The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-04
GEORGIAN WILL WAIT
 FOR HIS NOTIFICATION
Chairman of Convention Makes
 Radical Speech.
The Platform is Drastic in Its En- dorsement of Drastic Meas ure.--Friends of Mir. Bryan
 Were Run over.

St. Louis, April -S.--For President of the United States, Thomas E. Wat son, of Georgia; for Vice President or the United States. Samuel Williams, or Indiana.
 The above ticket was nominated to- day by the Peoples Party convention after two stormy sessions durins which the Nebraska and the Minnesota delegations bolted because they could not procure a postponement of the convention until after the nominations had been made by the Democratic and Republican parties.
 Hopelessly outnumbered and with out any chance whatever of gaining their object, the Nebraska men fougnt desperately to the last, and when Jay , W. Forrest of Albany. N. Y., mounted the platform to place Watson in norn- fnation they withdrew from the con yention, attended by the Minnesota defegation which consisted however of only one man, T. J. Weignan.s
 If Bryan is nominated at Denver +ba men who walked out of today's convention will support him and they declare that the Populists Of NeprasKa will do so to man
 At the morning session the Nebraska men made decided headway. They H. mustered cieverly and with knowl- edge of parliamentary procedure that several times threw the convention into fearful snarls. They fought long and hard to have temporary Chairman J g Coxey of Ohio. made permanent chairman. not because of any affec- tIon they bore him. but they believed that they could tangle him up ana III that way stand off the nomination.
 Coxey. who is genial. easy going nresidinx officer, begged them to al- low him to withdraw, but they fought for him against his will. They were beaten, however, and George A: Hon nfcker, of Jersey City, was made per- nanent chairman.
 DownfaH of Nebrasika.
 The downfall of Nebraska came .wiftlv in the afternoon into pit they themselves had dug the delegates Sron Nebraska tumbied. They were filibustering along in cheerful iasnloh when |. A. Parker. of Louisville. XIV. begged leave to ask "a couple or uuestionsf of the Nebraskans.
 He desired to know if they were rvorlx,nr for the nomination of Bryan. They said they were not. He then read from Mir Bryan's paper plank sren the Nebraska Populist state convention endorsing Bryan and want ed to know if they stood by It..
 The Nebraska men were blocKed into corner. They could fight, but they
 
 mon a categorical answer which Ne braska would not give.
 one delegates insisted that "a re- porter on Bryan's paper had made mistake, just like reporters are al, ways doing" but the convention Jeered at his attack upon 1ournaisuc
 Trom that instant Bryan's cause In the convention was lost and 1t was onIv a few minutes before they del- erates from his State had bolted the convention.
 After the convention the Neoraska delegates made a statement giving III details the reason why the delegates from that State regarded the action og the convention as irregular ana without binding force. The statement closes by saying: T.
 "We do not hesitate to say that IT MT. Bryan is nominated by the Demo- crats at Denver the Populists of Ne- hraska will support him to man.
 Thomas F. Watson, the Presidential nominee. is known throughout the country. Samuel W. Williams, the candidate for Vice-President, Is a res ident of Vincennes, Ind, where he mas nractfced law for many years. He IS s2 years old and has always been more or less an active participant in polf- flies. He was at one time Demo cratic member of the Indiana Legisla- . lure hui has been identified with the Populist party since Its creation.
 Al a meeting tonight of the new Ma tional Committee James H. Ferris of Joliet, H., was reelected Chairman and Jay W. Forrest of Albany. N. Yp was chosen Vice-Chairman.
 The Platform Adopted.
 The following is the Populist plat form: states in convention assembled at St. Touis. Mo-, this second day of April, 1908 with increased confidence in It's contentious, reaffirms the declarations made by the National Convention at Omaha. farewell; the state papers of Jefferson and the words of Lincoln are the teach lngs of our greatest apostles of human rights and political liberty.
 There has been a departure from the teachings of those great patriots during recent administrations. The government has been controlled so as to place the rights of property above the rights of humanity, and has brought the country to condition that is full of danger to our national we'll being. Financial combinations have had too much power over Congress and tration of departments of the govern ment. Prerogatives of government  have been surrendered to corporate mo- nopoiy and aggregatons of predatory wealth.
 The issuing of money as a function of government should not be delegated to corporation or individual. The Con. Htitution gives to Congress the power to issue money and regulate the value thereof. We therefore demand that al money shall be issued by the govern ment direct to the people. without the intervention of banks. and he full lega tender for all debts. public and private and in quantities to supply the neces sity of the country.
 'Srhe public domain is a sacred her i4age of all the people and should bt held for homesteads for the people Alien ownership should be forbidder and lands now held by aliens or by corporations which have violated thu conditions of their grants should bG restored to the public domain.
 4ro prevent unjust discrimination