The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-07
THEY ARE THE WHOLE THING.
MIDDLE OF THE readers ARE
THE ONLY POPULIsTs.

So says 10 Parker Who Calls the
sioux Falls Convention an Adjunct
IN the Democratic Party-Believes
If WIFI Embarass Bryan-Says the
Cincinnati Convention VIII Meet
for Business and Its Nominees VIII
Get the votes.
cincinnati, May 6.-The advance workers
for the National Convention of the Mid
dle-or-the-Road Populists, which meets
here Wednesday. arrived to-day. They
are all opposed to fusion.
10 A. Parker, secretary of the National
Committee of the Middle-of-th e-Roaders,
who has been here several weeks arrang-
ing for the convention, was Joined by
many others to-day
They claim they represent a large ma
tority of the Peoples party, that in the
contests at state conventions the Sioux
Falls fusionists carried less than 300 of
the 975 delegates and that the convention
at Sioux Falls this week will be one of
excursionists, with a minority of dele
gates as they claim that over two-thirds
of the delegates were instructed by their
states for the Cincinnati Convention,
which will keep in the middle of the
road"
They also claim that their call is in ac
cord with the Omaha rule of 1892 exclud-
ing all officeholders, and charge that the
sioux Falls Convention is in charge OF
senators Butler, Allen and Pettigrew and
other oficeholders, The same as Republi-
can and Democratic conventions
Secretary Parker said to-day That every
hot 10
vention represents the real Populist move
ment and that the Sioux Falls convention
is simply an adjunct to the Democratic
party. This accounts for the uuanimlty
with which Populists in every section nave
repudiated the call for the latter couven-
ton and Endorsed the Cincinnati move
ment
1.-THE Sioux Falls convention cannot de-
liver a vote to Bryan" said he, that
would not so to him as the regular Demo
cratic nominee. Any action mat the
Sioux Falls convention may take will only
eubarrass Bryan and give his enemies in
the Democratic party chance to hammer
him He would be much stronger as a
thorough Democratic candidate than as
fusion candidate, and if the leaders OF the
Sioux Falls convention were really Tor
BRYAN they would so about the matter in
a way TO accomplish his election. They are
working the fusion racket more with en-
eve to getting Democratic support for the
STATE and other offices they hold and
expect to hold, than for any love of Bry-
an Why, this idea was boldly argued IN
the Committee on Resolutions at Raleigh
in the North Carolina convention, which
caused Harry Skinner to attack Senator
Butler for his insincerity. Mr.. Bryan is
in more danger to-day from these friends
than he is from the Middle-of-the-Road-
ers.'
Hanna Not Back of Them.
Waen asked about the charge of Sena-
Tor Pettigrew that Senator Hanna was
telping the convention. Mr.. Parker said:
at is false The fusion leaders see that
the Peoples party has repudiated them
This has driven them to the extremity of
trying TO imDugn the motives OF those
who Ore behind our movement. We eX-
peCt nothing else but a campa gn of SIAN
der. Tut we propose to meet it as it de-
Sc YES In truth this whole work has been
accomplished, and all the expenses of the
convention paid with $500, the amount con-
tribAt ed by the Convention League of I'm
cnrai. The fusionists buncoed Sioux
Fails out of $500, which will make their
deleeates cost over $50 a head, I should
Judge; but we were unable to get any
Thing more than 500. OF course, all of lis
who have done the preliminary work have
worked without remuneration and we
rave had to dispense with music and all
ex res and limit ourselves to bare neces-
sites But we are here for business and
not to cut a swell. and propose to do the
best we can.
1t Makes Them Mad.
1t does make US little angry to have
the fusionists parading such statement
before the public and leading people to
believe that we have a barrel of money.
l wrote Senator Pettigrew the facts over
week ago and asked that he set us
right but up to this time I have heard
nothing from him. 1t does seem strange
that any man holding office, secured I
the sacrifice of his party's purity and in
dependence should throw out slurs at
other people, who do not see things as he
does Senator Pettigrew is up for re-
election in South Dakota this year, and l
do not think it will help his chances much
to throw mud at the true Populists."