The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-30
THE POPULIsT CONFERENCE.
a Split in the Party-COnventiOn in
February.


There were two meetings of Populists in
this city yesterday--one held at the English
Hotel, the other in the Vajen block. The
two meetings were not in harmony and the
aforementioned claimed to be 1.-The only real
thing" declaring that majority of the
state central committee members were pres
ent at its session, which was for the purpose
of transacting routine business in connec-
ton with the last election alone and that
the English Hotel gathering was one of
rank outsiders" who had induced few
members of the committee to stray from
the narrow path into the devious ways of
discussion of fusion plans. At the hotel
meeting there were forty present, many of
them Populists of prominence in the State
under the craftsmanship of Samuel Walker,
of Greenfield. The most prominent mem
Der of the committee present was A. p
Hanna, its chairman, and the sense of the
meeting was wholly in sympathy with the
intents and purposes of the 'middle-of the
road movement
At the English Hotel meeting were pres
ent c. w. f. Bartling, Decatur; c. S. Smith,
Monticello; N, H. Motsinger, Shoals; c. Nj.
Walter, Rossvile: A. p Hanna, Wave
land; c. S. Presler, Bloomington; John
George, Frankfort A. G.. Burkhart, Upton
county, and D. b. Burkhart, of Hamilton
county, besides other local Popusts
The resolutions passed at the English Ho-
tel conference, to which, after the commit
tee meeting, some members of the commit
tee adjourned were as follows, and do not
seem to be as aggressively worded as the
committee feared they might be:
BE 1t resolved That we demand a dele
gate convention, to be called to meet Feb.
2, 1899, at indianapolis, Ind: that each del
egate be required to subscribe to the follow
ing pledge: / hereby pledge my honor as a
citizen of the community in which / reside
that | voted the Peoples party ticket i'm
the election of $685. and / further pledge
myself to the support of the principles of
the Omaha platform The object of the
the state central committee and to select
one national committeeman to fill the va
cancy caused by the removal of w. +. Aus
tin to another State, and to devise WAYS
and ways by which complete reorganiZa-
ton of the Peoples party in each county in
Indiana can be effected; and,
Further be it resolved, That each county
chairman bear in person mail a list of
delegates from his county to the state
chairman, together with the pledges of
each, to be turned over to the committee
on credentials of said convention when APP
pointed. Each county chairman is hereby
authorized to call county convention not
later than the first Saturday in February
1892, to select delegates to attend said state
convention, the basis of representation TO
be one delegate from each county and one
for each twenty-five votes or additional
fraction thereof given for secretary of state
in November 1898.
BE it resolved That we request w B.
Gill. our senator i'm the present Legislature
to present resolution in favor of the
initiative and referendum.
This was signed by w. j. Carmichael
hart Thomas S. East, Parker I. Brown A.
@. Burkhart.