Show BUTLER jElt IS IN affairs or of the peoples party parly curnet over to alloi st louis tilly july 27 the affairs of the peoples party are now in the hands of senator butler of north carolina chairman of the national committee today the nine members of the retiring list executive committee made a formal settlement with the new committee they turned over to chairman butler and secretary ingerton edgerton id gerton all the money on hand and their accounts were approved very few ot of the new members remained i in the city for or the monday meeting they authorized chairman butler and secretary edgerton to lo audit the accounts and hasten horne home to prepare lor for the campaign the silver party has established temporary in lathe Corcoran building washington D C future events will determine whether or not it will be ton continued linued there vice chair man stevens St eveni who will have active charge of 0 the headquarters and who will relieve chairman lane of much of the work connected with the coming coining campaign will leave for the capitol city city in a short time the selection of 0 populist headquarters has been left to chairman butler and a decision as to that matter will probably not be made for several weeks charles B lane chairman of the silver national left last night lor for his home in california ile he will stop at al lincoln neb and hold a conference with mr air bryan while it has not yet definitely licen been decided there will probably be no formal notification of bryan by cither the populists lists or silver men it was war learned from a prominent western member of the silver national committee that it Is the intention of both tile the silver men and the populist committee to waive the usual formal notification until tile the meeting in new york at which mr air bryans nomination alion tor for presidency will be announced noun ced A proposition looking to tile ill fusion on of tile the two parties in ill missouri un on the lic state ticket has it is stated been made by tile the populists lists to the democratic lead erg who have it 11 under consideration As the price tor for this fusion tile the lists are arc said to have demanded that they be given eight out of the seventeen presidential electors in tile the state late if tills this concession Is not made tile the populists lists will wi 11 put till t a state stale ticket in the field at their convention which will be cieli lieli ut sedalia next thursday la y |