The evening times., 1900-04-12
THE ANTI-NoRRIs PLANS.
Bryan Democrats to- Hold Their Con.
Nention Next Tuesday Evening.


vention Next Tuesday Evening.
The BRYAN Democratic City Convention
will be held on next Tuesday evening,
April Il. Only an evening session will
be held, as a large part of the delegates
are laboring men and the Bryan leaders
do not wish to compel them to lose a day 5
work in attendance. The meeting place
of the convention has not yet been chosen
finally. but it will be either at the Ma
sonic Temple or the Grand Army Hall,
probably the former.
The Bryan City Convention will not be
such a cut-and-dried affair as the Nor
ris gathering, and 1t is not possible 10
predict with any certainty who will be
chosen as its delegates to the National
Convention. The plan has been from the
first to let the choice be as free as pos
sible so that it shall represent the actual
wishes of the delegates rather than the
dictates of any one man. 1t is extremely
probable however that some of the men
that have been at the head of the move
ment for instructed Bryan delegates will
be themselves chosen. 1t is also likely
that organized labor in the District will
be represented in the delegation.
Among those who have been somewhat
discussed by their friends are Cotter T..
Bride. William Holmead and Hermann
Schul,ies. These men have all been stead
ily at work for Mr.. Bryan and for Bry
an delegation since the inception of the
anti Norris movement and there is a sem
timent among prominent Bryan men that
their services should be recognized.
The committee of nine that has had the
Bryan movement in charge are barred
from election as delegates. They we-e
elected to the committee with the UNDER
standing that their services should be for
the good of the movement entirely and
without reward. This committee contains
the names of several men that otherwise
might be chosen.
The anti-Norris delegation will carry 10
the National Convention a remarkable set
of affidavits relative to the frauds that
were practised by the Norris people at the
primaries They come from every one
the districts and are apparently incon-
testible proof that wholesale and open
corruption existed. 1t is on these affida
Wits and in view of the protest made by
the BRYAN Democrats at the city conven-
tion today. that the delegates will ask 10
be seated as the valid representatives of
the Democracy of the District. The people
who have been at the head of the Bryan
movement express the utmost confidence
tnat tneT claim VIII De dllONeu against
that of the Norris delegaes.
In some instances prominent Republi-
can friends of Mr.. Norris acted as judges
of the primaries. In some of the districts
a dozen or more men formed in a circle
at the ballot box and marched steadily
around the box for half an hour or more
depositing ballots by the wholesale.
One prominent Norris man went to
several districts and deposited in
each large bundle of Norris
ballots. These are few of the things
sworn TO by reputable eyewitnesses. 1t
is said that even the policemen held their
noses at some of the rottenest of the
proceedings of the evening. The protest
from the Bryan Democracy published in
another column gives these allegations of
fraud their first official form.