The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-01-04
POPULIST MEET ON
THE EIGHTEENTH
Chairman Thompson Issued
the Call.
FOR STATE COMMITTEES
WILL DECIDE ON DATE OF FOR
CONVENTION.
THE LOCAL PoPULISTs ARE RETlCENT
AS to What the Committee Will Do. Say That
Everything Will be Left For the Con-
yention to Decide When il
Meets, Fusion Again.

Chairman Cyrus Thompson yesterday
issued the call for the Populist State
Executive Committee TO meet in the
Senate chamber in Raleigh at 1870 p. N.
on January the eighteenth. The State
Central Committee will meet at the same
time.
Chairman Thompson declined to say
what the committee would consider, fur
ther than that it will issue the call for
the Populist State Convention to meet
at a time and place to be decided upon
by it.
"Will your committee attempt to fore
stall the action of the convention by
recommending fusion with the Repub-
leans upon the basis of opposition to
the Constitutional Amendment and a
division of the spoils?"
Il do not know what action the com
mittee will see fit to take; but | feel
sure that matters of party policy will
be left to Il decision of the party con-
vention," Was the reply
Secretary Hal w. Aver was equally
non-committal He did not know, he
said, what the committee would do, or
whether it would unite ON any policy UNI
til the convention had met.
Notwithstanding it is tolerably certain
that the committee, if leading members
of it control its voice, will recommend
cooperation in the Republican plan of
campaign until such time as the conven-
ton meets when the question of ''divy"
will come up anew and if one can be
satisfactorily arranged fusion VIII
be declared again between the
bosses who control the Republican party
and the Pritchard- Butler Populists. 1t
is pretty sure, however, that the demands
of the Populist bosses this time will be
rather Stiff indeed as much has been
intimated already. They understand that
with the Republicans t is a last call fo-
the pe-counter and will govern them
selves accordingly If the demands are
met then the Populist machine, what is
1left of it. Will hum and rattle for the
negro as it did in 1898.
Fusion on some terms there will be-
That much has been, of course, long
sago decided. The rub will come when
the rank and file are asked to swallow
the negro. though the leaders say the
rank and file are really anxious for the
opportunity.
The committees called to meet are
composed of the following members:
Central Committee. i. Schulken
Whiteville, y. c.; j. Il. Lloyd, Tarboro;
n. r. Garrett, Henderson,: NJ. III. III.
Caldwell, Concord; Hal w. Aver, Raj
leigh; Il. A. Moye, Greenyille.
The State Executive Committee is
made up as follows:
First District Harry Skinner Green
vile, n c.; Theo. White, Hartford.
Second District. T. b. Hoover, Ok
ford; II. Is. Kinsey, LaGrange.
Third District-V. j. Macarthur, Lis
sa. n. c.; E. NJ Cole, Carthage.
Fourth Districts. Ohio Wilson
Youngsville, n. c.; James Amos, Hen
derson.
Fifth District-W. O. Stratford,
Greensboro; A. S. Peace, Oxford.
Sixth Districts. A. Edmund, Lum-
berton, n. c.; j. H. Green, Marshville.
Seventh District. II. Sheriff., Ca
tawba. N c.; Jno. A. Sims. Concord.
Eighth District-R. A. Cobb Morgan
ton, n. c.; J. Y. Hamrick, Dellinger.
Ninth District George E. Boggs,
Waynesville, \. c.; A. ID. X. Wallace,
Rutherfordton