The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-04-11

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man in his speech had referred to the
convention as gathering Of "crazy Pop
! ulists," when they went wild over the
| name Of Bryan.
Senator Garrison, the venerable hester
Of Populisn in Grant county, endeavored
to pour oil on the troubled waters and
was followed by the fiery Walls, who
again secured the floor to denounce the
| fusionists, whose only object seemed to
be, he said, to defeat the Republican
party and get their feet under the pie
counter. He declared that the Populist
party had been sold out and delivered
into the Democratic party by a machine
| that is fabricated with Democratic OIL
He accused Chairman French, Of the ter
! ritorial central committee, OF being in the
| pay Of the Democrats, declaring that he
had sold out the party and disgraced
| himself In conclusion, he announced
| that ne would wash his hands Of the con-
vention, and in response to his suggestion
some half-dozer delegates followed him
to the rear end of the hall, where they
remained while Delegate French ansyer-
| ed the "boodIing" charges Of Walls with
recriminations Of a similar nature.
! John Allen again took the floor to pre-
| sent hos formal adieus to the conven-
| ton, for which he was given a Populist
! horse laugh Allen then Joined his asso-
ciates in the front os the house, whence
they marched to the court house and pro-
Tni1
! party
With the departure of the boiling ele-
ment the convention resumed business.
adopting the resolutions by a rising vote
After Bob Neff's speech the delegates to
the national convention at Sioux Falls
were selected, as follows: N. W. Allan,
Meridian, Logan county; w H. French,
Chandler. Lincoln county; VIM. Garrison,
Pond Creek, Grant county; E. n. Clark,
Pawnee, Pawnee county; Smith Cham
bers, Blackwell, Kay county; r. E. Bray,
Enid, Garfield county; DR.. Delos Walker,
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma county; A. 7.
Whitworth, Augusta, Woods county; N.
g. Howe, Arapahoe, Custer county; Earl
Beebe Fl Reno, Canadian county.
The national committeeman selected
We're: E. ]. Garner, Guthrie, Logan
county; R. E. Bray, Enid, Garfield coun-
"; George Wilson, Kingflsher, Kingfsher
county.
The following were the resolutions
adopted by the convention:
Resolved. That this convention recog-
nizes the call made by the chairman, Ma
rion Butler of the Peoples party national
committee, for a national convention 10
be hald at Sioux Falls, South Dakota,
May 9.
Resolved, That we favor union of all
the clements opposed to trusts. imperial
ism. militarism and monopoly in the COM
ing presidential campaign, to the end that
their combined vote may be cast in IA
fer Of the presidential candidates who
represent reform.
Resolved, That We also favor the CO.
operation of the reform organizations in
this territory on a fair and just basis Ia
til territorial legislative and county cleo
tons in the coming campaign.
Resolved That we re-affrcl cur adhe-
renee 20 and belief in the fundamental
principles of the Peoples party as enun-
ciated in the st. Louis platform in 1886.
Resolved. That we favor the initiative
and referendum and public ownership of
public utilities.
Resolved That we denounce the Re
publican party for placing the money Of
our country in the hands of the bank
ing corporations.
Resolved, That we view with. deep
regret the evidence of sympathy Of the
Republican administra ton with England
in her efforts to crush the republics Of
South Africa.
Resolved. That we deplore the policy
Of the present administration in the con-
duct of it's insular affairs.
Resolved, that We pledge our most
loyal support and instruct our delegates
to cast their votes for that great cham
pion of the rights of the common people,
William J. Bryan, at the Sioux Falls ma
tional convention"
The handful of boiling delegates march
ed over to the court house, where an
organization was made by electing John
s. Allan chairman and George Z. Bla-
cock of Greer county, secretary. Chair
man Allan, in his speech, announced 1t
to be the purpose to maintain a strict
rciddle-of-the-road organization, 1inde-
pendent of both the Democratic and Re-
publican parties. He said that the bolt
ers represented not less than 1850 true
blue Populists who would stand by the
straight Populist principles. a committee
was appointed, with Allan as chairman,
to prepare an address to the party.
The boilers then selected the following
delegates TO the Cincinnati convention:
John S Allan, OF Norman. Cleveland
county; Jesse c. Walls, Norman, Cleve- !
land county; J. T. Gamer, Greer county;
T. H. Peake, Blaine county; J. W. Clark,
Oklahoma county; a. Macarthur Woods |
county; y. D. DeFord. Pottawatomie |
county; Chas. Brown, Lincoln county; |
Henry Hichthalt. Garfield county.
The national committeeman aye: John |
S. Allan. of Norman; Z. K. McAllister, |
Greer county. ana +. II. Lacy, Kinghsher |
county. J. NJ. Clark OF Oklahoma c0un |
ty was recommended Tor chairman of |
the territorial central committee.
Tonight the delegates and their friends |
were banQueted in the banquet room OF |
Schiller hall. The following toasts were |
responded to: our Guests" Mayor w. /
s. WhitdlgiN; response by Robert Nelf; /
Oklahoma" Dr. Delos walker; "A Pop |