The evening times., 1900-04-12
THE ANTI-NoRRIs PLANS.
Bryan Democrats TO Hold Their Coz
NentiOn Next Tuesday Evening.

Bryan Democrats TO Hold Their Con-
VentiOn Next Tuesday Evening.
The Bryan Democratic City Convention
April Il. Only an evening session will
be held. as large part OF the delegates
are laboring men and the Bryan leaders
do not wish TO compel them TO lose a days
work in attendance. The meeting place
OF the convention has not yet been chosen
finally. but it will be either at the Ma
sonic Temple or the Grand Army Hall.
probably the former.
The Bryan City Convention will not be
such a cut-aud-dried affair as the Tor
ris gathering, and It Is not possible 90
predict with any certainty who will be
chosen as its delegates TO the National
Convention. The plan has been from the
first to let the choice be as free as pos
sible so that il shall represent the actual
wishes Of the delegates rather than the
dictates of any one man. II is extremely
probable however. that some of the men
that have been at the head of the move
ment for instructed Bryan delegates viii
be themselves chosen. Il is also likely
that organized labor in the District viii
be represented in the delegation
Among knOot VINO nave httA SolAAt ~ A-st
discussed by their friends are Cotter T,
Bride William Ho.riead. and Hermann
Schullies. These mea have all been stead
lily at work for Mr.. Bryan and for a Bry-
an delegation since the inception OF the
anti Norris movement and there is a SEN
tirlent among prominent Bryan men that
thei. services should be recognized
The committee OF nine that has had the
Bryan movement in charge are barred
Ill.
elected to the committee with the UNDER
standing that their services should be for
the good OF the movement entirely and
without reward. This committee contains
the names Of several men that otherwise
might be chosen.
The anti-NOrris delegation will carry 10
the National Convention a remarkable set
OF afTidavits relative TO the frauds that
were practised by the Norris people at the
primaries. They come from every o1e
the districts and are apparently incOn-
testible proof that wholesale and open
corruption existed II is on these affida-
Wits, and in view Of the protest made by
the Bryan Democrats at the city conven-
tion today. that the delegates will a sk a
be seated as the valid representatives OF
the Democracy Of the District The people
who have been at the head of the Bryan
movement express the utmost confidence
that their claim will be allowed against
that of the Norris delegaes.
In some instances prominent Republi-
can friends of Mr.. Norris acted as Judge:
of the primaries. In some Of the district.
dozen or more men formed in a circle
at the ballot box and marched steadily
around the box for half an hour or NOR,
depositing ballots by the wholesale
One prominent Norris man went t
several districts and deposited II
each a large bundle Of Norri.
ballots These are a few Of the thing,
sworn to by reputable eyewitnesses. /
is said that even the policemen held theii
noses at some Of the rottenest OF tht
proceedings OF the evening The profess
from the Bryan Democracy published il
another column gives these allegations o.
fraud their first official form