Show BOLT FROM r EETING I I Split Follows a Turbulent I Gathering of Populists I II I I r ROW IN I NATIONAL COMMITTEE i I f Bolters who Oppose Fusion Hold a I Meeting of their Own Fusionists Under Lead of Senator Allen Refused I Re-fused to Admit Men who Participated Partici-pated in Cincinnati Convention or Who Held Proxies from Them Stormy Debate Ensued and the Result Re-sult was a Bolt from Committee I II II I I I Lincoln Neb Feb HIA split and a 1 walkout followed a turbulent meeting of the Populist National committee tonight I to-night the anilfusion leaders after halng a number of their followers turned down by the credentials committee com-mittee organising a boll and forming anew a-new committee The membeis favorable I favor-able to fusion after adopting the report re-port of the credentials committee adjourned I ad-journed until tomorrow when In all likelihood I it i will empower the chairman chair-man or a conmlttc of three to call the I national convention for the same city I and the same time the Democratic convention con-vention ic held I Caucuses aifd conferences this morning morn-ing among the contending faction betokened be-tokened an inharmonious meeting of I the full committee which began at 3 oclock this afternoon In representative I hull of the Stato cupllol and the Indi cutlonu that breakers were ahead were emphasised ten mhiulcs after Chair I man JJutler culled the committee lo or dcr and announced that Jl would at once go Into executive session I The difficulties of the members of whom there wort about eighty present but holding proxies for nearly the full committee hinged primarily on the old question of fusion The clement led by I Senator Alien with apparently Ute strongest following Insisted on fusion and to that end that a committee be appointed with pouer to call the con vention for the same day and place as the Dcmoorats Senator Allen said l M am not in favor of admitting In lie committee this afterII meeting afternoon or recognizing as members of the commit tee any man who participated In the UnHnnail contention thai nominated Barker and Domally for President and Vicepresident I am not In faor of rcropnizinsr proxies from such men neither am I in favor of recognizing any Mich man who sends a proxy I do not believe the committee should admit any member who is supporting a ticket othI r than the om to be nomN minted In I lie convention this committee shall call ThecommUtee should throw over the transom t > every member who has no right to participate in lus delib I erations and I believe It will do it J A Parker of Kentucky replied on behalf of the middleoftheroad or anllflll lon menThe men-The calling of the list of commltlee mon proceeded without Incident I to the end when Mr 1 Parker asked why the proxy if Commlttvemnn A tV Files Of Ailcansns and Roberts MrReynolds of Lincoln had been omitled Robert Sohlldfng of Wisconsin i said he elmlI I lenged thc right of any man to sit In the meeting ogardles of his orodon tlrls l who had taken part In thr > rinHn nall com nllOI1 I which nominated Bar ker and Donnelly Chairman Butler ruled that I time whole matter must go to the committee on credentials and he thereupon appolntrcl as such committee Allon of Nebraska Weaver of Iowa and Tracey of Texas all of lilt fusion faction and declared the meeting adjourned amid the pro tests of the mlddleoflhoroaders who denounced his action as partisan When the committee reassombled at 345 the antlfuslonlsts presented the following proposition Thai the committee recognize only legal proxies stamped with revenue I stamns according to law That the roll of the meeting at Omaha in 1SDS be accepted with the I roll of this committee except where subsequent State conventions have elected new members except that cases of contests shall go before a committee composed of five members two to be selected b > the friends of Buller two by I friends of Parker these four to select a fifth member and that in set lung these contests no votes are to be cast on these j cases by either con tcsleea or contestants until all con tests are settled This proposition represents fifty seven votes in this convention which la a good majority of the members In attendance bore and we demand the propositIons in the name of the honest Populists of this Notion who are opposed op-posed to rescallty In politics This was signed by J O Parker Ken tuck R H IL Wheeler Ohio Newt Gresham Texas T B Osborne Georgia Geor-gia J L Knott Maine Robert Mc Reynolds Arkansas and D Clem Dover of Nebraska together with a number of others not commlllcemen The pronofilllon was Ignored by l the full committee the committee on credentials cre-dentials ivporloil excluding all but live of the antifusion members and In the midst of nn uproar the mlddlooflhe ropdo u > d hy Parker of Kon lucky and Wellon of Town left the hall engaged en-gaged a room down town and organized a bolting meeting The main convention shortly before midnight without deciding on a date or place for the national convention adjourned until tomorrow morning at 0 orloclc Tho bolters necurod a room at the Grand hotel prepared an address ad-dress amid called a national convention for Cincinnati 0 on Wednesday May Ohm |