Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-04-09
TOM WATSON IS
POPULISTS' CHOICE
NAMED TO LEAD FORLORN HOPE
AFTER DEFEAT OF
BRYAN MEN.
NEBRASKA AND MINNESOTA DEL
EGATIONs QUIT THE CON-
VENTlON HALL.

st. Louis, April 4.-For president
Thomas e. Watson of Georgia; for
vice president, Samuel Williams of
Indiana.
The above ticket was nominated
yesterday by the peoples party con
Vention, after two stormy sessions
throughout which the Nebraska and
Minnesota delegates, working in the
interest of Mr.. Bryan strOve desper-
ately to bring about an adjournment
of the convention until after the nom
nations had been made by tL demo
cratic and republican parties. Hope
lessly outnumbered and without any
chance whatever Of gaining their OBJ
ject, the Nebraska men fought desper-
ately to the last, and when James T.
Forrest of Albany, N. Y, mounted the
platform to place Watson in nominal
ton they withdrew from the conven.
ton, attended by the Minnesota, del
egation which consisted, however, of
only one mani. J. Weigham. If Mr..
Bryan is nominated at Denver the
men who walked out of yesterdays
convention will support him AMI they
declare that the populists of Nebraska
will do so to a man.
At the morning session the Ne
braska men made decided Roadway.
They filibustered cIeverly and with
knowledge of parliamentary proceed.
ure that several times threw the con-
vention into snarls. They fought long
and hard to have temporary Chairman
Coxey of Ohio made permanent chair
man, not because of any affection
they bore him, but because they be-
lieved they could tangIe him up and
in that way stand off the nominations.
Coxey begged them to allow him to
withdraw but they fought for him
against his will. Taey were beaten,
however, and George A. Honnecker
of Jersey City was made permanent
chairman. Honnecker was not in
sympathy with the Bryan element and
he was not chairman of the Coxev
brand. He is a big man with a bigger
voice, and he fights. His rulings were
fair, but he would not be bIuffed or
bullied, and he talked back" in Wig
orous style to the Nebraska men when
they attacked him.
Nebraskans in a Trap.
The downfall of Nebraska came
swiftly in the afternoon, ana into
pit they themselves had digged the
delegates from Nebraska tumbled
They were fIibusterlng along in
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 Bryan's paper a plank
from the Nebraska populist state CON
vention endorsing Bryan, and wanted
to know if they stood for it, or by
their statement just made. The Ne
braska men " ere backed into a cor
ner They could fight, but they
could not escape. Parker insisted
upon a categorical answer which Ne
braska would not give. One dele
gate insisted that "a reporter on
Bryan's paper had made a mistake,
just like reporters are always doing,
but the convention jeered at his at
tack upon journalistic accuracy and
preferred to believe the reporter on
Bryan's paper" From that instant
the Bryan cause in the convention
was lost and it was only few min
utes before the delegates from his
state had bolted the convention.
After the convention the Nebraska
delegation made a statement in which