The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-05-26
NATIONAL CONVENTION.
The Union Labor Party Nominates
A. j. Streator for President.
Charles r. Cunningham Ia the Nominee
for vice-Presidcnt- Refusal to AMI
iate with the United Laborites
The Platform.

iate with the United LaborItes
The Platform.
CINCINNATI, May 16.--This morning the
National Union Labor Convention resumed Its
deliberations In the Odeon.
The Committee on Permanent Organization
reported as chairman, John Seitz, Of Ohio;
vice president, 8. Evans, Texas; secretary, j.
II. Randall, Illinois; assistant secretary, c. A.
Hoose, Nevada; reading clerk, q. D. Lennon;
scrgeants alarms members OF local committee
on arrangements.
The venerable Seitz was then escorted to the
chair and made speech
Committee on Credentials submitted q sup.
plimental report, showing twcnty-One states
represented, with 2SG delegates present
Weller, of Iowa offered the following:
Res0tred, AS tho sentiment OF this, the M
tion Convention OF the Union Labor party
| that "fusion in the past has been destructive Of
| the welfare and success of the labor reform
movements, and that from this time henceforth
and forever we will oppose md dcnounce any
and all efforts for fusion with either the Demo-
cratic or Republican organizations OF either
State or Nation"
Mr. Weller moved suspension OF the rules
| for tho adoption OF the resolution This met
with great deal Of opposition because 1t was
not in accordance with the order OF business
| the feeling being that the resolution should go
tions. Zane, of Pennsylvania, favored the res
| olution, but wanted 1t to go through the usual
| FORM Norton, OF Illinois, urged its adoption.
| Fox, of Kentucky, moved to lay the molten to
| suspend the rules on the table. Lost
Upon the suspension divisionwas demand
cd Tho result was 14s yeas 73 nays-not q
| two-thirds vote. Weller challenged the vote,
| and demanded n call of States. After some
wrangling this was ordered. The vote resulted
| in 60 yeas, nays 118. The resolution was re-
| ferrcd to the Committee on Resolutions.
The Committee on Conference reported as
| follows:
Holding that the corruptions OF government
and the impoverishment of labor resulting from
neglect of the sclf-evident truth proclaimed by
the founders of the Republic) that all men are
created equal, and endowed by their Creator
with inalienable rights, we aim at the abolition
of u system which compels men to pny their fell
low creatures for the use Of the common boun-
| ties Of Nature, and permits monopolies to de-.
prive labor OF natural opportunities for employ
ment, thus filing the land with tramps and pau
pers, and bringing about an unnatural competi-
| tion which tends TO reduce wages to starvation
| rates and to make the wealthproducer the in
dustrial slave of those who grow rich hy his
| toll.
Holding, moreover, that the advantages aris-
| ing from social growth and improvement be-
long to society at large, we aim Mt the abolition
.
tions US the railroad and telegraph means
| for the oppression Of the people and the
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of an aristocracy OF wealth
and power. We declare the true purpose Of
| government TO be the maintenance of that sa-
cred right of property which gives to every one
opportunity to employ his labor, and security
that he shall enjoy its fruits; to prevent the
strong from depressing the weak, and the un-
scrupulous from robbing the honest, and do for
their equal benefit oil such things as can be
better done by organized society than by indi.
viduals. And we aim at the abolition Of oil laws
which give to any class Of citizens advantages
either judicial, financial, industrial politi-
cal, that are not equally shared by all others.
"What we propose is not the disturbing Of
any man or title. but by abolishing all taxes on
the fruits of industry and labor and obtaining
| the revenues Of government by o tax on land
values, exclusive OF improvements, to devote
to public uses those values arising from the
growth of society. This increased tax of land,
not according to area, but to the value, must,
while relieving the working farmer and small
homestead owner OF the undue burdens now
imposed upon them, make it Improbable to
hold land for speculation, and thus throw open
abundant opportunities for employment Of labor
and building up OF homes"
Grinnell, of Michigan, moved the adoption Of
the report and its reference to the Committee
on Resolutions.
Fogg, of Michigan, as an amendment, moved
that the report be adopted us the land plank Of
the Convention. Referred to Committee on
Resolutions
Mrs Julia Severance, of Wisconsin, spoke for
an hour, making plea for equal right for
woman.
Mrs. H. L. Monroe was given hearing as the
representative Of the National Women's Chris
tian Temperance Union. She demanded planlss
in the platform favoring total abstinence and
woman suffrage.
Kane, of Iowa, offered o resolution request
ing Congress to adopt and submit an amend
ment to the constitution prohibiting the manu-
facture or importation of alcoholic liquors in
the United States except for mechanical or
medicinal purposes
Carter, OF Ohio, submitted n resolution Of
similar tenor, the difference being that each
State Legislature was requested to prohibit.
Both went to the Committee on Resolutions.
AT just ten minutes before 4 the members of
the Committee on Resolutions began coming
into the hall, and moment later the United
Labor contingent began filing into the gallery,
and for the first time during the two days ses-
sion OF the convention was any interest mani.
tested in the proceedings.
The report of the committee was presented by
Chairman Dunning, of Michigan, who apollo
g!zed for the delay, saying it had been occasion
ed by an endeavor to reach an amicable agree
I ment upon land plank. w. H.'Robb, of Iowa,
secretary of the committee, then read the plat
form agreed upon, as follows:
the wealth producer. Farmers are suffering
| from poverty which has forced most of them
to mortgage their estates. and the prices of
products are so low US to offer no relief except
through bankruptcy, and laborers are sinking
into greater dependence. Strikes are resorted
to without bringing relief, because of the ina
bility OF employers In many cases to pay living
wages, while more and more are driven into the
street. Business mon find collections almost
impossible, and meantime hundreds Of mill
ions of idle public money which is needed
for relief is locked up in the u s. Treas.
ury or placed without interest in favored
banks in grim mockery OF distress. Land
monopoly fourishes as mover before, and
more owners OF tho soil are daily becoming
tenants. Great transportation corporations
still succeed In cxtortng their profits ON water
ed stock through unjust charges. The u. s.
Senate has become an open scandal, its men,
bership being purchased by the rich In open de-
fance OF the popular will. Various efforts arc
made to sQuandcr the public money, which arc
designed to empty the treasury without paying
the public debt. Under these and other alarm-
ing conditions We appeal to the people OF our
country to como out of old party organizations,
whose indifference TO the public welfare is re-
spOnsible for this Distress and aid the Union
Labor party to repeal existing class legislation,
and relieve the distress OF our industries by
establishing the following principles:
"Lald-While we believe that the proper So
luton of the financial question will greatly re-
lievc those now In danger OF losing their homes
by mortgages and foreclosures, and enable NIL
industrious persons 10 secure q home as the
highest result OF civilization, we oppose land
monopoly in every form, demand the forfeiture