The sun., 1900-05-10
BRYAN "P0PS CANTAGREE
QUESTION or NOMINATING VICE.
PRESIDENT STILL UNSETTLED.

man Women Delegates Prominent Night
Session Turned Into a Free Concert.
SIOUX FALLS. 5, u May The Sioux Falls
Popnsis. after wranglinc all night and all morn.
inR, rot down 10 bushes this afternoon without
having settled the question of whether or not
they would nominate candidate for Vice.
President or who the candidate would be II
they decided 20 nominate one Their conven-
tion scheduled to open at O'Clock started only
nfteen minutes late and before the first session
was over 1t was very plain that all the clements
that 90 10 make up a PopuliSt convention were
on hand
But before proceeding with that story, some.
thing should be said for Sioux Falls Sioux
Falls did herself proud Her hated rival.
Sioux City. had intimated that Sioux Falls
couldn't feed the people who would attend q
national convention, Sioux Fails said. by
gravcy. she could" and bright and early this
morning the churches and other public build
ings that hadn't been turned into sleeping
apartments were turned into dining halls.
Across the front of the First Presbyterian
Church was an immense sign reading: Fine
meals served by the Ladies' Aid Society OF the
Presbyterian Church Welcome 25 cents"
Down near the station Hope Mission and the
Rescue Mission were both flied with tables
loaded down with food
In the night and in true Western STYLE there
had sprung up a whole colony of one-story
shanlies with counters so full of hard boiled
eggs and cold potatoes that IL the United States
army IN the Philippines had been invited to q
banquet and had accepted they would have
had so many eggs and potatoes that they
would never want to look a hen in the faco
again and never want 10 cross a potato patch.
Up by the big circus tent and on the way up the
hill TO the spot whore II is caed. were numer-
ous canteens. all of them full Of eatables, And
besides the square meals" served In the
hotels and the churches and tho hard boiled
eggs and cold potatoes and fried ham sand
wiches and all the rest Of the things that the
mind can conceive as fit TO put into the
stomach. there were fruit stands, peanut
stands. ginger pop stands. lemonade stands
and stands for other sorts of liquids 10 an ex-
tent that made one trembe for the safety Of
Sioux Falls if the stuff should al &c consumed In
a day. There was more to eat and more TO drink
in Sioux Fails than would have been consumed
il the combined Republican and Democratic
conventions had been here
But il was not in the eating line alone that
Sioux Falls did herself proud She was trim
HlrO from eNu 10 enu Win DnIIlllR, sne was luu
Of brass bands and while she didn't get any
thing like the number of people that she
counted on, she did have n fairly good town
full, at least that impression was created when
all her own citizens got out on the street along
with all the strangers.
BrRsTING vICE-PRRsIDENTIAL BooMs.
The first incident Of the morning that cCS1ted
talk was the bursting Of the boom OF !.
Adlai +. Stevenson, former Vice-Pr. :. ~ is
THE SUS stated Yesterday morning Adlai's
boom came TO Sioux Falls in charge of Col.
Fitzgerald Of West Virginia The Colonel
made a speech 10 the Kansas delegation on
Tuesday that won for him support for the boom.
aud support for il was won from other sources.
too. Col. Matt was in high feather. He
spent the hours between dawn and A. NJ
in his room thin king what he might do to put
the finishing touches on all the other booms In
sight Abouts O'Clock an idea came to him.
Walking downstairs and into the corridor OF
the Cataract House Col Matt. towering as he
did above the heads of most of the crowd. called
ont in a steniorian voice that senced every
body Said he
"Gentlemen If you nominate Adla Stevenson
for Vice. President. that moment million dol-
lars will go into the treasury Of the Democratic
party"
Col Fitzgerald paused 10 see the effect He
paused Just exactly twelve seconds when the
canary voice of Mrs. Anna Diggs piped out,
clear n n bell
"Nixy, nixy. that S the hand of German. the
hand Of the Eastern Democrats. No Stevenson
in ours"
Anna, in her red shirt waist and her poke
bonnet pushed her way through the crowd TO
the towering form of Col Matt. and that mo-
ment the fate Of Col Matt'S candidate was
sealed The crowd applauded They said:
Down with Stevenson, down with Gordon,
down with the Eastern Democrats" million
dollars They sCornod It
Anna DigSSs voice is thin but penetrating.
1t reached as far rs the stcntorian tones OF Col.
Matt. Later in the morning again /, rang out at
the meeting Of the Kansas delegation and ID
loorcd the Hon. william Sulzer. MIR. Sulzer
WAS too far of for the Kansas delegates. They
didn't know about nominating man who
lived as far away aS he does and ono by one
each of the other candidates for Nice-Prefident
whose names were printed Yesterday went
down before this Kansas delegation as unfit
to carry the standard with their peerless leader.
William Jennings Bryan.
DISPUTE AS TO NAMING Any NOMINATION..
II was after the bursting Of the late ex-Nice-
President StevensOn's boom that the various
State delegations began getting together and
conferring on the NIcc-PresId"n inl proposition.
II l. understood that the IloH, Jerry Simpson.
with word straight from Bryan himself, as
sured the Kansas folks thar Mr Bryan did not
want this convention to make nuy Nice-Presi-
Dental nomination 1h"r" were others here
besides tine Hon Jerry who had word straight
from ilr Bryan, aud while none Of them would
tell exactly what Mr. Bryan had said, all OF
them let il be known that they individually
were opposed 10 the convention making any
no,rination for Second plHo" on th" tc.iet. SO
il wa. pretty plain that II was Mr. Bryan's wish
that the convention should not act. Finally.
some Of the state delegations began getting to-
gcrhcr and before noon Iowa. Nebraska. Ken
tuciy ohio. colorado Ni-consln. Indiana and
Idaho had all declared thar they were In favor
of tho appoin,m"ut pi q conference committee
10 10 To Kansas city and talk matters over with
thu Democratic committee on Julyi )
This array looked very formidable, but when
those lrader- who are in favor Of the conven-
lion nominating q candidate for Nc"-Presdcnt
heard Of il thoy stuck M their noses and said
that the combination held only $50 votes all
told. wbiln the State Of Texas Alone with
"CyClonr' Davis a. IN" head, had l2l vote, the
state u NOrla Iarouua. with senator Marion
G. Bu,lo" NJ tic head lad Il votes. and the
state Of kanSas. with Jerry simpson and Anna
ID rg. Al IN, hoad had u Cyclone" Davis in