The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-18
ON THE WAR PATH
Idaho Politicians Pass the Lie
and Fight
MEETING ENDED ALL RIGHT
The Lead of Montana h Being Followed
in That state and All the silver
Parties VIII Meet on the
Same Day.

Special Dispatch to the Standard.
Boise. Idaho. July IZ-After q most ex-
citing session. during the course of which
the lie was passed and blows were struck,
the populist state central committee last
night reconsidered its action in calling the
popuiist state convention to meet in Mos
COW on August s and recalled the conven-
ton to meet In this city on August "a, the
date Of the democratic and silver repub-
lican conventions. in order to arrange a
fusion with those parties. p. II. Blake
was peremptorily ousted as chairman and
W. ii. Taylor of Canyon county was elect
ed to succeed him. Blake had refused to
issue a call for a committee meeting. For
several hours the committee wrangled.
and IL was early morning before the meet
ing adjourned. There were 1s counties
represented. and the vote on the question
OF moving the convention to Boise. as we'll
as on all other questions, was IL to Z.
Frank Walton. who led the solid seven,
denounced In unmeasured terms the action
OF the committee, during the course of
which he frequently made use OF the
terms traitors" and ours APPLYING
them to those who We're behind the move.
He said Secretary Jacobs had been al
lowed to vote as a committeeman without
having a proxy. and that Congressman
Gum voted on the proxy of a man who
had never been a member of the commit
tee. 1t was q job to secure a combina-
ton with the silver republicans and dem
ocrats at the expense of splitting the pop
ulist party wide open, but he did not be-
lieve the goods could be delivered. He
pronounced the measures through which
control of the committee had been secured
as high-handed and infamous. During the
GOnrQa Of the maatfnr a Nnppv ottfoa a y, n
the solid seven stated that the Job was
put up solely for the purpose of re-electing
Governor Steunenberg. democrat. Com
mitteeman George Williams gave Poston
the lie, and the two men rushed at each
other, but before more than a couple of
blows were struck they were separated.
In less than a minute they rushed at each
other again. There was a general mix-up
and Committeeman Jackson struck Com
mitteeman 7. j. Jones. Peace was finally
restored, and the business of the meeting
was wound up on a ~ to z basis.
The new apportionment increases the
delegations in the southeastern part of the
state. where the populist vote is light,
and decreases in the north. where the
populist vote is heavy. This was done in
order to remove the possibility OF the
"middle-of-the-road' element capturing
the Boise convention. After the meeting
there were several alterations that came
near resulting seriously. The net result of
the meeting Is that the popuiist party is
split wide open. Whether a convention
will be held in Moscow or not is not yet
definitely decided, but the prospects are
that the delegations elected to go TO the
northern city will proceed as though Moth
ing had happened and nominate a middle
of-the-road ticket.
The Ada county populist convention
elected delegates to the Moscow conven-
ton and passed resolutions condemning
the proposition to change the place OF
holding the state convention. The So
called middle-of-the-road element on the
state committee assert that they were not
opposed to fusion. but that their conten-
ton was that the democrats and silver re-
publicans should come to Moscow II they
want to fuse with the legal populist party.
They also say tho committee was packed
against them.