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The Morning News
Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia
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The Populist national convention in Cincinnati, Ohio, set for September 5, 1896, faces disharmony. Illinois delegates, instructed only for a Middle-of-the-Roaders conference, oppose full nominating, clashing with delegations from Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio. Background involves a bolt after Omaha and disputed call by Wharton Barker and Jo A. Parker.
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Opposition to the Instructions of the Illinois Delegations.
Cincinnati, O., Sept. 4.—The Populist national convention that convenes here at 9 o'clock to-morrow morning is not likely to be harmonious.
The Illinois delegation, consisting of the state chairman and three others. had a conference to-night with Jo A. Parker of Kentucky and quite a number of local Populists. The Illinois delegates said they were instructed not to go into a regular nominating convention at this time, but simply to participate in a national conference of the Middle-of-the-Roaders.
The delegates from Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio, who are not thus instructed, stated after the conference that they were opposed to admitting the Illinois delegates under such instructions.
After the Populist conference in Omaha last June the national organization, headed by Milton Park of Dallas, bolted and called a national convention at Cincinnati at this time for the reorganization of the Populist party. This call was afterward withdrawn, but Wharton Barker of Philadelphia, Jo A. Parker of Louisville and others insisted that the call was not legally withdrawn and that the convention will be held, although there has been no regularity or uniformity in the selection of delegates. It will be a mass convention with free-for-all contests.
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Sept. 4
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The Populist national convention in Cincinnati faces disharmony due to Illinois delegates' instructions to participate only in a Middle-of-the-Roaders conference, opposed by other state delegations. This follows a bolt after the Omaha conference, with a disputed call for reorganization led by figures like Wharton Barker and Jo A. Parker.