| Show MAKING GUESSES REPUBLICANS WHO ARE HOPING AGAINST HOPE A Virtual Admission However That the DelcKTates to the National Populist Convention Will Either Endorse or Nominate Both Bryan and Sonull ST LOUIS July 1SNot enough of I the delegates to the national Populist convention which assembles here next I Wednesday have arrived in the city to I give a fair idea as to the complexion of that gathering A majority of those I here are middle of the road men who are not in favor of the endorsement I endorse-ment of Bryan I I The temporary chairman will be selected j I se-lected by the national committee at its I i meeting on Tuesday although the man will be virtually named by the I national executive committee which I held its first meeting today with only six members present Cyclone Davis of Texas who is opposed op-posed to fusion and is for an independent indepen-dent Populist ticket is the choice of the middle of the road people There is a possibility that he may be II relegated to the rear The middle of the road men are in a majority hut when the three absent members of the I committee get here there is a strong probability that United States Senator W V Allen of Nebraska may be put I forward for both temporary and permanent per-manent chairman Senator Allen is j said to be outspoken for the endorse I ment of Bryan and Sewall and for the union of all the free silver forces If the antiBryan men and the members mem-bers of the national machine try to run in a temporary chairman the scene in the Chicago convention when David B Hill was turned down and Senator Daniel of Virginia put in may be duplicated du-plicated The Bryan wing of the party claims over 900 delegates out of the total of S 1350 and this large majority would not submit to the dictation of the I minority faction At todays meeting of the executive committee it is claimed the subject of I temporary officers was discussed It I was taken up but only in an informal I way Chairman Taubeneck soon discovered dis-covered that not all the members < were with him and that it was barely possible possi-ble the middle Off the road would have a majority in the full body omen o-men This altered his plans and the matter was postponed It is said the middle of the road men now threaten threat-en to bolt f Bryan is endorsed They come mostly from south of the Mason and Dixon line Tonights arrivals are not numerous and it is not expected that any great number of Populists will come in before be-fore Monday or Tuesday |
