The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1908-04-10
POPULISTS
NAME WATSON
GEORGIA MAN NOMINATED FOR
PRESIDENT BY PEOPLES
CONVENTION.
SESSION WAS STORMY
NEBRASKA DELEGATION, WHICH
WAS FOR BRYAN, WALK OUT
OF THE HALL.

St. Louis.-For President Of the
United States, Thomas f. Watson OF
Georgia: for Vice President, Samuel
W. Williams of Indiana
This ticket was nominated Friday
by the Peoples party convention, after
two stormy sessions. throughout which
the Nebraska and Minnesota deIeGa-
tiOns, working in the interest OF VIII
lam j. Bryan, strOvc desperately to
bring about an adjournment until after
nominations had been made by The
Democratic and Republican parties.
Outnumbered, and without any Chauce
of gaining their object. the Nebraska
men fought desperately to the last. and
when Jay w. Forrest of Albany, New
York. mounted the platform to place
Watson in nomination they Withdrew
from the convention. attended by the
Minnesota delegation, which consisted.
however, of only one mani. j.
Weighan.
If Bryan is nominated at Denver. the
men who walked out Of Friday con
ention will support him. and they de-
clare the Populists of Nebraska will
do so to a man.
At the morning session the Ne
braska men made decided headway.
They tilibustered cleverly, and several
times threw the convention into fear
full snarls. They fought long and hard
to have Temporary Chairman Jacob $.
Coxy of Ohio made permanent chair
man. not because of any affection they
bore him, but because they believed
they could tangle him up and in That
way stand off the nominations. They
were beaten, however and George A.
HOnnecker of Jersey City was made
permanent chairman. Ilonnecker was
not in sympathy with the Bryan etc-
ment, and was not chairman oi the
Coxey brand.
The downfall of Nebraska came in
the afternoon.
They were filibustering along in
cheerful fashion, when 10 A. Parker OF
Louisville begged leave to ask "a cou-
pie of questions" Of Nebraska He
wanted to know if they were working
for the nomination of Bryan. They
said they were not. He then read from
Bryan's paper plank from the Ne
braska Populst state convention. in
dorsing Bryan. and wanted to know
Of they stood by it or by their state
ment just made. The Nebraska men
were backed into corner They
could fight, but they could not escape.
Parker insisted upon categorical
answer, which Nebraska would not
give. One delegate insisted that a re
porter on Bryan's paper had made
mistake. just like reporters are always
doing" but the convention jeered him.
From that instant Bryans cause in the
convention was lost and it was only "a
few minutes before the delegates from
his state had bolted.
Thomas E. Watson. the presidential
nominee is well known throughout The
country, and his political life is 1amil-
lar history.
Samuel w. Williams. the candidate
for Vice President, is a resident OF
Vincennes. Indiana, where he has prlc-
ticed law for many years. He is sixty
two years old, and has always been
more or less an active participant ia
politics. He was at one time a Demo-
cratic member of the Indiana Legisa-
ture. but has been identified with the
Populst party since its creation. He
is gray-haired and gray-bearded. abnoL
six feet two inches tall lean and of a
nervous temperament.