Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-07-28
POLITICAL.

Chairman Hanna, Of the republican
national committee, left Cleveland for
New York yesterday to attend con-
ference of the eastern republican lead
ers.
William P. st. John, treasurer of the
Bryan campaign, yesterday opened ne
gotiations for Madison Square Garden,
New York, where Bryan may be noti-
fled of his first nomination on Aug. -.
The republican delegates who bolted
the st. Louis convention think that
Watson will withdraw from the popu-
list ticket. Senator Mantle and Con-
gresham Hartman, republicans, of
Montana, say they will support MIR.
Bryan for the presidency.
The silver party has established tenn
porary headquarters in the Corcoran
Building, Washington. Future events
will determine whether it will be con-
tinued there 1t is rumored that the
populist national executive committee
will also make its headquarters in that
city.
The republicans of Halifax yesterday
held mass meeting to elect delegates
to the Lynchburg convention on the
30th. j. 3. Stovall declined to run for
Congress. He was an ardent free silver
advocate, but says he will bow to the
will of the majority. The delegates
next to him favor J. Hampton Hoge.
The affairs of the peoples party are
now in the hands of Senator Butler, of
North Carolina, the new chairman.
Yesterday the nine members of the re-
firing populist executive committee
made formal settlement with the new
committee in st. Louis They turned
over to Chairman Butler and Secretary
Edgerton all the money on hand, and
their accounts were approved.
"Cyclone" Davis, the Texas leader of
the anti-Bryan forces in the populist
convention, has accepted the result.
He says "There were thousand men
in that convention who differed with
me, and there could have been but one
result-the selection of Bryan. 1t was
case of either making them believe
that they were wrong and myself and
little band of $50 were right or give up.
We have to give up, of course. We
were not all statesmen and the thou
sand on the other side were neither
fools nor traitors. We concluded they
were right"
While it has not yet been definitely
decided, there will probably be no for.
NAL notification of Bryan by either the
populists or silver men. 1t was learn
ed from a prominent western member
of the silver national committee that it
is the intention of both the silver and
populist committees to waive the usual
formal notification, and on August II
hold ratification meeting in New
York, at which Bryan's nomination for
the presidency will be announced. W.
P. St. John, treasurer of the national
silver party, however, says that the
formal notification of Bryan and Sewall
as the nominees of the silver party will
take place in Baltimore.
Capt. Edmund r. Cooke, of Cumber-
land, and Major Mann Page, of Prince
George, two delegates from this State
to the st. Louis populist convention,
reached Richmond Sunday night on
their way home. Major Page says that
it was Bryan convention from the
start. II have reason" said Major
Page, "to believe that Hanna had his
hepchmen in the convention, and they
were running that middle-of-the-road
crowd. The thing for the two national
committees to do now," said Major
Page, sis to get together and call off
both Sewall and Watson and nominate
man acceptable to both parties. Then
victory would be easy" Major Page
says that the fact that the populists are
making big fight to carry several
States in the local elections in the next
four weeks had much to do with in
fluencing the convention in putting up
a ticket for vice president.