The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-07-24
ALrGELD FIXES HIMSELF

very little English.
ALTGELD FIXES HIMSELF
He Has Completed q Deal with the Pop
for a Renominaticn.
Chicago, July pa special to tht
| Tribune says:
sTt is as good as settled now that Alt
geld will be endorsed by the state Pop
ulistic convention of Illinois. The mat.
| ter was practically agreed on today
here in ST. Louis, and this afternoon
Chairman Maxwell of the state commit
tee issued the call for the convention
locating the place Of holding ii at Spring
field and fixing the date for August Il
| The matter was all done neatly and
quickly As stated In the Tribune this
morning, representatives OF Governor
Altgeld appeared here today, but instead
Of being Secretary Burke Of the COOK
county Popocratic committee and car
ence barrow OF Chicago, they We're
Thomas Gahan, member OF the Popo-
cratic national committee for Illinois,
Chairman of the Cook county Popo-
cratic committee for Illinois, and Gov
ernor Altgeld's appointee as member OF
the railroad and warehouse commission
who came here himself and brought
with MIN lleO. .NeLcSON, oeCTSbdiy w TIC
Popocratic state committee. Mr.. Ga
han is not only Governor Altgeld's right
hand bower in Cook county, but he
holds more Offices and represents more
authority in the state Popocrtic party
than does even Buck Heinrichsen,
its chairman, and any bargain he may
make would be the act Of one having
authority The Illinois Populists were
,u1xy o1o 70 him on6
welcomed him accordingly The agree
ment which Mr.. Gahan entered into with
the Illinois Populists was the one fore
Swallowed in the Tribune this morning.
In the first place the Populists agreed
to endorse Governor Altgeld and the
Popocratic state ticket at the Spring
field convention. In the second place
they also agreed TO endorse Democratic
candidate for congress and members
of the Legislature in districts where the
PopocratS had a clear majority over
them. In other districts, however, where
they had a good showing of strength it
was agreed that Populists should be
named on the legislative ticket along
with Popocrats, the two parties thus
to pool their issues in the attempt to car
ry the legislature and elect a free silver
United States senator The matter of
Populistic candidates for con-
gress in several districts where the
Populists claim strength was left open.
In return for the endorsement of Gov
ernor Altgeld and the state ticket it was
greed the Populists should have two
places on the Cook county Popocratic
ticket, the character of the places to be
decided afterwards.
II was found impossible to make the
OF Bryan by the Illinois
a, part of t-hie bargain. Taube
neck and some of his friends would not
consent to it, and the state delegation
not being under the unit rule, it would
have been difficult to make such a bar
gain operative. Besides this, the decis-
ion of the national committee this after
noon in seating both of the delegates
from Cook county and giving each dele
gate half a vote rather complicated mat
ters. So it was decided to allow the
Illinois delegates to vote as they pleased
here in st. Louis, the idea being they
would split up about two-thirds for
Bryan and one against, the main de-
sire of Mr.. Galan and Governor Alt
geld being to secure Populistic endorse
nent for the latter next month.
Speaking of the mater tonight, Chair
man Crandn SAID.
I do not see why there should be any
objection to recognizing the Populists
N the Cook county ticket this fan. They
have got a lot of votes in Hi
1ois. They cast s., 900 the last time. and
IS 900 votes are a good many; in fact,
enough to decide an election in even
30 large a state as ours. / thinks we
ire doing the wise thing in recognizing
acraaiomtr ~ +1,al
main with both our state and national |
ia forms
The Illinois delegates held caucus in |
Iurst's hotel here this evening and an |
Gttempt was made to bind them all to |
-ote for Bryan. but this failed. Taube- |
leck, Norton and a few others stood |
ut and declared themselves in favor |
# a third ticket Norton took the |
,round that he was not unalterably op-
'osed to the nomination or Endorsement |
f Bryan, but he thought the wishes of |
he Southern Populists ought to be con-
idered. In this he was joined by the !
ditors of a couple of Populistic papers
Who are here IS delegates from Illinois
: migt be remarked right here that all |
he editors Of Populist papers are in
avor of a thirdtfcket. and the Bryan
'eople are mean enough to say that |
hey care more for theirci rculation list
han they do for the principles of the
'arty- However this may be, the eff
orts TO unite the Illinois delegates eth
r one way or the other proven failures,
nd so the meeting finally adjourned
fter eleceting its members of the var
ons committee with the understanding
hat each delegate could vote as he |
LEASED in the convention