St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-08-07
A Farmer and a Printer
Placed at the Head Of
the Ticket.
Delegates Threaten to Bolt
the Platform as 1t Was
Adopted.
Catholic Total Abstainers Re-
affirm Their Stand on
Temperance.
Bishop Cotter Is Reelected
PpeSident--Some Other
Conventions.

SPRINGFIELD, Aug. The Peoples
party convention which closed here
this evening was remarkable gather
ing. 1t was composed of the dissatis-
fed elements of all parties. Every del
egate had his own idea of how existing
troubles could be remedied, and was
disposed to insist upon Its being adopted.
The total representation was 1858 dele
gates, about 400 of whom were present.
The great majority were totally unin-
formed of how to proceed in regular
convention form, which made the duties
of the chairman particularly onerous.
After the preliminary organization
yesterday the committee an resolutions
retired and did not report until $50
this morning. The nominations closed
after Seitz and Cobb had been placed
in nomination. when the convention de-
cided to take recess, which lasted
until 80, when the nominations were
reopened and more candidates named,
several of whom made long speeches
declining the proffered honor for vari-
GUS reasons, and it was after before
candidate for governor was nominated.
Ticket and Platform.
The ticket is: Governor, John Seitz,
Seneca county; Lieutenant governor,
Frank l.. Rist, Hamilton county; Aud
it0r, David n. Cooper. Athens; attorney
general. Rial n. Smith, Summit; treas
urer, Henry Welt, Cuyahoga; supreme
judge. Albert S, YapIe, Hamilton;
school commissioner. j. E. Paterson,
Greene: member board of public works,
j. S. Borror, franklin; dairy and food
commissioner, w. J. Weaver, Portage.
The committee OH resolutions reported
platform, the princlp al plankS of
which are:
We hold that labor is the basis of all
wealth, happiness and progress, and must
have equal protection by the law.
We demand that taxation, national. state
or municipal, shall not be used to build uD
one interest or class at the expense of an
other.
We demand the abolition of national
banks as banks of ISSUE and. as substitute
for national bank notes, we demand that full
legal tender treasury notes be issued in sutfi
cient volume to conduct the business of he
country on a cash basis.
We demand government ownership of all
the means of trans pOrtahOn and communities
ton between and by the people of the United
States.
A woman's suffrage plank is included, and
the platform favors government loans di
rectly to individuals; favors free coinage of
silver; opposes foreign ownership OF lands,
and demands that congress devise means
OF obtaining all land already owned by for.
eign syndicates; also demands all lands held
by railroads and other corporations IN excess
of what is actually needed be reclaimed by
the government and held for actual settlers
only; demands graduated tax on incomes.
resolution adopted fayonng government
or state control of sale, manufacture, i'm
pOrtation and exportOtion of spiritucus
liquors was recommended to the national
convention as the solution of the liquor
problem.
Bolt Imminent.
The platform went through WITH a
whirI, but after the delegates read it
carefully in evening papers they gath
cred In knots about the hall and dis
cussed it fiercely. Many have already
declared their intention to bolt on ac-
count of the liquor plank. which. they
say, they did not intend to adopt as a
part of the platform. The leaders
are confident of forming a conSoijda-
ton with the PrOhi5ti0nistS not
later than 1892 and going into "a
national campaign very strong. Their
plan is to extend the plank demanding
government ownership of railroads and
telegraph to the liquor traffic and have
agents in charge who will conduct the
business much as postofficeS are now
run. The boiling elements strength
cannot be estimated until the delegates
report to their constituents Old politi-
clans of other parties consider grave
mistake has been made. The personnel
OF the ticket is generally considered
pOOd