Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-13
A COMBINE.
Farmers Alliance and Anti
Lottery Democrats.
LOUISIANA FUSION TICKET.
To be Submitted to the Democratic Convention.
Alliance President 10 Head II.
The Peoples Party in Convention Assem-
bled AT Springfield, Ohio-A Plat
form Adopted-A Candi.
date for Governor.
Peoples Party Convention.

SPRINGFIELD. ONO. Aug. 6.-Prayer by
Rev. E. p. Foster of Cincinnati opened the
Peoples party convention al 9:225 4. m. after
which the committee on permanent organi-
zation report was adopted with few dissent
ing votes.
The committee on resolutions reported
the platform:
We hold that labor is the basis of all
wealth, happiness ana progress and must
have equal protection by law.
In the organization of our party we
know no North, South, East or West, and
we are determined that the government of
our country shall be SO administered as TO
secure equal rights to all people.
We demand that taxation, national. state
or municipal, shall not be used to build up
one interest or class at the expense of an
other.
We demand the abolition of national
banks as banks of issue. and as a substitute
for national bank notes we demand thai
full legal tender treasury notes be issued in
sufficient volume to conduct the business of
the country on a cash basis.
We demand the payment of all bonds of
the government instead of refUndng them
in such money as they were originally made
payable in
We demand government ownership of all
means of transportation and communica-
ton between the people of the United
States.
We favor liberal pensions to all houOrably
discharged Union soldiers of the late civil
war. and generous care for their widows
and orphans
a woman's suffrage plank is included in
the platform.
The platform favors government loans
directly to individuals, favorS free coinage
of silver, opposes alien ownership of lands,
and demands that congress devise means of
obtaining all lands owned by foreign Syndi-
Gates, also demands all lands held by rail
roads and other corporations in excess of
what is actually needed shall be reclaimed
by the government and held for actual set
tiers only, and demands graduated tax on
incomes.
STATE ISSUES.
We demand the enactment and rigid en-
forcement OF the laws Tor the suppression
of all forms of gambling in futures and all
agricultural and mechanical products
We favor the election of United States
senators by a popular vote OF the people of
the state.
We demand free school books for our
public schools and compulsory education
Whereas, the Standard oil -comrany has
violated its contract by turning over to an
alien trust its powers and privileges re-
ceived under the laws of Ohio, we demand
the forfeiture of its charter.
The platform was adopted.
A resolution was adopted favoring gov
eminent OF state control of the sale. manu-
facture, importation and expectation of
spirituous liquors. 1t was recommended to
the national convention rs the solution of
the liquor problem.
John Seitz of Sayre, former Greenback
nominee for governor, and j. c.. II. Cobb of
Jackson, farmer and vice-president of the
open Alliance of Ohio and member of the
national executive committee appointed at
Cincinnati, We're nominated for governor
and lieutenant governor.
The convention then took a recess
FOR STATE SENATOR.
Peoples party delegates representing the
Sixteenth senatorial district, comprising
Delaware and Licking counties. held con-
vention here to-day and nominated Daniel
Swisher Of Licking for state senator. They
claim the chances are good for his election.