Deseret Evening News | 1908-04-01 | Page 8 | Populists Balk on Prohibition

P POPULISTS BACK BACKON BAU ON PROHIBITION Convention is Also PIso Opposed to General Jacob Coxey For Fer Chairman St Louis April A 1111 1 Numerous dele dole sates gateso to o tho the Populist convention ar m arrived rived last night and early today und it soon eoon became b came evident from Crom the tho ex cx expressions Ples of or thO II lato arrivals that there hero Is hi small chanca of oC the tho convention taU tak fog In any stand against Prohibition The Tho mutter matter will certainly como come up us In tho tini of or the committee on all resolutions and lInd may bo be dragged Into a II IId debate d halo on OIL the tile floor of or tho ho convention but the present probability seems to tobo tobe tob bo be b that It ir any In declaration Is It will he be III In favor favol ot or prohibition rather than 1 It considerable A num number betS ber of or f d legates ate arc against any plank In the tIo platform touching upon prohibition tion Thu Tho national committees of ot the Peo leo Peoples leoldeR ples ldeR party luarty and or of tho various organizations which nrc alto also to take part palL 1 In lu luthe Inthe the thc convention meeting today to complete tho the for fol forthe tho the convention Somo tomo omo opposition has developed to the selection of oC Jacob S H an all temporary chairman on tho ground that lucre thoro are arc Populism whose record of oC loyalty lo at to tho the party 1 Is better belter than that lint of or Coxey Cx y J A Parker of Louisville has haR been mentioned 1 toy for the tho position but bu t has hus far tho the stronger strollS r following