The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1900-03-08
The TEXAS AGREEMENT
SUSTAINED.
AlLMIDDLE-0F TIM. R0ADERS EXCEPT
THOSE WHO B0LTeD THE PARTY
AND ARE SUPPORTING the
sARKER-D0NHELlY TICKET
ARE SATISFIED.
4 Statement to Texas PopuIists


The Texas Members of the National Com
mittee of the Peoples Party Join In
Address to the Middle of-ths Roaders,
which applies a. we'll to the Populists
OF the Entire Country.
LINCOLN, Neb., Feb. 20, 1900.
In consequence of certain signed
publications emanating from this
city during and since the meeting
Of the Peoples Party National Ex-
ecutive Committee, the Texas dele
cation makes the following state
ment:
When the national committee was
called to order by Chairman Butler
he stated that he and the secretary
as was their duty had prepared q
preliminary list Of the memb ers of
the committee and their proxies.
but as some members of the COM
mittee had moved into other States,
some had died, and several contests
had been filed from some of the
States, he deemed it his duty to
appoint committee of three on
credentials and contests to assist
him end the secretary in revising
the list and hearing and passing on
said contests; that the committee
could legally transact no business
| until dfUeI the revised IISJ nad been
prepared and adopted, and that
after the secretary had read the pre-
liminary list the committee would
stand adjourned until $3.50 d. M,
and that he and the secretary, to-
gether with the committee on con-
tests, would retire Immediately to
the rooms Of the Department of In
surance In the capitol building
where the committee meetings
were being held, and that all those
who had contests or complaints to
make or mistakes to rectify would
appear before that committee at
once so that all questions could be
Investigated and fairly adjudic ated.
AS soon as the preliminary ruil
had been read and the committee
adjourned, a crowd mostly un-
known to the committeesas Popu.
lists, previously organized for that
specific purpose, and led by Joe A.
Parker of Kentucky, who had pre-
viOusly distributed proxies indis-
criminately to persons who had to
sign a written agreement to act
with the boilers in all things before
the proxy was given to them, pro-
ceeded to effect their contemplated
bolt by electing D. Glenn Beaver
chairman and Ali Reed secretary,
and eventually adjourned their
meeting to the Grand Hotel where
they perfected their bolt by calling
a national rump convention to con.
vene at Cincinnati, Ohio, May 9,
1900.
Chairman Butler, the secretary
and contest committee, met as di-
rected, sent for many of the boilers
and after hearing all the evidence
perfected the roll of committee
members by seating the members
OF the committee elected at St.
Louis in 1896, except in the States
where regular State conventions
have elected other members of the
committee, the new members thus
elected being seated. The commit
tee very properly excluded those
members and proxies who partici-
pated In the Cincinnati Convention
OF 1898 which nominated Barker for
president and Donnelly for vice
president, and those who are now
on the national committee of that
party are openly supporting that
ticket. Among those seated are
Joe A. Parker (who appeared before
the contest committee and stated
emphatically that he had bolted
the Cincinnati convention and was
not supporting that ticket, D. Glenn
Beaver and all Of the bolt r. whose
credentials were regular. Parker,
Deaver, and others of the boilers
who had been seated afterwards
met with the regular committee,
participated in its deliberations for
q time, and then deliberately bolt
ed again.
/ The present roll of, members of
the National Committee inc udes
representation from every State and
Territory in the Union md the Dis
trict Of Columbia, and the attend
ance was the largest that has as
sembled at any committee meeting
since 1896. The sessions of the
committee were characterized BY
the utmost harmony and bro herly
feeling throughout. Every agree
ment made at Omaha in 1898 wa
strictly adhered to. Even the date
for holding the national nominal.
I ing convention was left entirely to
the Texas delegation, who selected
May 8, 1900; their choice being rat.
flied by reclamation. The com NIT.
|, tee selected Sioux Falls, 8. D., fol
the convention seat after spirited
contest, the first ballot having been
Sioux Falls. So; Kansas City, %