The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1898-06-23
rHB OMAHA
MEETING.
The National Committee Of the
Peoples Party has Acted on the
Proposition Of the Mid
dle-of-ths Readers.
TIE DISORGANIZERS BOLT.

THE DISORGANIZERS BOLT.
The Nationsi Committee Decide. That
Thee Shall be no National Nominating |
Conv ention Cafl 1890 Chairman BusIer |
10 sa.tained-Earh state to Decide for
itself the Question of Co-operasioa or |
no Cooperation Meeting Will Re
suit In Great Good to the P>rty-Coa-
servsiise of-the-Roah-r. De
nounce the Action Of the Di,orgH oiz~rr.
Special to TIKI CAUCASIAN.
OMAHA, NEBRASKA, June l.ih or
Wednesday the 18Th. a e '.di"x 'n call
the Peoples Party National Executive
Committee met IN this city. Head
quarters w-r- nj the Mercer Hotel,
where arrangements had been made
for the committee to meet in I, he club
room 81 the hotel. hut hp attendance
at the committee msetinG was so large
that il WAS necessary To change the
place Of the meeting to Crei khtOn Hall.
THE WORK OF THK CREDENTIALS COM
MITTEE.
National Committee to order it WAS
ascertained that there were . number
of contests as to who were the legal
from certain States. The national
plan OF organiza i'm of the Peoples
Party provides that the members of
the National Committee from any
State, who were elected at the last Ma.
tional Convention, may be displaced
and successors elected for them IN any
State by any regular State Convention
of said State before the assembling of
the next National Convention. In ev-
cry State WHERE the extreme middle-Of.
the-rOaders, who have been fighting
Chairman Butler and the National
Committee, have controlled the State
COny atl0ns they have summarily re-
moved the committeeman that endOrf {.
ed his policy and supplanted Them
with men Of the extreme radical type.
1t was charged that in some States the
extreme middle Of-the-rOaders had
called rump State Convention for the
express purpose of removing commit.
teemen, knowing that the people would
not attend q State Convention that
was not a nominating convention.
Besides, in other States, the extreme
middle Of-Of.the-rOad element, where
they could not control State Conven.
| ton, had bOlted and set up cOnven-
ton of their own and proceeded to
elect National committeeman. This
| was the case in Pennsylvania, where
the bolt was headed by Wharton Bar
ker, and was the case in OF her States.
In this connection it might be stat ed
| that in the States where the POpuiists
who stand lOyaly by the action Of the
| last National Convention were in con-
troll they did not remove members Of
the National Committee, simply be-
| cause they have their own views as to
questions of policy. This was notably
true in North Carolina, Chairman But
ler's own State, where the recent State
Convention endorsed him and hi.
policy by an overwhelming majority
but yet would net 60 to the extreme
that the middle had, OF
removing two of the members of the
National Committee Of the State, who
were known not to agree with his
policy. The State Convention evi.
IDENTIFY thought that those committee.
| men would observe the expressed will
of the convention and that therefore il
would be in the interest Of harmony in
the party not to take such extreme &C.
ton.
The condition of affairs above re.
ferred to made the appointment of the
committee on credentials the first
action before the National Committee
| This committee labored with its i'm.
portant and difficult task for day and
night, and when it brought in its re.
port 1t was so emlnently fair that
even those most displeased 1T its action
like Wharton Barker and the Other
bolters, could not successfully criticist
| it.
| GRIEVANCE OF TIE readers.
As is we'll known, the National Com.
mittee was not called for the purpose
of transacting any pressing busl ness
before the party, but to hear the rea
or supposed grievances of the ex.
treme middle-of-the-roade and tt
see whether or not it was possible tt
do anything reasonable which w0ult
satisfy them.
After hearing their propositions ant
supposed grievances at the creates,
length, chief among which PROPOSE
tions was the calling of an early CON
ventiOn, either this fall or next spring
for the purpose of nominating Whaf'
ton Barker, or some man of that kind
as the candidate for President in 1900
the committee decided that such {
proposition was not only unreason.
able and unWise, but suicidal.
The committee also sustained Chair.
man Butler. 1t developed, however
In the committee meeting that two o.
the National Committeeman from
North Carolina, one uamed Ramsey
and the other named Garrett, hal
sent their proxies to the extreme
radical element to be voted against
Chairman Butler in the war which thu
extreme radical element was makins
on him and the majority of the party
but in spite Of this the committee, By
. handsome majority, sustained Chair
man Butler.
It was further decided that eact
State and locality should be left to de-
eide for itself the question of c0.opera.
elon or no cooperation in local and
state matters, provided that there
should be no fusion which would cause
the Abandonment of Peoples Party
organization or the sacrifice of the
basic principles of the party.
1t further decided that there should
be held in 1900 National Convention
! to nominate candidates for President
and Vice-President at some time II
least q month before the old party
National Conventions are held.
These points were asked by the
minority as concessions, and were
freely granted by the majority in the
interest of harmony.
The committee did not adjourn until
o'clock this morning Friday l7th)
after having been in session all night
without intermission. When the meet.
ing adjourned the committee supposed