The age-herald., 1900-02-20
POPULICTS HAVE
 TURBULENT TIME Split in Committed and One
 Crowd Walks Out. TROUBLE OVER CREDENTIALS Committee Proposed to Leave Out the Anti-Fusion Members, and Wild \ Scene Follows. one. Crowd Leaallng the Hall r[[
TROUBLE OVER CREDENTIALS

waIkout followed a turbulent meeting of the popu4ist national committee tonight, gtale anti-fusfon leaders, after having a number of their followers turned down by the credentials committee, organized bolt and formed a new committee. The mem ,tbers favorable to fusion after adopting the report of the credentials committee, ad- journed until tomorrow when, in all like rllihood, it will empower the chairman or a committee of three to call the national convention for the same city and at the same time the democratic convention Is held.
 Caucuses and conferences this morning
 among the contending factions of the pop
 ulist national committee betokened an in
 harmonious meeting of the full committee,
 which began at o'clock this afternoen ap-
 Review Hall 7sf Sf -tif tfe state capitol. and the -iptdf -iiptdfffeea lions that breakers were ahead was
 emphasized ten minutes after Chairman Butler called the committee to order and
 announced that 1t would at once go into executfye session The differences of the members. of whom there were about eighty present. but holding proxies for nearly the full committee, hinged primarily on the old question of fusion. The element led by Senator A1en with apparently the strong est following, insisted on fusion, and to that end a committee be appointed with power to call the conventioon for the same day and place as the democrats.
 Senator Allen said: 'T am not in favor of admitting to the committee this evening or recognizing as members of the commit tee any man who participated in the Gin cinnati convention that nominated Barker f1~, Lot at,d .ioa asi. dent am not in favor of recognizing proxies from such ment, neither am I in favor of such a man who has a proxy. I don't believe the committee should admit any member who ds supporting a ticket other than the one to be nominated in the convention this comimttee shall call. The committee should throw over the transom every member who has no right to par ticipate in its deliberations, and believe
 it will do it..
 J. A. Parker of Kentcky replied on be-
 half of the middle-of- -the-road, or anti
 fusion men.
 Calling of the List
 The calling of the list of the committee men proceeded without incident to the end, when Mr. Parker asked why the proxy of Committeeman A. w. Miles of Arkansas and Robert McReynolds of Lincoln had
 been omitted. ?. t.tI
 Robert Schlling of Wisconsin said he
 challenged the right of any man to sit
 in the meeting regardless of his creden-
 tials, Who had taken part in the Cincin- natl convention which had nominated Bar
 ker and Donnelly.
 Chairman Butler ruled that the whole matter must go to the committee on creden-
 tials, and he thereupon appointed as sucn
 committee, Allen, of Nebraska; Weaver, of Iowa, and Tracy, of Texas, all of the fusion faction, and declared the meeting adjourn ed amid the protests of the middle-of-the- roaders, who denounced his action as par tisan. When the committee re-assembled at S:45 the anti-fusionists presented the fol- lowing propositions:
 That the committee recognize only legal proxies, stamped with revenue stamps, &C., cording to law.
 That the Toll of the meeting at Omaha | in 1898 be accepted with the roll of this com- l mittee, except where subsequent state con- ventions have elected new members, and except that cases of contests shall go be- | fore the committee composed of five mem | 'bers, two to be selected by the friends of Butler, two by friends of Parker and these to select fifth member and in settlins these contests no votes are to be cast on
 these cases by either contestees or contest
 ants until all contests are settled. RePfesenitu maJorby
 '"This proposition represents 57 votes in this committee, which Is a good majority of the members in attendance here, and we demand these propositions in the name of the honest populasts of this nation who | are opposed to rascality in politics" This l was signed by J. A. Parker, Kentucky; R. A. Wheeler, Ohio; N. T. Gresham Texas;
 J.. B. Onborne, Georgia; J. Knott, Maine; 1 Robert McReyrrolds, Arkansas; and D. Glenn l Denver, of Nebraska, together with a num-
 ber of others not committeeman l The proposition was ignored by the full l committee. The committee on credentials re- | ported. excluding all but five of the anti | fusion members, and in the midst of an u;,- | roar the middle-of- the roaders, led by Park | CT of Kentucky and Weller of Iowa. left the | l1all, engaged a room down town, and or | ganized a boltlng meeting. he main 'convcn- | tion shortly before midnight without de- | ciding on a date or place for the national l convention, adjourned until to-morrow | morning at 9 o'clock The bolters secured
 a room at the Grand hotel, prepared an ad
 dress and called a national convention for
 Cincinnati on Wednesday, May 9.
 r A Statement Issued
 The following statement was issued by the anti-fusionists tonight:
 ] '4To the Poplists and Independent Voters 1 of the United States:
 | s'It Is to be regretted at the meeting of 1 the national committee of the people s l party in Lincoln, ,-Neb., February 19, owing to the unprecedented and outrageous ef- | fort of a minority to disfranchise the pop | ulist voters of the nation by arbitrary measures and without cause or reason l dropping from the rolls of this committed i nearly one-third of it's members, has com | pelied action on the part of the majority | which has resulted In a division of the com mittee, and we ask that you suspend judg- l ment of the justice of our portion until | you are informed of the facts in detail just as they exist
 These facts will be given in a formal | address to the public to be issued by this | committee tomorrow. It is sufficient that l you know that the late chairman of this l comittee Senator Marion Butler, in call ! ing this committee to order presumed to l drop from the rolls of the committee on the l most f1imsy pretext members of this conn l mittee who were elected by the members oi 1 our party in their several states. and wht l are today honored and respected by theil
 constituents.
 'sSuoh men as Frank Burl1itt, of Missis-
 sippi. c. E. McGregor and William Phil