The Meeker herald., 1896-04-25
ONE ISSUE ALONE.
SILVER THE ONLY PLANK
Popsrss Leaders Dispossd to Uaats with
saivss = PshaIeaas AsA Dsnoerass 70
Vote For Free Coinage Candidates
Neat Fall.

Neat Fail.
Denver. April 2O.-The Republican
says: Tie leading compromise POpu-
lists in the state met with H. E. Taube-
neck. the chairman OF the Populist Ma
tioInl committee. and !. B. Weaver. the
Populist candidate for president ut the
last election, at the Albany hotel Satur-
day.
As result of the conference it was
announced that from now on to the day
If election In November next the Popu-
list party. not only of this state, but of
the country. will eschew the Omaha
platform and stand with both feet on
the one plank of the free and unlimited
coinage of silver AT the ratio of Iii to i.
Mr.. Taubeneck came to Denver for
the express purpose OF attending the
conference. and Mr.. Weaver was here
on his way East from Oregon. where
he has been campaigning for his party
While, as Mr.. Taubeneck stated last
evening" the Populist party will place
candidates In the field for president ana
vice president, 1t is also true General
Weaver says, these candidates Will DE
the same persons as those chosen by the
silver forces. 1t is the belief OF the
leaders of this party that as the finan-
cai question is the pre-eminent Issue
II the day the silver forces should
unite and go to the polls as solid
phalanx against the opposition. which
will center in a single standard platform
and candidate.
The Populist National convention and
the Silver National convention will meet
on the same day at st. Louis, confer
cnce committees will be appointed from
each gathering and the same candidates
will be agreed on and the platforms VIII
practically the same.
The head of the national organization
of the Popuiist party states that it Is too
early to say definitely who will be the
silver candidates, but he told his friends
that he favored Judge Caldwell, presid-
ing Judge of the Federal Court Of Ap-
peals in the Missouri circuit fDr presi-
ent with n Southern man as candidate
for vice president There is no Populist
cure the nomination as head of the tic
ket and this seems TO he realized by
nearly all the Populist leaders. The
Republican and Democratic parties will
be called OH to supply the nominees.
At the conference here IT was decided
TO send nominees from the Populist
state convention pledged to the policy
of sinking all the vngaries of the Omaha
platform and coming out for silver
alone. and Of uniting with the National
Silver party. There was practical unan-
unity over this Ex-Governor Waite
was not present. it Is true, but his sup
porters were, and they were satified
with the presentation of the case by Mr.
Taubeneck, who believed In coalition,
while maintaining the state organiza-
tlon and nominating presidential elec-
tors who will support the same candi.
dates as the electors from the silver
party. BY this plan silver Republicans,
and silver Democrats would Join hands
with the Populists.
Some doubt was expressed regarding
the position Of Senator Tillman in the
matter of presidential candidates. it be.
ing the belief that he was an aspirant
for the first place. but it is stated OH
the authority of number of citizens
that he had said in a conference he had
with the silver leaders of this city the
day after his speech was delivered at
the Broadway theater that he was not n
candidate, that his name would not go
before the Democratic convention II,
Chicago or the silver convention at
st. Louis on July Do should the silver
cause be defeated at Chicago, but on
the contrary, he advocated the nomina-
ton of man from other than the old
Confederate states for good and sutfi-
cient political reasons. Tillman was the
compromise candidate of the Waite Pop
ulists in Colorado, but with him out of
the field they expressed satisfaction
with Judge Caldwell, whose rulings in
the railroad cases three years ago met
with general approval
Put me down, yes. put me down EN-
phatically as saying that there will be
union Of all the silver forces this COM
ing campaign" said General Weaver.
THE West and the South will he to-
gether and all the silver Populists and
silver Democrats and silver RepublI-
cans will unite at st. Louis on common
ticket and common platform
at Is true that the Populist party will
subordinate everything to the financial
question. The free coinage of silver Is
the great issue before the people and
the party to which belong. while tax
ing back nothing and still adhering to
the principles laid down at Omaha four
years ago, will be content with the one
plank Mt this time and will make cpm.