The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-08-06
An Enthusiastic Convention in Ses-
sion in Springfield, Four Hum
dred Strong.
PefRer, Hugh CavanauHh and Geo.
Schilling Are Among the
Craclcs
Sherman VIII he Retired to the Oblivion
Enjoyed by His Friend Ingalls,.
Of Kansas.

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio, Aug. 5.-Th0 peoples
party state convention was called to order
this afternoon by IL. II. Barnes, of Tiiiin,
chairman of the state committee. There
are ABOUT 400 delegates present. After
prayer tho chair read a letter from George
Gather, chairman of the Alabama state
committee, promising to carry that state
in 1892, and another from Senator PETER,
advising the adoption OF the Cincinnati
resolutions and plank advocating honest
money, WAS greeted with cheers. The
chair introduced as temporary chairman
Hugh Cavanaugh. He said in part: ''Too
long have the farmers been observing the
injunction, you till the soil, we will man
age public affairs They are tired of it,,
and that is the reason of the meeting here
to-day" He treated finance, tariff and
other questions in the manner set forth In
the Cincinnati resolutions. Cavanaugh
added: This movement will relegate John
Sherman to the political oblivion that is en-
ioyed by his friend Ingalls,"
III. S. Hinchman, of Urbana was chosen
temporary secretary and committees were
appointed. While the committees were
out George schilling, national seer etary,
the platform of the peoples party es n
panacea for all evils wrought by both home
and foreign capitalists. He denounced the
Misrepresentation of old party organs and
said it was not the object of the party
to have unrestricted loans. 1t would re-
strict them as to the needy, fixing the max
imum sum loaned to any one person at
$4,000. The party leaders are not crazy
yet and would 80 regulate the supply. of
currency that the country would not be
flooded with an over-supply of irredeem-
able currency, as is charged by the harpes
of the old parties. The peoples party
have declared III favor of the free coin
age of silver. A majority of the members
are not in favor of it, but tolerate it as an
entering wedge by which they hope to over
turn the present monetary system. Schil-
| ling said it is just as safe for the govern
ment to loan money on the products of the
| farm, taking first mortgages, as for it to
loan on gold and silver, as it is now doing
when it issues silver and gold certificates.
Senator Sherman and other great men who
| oppose loanlng money to farmers on good
secu ity have raised their voices IN favor OF
the government loaning to Mi1iiohaire
Warner Miller and colleagues the enor-
nous gum asked to dig ditch in Nicaragua.
The national banking system he denounced
as infamous and said the cry "hones1
time to comparison of the old
rarties on the tariff question and
found that tho difference, when divided
among the members of them. amounts tC
just one and wo-thirds cents apiece. He
felicitated the party on its success in Ne
braska, Kansas and other states, and urged
them to stronger efforts i'll Chic.
Congressman-Elect Otis, OF Kansas, spoke
briefly.
The committee on device reported plow
and hammer for the state party. The con
vention adjourned until tomorrow without
adopting the report. The committee OF
resolutions has been wrestling with the
platform since 3 p. M, and at 10 adjourned
until to- morrow. The sticking points art
prohibition, land tax and farm pro
duct loan features. City districts insis
that prohibition plank would lose thu
party thousands of votes. and they viii
fight it to the bitter end. Regarding tht
ticket, everything is chaos tonight. There
are a dozen candidates, and the prospects
are tor a lively time tomorrow.