The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-02-20

Lincoln, Neb., Feb. ia split and
walk-Out followed a turbulent meeting
of the PopuHst national committee to-
night, the anH-fusion leaders, after
! having a number of their followers
turned down by the credentials COM
mittee, organizing a bolt and forming d
new committee. The members favor
able to fusion, after adopting the re-
port Of the credentials committee, adj
JOUrned until tomorrow, when, in all
/ likelihood, they will empower the chair
man or a committee of three TO call
the national convention for the same
city and the same time the Democratic
convention is held.
Caucuse5 and conferences this morn
ms among the cOntending factions be
tOkened an inharmoniOus meeting Of
! the full committee. which began at 8
o'clock this afternoon in representative
hall Of the state capitol. and the indica-
lions that breakers were ahead were
emphasized ten minutes after Chair
man Butler called the committee to
order and announced that it would at
once go into executive session.
The difficulties Of the members, Of
whom there were about eighty present,
but holding proxies for nearly the full
lAllieUu p4AlAlC1L4Ag UlA lAAN OA4
question of fusion The element led by
Senator Allen, with apparently the
strongest following, insisted on fusion
and to that end a committee be ap-
pointed with power to call the conven-
ton for the same day and place as the
Democrats. Senator Allen said;
Senator Aliens Objections.
I am not in favor Of admitting to
he. r,7aaEfr7-r thfE ofypTn
or recognizing as members of the COM
mittee any man who participated in
the Cincinnati convention that nom
mated Barker and Donnelly for presi-
dent ard vice president. 1 am not in
favor Of recognizing proxies from such
men. neither am I in favor of recOgnlz-
] ing any such man who sends a proxy.
l do not believe the committee should
admit any member who is supporting
a ticket other than the one to be nom
mated in the convention this committee
shall call. The committee should throw
over the tranSOm every member VINO
has no right to participate in It's de-
HDeTatiOns, and L believe it viii do it.
J. a. Parker Of Kentucky replied on
behalf Of the middle or an
ti-fssion men.
The calling Of the list Of committee
men proceeded without incident to the
emu MuEA III dLEAti e1ohEtA WHY III
proxy Of Committeeman a. W Files o.
Arkansas and Robert McReynolds Of
Lincoln had been omitted. Robert
SchIding Of Wisconsin said he chal-
lenged the right Of any man to sit III
the nesting, regardless Of his creden-
tials, who had taken part in the Gin
cinnau convention which nominated
Barker and DOnnelly-
Denounced as Partisan.
Chairman Butler ruled that the whole
matter must go to the committee on
credentials, and he thereupOn appoint
ed as such committee Allen Of Ne
braska, Weaver of Iowa and Tracey
of Texas, all of the fusion faction, and
declared the meeting adjourned, amid
the protests of the middle-of-the-road-
ers, who denounced his action as par
tisan.
When the committee reassembled' at
S:i5, the anti-fusiOnists presented the
following proposition;
THAT the committee recognize only
legal proxies, stamped with revenue
stamps according to law.
That the roll of the meeting at
Omaha in 1898 be accepted with the
roll of this committee, except where
subsequent state conventions have
elected new members, except that
cases Of contests shall go before a
committee composed of five members,
two to be selected by the friends of
Butler. two by friends of Parker, these
four to select a fifth member, and that
in settling these contests no votes are
to be cast on these cases by either con-
testees or contestants until all con-
tests are settled.
They All Walked Out.
This proposition represents fifty
seven votes in this convention, which
is a good majority of the members in
attendance here, and we demand these
propositions in the name o. the honest
POpulists of this nation, VINO are OPP
posed to rascality IN politics.
This was signed by J. o. A. Parker
of Kentucky, r. n. H. Wheeler of Ohio,
Newt Gresham of Texas, J. B. Osborne
of Georgia, J. l.. Knott of Maine, Rob
ert McReynOlds Of Arkansas and D.
Glen Dever of Nebraska, together with
a number of others not committeeman.
The proposition was ignored by the
full committee. The committee on Gre
dentials reported. excluding all but five
of the anti-fusiOn members. and in the
midst of an uproar the middle-of-the-
readers, led by Parker Of Kentucky
and Welles of Iowa, left the hall, en-
gagged a room down town, and organ
lied boiling meeting.
The main convention. shortly before
midnight. without deciding on a date
or place for the national convention.
adjourned until tomorrow morning at
o'clock. The boilers secured a room
at the Grand hotel, prepared an ad-
dress. and called a national cOnven-
tion for Cincinnati, o., on Wednesday,