The sun., 1900-05-09
BRYAN POPULISTS GATHER.
CIRCUS TENT GOING UP FOR THE
SIOUx FALLS CONVENTION.
Delegate. sure They Are Going to Nominate
Bryan. but They Are All at Sea Regarding
Vice Presidential Candidate To"nes
boom Most Prominent - Opposition 10
Making Any Mobilization butt tho Committee
4. IielIeyed to Have Decided tO lOrcc One.

boom Most Prominent - Opposition 10
| Making Any Mobilization but tho Committee
Is Relieved TO Have Decided To force one
Sioux FALLS, 4. D.. MAY s-1ho Bryanised
| Populist Convention l. 10 begin here at :
! o'clock Tomorrow afternoon, and up 10 tho
| present time there are Indications of frost
| Sioux Falls has "A population OF 1900 ana sioux
| Falls has been talking about a crowd o' l5,oO
| visitors to this convention Up to the present
| time there are fewer than thousand arrivals
here. including delegates ard newspaper h'n
The convention itself is supposed 10 have 800
| delegates. but the Populist leaders do not thnk
| they will have more than 100 delegates here ana
| they blame the plutocratiJ railroads they nS-
| sert that tho railroads East, West and Soulh
refused to give special rates to tho delegate, TO
this convention. although they have gwen
| them to the Mddle-of- the Readers meeting in
Cincinnati The leaders say that the difference
OF s. or so IN railroad fare means heap 10
Populists and that from the far Elst and the
far West and the far South. where special rates
are not obtainable. the States viii send only
enough delegates to do the work of the convon-
ton and will empower those they do send to cast
the entire vote OF tho States.
Preparations to receive the big crowd that
was expected We're begun this morning. when
the new Mayor the first lieI IubIcan Mayor mat
Sioux Falls has ever elected on party lines or
dered tho police to round up number Of
crooks who had come here from th!cas' St
Louis and Minneapolis, and invite them 10
leave town The police followed instructions
and sent the undesirable visitors away on the
early trains.
PUTTING Up THE CIRCUS TENT.
After thi, was done work was resumed on the
biz circus tent where the convention il 20 bo
he'd Sioux Falls has an auditorium, but II j.
not large enough to hold the delegates and any
sort Of crowd Of spectators The commits"
sent to Chicago and got the biggest circus tent
thai could be- found there They are putting II
mp now on top of the bi.,g"s; hill In Sioux Fails.
with the exception oc Pruitrntary I'M, and tho
wind Ia blowing through II in manner IT, make
one fear for the results when the popuiistS be-
gin heir windy speeches on the inSid" Lycry
man Who has come TO town 80 far ha, carried
haG fu'l Of speeches, and the bags are sttched
in the lpbby OF the Cataract House higher than
tho talIest Popuist on the grounds, the tGNeSt
POpuiSt being the lion "Cycono" Davis, who
blew in from IoNaS.
The Cataract House i tho only hotel in town
worth mentioning and although thc crowd in
town * small, ha. Is iHmmed 80 full that
strangers are sleeping with each other
VINO FOR vIcE-rHEsIuENT?
Up to this time there 4. only one thing certain
that the convention win do II wiii non iuuic
William j Bryan for President. The DELEGATES
from Kansas from Iowa and from some other
State, attended banquet last night in Omaha,
which was run by thn Peter cooper club, and at
that banquet good many preliminary SPEECHES
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hlr Bryan made speech, aud the flr,t thing
tina, he talked about Was 10 tOl. The folks who
were at the banquet say positively that hi,
settles the position Of the financial plank in the
platform which Is to be adopted and on which
MIR Bryan will make his run for President,
While Bryans Nomination = certain, his
wishes about wha, shah e done regarding the
n imination Of a running mate to be- forced on
the Democratic Convention at Kau>as g., have
not been communicated 10 the drl"ca'rs SrN-
orally A. the conference Wl.Cr Nu~ hld at
the sherman House ~ chicago on sunday. II
va, stated that 1t had been agreed TO uonIit ate
ext Congressman TOMne Of Minnesota, and It
| was said tha, The Democratic Convention
would indorse or nominale him. Bat when
SOME OF the Weu who attended that conference
arrived here to-day they -aid that m" chicago
| anair was not n conference Al all that It was
nothing more than chance NEE ING OF d'.-
| unguished men, including themselves, and that
| they only talked over possibilities.
SENATOR PETTIGREw WORRIED.
The outcome Of these statements Is that all
of the delegations hero are AT skies and seVeN-.
with Senator h / Petugre" running around
like pony on amerry-go-round Tor fear tndL
| the convention will not carry ont the Chicago
| plan II il stated that this populist tonvent.on
came here for tho purpose OF helping Mr. Petu-
| grew out OF the worst hole he has been in dur
| ing his whole political career This - Petit
| Crews home town. He has beautiful resi-
| dence here, from tho windows Of viii a there
| il. nil r1..w If POM itt.t1
Tertiary lll, II may be explained. Is on" Of tho
| finest sights OF Sioux Falls The finest ppni-
tentiary Ia the state IA located here.
| Things were getting warm iur Mr Petit
| grew when the Populst National (omWlit"s
met at Lincoln. II is stated, that he made
special plea for Sioux Fans for the convention
| hot things were he learned himself Il week or
so ago at local election when his candidate
| for Mayor was knocked out. Then when the
delegates to this convention began to come and
| to express dSuppruval Of the plan suggested at
the Chicago conference Mr.. Pet,isrew made up
the Rs a @ her" S did not 'GE monae % l dSnd
date for Vice-Presdeut the Republicans would
have proof to bact up their statement? that
| this Populist crowd are simply unneXes To the
| democratic party and are not worthy OF Popu-
| list support.
Viii he local situation a, it is auvthing Of
| this kind would be laial 10 Mr.. Pcttigraw,S leg
| ieatlve ticket and MIR Pc uErew would not
| succeed himself in the senate So he j. working
tooth and nail TO bring about ratification OF the
tiers are settled tomorrow morning, when the
rest of the delegates arrive. there Is every ike
| Hhood Of a lot of fun over this ice-Preeiden-
| ta question.
TowNEs BOOM ARRIVES.
Tonight there are four plans discussed and
| each one seems 10 have about the same NUM-
| ber Of adhersnts The first plan is to nominate
| ext congressman Iowne, the assurance bong
| implied that il he is nominated the Democra tic
| convention will ratlty the nomination. Ia
Congressman 1owne It may bn stated here, Is
has 4 year or so ago Mr. Iowne and Congress-
| man Charles :. Hartman OF Montana and Bryan
| formed a tandem team OF speeChmak"rS. Mr.
| Togne and MIR Hartman were the bread
| Of the sandwich and Mr.. Bryan as the meat
| They lived for a while al Mr. Brytn's house in
Lincoln. This, with the fact that MIR. Bryan
| himself was nt the conference Al the sherman
| House on SUNDAY il what gives color TO the be-
| leI that II is Mr. Brrans wish that Mr. 1oWur
| should be nominated The delegations from
| South Dakota, North Dakota aud Minnesota are
emphaucally for lowne's nomination by the
| Convention
Only the advance guard Of the Minnesota
crowd are here They brought MIR TUwnc and
| hiI'boom with them, The Others Of the crowd
| will get here In the morning, and the advance
| guard declare, II Will be as big a boom a. as
that which accompanied Bryan himself when
| he left Omaha four years ago 10 break into the
| Democratic party
| PLAN TO AVOID NOMINATION
The second plan talked about l. 90 present "A
iOb lot of Pops TO the Democratic COnVpn-
| zion. The people who are opposed 10 n nom ma
| equivalent to n declaration to the Democratic
g invention that II must accept a populi. '
| candidate for its Nicr.lresidrni or have the
| Same sort Of u nu~S thatit had iulr years ago