Show FUSION IN NEBRASKA THREE conventions AGREE UPON ONE CANDIDATE wil ilant jennings leaning urmi dran dictates ahe del platform Ilat form and nd liter not brunts 1 lit mail made the im loans iii Or omaha nalia neb aug 21 Nebra nebraska blia democrats populists pop all lists ats and silver republicans met in this city tuesday and fused on nominations tor for judge of the tha supreme court and two me mb babers cabers ers of the board ot of regents of 0 the state university former governor silas A was nominated dominated for supreme justice b by the populists lists and endorsed by the other two convention conventi though not without a fight in tile the democratic demo cratic gathering where bere there was strong opposition to him emanating from douglas county this opposition centered on former forme united states senator W V allen alien who could have lad a majority of the ballots in the convention but ile he pushed his friend holcomb allen alien was chairman of tile the resolutions committee in the populist convention and william J bryan was a delegate to the democratic gathering mr bryan dictated the platform of the democratic convention this document declared uncompromisingly for free coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 and endorsed bodily the chicago platform of 1896 the platform of the populist convention endorsed the platform of the populist national convention of 1801 1896 and in id addition contained planks denouncing the policy of the administration in the philippines the platform of tile the silver republicans was N as much tile the same saine and contained in addition a strong plank declaring against the use of railroad passes by public officials this pass resolution was adopted by the populist convention without dissent but stirred up a great commotion among tile the democrats democrat many of whom fought it tooth and nail mr bryan addressed nil all three conventions vent ions and was emphatic in his denunciation nuncia tion of the administration s policy in the philippines ile he also spoke vigorously in support of the tree free coinage of silver declaring it to be the main issue now before the public ile he denounced trusts in strong terms and criticized the administration for doing nothing to regulate them lie ile was as received with great enthusiasm |