The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-04-04
WATSON
FOR PRESIDENT
NOMINATED BY NATIONAL CON
VENTloN OF poPULtSTS AT
ST. LOUIS.
BRYANITES MAKE BOLT
Conducted Successful Filibuster Till
Late in Afternoon--Regufarity
OF Proceedings is
Questioned,

| st Louis. April 3.-For President Of
I the United Strtes-Thomas Il. Wat
son of Georgia.
For Vice President Samuel VIII
! tams. of Indiana,
/ The above ticket was nominated to-
Jay by the Peoples party convention
after two stormy sessions throughout
which the Nebraska and Minnesota
delegations, working In the interest
of Bryan. strove desperately to bring
about an adjournment of the conven-
tion until after the nominations had
been made by tho Democratic and
Republican parties.
Hopelessly outnumhered aud with
nut any chance whatever. Of gaining
their object, the Nebraska men
fought desperately to the last, and
when J. F. Forest, of Albany n y,
mounted the platform to place Wat
son in nomination they withdrew from
the convention, attended by the Min
nesota delegation which consisted,
however, of only one man--T. j.
Wegh2m
II Bryan is nominated at Denver,
| the men who walked ont Of today's
convention will support him aud they
leclare the Popuiists of Nebraska
will do so to man.
At the morning session the Ne
braska men made decided headway
They filibustered cIeveriy and with
, knowledge OF parliamentary pro
| cedure. that several times threw th'
| convention into snarls They fought
long and hard to have Temporary
| Chairman Coxey. of Ohio, made per
| nanent chairman, not because OF any
affection they bore him, but because
they believed they could tangle him
lup and in that way stand off nominn
tions.
| Coxey begged them TO allow him to
withdraw but they fought for him
| against his will. They were beaten
| however, and George A. Honneeker,
of Jersey City, was made permanent
| hartman.
Honneckcr was not In sympathy
| with the Bryan element and he was
| not a chairman OF the Coxey brand
He is a big man with bigger
voice, and he fights. His rulings
| were fair. but he would not be b'uHed
or bullicd and he talked back In
vigorous style to the Nebraska men
when they attacked him.
| The downfall of Nebraska came
swiftly in the afternoon, and into a
rit they themselves had dug the dele
gates from Nebraska tumbed.
They were filibustering along in a
cheerful fashion when J. A. Parker,
of Louisville. begged leave to ask a
| couple of questions" of Nebraska.
He desired to know If they were
working for the nomination of Bryan
They said they were not He then
read from Bryans paper PLANK
from the Nebraska Populist state
convention endorsing Bryan, and
wanted to know If they stood by 1t oI
by their statement just made. The
Nebraska men were backed into
corner. they coud fight, hut they coulc
not escape.
Parker insisted upon categorica
answer which Nebraska would no
give.
One delegate insisted that "a re
porter on Bryans paDer had made
mistake. Just like reporters are Away
doing" hut the convention ioored a
his attack upon journalistic accurac'
end preferred to believe the re
porter on Rryan's paper.
From that instant Bryans cause II
the convention was lost. and 1t wa
~nIv few minutes before the dele
gates from his state had bolted tn
convention.
After the convention the Nebraska
delegation made statement IN whlcl
they charged that the meeting ot Tn
populists national committee in 81
+ Louis. November 2G. 1907. which AZ
s thorized call for this convention
Q was irregular. and that other act
leading M to this convention w"r
irregular. and declared that they fol
that they were not bound by the ae
tion of the convention. held unde
such conditions.
2 At a meeting nf the new nationa
s | committee James II. Ferris. Of Jolie
i M was reelected chairman. Jay "
Il Forrest Of Albany. y. Y, vice chat
o man.
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