The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-11-20

as one of the most favorable to independ-
ent political action Mr. Polk, in his an
nual address Tuesday night, so severely
condemned the two old parties and in the
address. as well as between the lines, Sc
| strongly indicated his tendency TO the
| Peoples movement that the election OF
| either of the other men mentioned would
have been regarded as blow to the Peo-
| ple's party. The election of Mr. II. Ia.
Louckes of South Dakota as vice-president
| is regarded as a greater victory, from the
fact that he is a member of the national
+ committee of the Peoples party.
A committee un confederation of the
various industrial organizations, composed
| of five representatives from each Of the
| six organizations, was created for the pur-
pose of calling "A congress of all labor and
industrial Glasses After long debate as
TO where the congress should be held, the
question WAS referred TO a subcommittee
consisting OF Messrs. Terrell, Taubeneck
and Baumgsrjen. The subcommittee
will report within thirty days. Tne politi-
cal phase of the situation cropped out in
the meeting. The question at issue was
whether the call for the confederdted as
sembly on Feb. % should leave the way
open for the nomination of a national
ticket at that meeting or whether the
scope of the work to be done there should
be limited, so as TO prevent political action.
The latter course was finally decided upon.
When the assembly convenes it VIII pro-
ceed to draw up platform of declarations
and demands. and the two great political
parties will be required to give them con-
sideration and endorsement 1t is not eX-
pected by any one that the two great par
ties will take any notice of these demands,
and the way will remain clear for the Peo-
ple's party to call convention after the
other political conventions have been held
and adopt the formulated demands OF the'
confederated labor assembly as its plat
form. This is the plan OF action now de-
termined upon by the Peoples party.
The confederated assembly of industrial
unions will, in the minds of the commit
tee, be the most important organization of
recent years. It's aim in the consolidation
of all the laboring classes and the subSe-
quent diversion of the whole strength of
the gigantic combination into the ranks of
the third party 1t will be composed of
twenty-five delegates at large from each
organization and one dele
gate tor each 1000 members or fraction
thereof. A committee of four, consisting
of C. w. Macune, II. Baumgarten, +. w.
Gilruth and j. b. Steele, was appointed to
prepare an address TO the laboring people,
setting forth the object and purposes of
the February meeting.
The Reform Press association elected
officers this morning, as follows: DR.. S.
AicLallin of the Topeka Advocate, presi-
dent; J. II. Mcdowell of the Tennessee
Toiler vice president, and W. S. Morgan
Of the St. Louis National Reformer, secre-
At the joint meeting tonight of the AL
lance and the Farmers Mutual Benefit
association, the third party movement
was endorsed, amid the widest enthUs-
aSm
Tho Fory,arS, NTr,t,aI Paneft oUcooiotio,, |
elected 5. S. Ganse of Missouri, president:
w A Bartlett of West Virginia, vice |
president, and j. z. Stelle of Illinois, Sec