The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1900-03-01
PEOPLES PARTY NATIONAL
COMMITTEE MEETING

eoI Alien anu Coi. tracey was ap-
pointed to confer with the silver
Republicans.
There was lively contest i'm the
Committee oyer both the place and
the time for the Convention. bur
those in favor OF standing by the
Omaha agreement and calling the
National Convention at least a
month ahead Of the old party con-
ventions vas in the majority. A
motion to hold the National Con.
vention at the same time and place
as the Democratic convention was
voted down, also a motion to hold
the Convention on the 10th of Nav
was voted down. By good maiori-
ty the vote was fixed for Nav 9th.
The Texas members OF the Com
mlttee took the lead in the fight for
May 9th, and they declared that il
that date was fixed it would be not
only in accordance with the Oma-
ha agreement, but would be salts
factory to every honest middle-of-
the-roader in the Nation.
The contest for place was between
Indianapolis, Kansas City, Milwau-
kee and Sioux Falls. Kansas CITY
was represented by delegation of
It's business men with proposition
OF a free hall decorated, music and
a cash contribution of five thous.
and dollars. Milwaukee made a
similar proposition. Sioux Falls
equalled these propositions in ev-
cry respect and Increased the cash
consideration five hundred dollars
1t was shown that Sioux Falls was
as quickly and easily reached from
Chicago as Kansas City or Omaha,
and that the hotels and railroad
accommodations were equally as
good. The mayor of Sioux Falls
and large delegation of business
| men were present in person, and
pressed their claims so strongly
that they secured the Convention
after hard fight.
| The Committee On Appointment
! OF Delegates to the next National
convention reported in favor of
| two delegates at large for each
| State and Territory, and one dele
gate in addition for every two thou
| sand votes cast for Weaver in 1892
| or for any Peoples Party State can
dldate receiving higher vote since.
This report was adopted and it
makes the representation of each
State at the National Convention
as follows:
Alabama, IS; Arkansas, IA; Cali
fornia, 26; Colorado, 80; Con necti-
cut, 3; Delaware, 2; Florida, 4;
Georgia, so; Idaho, 7; Illinois, 80;
Indiana, II; Iowa, 10; Kansas, 81;
Kentucky, IA; Louisiana, 8; Maine,
5; Maryland, 2; MASSACHUSETTS,. 10:
Michigan, II; Minnesota, IS; Miss
lsslpDi, Z; Missouri, %; Montana
O:Nebraska, A; Nevada, 6; New
Hampshire, ?; New jersey, 2; New
York, 10; Nork, Carolina, II North
Dakota, IL; Ohio, &c; Oregon, 10; |
Pen sylvania, y; Rhode Island. > /;
South Carolina, 3; Dakota, 20; Ten
nessee, II; Texas, 12l; Utah. 3; |
Vermont, q; Virginia, 6; West Va.
4; Washington, 70; Wisconsin, Is:
wyoming, &; Arizona, 4; New Mex
leo, 3; Oklahoma, 10; Alaska, 3 /;
District of Colum bia, 2. Total, 92S. |
A number of suggestions and
resolutions were offered as to the
platform to be adopted at the next
Convention. The Chair held that il
would be improper for the Com
mlttee to take further action On
these; and to take them. under adj
Vlsement and make recommended
tlonS II the Committee saw fit to
the next National Convention. To
this end committee was appoint
ed to consider these recommends
lions and to receive others that
may be offered between now and
the Convention and to report the
same to the Committee on platform
OF the next National Convention,
with favorable or unfavorable rec.
lamentations. The Committee for
this purpose is as follows: Senator
butler, Senator Allen, General
Weaver, Capt. W. Fl. Robb, Hon. J.
W. Brledenthal and Hon. George
f. Washburn.
Before closing this report of the
meeting, it might be
well to observe that when the meet
Ing was held in Omaha in 1898, at !
considerable expense t. every mem
Der OF the Committee, it was done
at the request and upon the urgent
solicitation of those who have since {
bolted the party and nominated the
barker-Donnelly rump ticket. AT
ter inducing the Chairman of the |
com mlttee to call that Committee q
meeting, those parties publicly an G
bounced that they had secured a "a
majority OF the committee to agree t
% depose Chairman Butler and v
"a Ike charge OF the organization, and I
mat they would do it when the {
!om mLttee met at Omaha. Whenl
ne committee met at Omaha, they
ailed TO have this majority. The {
majority of the Committee sustain t
ID Chairman Butler. and the ma. t
GRITTY Of the Committee offered to p
he minority, at whose request the t.
meeting was called, to make any a
oncesslon or take any action, con
lstent with honor and the princi. n
'les OF the party, to secure harmo. '
y. The concession asked by the Z
minority Of the radical mid road. \
rs was that the National Canven- d
ION should be called a month ahead i,
I both the old party Conventions, B
MS was readily acced ed to by the n
1aJority, and the. agreement was Il
lade and unanimously concurred h
4, and the Committee adjourned. 81
: majority of the mid-road COM 81
lltteemen have faithfully stood
that agreement, but few of a.
hem, within an hour after the is
ommittee adjourned, met in a Ger b
hin hotel in Omaha and issued a b.
Ill for the meeting whic h nominal
I'd Barker and Donnelly. 1t was tt
ais element of the boilers who de- d.
landed admittance to the Com pr
llttee meeting at Lincoln and who c.
ere refused. F,yerv middIa-of-+boii in