Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1898 — BARKER FOR PRESIDENT. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

BARKER FOR PRESIDENT.

“Middle Of the Road” Populists Nominate a Ticket for 1000. , Wharton Barker, the Philadelphia financier and editor, is the first presidential nominee in the field for 1900. In national convention at Cincinnati the antifusion Populists selected him as their standard-bearer, and named Ignatius Donnelly of Baconian cryptogram fame as his running mate. The naming of the ticket was preceded by riotous scenes, during which the tumult attained such threatening proportions that the manager of the Lyceum, iff" which the convention was held, requested the delegates to leave the hall. Order was restored only when

the delegates in. the Butler faction, said to be friendly to fusion and openly opposed to the plan of naming a ticket at this early day, withdrew from further participation in the convention’s work. The convention adopted the referendum system iu its entirety, and the ticket, as a result, must be submitted to popular party vote. A resolution was adopted providing that hereafter the nominations for all offices, whether national. State, county or city, shall be made through the initiative and referendum or by petition indorsed by popular party vote. Friends of Messrs. Barker and Donnelly, however, have no fear of their rejection by the party at large when the test of popular vote is taken. The bolters were led by Joseph Palmer of Illinois. Included in their ranks were the delegates, either iu whole or in part, from Illinois, Ohio, Indiana. Michigan, Kentucky. Missouri, Tennessee and Ar-

ktuisas. They adopted an address declaring the majority had placed themselves beyond the pale of Populism and formed a new parly and appealing to Populists throughout the country not to join in the movement. The address of the BarkerDonnelly faction, on the other hand, likens Chairman Butler to Benedict Arnold, champions the greenback as the ideal currency, expresses the hope that gold will soon be “ relegated to the diseased teeth of the people” and points to the postal service and the public school system as “exemplifications of a beneficent State socialism.”

WHARTON BARKER. First Presidential Nomince for 1000.