Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1891-05-26
The test vote which committed the

| tlOn was taken at eXdcGlV IL U ClOCk'
The report of the committee on creden-
| tials provided that each state should be
entitled to as many votes as it had del
egates to the convention. South DakO-
ia protested, claiming that it would
give the states OF Kansas and Ohio posi-
| tive control of the conference.
There was a bitter and determined
fight made for those two delegations,
one almost unanimously in favor OF an
independent organization. The report
was adopted by an overwhelming major
ity and the conference adjourned for
dinner amid. scene of the widest en-
thusiasm.
When the convention reassembled a
letter from L. L. Polk was read, advis-
ing this conference to issue an address
and defer action on third party until
1892. This letter caused a breeze, and
when motion to refer it to the com.
mittee on resolutions was declared car
ried. there was loud demand, notably
from the Minnesota delegation, that the
negative be put more forcibly by the
chair. The demand was renewed and
continued from time to time during the
reading of number of miscellaneous
kilograms.
Mr.. Fish of Minnesota argued that
Mr.. Folks letter was ill-timed, and
claimed that it showed how useless 1t
would be to refer the third party ques-
ton to the meeting in 1897, al which
Polk and his followers would be leading
spirits.
Ignatius Donnelly, chairman of the
committee on resolutions, climbed upon
the rostrum at this juncture and almost
his first words caused a whirlwind of
excitement. The declaration from
Donnelly which set the convention wild
was to the effect that he was there to
report that the committee on platform
was unit for the organization OF the
third party. Donnelly evidently felt
that his moment of triumph had come
in the struggle which he himself so
hotly begun just twenty-four hours be-
fore and for which he had been so pub
licly castigated by General Weaver.
PLATFORM.
Your committee on resolutions, begs
to submit the following:
First-That in view of the great So
cial, industrial and economical revOlu-
ton now dawning upon the civilized
world, and the new and living issues
now confronting the American people,
we believe that the time has arrived
for crystalization of the political re-
form forces of our country and the for
nation of what should be known as the
peoples party of the United States OF
America.
Second-That we most heartily en-
dorse the demands of the platform
adopted at ST. Louis, Mo-, in 1899; Oca-
la, Fla, in 1890, and Omaha, Neb., in
1891, by the industrial organizations
there represented, SUNNI arized as fol-
lows:
A. The right to make and issue
money as a sovereign power to be main
tanned by the people for the common
benefit, hence we demand the adoption
of National banks as banks of issue, and
as substitute for national bank notes
we demand that legal tender treasury
notes be issued in sufficient volume to
transact the business of the country on
cash basis, without damage or especial
advantage to any class or calling, such
notes to be legal tender in payment OF
all debts public and private, and such
notes when demanded by the people
shall be loaned to them at not more
than 2 per cent per annum upon non
perishable products, as indicated in the
sub-treasury plan, and also upon real
estate, with proper limitation upon the
quantity of land ana amount of money.
B. We demand the free and unlim-
tied coinageof silver.
G. We demand the passage of laws
prohibiting alien ownership of land and
that congress take prompt action to de-
wise some plan to obtain all lands now
owned by alien and foreign syndicates
and that all land held by railroads and
other corporations in excess of such as
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