The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-08-29

Of Creston, to the chair as tenn
presiding Officer. MI. Eobb,
knowing the tendancy OF the subsi-
died press reporters to misquOte
speakers on the reform questions, for
the first time in his life had prepared
his speech in the form Of m essay
which he proceeded to read, 1t was a
mastery effort and was greeted with
great applause. His address was or.
dercd printed In the reform papers Of
the state. Il. p. Brown, of Nicola,
was elected temporary secretary, and
the following committees were an
i1ounted:
Crcdentials-1. Milo Reno, of JEFF
ferson county. 2. -. 3.
"1llla" S. $ $. t. 81 W% R%sI't IF Linn n 6.
Peter Winner, Of Wapello. !. John
Kent, Of Dallas. 8. John McCaffrey,
n Mills Sn'9 70. l. 4 s atton Of a' Beone. IL u
o. NJ. sager, Of Plymouth.
9. z: p. Rich, Of Buchanan. 4;
-,.1 8. u; J. b b yancourt. q Mar
T. Fnal And i: w ii1MSsti sip IF # u MGnro 6:
Geo. B. Lang, Of Wayne. 8. A. T.:
Black, Of CaSS. 10. S. G. GoSs, of
Webster. II. Daniel Campbell, Of
Monona.
Permanent organization-J. B. Van
Court, Of Marshall. Chairman; VIM.
Blaine, of Marion, Il. S. Carter; Of
Union, +. II. Roe, Of Monona, VIM.
Horner, Of Adair.
Gen. Weaver vas then called for
and in a short speech assured the con-
vention that the peoples movement
was everywhere in earnest and wis
working with bright prospects for
success. He said that in Kansas,
where he had been making an extend
ell tour; the whole country was awake
and the Independent ticket WGttld
carry the state ticket and elect every
congressman and four-tifths Of the
legislature this year. Nor is the
movement confined to Kansas. Ne.
braska, South Dakota, Minnesota,
Missouri, Alabama and other states
are alive and the Independents arc
confident of clecting a large majority
Of their congressional candidates.
The tendency throughout the whole
country, he said, "a not toward the
old parties but away from them, and
he urged all Independents to go for.
ward, holding their own conventions
and nominating their own candidates.
At the close of Gen. Weaver's
speech the convention adjourned uh=
til n o'clock, to await the reports of
committees.
At one o'clock the convention was
again called to order, and while
waiting the report of the committee
on credentials the state central COM
mittce was elected, as follows:
LIST district, Milo Reno, Jefferson.
Sd district, Justus Durkee, Winthrop.
5th district, L. S. Wood, Marion. 9Th
district, 0. c. Graves, Ottumwa. 18th
district, Z. II. Gillette. Des Moines
Sth district, w. II. Robb, Creston
9th district, Lee Griffith, Atlantic
10th district, W. W. Gray, Lehigh
18th district, A. Westfall, Sergeant!
Bluffs.
The committee was empowered t,
fill vacancies. +. II. Gillette wa!
elected chairman.
Hon. Danl. Campbell, Of Monon;
county, was called on and made
short speech boiling over with argt
ments from the stand point of a life
long farmer and a practical politica
economist that he is. He said tina
he had Travelled considerable and h
knew that if there was any state il
the Union where the people should b
prosperous, it was Iowa with he
broad fertile fields. He was gratihct
to see so large a gathering of the rep
r~esentatives of the wealth producers
for it was high time for them to b
taking action. This nation is tn
greatest wealth producing country O
earth, its increase in the last sixt
years amounting to over forty billion
of dollars. But what, he asked, j
thScondition of the wealth producers
The share OF the majority of people il
this great increase, he apprchended
was represented, like his own, in
mortgage on the home. He showe'
by the statistics that the more tn
farmers raised the less debts it woul
pay, and said the Farmers Allianc
of MOnona county, which sent hin
there, was discussing the evils of tn
present economic system and tryin
to devise plans by which a large
share of the wealth produced Shout
remain in the hands of the producers
He regarded the situation now a
being more critical for the countr
than when TT. Sumter was''tired upo
and urged that the people do some
thing for their own welfare.
J. r. Sovereign was called upor
He declined to make a speech, bu
said that if he were to do so he Woul
make the same kind as he had bee
making for ten years past. He woul
talk on the same questions and &C
wise the same remedies for existin
evils. He said he would a thousan
times rather be right than be a Demo
craft. He denounced the stealing q
the free silver coinage bill by the cor
gresham from the Seventh distric
Of Iowa, and concluded his remark
with an invitation to visit him in hi
office in the house on the hill.
The committee on permanent O.
ganizatiOn reported in favor of max
Ing the temporary organization pei
manent, which report was unanimou:
ly adopted. ALT. Wooster, of Monon
county, was made assistant secretary
The committee on credentials II
ported delegates present and entitle
to seats in the convention as follow!
103 Union Labor, % Farmers All
ance, s knights of Labor, ! Grange
l Farmers League. On motion, tn
committee was ordered to add TIL
names of any other delegates VIII
might present credentials, also to az
nit as delegates persons present fror
counties not represented by regularl
elected delegates.
J. B. VanCourt, chairman of tn
committee on resolutions, reported q
follows:
1. We heartily endorse the demand an
declarations of principles adopted by tt
Farmers and Laborers' Industrial Union
America. at their meeting in st. Louis, G
the 9th of December last, and VIC favor go,
eminent loans to be made directly To tt
people at q rate interest not to exceed tw
per cent. per annum.
2. We d%enounce the Mckinley tariff hi
as grossly unjust to tax payers and pr
ducers; the Lodge bill as designed to depri,
the people everywhere of their lawful rigl
to control the election Of their officers; ar
we denounce the usurpations of Speak,
Reed as a bold attempt to destroy the ind
pendence of our representatives in congre
and to arrogate to himself the control
federal legislation in utter violation OF tt
constitution and the established usage OF
century.
particularly the Iowa. members thereof fl