The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1900-03-01

Resolution Adopted Inviting the sftve
Republican Convention to Aeet at tn
Same Time and PIace-Commttteeme,
Who Had Previously BoItsd the Part
and Joined the Barker DonneiIyi,es Ex
cluded From the Meeting-A Comm,tte
Appointed to Make Recommendation
or Receive Suggestions to Offer the Com
mittee on Platform OF the Convention
The Meeting characterized by Utmos
| Harmony.
Special Correspondence Caucasian.
LINCOLN, Neb. Feb. 20, 1900.
The Peoples Party National Elk
! ecutive Committee, after FINISHING
it's work, adjourned this evening
1t fixed the date OF the Nationa
Convention of the party for Wed
nesday, May 9th; and fixed the
place at Sioux Falls, South Dakota
The Committee was called to or
der in Representative Hall of the
State capitol, yesterday by Chair.
man Butler, pursuant to call fol
the Committee meeting. The
Chairman announced that it was
the duty of the National Chairman
to prepare the roll of the Commit.
teemen legally entitled to sit in the
Committee, but that he had not
been able to secure sufficient evil
dence to settle all contests. He fur.
Their announced that he had left of
the roll the names of those COM
mitteemen who had participated in
holding the boil ing rump Conven-
tfon at Cincinnati which had NOM
mated Barker and Donnelly. He
further stated that no distinction
was made between what is known
as Observation-Disclosures and Flu
sionists, because every one of these
were as much members of the par
ty and as much entitled to deliber-
ate in the councils of the party as
any other as long as they support
ed the organization and would
abide by the action of the Conven-
ton.
The Chairman then announced
that In order to enable him to hear
evidence and to settle contests that
the Committee would not be reyu-
larly called together until 5 O'Clock
at night, and that all contests
would be heard in the meantime.
The Chair then appointed Senator
Allen, General Weaver and Colonel
Harry Tracey to sit with him and
near these contests and arrive at a
conclusion and report to the Com
mittee. At o'clock in the evening
the Committee was promptly cali
ed to order, when the Chair had the
Secretary Of the Committee to read
the roll legally accredited commit
teemen The Chair called attention
to the fact that the proxies of sew
eral members of the Committee.
who would themselves, if present
in person, be entitled to sit with the
Committee, were in the hands of
certain parties picked up around
the streets Of Linc coin, who were not
themselves Populists. 1t had de-
We 'oped that Mr.. Parker, represent
ing the Donnelly crowd of boilers
had secured a number of these
proxies and placed them in the
hands of characters around Lincoln
who were not recognized as Popu-
lists by the Peoples Party State
organization Of that State. These
OF course were not permitted to sit
IN the Committee. Some objection
was raised in the Committee to the
ruling Of the Chair, whereupon a
resolution was offered by Colonel
L. M. Patterson, OF Colorado, to the
effect that no person who took part
n the nomination of Barker and :
Donnelly, Or who now declare their
purpose OF supporting that rumr
ticket, should be eligible to sit in !
he Committee meeting, nor should +
my person who was not recognized !
Is Populist by the Peoples Party !
organization of his state be p9rmit-
ed to sit with the Committee as a !;
proxy. The resolution was adop-
ed by a more than three-fourths
thus sustaining the rul-
ng of the Chair.
Those who were thus denied &C.
ess to the Committee meeting De-
ause they belonged to another par
y are understood to have held an
Indignation meeting" and to have
ssued a call for a convention of
b ir own to re-nominate Barker
nd Donnelly. An effort was made
y these persons so excluded to
cake 1T appear that no middle-of-
he-rOaders were permitted to sit
n the Com mittee meeting. This
wholly false, for every middle
f-the-roader, and indeed, every
lem Der OF the Committee, no mat
or what views he may hold as to .
ollcy, was recognized as entitled ,
sit with the Committee unless :
g was excluded by the terms of ?
ne resolution above referred to. ,
lat is had already boited the par ,
and helped to put up rump i
cket, etc. To show how perfectly
llr and lenient the Chairman and ,
majority of the Committee in ;
1stalning him were, attention is +
allied to the fact that Mr.. Jo. A. :
arker, though known to be in :
earty sympathy with Barker and =
onnelly, was permitted to sit in :
lie Committee meeting. Why? Be- +
.use technically, he had never put :
lmself outside of the party, that :
!, he was shrewd enough not to .
Ike part in the convention that '
Barker and Donnelly. :
Id he has been shrewd enough q
nee to not declare his intention to
lpport that ticket or of boiling =
70 National Convention if it did :
o5 take the course he desired. The =
me is true as to other pronounced +
Observation-Disclosures. d Q e d 9
amber OF the middle of-the-road =
m mltteomon sat with tho Co