The age-herald., 1900-05-10
Howard Will Lead Cincin-
 natl Ticket. MADE ELOQUENT TALK When Chosen as the Temporary
 Chairman. RUHNlNG MATE IS PR0BLEMATlcAL Debate Over the Representation of Ger tain States Should Be Allowed in the Convention
 Warm Address.
RUNNING MATE IS PR0BLEMATIcAL

Cincinnati May 9-Today at 15o p. m the middle of -the-road populist convention was called to order at Robinson's opera house. There were 47O persons in the delegates chairs and 75 in the galleries, when Nation al Chairman Denver rapped for order.
 Committees were appointed and retired to their halls.
 Ignatius Donnelly delivered an address, in which he declared the middle of the roaders must stand together and save mankind. At the evening session the credentials commit tee reported and precipitated the first strug- gle of the convention. It arose over the votes to be allowed the delegations which were not fully represented. It was finally voted to amend the report in accordance with the call for the convention and allow the delegates to cast the full vote of their respective states. For instance, the two del- egates present from Kansas will have 45 votes a piece
 Permanent organization was effected by the selection of Colonel w. l.. Peek of Georgia for chairman and former Govern or Waite of Colorado for vice-chairman.
 
 presidential boom appears to have been ef fectually punctured addressed the conven- ton. He spoke on the motion of MT. Don nelly.
 At 11:15 p. m. the convention adjourned until 8 o'clock tomorrow. It is the inten- tion to wind up matters tomorrow without taking recess. Tonight it appears almost certain that ex-Congressman Howard of Alabama will head the ticket. His running mate is problenatical. National Chairman Denver has declined to accept the nomina- tion for vice-president, and it will probably go to MT. Donnelly.
 From the resolutions committees pro- gress-and 1t was still in session at mid- night-it appears that the declaration of principles to be placed before the country will be of such a nature as to practically establish anew the greenback question. That plank probably will call for an unlim- 1ted issue of government paper currency" Silver it likely to be dropped.
 Called 10 Order
 National Chairman Glenn Deaver called the convention to order at 1:5O D. m He introduced Mayor Taftel, who welcomed the delegates to Cincinnati in a brief speech in which he gave expression to what the delegates were pleased to inter- pret and applaud as populist sentiments On the part of the delegates Professor J. A. Boise of Nebraska City, Neb., thanked the mayor for his warm words of welcome When Chairman Deaver rapped for order there were on the floor of the opera house 40 men and women occupying delegates seats. In the galaries count of noses re- vealed the presence of seventy-fve per sons. When Professor Boise concluded, Chairman Deaver delivered his formal ad- dress to the delegates. His remarks were loudly applauded throughout.
 National Secretary Joseph A. Parker was then introduced to read a call for the con- vention. Parker was received with tumult- uous applause. He prefaced the reading with few remarks on the work of the national committee following the disrup- ton of populist forces at Lincoln, Neb., on February IS, last He said:
 We have had terrific struggle to hold together the honest men of the party, but l believe we have succeeded, and the peo- ple's party is saved"
 He excoriated Senator Allen and that gentleman's alleged remark at Lincoln: We have thrown them over the transom."
 Parker declared that the peoples party went over the transom at the same time, and that Butler and Allen at Sioux Falls can sell and barter the vote of the popu- list. party"
 We are here," he concluded, ito nail the banner of the populist party to the mast where all can see it, and it shall cheer us on to victory
 Howard Temporary Chairman
 At the concluding of the reading Chair man Denver announced that the national committee had raised the selection of for mer Congressman M. w. Howard of Ala bama for temporary chairman. The con- vention unanimously ratified that recom- mendation. MT. Howard was received with much applause. He said in part:
 We have reached a crisis in the history of the peoples party. By your action you are here to determine whether the party Is to live for glorious future or to die an ignominous death. By your action to- day you are to light anew the beacon fires of hope In the breasts of the people who had hitherto followed our flag or to sound the death knell of the aspirations of those who have labored long in the cause of re- form. When look into the earnest faces of those before me think can read what your answer will be, and if I make no mistake that answer will be that the peo- ple's party is born to live and not to die. The chaotic conditions which now confront our party were brought about by office holders and office-seeking politicians, who were willing to fuse the life out of our party in order that they might obtain pet ty office with It's emoluments. The folly of 1896, when we became the tail of the dem- ocratic kite, has brought us to the verge of disruption, and the only thing today that can avert disaster is a straightfor- ward course of independent action. Great problems and new conditions have arisen and confront thinking men and women of the, world. and these problems and con-