People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1896 — POPULIST CONVENTION. [ARTICLE]

POPULIST CONVENTION.

Senator Alien, of Xebraska, Chosen Chairman of the Convention. BEY AN MEN IN FORGE. nominations Likely to he Made Today. On account of the tremendous consequence resting upon the action of the convention at St. Louis, this column of the Pilot has been left open till the very last minute bes ore going to press. No political convention since that at Charleston, South Carolina, in 1860, has so held the destinies of the country in its keeping as does the one that is so patriotically laboring at St. Louis. The convention that nominated McKinley, and that at Chicago that nominated Bryan, dwindle into insignificence when compared with this, for while they named the meu who may be president, upon the action of the populist 1 convention absolutely depends who will be president. The convention has passed through the turmoil usual to such gatherings and has chosen Senator Allen, of Nebraska, as the permanent chairman, and while the-middle-of-the roadmen appear to be well pleased with their chairman; and favorably impressed by his address, the straight Bryan men hail it as a victory for their chief. Republican emmesaries are exerting every possible energy to prevent the endorsement of Bryan, while the democrats are equally as actively engaged in trying to consumate the the same. At this writing it looks like their efforts will be successful but that a populist will be the candidate for vice president.