Show FUSION IS ASSURED I Silver Pares In Wahingn Holding Hold-ing Their Conventions Elensburg Wash Sept 7The Populist Pop-ulist Democratic and sliver Republican Republi-can convention met here today for the purpose of forming a fusion and nominating nomi-nating a joitit ticket consisting of two congressmen and two supreme judges The result of todays session were the forming of a permanent organization organiza-tion by each convention and the appointment ap-pointment of conference committees to perfect fusion The day was almost featureless and was consumed with routine matters The only contest was in the Ppulst I convention Ion temporary chairman J B Hart who was chosen met with some opposition from the opponents of Governor Rogers who favors the endorsement en-dorsement of Congressman James Hamilton ator Lewis for Unite States sea United States Senator Gorge Turner Tur-ner in an address to th silver Republic pubilcans adroitlyanswered the ques public rect < ton wnetner ne was a OpUlBt or BH vel Republican by saying that belonging be-longing to any one of the three great longng parties of reform is preferable to beIng a member of the goldbug Republican part There is a small element in the Democratic convention that is opposed op-posed to the surrender of their part name and a resoluUon setting this fort was introduced more with the view of expressing a protest rather I ter than a determination to press the mat terThe undercurrents of the convention indicate that fusion will be easily 3 complshed I Is pretty generally conceded con-ceded that the Populists will secure I both supreme judges and that Con grossman Lewis and Congressman Jones will be renominated ThePopulistconvention has among I its Qelegates one woman Mrs Peter of Clalam county who was seated on I her husbands proy A fight will bi made to have a declaration in the different dif-ferent platforms in favor of female suffrage I suf-frage The Democratic platform adopted tonight to-night contains te following aVe denounce as unfair and bitterly partisan the discrimination of the pros tt secretary of war as carried out by his department against the volunteers from this state inreauiring them to remain at home while troops in vat numbers from eastern states ere transvorted at an enormous expense across the continent and forwarded to the seat of war at Mania That the volunteers from the state of Washington I Washing-ton have not participated in the splendid splen-did achievements of land and naval force of the nation at Manila Is through no lack of courage or efficiency on their part but wholly chargeable to the partisanship and general incompetence incompe-tence of the war department At a late hour the joint conference I committee was in secret session with F Bausman Dem of Seattle a chairman chair-man The conference adjourned at midnight until 930 a m tomorrow The only conclusion ranched was that the ticket he known as the Peoples party and that Democrats and shyer Repub lcans each have a congressman A motion that the Democrats have one moton judge was adopted but afterwards reconsidered re-considered aided leaving the matter unde I |