Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1896-07-30

The midle-of-the-road men tried :,
elect ]. E. Campion of Maine nsrr..
nent chairman but were beaten To-.
and Georgia were especially villa :
their demonstrations for him an
got 1853 votes to 564 for Campion TSsi.
victory made the Bryan shouters fo,.
~ crazy with joy.
Friday the convention reassan,h,.
at 10 q m. and by vote of 7S5 u -.
adopted a sensational rule to nom,no,s
candidate for vice president 6rst
This was victory for the element ~,
was antagonistic to Sewall and tho,
wanted southern man on the ticra.
This revolutionary proposition ereatas
a long, angry and exciting debate IT,
fear of the anti-Sewall element we.
that if Bryan was endorsed first sawan
would be named in the excitemoa,
sure to ensue.
At the evening session nominat,on.
for vice president were called for and
Colonel Bowman took the platform ana
placed in nomination Congressman
Harry Skinner of North Caroline
Congressman Howard of Alabama
placed Thomas E. Watson of Georgis
in nomination. Howard was followed
by j. r. Sovereign of Arkansas wbo
seconded the nomination of Watson
James r. Johnson also seconded Wat.
sons nomination. Colorado yielded u
New York, and LATE Pence named Sew.
all. Amman Murphy seconded Wat.
sons nomination. l.. s Stockwell ~
Indiana also seconded Watsons nomi
nation. The name of Frank Burkitt NJ
Mississippi was suggested by I. WA.
Ter of Iowa. Col. Harris Of Kentucky
seconded Sewall's nomination Indga
Doster of Kansas seconded Watson,o
nomination. Captain Burnham Of Ten.
nessee nominated A. L. Mimms of Ten.
nessee. G. NJ. Miller of Illinois. see.
onded the nomination of Mimms ana
Judge A. A. Gunby, that of Watson
Prof. L. c. Bateman of Maine. nom
mated Marion Page of Virginia presi.
dent Of the Farmers Alliance Of that
state. Ignatius Donnelly of Minnesota
eloquently seconded Watson's nomina.
ton. Thomas e. George, the blind ora
tor of Mississippi seconded the nom
ination of Burkitt. Donovan of Mon
tana seconded Sewalls nomination
George Abbott of Nebraska made
humorous speech seconding Watson's
nomination. Rogers of California sec
onded SINNERS nomination Senator
Stewart of Nevada, who was for Bry.
an and Sewall, was howled down by
the middle-of-the-road men. The yot-
ing then began and before the first bal.
lot had proceeded very far it became
evident that Watson would be nom
mated. Some one moved that the nom
ination be made unanimous which pre-
vailed amid much enthusiasm on the
part Of the middle-of-the-r road men. It
was noticed that Watsons nomination
was announced at 16 minutes to
o'clock Saturday morning. This caused
great hurrah of &c to l." Congress
man Howard of Alabama then moved
an adjournment until O'Clock Satur-
day morning and the motion was car
ried, The Saturday proceedings are
given in detail above. Thomas f. Wat
son Of Georgia was a member Of the
fifty-first congress and in the fifty-set-
ond and fifty-third congresses unsuc-
cessfully contested Col. Blacks seat
He is 40 years old, lawyer and a
farmer.
The platform adopted is very long
1t fayors free silver, better land laws
and government control of railways
telegraph. etc The national free sir
yer party also met and endorsed BryaA
and Sewall