was likely to be, the police were
called.
The Illinois case was again under con-
sideration in, the committee, which had
decided to reopen the contests upon the
request of the members of the delega-
ton whose seats were not contested, and
who had unanimously declared the Taylor
faction were entitled to the seats. After
an hours deliberation the committee re-
versed its decision Of this afternoon
which gave half a, vote to each member Of
3 GenoO1fiCnC
80 TO q to seat the Taylor delegates.
THE DEFEATED FACTION
now declare that the committee was
packed and that tonight's action was nee
esSary to sustain MIR. Taubeneck in his
position of national chairman. The Tau
beneck-Tayior people were very much
elaEed over the result.
The contest from tae Eleventh Missouri
district was decided in favor of Frank
e. Richie VINO contested the seat claimed
the election of Talbot as a delegate had
been determined in the district convention
by the votes Of six men Who afterfords
made affidaNits that they were Demo-
Gratis. Louis Quailmetz was seated from
the East St Louis Qll.) district in place
of Mr. McDili, who had moved from the
district.
The contesting Fourth Wisconsin dis
trict between r. A Coie and Samuel
Isaacs, for a seat as alternate, was de-
cided in favor of Cole.
Tne COLORADO contest, involving the
seats of the forty-five delegates from that
state, was the last on the list Ii was
decided without discussion in favor OF rhe
regular delegation headed by the Hon.
Thomas NJ. Patterson. R. 4. Southwcrth,
who since the retirement of Governor
Waite has headed
THE CONTRASTING DELEGATION
and who had sat all day as a member
of the national committee, made an effort
to prevent action by raising the point Of
no quorum, but he was not sustained. This
action on his part attracted attention TO
him and resulted in the point being raised
that he was not member OF the national
committee and had no right to sit as
such A motion was thereupon adopted
declaring that he was noa entitled to q
seat in the committee; the motion also