Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-22
FAIRLY ON , ITS FEET.
The New Partys Executive Com
mittee Completes the Work.
TRADES UNIONS WILL TAKE PART.
Statesmen at Washington Air Their Views
of the New Factor.
SECRETARY, FOSTER FOR HARRISON

.C1NoiNNArI, May 21-Bright and early to-
| day the new National Executive Committee
got together for their first meeting in mar
row.little hotel parlor. They did not seem
to mind the stuffy quarters. but went to
work with vim. Everybody but members
| of the committee was excluded The first
| thing in order was the election of q Secre-
| tary and Treasurer, of the committee.
After considerable discussion the choice
fell. ON Robert Sclrilling, of Mil
| 'waukce, as Secretary, and NJ. C. Rankin, of
Terre Haute, Ind, as Treasurer Both were
elected unanimously. The members then
busted themselves in filling the vacancies
| that had been left in the National Commit
tee as result of the rush that preceded the
adjournment of the convention.
Taubeneck, of Illinois, Presides.
The meeting of the National Committee
was presided over with unexpected effect
iveness by Chairman Taubeneck, the big
unsophisticated looking farmer whose re-
cent experience of sharp parliamentary
practice in the Illinois Legislature during
the memorable Senatorship contest served
him in good stead now.
1t was resolved to authorize the Chairman
and Secretary to issue a call for voluntary
contributions, to be kept standing on all
reform papers. 1t was also resolved that
National Executive Committee be formed,
to consist of the Chairman, Secretary, Treas
urer and four members to be elected by this
committee The four elecled are George F.
Wasburn, Massachusetts,: G. F. Gather,
Alabama: Ignatius Donnelly, Minnesota; j.
II. Davis, Texas
The committee adjourned subject to the
call af the Executive Committee. This COM
mittee met Immediately afterward and
elected E. Robert Schillmg. Permanent Sec
retary, and NJ. C. Rankin Permanent Treas
urer, and adopted the following resolution:
WHEREAS, 1t is necessary for success in
1892 that the entire Union should be at once
systematically organized; therefore,
"Resolved, That the three members of the
National Committee of the Peoples Party in
each State shall constitute State Commit
tee for such State, and it shall be their duty
to appoint subcommittee"
Trades Unions Take Hand.
A special telegram to THE DISPATCH from
Columbus says: Information is furnished ut
the general offices of the United Mine Work
ers that in case the Alliance Conference at
Cincinnati comes out for n third or Peoples
party, the executive officers of the great
national trades unions were to take hand.
The question is to be submitted to the local
unions whether they are in favor of joining
the Peoples movement for political action.
the National Trades Union to the new party.
The reason given for this action is the
leaders do not wish to0bStruct or hinder the
expression of the will Of the members
of their respective organizations in this
matter, but, on the contrary wish to afford
them an opportunity to decide for them
selves what course they will pursue. There
is said to be little doubt that the National
Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of
America, with its 100000 members, will be
the first to declare in favor of the new
movement, with probably the United Mine
Workers to follow. -.
Secretary Foster States His Views.
A dispatch from Washington says: "The
broad and generous public policy of the
Republican party is such," said Sec
retary Of the Treasury Foster to
reporter, "that there Is no room for
O third party. A new political orr
ganization could not do anything necessary
to our national comfort or prosperity with
out stealing Republican thunder. The wild
schemes of these third-pnrty advocates,
such as the lending of Government funds on
real estate or personal property. cannot
pie, and movements based on these eccen-
tricities are necessarily short-lived and
ephemeral. I am, therefore, not surprised
ut the news which comes from Cincinnati of
great dissensions, marked differences of
opinion as to politics to be adopted, and
much variableness as to the time when this
new third party should BE, be formed;
aggregation at Cincinnati to make
half dozen parties. 1t seems to
me that the organizers will find it quite
difficult feat to unite saloon keepers, and
prohibitionists, and woman suffragists, and
those who oppose them, with the myriad
schemes recently proposed for the alleged
relief of what the schemers are pleased to
term the distress of the people. ] have
much more faith in good crops and good
prices-produced by honest labOr-than I
have in any of the so-called means of relief
espoused by the ladies and gentlemen in
session at Cincinnati.
Providence and the Mckinley BILL.
Providence is giving us good crops, and
the Mckinley bill will give us good prices.
This means that President Harrison will be
and the Republican party will
be triumphant at the next election. And
the third party? That will be all right. By
that time the prosperity of its membership,
in common, with all other inhabitants of
this country, will be such that doubt not
that thousands of them will visit Washing
ton on the occasion of the Presidents rein
auguration. They will be heartily well
comed." --'
81 do not look unkindly ON this third party
said Senator William E. Chand-
ler this A afternoon; a; 100 ut Is movement OF
rather hastily, struck me Us being danger
Gus, with the possible exception of the plank
relating to the Government control of rail-
roads, and the first part of that resolution
has good deal of sound sense in it. Taking
out this railroad plank, there is nothing left
to which any considerable portion Of the
American people will subscribe"
Colonel Whitfield, the First Assistant Post
master General, in speaking of the new
party, said he did not know from which of
the two old parties they would draw their
but it had always been the rule in
the past that the adherents. of new party
come most largely from the Republican
party. ,..
Old Parties Know Where They Stand.
AT any rate, he thought that both parties
would go into the fight under more favor
able auspices than was the case last fall,
when 1t was not known actually what the
Alliance men were or what they
wanted.
"Yes, am aware of the fact that there is
q third party" said Representative Grain, OF
Texas. ut will help the Democrats and |
hurt the Republicans-only that and moth
ing more"
The Dunkards' Conference.
A couple of hundred Dunkards, including |
many young people of both sexes, passed |
through the city yesterday to the annual 40 |