New-York tribune., 1900-07-22
NOTES OF THE CAMPAIGN.

BRYAN MAKES BREAK.-Even the wary
and plausible orator who is directing the fusion
Presidential canvass from the front porch in Lin
coin is sometimes caught mapping According to
a correspondent of 1.-The St Louis Gobe-Demo-
crat," Colonel Bryan explaining the other day
why he had abandoned his earlier project OF stick
ing to Lincoln for the greater portion of the cam
pagn. 1t was his original idea that his supporters
thus give him ample opportunity to indulge ms
ever, he said, that the Democratic masses TO whom
he Wished 70 we oo PpsY 10
such an admission from a calamity candidate
to be repaired
GEORGE FREDs FIRST GUN MEETING
George Fred Wiliams's recent Faneui Hall rally
to ratify the Kansas City nominations was not that
glitterng success which some of the "ant-impe-
riaist'' journals of New England have pictured It,
Says THE Boston Herald" editorially of Mr. Will
iams's hurry call" gathering
The Democratic politicians of Massachusetts
have been less wise in opening precipitately the
leaders of the other side. The voters were hardly
prepared dor negln4ng @ acuVhty IN POtIcs P d f ~
The Democrats were especially unfortunate in Sc
nights possible to the climate Of Boston, and
slim attendance naturally followed this ENTERPRISE
conditions. The desideratum is to cool the blood
at go The Republicans were more sagacous IN
their generation They ge1eraIy I!, are e. they Lhey are
present. and not to have great deal Of it there
KNIVES DRAWN IN A CONVENTION.-The
WITH District of West Virginia has been put for
some time past by hopeful Democratic managers in
that list Of redeemed constituencies on which they
count for the control of the next House of Repre-
sentatives. Ex-Judge Romeo Hoyt Freer, the sit
ting Republican member, had a plurality two years
ago Of only s73. and the district has been close
in all recent State and National elections.
Democratic prospects do not seem to have been
improved. however, by the contest in the IVth Dis
trict Congress Convention. just ended BY the tri-
umph Of hitherto unheard of local leader. Greed
Collins. A dispatch to The Baltimore Sun de-
scribes the convention Huntington "one of the
liveliest held in the IVth District" and adds;
There a contestng delegation from the
county Of Wayne, and on the vote of this county
going on in the convention hail. and matters were
so serious that the police were called in. Captain
c: E Gwinn, OF Cabell and DR.. Frederick Marcum,
knives and canes were being hourshed by friends
OF both parties when the police arrived.
Collins the first ballot as the result of
opposition faction promise TO avenge their defeat
in November at the polls
BELLICOsE GATHERING IN TENNESSEE
While bloodshed was narrowly averted in the Dem
ocratc Congress Convention in the WITH West Vr-
ginia District, murder actually terminated Dem
ocratic Senate Convention held Thursday at
CookeVile. Tenn. According to a Nashville dis
patch the convention had met and organized and
then adjourned to allow the committees time to
report. Just before reassembing two delegates.
LII Cleek and w. c. Crawford. became engaged
IN controversy about fifty feet from the hall.
Cleek advanced on Crawford with a knife, and the
latter drew a .SS-cabre Colt and emptied it. three
shots taking effect Cleek died in an hour and
haf' haf' The two men were from Overton County.
same candidate.