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Show . m . ANOTHER CANDIDATE. Governor Pennoyer of Oregon, an Alliance Presidential Possibility. Washington, June 3. Governor Pennoyer of Oregon, is the latest individual to be seriously seri-ously talked of in connection with the presidential presi-dential nomination of the people's party and his name is favorably regarded as second choice by many of those who would like to see Judge Gresham at the head of the ticket. Governor Pennoyer, who has strong labor and granger affiliations, was elected in 1890 as a democrat by a majority of 5133, although two years before Harrison carried the state by a plarnjir-f nearly 7000. General James A. Weave of Iowa, himself at one time a candidate for the presidency, and who is one of the leading lights in the new party, recently re-cently went to Portland, Oregon, and had several conferences with Governor Pennoyer, and advices received by farmers' alliance men here indicate that Weaver has a conditional con-ditional promise from the governor that the use of his name in the convention will be permitted, subject to certain contingencies the exact nature of which is not yet known. The leaders of the alliance al-liance are doing a (rood deal of quiet figuring and calculating in anticipation anticipa-tion of the Omaha convention, and reports are received daily from states in which the people's party, in some one or other of its forms, has secured a foothold. From the present tenor of their advices they are sanguine san-guine of securing: a good proportion, if not all, of the electoral votes of Georgia and South Carolina. The latter state they regard re-gard as already theirs inasmuch as the democratic dem-ocratic organization has surrendered to the alliance. They also believe that they will get a part of the electoral vote of Minnes-sota, Minnes-sota, some of that of Wisconsin, and the entire vote of Oregon. In the event of these calculations proving to be well founded the election would be thrown into the house of representatives, and under the constitution constitu-tion the selection. of a president would have to be made from the three highest candidates. candi-dates. It is regarded as possible that the free silver democrats would support Pennoyer Pen-noyer in preference to Cleveland, should the latter be the democratic nomine.-, but, however how-ever this might be, it is believed that the free silver republicans in the senate could be induced in-duced to elect Colonel L. L. Polk, the southern south-ern alliance president, as vice president. These ore the views, cautiously expressed, of some of the men who will practically mould the Omaha convention to their own ideas. |