The Monte Vista journal., 1908-04-11
GEORGIA MAN NOMINATED FOR
PRESIDENT BY PEOPLES
CONVENTION. f1 F,e..
SESSION WAS sToRM>
NEBRASKA DELEGATION, WHICH
WAS FOR BRYAN, WALK OUT
OF THE HALL.

st. Louis-For President OF the
United States, Thomas +. 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 delega-
tions, working in the interest of Will
lam j. Bryan, strove desperately To-
bring about an adjournment until after
nominations had been made by the
Democratic and Republican parties.
Outnumbered and without any chance
of gaining their object, the Nebraska
men fought desperately 10 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 al Denver the
men who walked out of Fridays con
cntion Will support him, and they de-
clare the Populists of Nebraska Will
do SO TO a man.
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
We're beaten. however and George a.
Honneckor of Jersey City was made
permanent chairman. HoEueck.r was
not In sympathy with the Bryan elc-
men,. and WAS not "A chairman of the
CoNey brand.
The downfall of Nebraska came In
the afternoon.
| They were iillhustcring along In
cheerful fashion. when 10 \. Parker OF
/ Louisville begged leave TO ask "a cou-
pie Of questions" of Nebraska. lie
wanted to know II they were working
for the nomination of Bryan. They
said they were not. He then read from
Bryan's paper Il plank from the Ne.
braska Populist state convention, in
dorsing Bryan. and wanted 10 know
Of they stood by 1t or by their state
ment just made. The Nebraska men
! were Dithtu lH'D IL 'OIntI. it's
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" bat the convention jeered him.
From that instant Bryan's cause in tho
convention was lost. and IL was only -
few minutes before the delegates from
his state had boltcd.
Thomas L. Watson. the presidential
nominee is well known throughout the
country. and his political life Is iamil-
lar history.
Samuel w. Williams, the candidate
for Vice President. is IA resident OF
Ninccnnes. Indiana, where he has priic'
,iced law for many years. He is sixty
two years old, and has always been
more or less an active participant Ia
politics. lie was at one time Demo
cratic member OF the Indiana Legisla
ture. but has been Identified with tho
Popullst party since It's creation. Ho
Is gray.haired and rray.benrded. abou:
six feet two inches tail. lean and oi n
nervous temperament