Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1890-06-12
IN SESSION ALL NIGHT.
The North Dakota Farmers Hold
an all Night Session ana
Adjourn.
They Resolve to Bolt if tht
Parties ignore Their
Demands.
The Reports OF Committees on
all the Important Matters
Considered.
The Farmers Have Gone.

The Farmers Have Gone.
The farmers held an all night session
and went home on the early trains Fr1da.
morning. Ben Terrill, the National AL
lance lecturer, arrived at 11:3O .. m. by
the valley train. He talked severa
hours and after that the secret work was
gone through with. 1t was after fou,
O'Clock when the delegates left the ALI
ance building.
The majority report of the committee
on political action, which was adopted
represents the most important work oi
the session and outlines clearly what the
future political course of the alliance
will be. 1t is as follows:
Resolved, That the Farmers Alliance
of North Dakota in the political cam,
paign of the present year shall endeavor
to secure their just representation
through their respective political parties
and, further resolved, that there shall be
appointed by this session a state com
mittee, composed of one mepber from
each county represented in ) conven-
ton, who shall present to tbs aforesaid
political parties the platform of resolu-
tlons adopted bv the State Alliance of
North Dakota, and IN the event of the
said parties failing to comply with the
just demands of the farmers of Nor tn
Dakota, not only in the matter of plat
form and principals, but also by placing
in nomination only such men as by their
character ard record inspire confidence
and insure fidelity to the interests of the
people, then said committee shall be au-
thorized to call convention of the farm
ers of North Dakota to place in nomina-
ton men who will pledge themselves to
carry out the principles of our organiza-
ton. The committee further suggests
that our state committee endeavor to SO.
cure the convention Of said parties at as
early date as possible; not later than
the Goth day Of July, 1880.
The review of past legislation and de-
mands for the future are interesting.
The farmers seem to be pretty we'll sat-
isfied with the work of the last legisla-
ture, but they enumerate few things
which have been lett undone and which
they demand of the next. The report
says:
While we may not have received all
the legislation desirable, yet a large
number of good, wholesome and import
ant laws have been enacted by the past
legislative assembly, and measures ad-
vocated by the alliance have received
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favorable action.
legislation as shall give to all classes a
free and open market for all products
and equal facilities for individuals with
corporations and oppose any legislation
that tends to monopolize trade, control
prices or in any way interfere with the
free and untrammeled exercise of indi-
vidual enterprise or ambitions, or are
detrimental to the best interest Of the
farmers of North Dakota.
That we would favor an amendment
to the act authorizing the leasing OF
school lands, by which minimum price
be fixed for such leasing.
That we favor an amendment to the
railroad law that will make the orders OF
the railroad commissioners effective
pending an appeal.
That we demand the enactment of a
law for the inauguration Of the Austral-
ian system Of voting.
That we favor the passage Of an act
by congress prohibiting the importa.
tion OF intoxicating liquors into states
where the sale of such liquors is illegal.
We favor the passage of a bill submit
ting a proposition to amend the state
constitution so as to prohibit the intro
duction of lotteries in the State of North
Dakota.
We would further report that we find
the time at our disposal insufficient to
make more complete report.
The following IS the report of the
committee on resolutions, as it was
adopted, IN Its entirety. This is supposed
to constitute the platform of the alliance
but whether it is the platform which
they demand shall be incorporated in the
party platforms to prevent bolt, is not
known. The platform would have been
model of brevity, but for the lnterpola'
tion of the ninth resolution with its
devious wanderings and luxurious verbi.
age:
lst. We recommend the passage ol
the sub-treasury bill or something better
by our national representatives.
2nd. We demand that our legislature
pass the Australian ballot bill.
3rd. We favor the speedy passage OF
the Butterworth bill.
4th. Your committee recommends the
unlimited coinage OF silver.
9TH. We heartily and unanimously
endorse the action of our executive, Gov
John Miller, particularly on the lottery
question. Also we approve his course in
the appointment of the seed wheat
commission, believing he acted wisely
and honestly under existing circumstan-
ces.
9Th. We are favorable to giving en-
ployment to the prisoners in our state
nenitant ntiaries which will make these in