El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-01
Political News !
Told In Brief !

Roosevelt boomers say that the
tie ndering of Longs name for the vice
presidency ia only mplimentary.
The populists propose to have a rally
| at Omaha, MAY the seventh, dollar
dinner" with William Jennings Bryan
| to make a speech.
Mr.. Bryan announces that he will
stsv at home from Kansas City during
the democratic national convention as
there Is nothing for him to do there
that he does not propose to be in the
way.
The Creek Nation republican con-
vention in session at Muscogee, [. T..
endorsed McKinley's administration
and elected delegates to the national
convention at Philad elphia, pledged to
pure republicanism.
The repu blican national committee
has named Senator Edward O. VOL
colt, of Colorado, to be temporary
chairman of the national convention
at Philadelphia, aud Senator Henry
Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts to be
permanent Chairman of that conven-
ton.
Ex-Governor Stone of Missouri does
q OF want Bryan! and his sixteen to one
silver platform dropped. He says In a
letter to the Drum mer's League: why
any man whose business is about to be
destroyed by the trusts should hesitate
TO cooperate with the one party which
can be depended upon to destroy the
trusts, for fear that a few silver dol
lars might be coined If that party
should be put In power, presents con-
un1rum beyond my ability to solve. ."
So Mr.. Stone considers the silver issue
a triflinR matter of looming few sill
yer dollars.
The republicans of Mississippi had a
tussle between the negro and white
elements to the convention in which
the whites won the leadership. Mont
gomery, of Oxford, district attorney
for the northern district, and n. G.
Turley, postm sster of Natchez, were
appointed delegates at large, Turley
to be committeeman at the national
convention. Lynch OF Nstchez and
Hill of Jackson, long time negro lead
ers, are also delegates at large. The
convention endorsed Mckinley and his
plimented the 10th and oath regiments,
colored for their gsllantry at
the battle of Santiago.
The republicans of Massachusetts in
convention endorsed the name of John
D. Long, secretary Of the navy, for
vice president, and reiterated their ad
herence to the ST. Louis platform of
1896. They pledged their delegates to
the national convention to the gold
standard, to "such amendments to the
banking laws as shall provide flexible
aud sufficient medium of exchange to
the end that capital may have fair re-
turns. American commerce be en-
larged, and labor assured of steady
employment and due share in the
fruits OF our expanding trade" On
the question of trusts, the con-
vention held that "Whenever they
become destructive of the
rights of citizens, they should
be suppressed by adequate statutes en-
acted by legislatures of the states, or
by congress, if the resulting evils are
beyond the power and jurisdiction of
the states" The convention endorsed
the ADMINISTRATORS attitude towards
the inhabitants of the islands acquired
by the treaty of Paris, favored the
sthmian canal. the Pacific cable, and
declared that congress should offer,
by appropriate legislation. such reas-
enable protection and encouragement
to American shipping as shall revive,
build up and strengthen our merchant
marine.'' The convention fully en-
dorsed Mckinley and his administra-