The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-12
He Has Been Nominated by
by the Populists
ON A RADICAL PLATFORM
he Declares He Will Stay in Till the
Votes Are Counted.
BUT THERE ARE PREDICTIONS OF FUSION
ills Said That Giles is to be Traded OF by the
Republicans For Populist Votes For
the Mckinley Electors.

the Mckinley Electors.
The Fourth Congressional district
now has three regularly nominated
candidates in the field for Congress
sional honors. They are:
f. w. Pou, (Dem.), of Johnston.
j. A. Giles, (Rep.), of Chatham.
J. J. Jenkins, (Pop), of Chatham.
Pou was nominated by very large
and enthusiastic convention here last
Thursday.
Giles was nominated on Monday by
a convention composed of negroes
and IA white men-One of the Wnlte
men being an eX-convict.
Jenkins had his banner flung to the
breeze yesterday by a handful of men
calling themselves Populists, but VINO
adopted platform that the most ar
dent Mckinley Radical could heartily
endorse.
The convention was advertised to
be pulled off at 4:30, but 1T was an
hour and half after that time before
the Hon. S. Ohio Wilson, Grand Cid
con, raped for order and read his call
for the convention.
This delay in the beginning of the
performance was due to the fact that
the usual caucus lasted longer than
was anticipated.
The caucus was to decide on a pol
icy-whether ''the great Populist par
ty'' should take its position in the
dust and heat of the Middle-road or
should stray among the trees and roll
in the green grass of the neighboring
oil Ac, fhpra SnppI4l
gent invitation from anybody to turn
aside, they decided on the Middle-of-
theEroad.
This decision was reached five min
utes before o'clock. and immediate
Nv the court room door was opened
to outsiders and the caucus resolved
itself into a convention.
THE CONVENTION IN SESSION.
The Hon. Ohio Wilson dispensed
with the formality of appointing the
usual committees and declared that
the first business in order was the SCI
lection of permanent chairman.
The Rev. II. w. Norris was elected
to this exalted position. He came for
ward fishing a paper out of his breast
pocket, which was generally supposed
bv the uninitiated to be a speech.
r lie HONCNCls WHY NV
worried by the prospect. They recog-
nized it as the platform written by
Hill King, Ohio Wilson and Others,
and approved by the caucus.
The Rev. Norris laid his paper
down on the table and told the dele
gates he was ''happy to greet you
Tan awkward pause) on this OCCASION >
But. he added kindly, that he felt mo
disposition to intrude on the valuable
time of the convention by an attempt
to make a speech"
AS Norris sat down Wilson rose to
his feet and moved that a committee
on platform be appointed consisting
of one member from each county in
the district The motion prevailed
and the following committee was
name.s
r. r. Hatch, of Franklin.
J. J. Marshburn, of Wake.
A. Fitzgerald, of Johnston.
T. ID. Riggsbee, of Vance.
w. f. Tally. of Randolph.
Thus far the convention had gone
on without a secretary, but to take
down this committee and perform
snch other duties two were appointed:
Thad Ivey, of Cary, and j. o. Cole, of
Raleigh.
The convention now seemed at
loss what to do. Chairman Norris
suggested a recess for half an hour
in order that the platform committee
might have time to do its work! lack
Garrett said that wasn't necessary:
he thought five minutes long enough
for the committee to consider a plat
form that had already been agreed on
in caucus.
Hill KING thereunon took his plat
form off Norris table and the COM
mittee went into a corner of the court
room with it. Three minutes later
they came back and reported to the
convention the following statesman
like utterance of principles. which
were unanimously adopted without
question or discussion
QUEER POPULIST PLATFORM.
1.-THE Populists of the Fourth con-
gressional district of North Carolina,
in convention assembled.
"Resolved list. We hereby reaffirm
our allegiance to the principles of the
Omaha platform.
''2nd. Holding to the view that an
increase of the circulating medium
will enhance the value of the pro-
ducts of labor, we call attention to
the increased per capita circulation
within the last four years and the
corresponding increase in price of
farm products.
';3rd We denounce imperialism as
un-Democratic, un-Republican, unPop-
ulistic and un-American, and hereby
declare that no civilized State has
ever been so surfeited with rule with
out the consent of the governed, as
that practiced by the Democratic par
ty in North Carolina, and we call the
attention of the American people in
this State of affairs in North Caro-
lima. a civilized American State.
4th. Having to look to foreign
markets for the sale of our surplus
products, we favor commercial eX-