The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-06-08
III. Martin Williams Has an OPP
pOrtunity to Crate, and is
Consequently Happy.
A Platform Adopted, Full OF
the Usual Greenback
GeneralitieS.
Candidates Nominated for the
Various State Offices to
be Filled.

III. Martin Williams, the recognized
leader of the greenback party in Ills
souri,, was quite indignant yesterday
because he had met with so many wht
wondered what he was doing in town
and who treated his solemn asserva
ton 10 the effect that the greenbacl
party was about to assemble in stat'
convention in this city as a joke
"N hat makes me mad" said Martin
sis that they tried to laugh INT
out of town, and refused
utterly to believe that a greenbacE
convention, and a state convention a
that, was about to assemble in this
city.
Yesterday morning few wild-eye ed
looking individuals were seen at the
Hotel Kaiser, and inquiries were made
by many as to what means this strange
assembly? Information was soon
elected to the effect that these were the
delegates to the state greenback
convention, and then the most skepti.
Nj were convinced that greenback
invention, with III. Martin Williams
and all other adjuncts, was really about
to begin its labors in Sedalia.
1t was the original intention to call
the convention to order at II o'clock
a. m. but on account of the delayed
train from the east, it was decided that
the hour be deferred until 2 o'clock
p. m.
TEMPORARY ORGANIZATION.
About 2 o'clock in the afternoon
about two dozen individuals, consti.
tuting the state greenback convention,
gathered at Woods hall and were
called to order by III. Martin Will
Hams, chairman Of the state central
committee. Of course the great ex-
FOUNDER of greenback doctrine did
not lose the opportunity to make q
speech, and In his entertaining
manner he addressed the convention
for a few moments. in his usual strain.
He said that the industries of the
country were paralyzed, and that
there is not to day so much money per
capita in circulation as there was
prior to the dark days of the panic of
1873. There are now, the speaker
asserted, S494, 000,0 900 locked up in
the vaults of the treasury. Senators
Vest and Cockren went before the
people of this country denounc-
ing national banks and promising
that these abuses should be
remedied. The democratic party has
been in power since 1884, and yet the
policy of the republican party
has been intensified. There is five
times as much money In
The treasury vaults now as when the
party was in power, and
Far less in the country with which to
employ the vast amount of idle labor.
The speaker said that there were no
practical differences between the dem.
'cratic and republican parties except
On the money question.
Mr.. Williams brief remarks were
with manifest approval by
his handful of followers. At its con-
,lusion he stated that the committee
mad selected as permanent officers
Hon. L. M. Rice, of Cooper county,
chairman, and Paul Dickinson, of Liv-
ingston county, and George Hackstaff,
Of st. Louis, secretaries.
Judge Rice was escorted to the chair
md returned thanks for the honor
He said that this was the first
time he had ever presided over a
political assemblage of any kind and
asked the indulgence of the conven-
ton. He would not attempt to make
! speech, as be came here simply as a
business man and expected that the
body over whose deliberations he had
been called to preside would act on
business principles.
APPOINTMENT OF COMMITTEES.
Mr.. Mcconnell, of Bates, moved
hat a committee, consisting of one
from each congressional district, be
appointed on credentials. Adopted.
Mr.. Hackstaff, of st. Louis, |
moved that instead of appointing q
on resolutions and plat
iorm, the convention go into q COM
nittee of the whole on this subject. I
After some discussion the motion was