Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-07-23
OBSERVED OF ALL.
Populists at St. Louis Watched
With Eagerness.
Convention Gets a Good Start and
Elects the Various Committees.
AdIourns Without Doing Anything Important
Will Bryan Be Endorsed?

st. Louis. July 22.-In the Popuist con
Vehtioh today. Governor Stone delivered
,tle dduress or welcome. Hon lgnatiu:
lonneily responded The selection of th'
center OF this great valley for the con
Heh'ion OF the Peoples party, he said
, MS particularly appropriate. becalis,
w asrlcutural and iaboring population
o. inns country 1T began at million
tlrfsldeA where farmers in the silence oi
.hsh MONIES studied out for themselves
the causes OF the attiictions they endured
and united TO iind remedy. our city
friends ne continued. for a time regarded
II II, as movement hostile to themselves.
ney MEYER could be further from the
iuth. II ~ ~ last daWning even Upon
me minus OF our Tar Eastern cities ifl
asserting TO the evil conditions that now
surround us they have destroyed their
own prosperity tCheersl
ME reaching out for foreign mar
kttS where they mus encounter the hos
unity OF the whole world. they have per-
mhted theW own natural market. where
lheN had Il monopoly. to fall into poverty
ana Indebtedness. and they are. today.
IN sack cloth ana ashes feeling the re-
suit of that mistaken policy. Uoud
cheersD
Mr.. oonnelly closed by making an elo-
Guent appeal for unity II stood" he
said. at the cradle of the old tsreenback
party. Cheers) lstood at the cradle of
the People party God forbid hat
should be heretoday. to attend its funeral.
stand together. friends. lift up your
hearts to the ma jesty and dignity of the
duties laid upon your shoulders The
men OF Valley Forge had no more sub
lime ana tremendous duty than we have.
today No man however great is worth
a sciutilla against the interests of this
great party"
The chairman asked the members OF
the executive committee to step up to
tn platform. Among those who thus al
vaneed was Mrs. Mary Ellen Lease. who
was warmly choered
Chairman Taubeneck introduced as
temporary chairman of the convention
Senator Marion Butler of North Carolina
who WAS received with three cheers.
which he characterized as Cyclone Of
patriotism. History showed. he said
that there always came a crisis in the
AFFAIRS OF men when humanity was raised
whose shoulders the responsibility rested
were able TO meet the crisis with wisdom
and patriotism. Cheers,
And 10 solve them 10 the betterment Of
humanity. two political conventions. he
said. had held national conventions. this
year; had adopted platforms: had put
Forward their leaders: and now another
great political party. young hut growing
gigantic in strength. had to assembled TO
speak to the American people in this
critical and important hour. Cheers
The PopulistS We're here because there
was need of them TO be here The parties
that had charge Of the government since
the war had succeeded IN bringing the
nation to the verge Of bankruptcy ana
OF {he lop'illst irs'hiza ton; tn.
other in ..straddIjnse Now ..strn.idline''
was a thing Of the past He went on TO
sPrak ot me tranSp9rlatlon question as
uitestion." ana declared mar both fhes,.
great questions would have 10 be solved
giofe inc Gountry go, natk 20 pf9SpefllS'
would uot pxjet tn,lav II IL ,rae NOT for
ITS co partnership with transportation
SoHlpdhieS' - 'ht IeopIt party Wtf" "
nemocr.,tie nStinn4l nnnvfntin, ynt,id
report q platform on which Bryan would
uo' stahd; tirefS1 ihc ftotlt party
ana SO irnnnrtnnt INN II haI spl,t hotl,
Old parties in TWO. daughter ana APP
plAuse'l what + Your duty. today. II Is
,v3 rnn,leun ybntt /, ,srn',tr NJ a.b"r
cours" is true l'opuism. If you waiver
IN your principles "a delegate. We VIII
IMAM me- o)d oariirs when v"u wers
raised to destroy.
h;,Ne spht notn ne OH parties.
,yilt Nor sniit hdrh ,i,e we etani nno,,