Morning journal and courier., 1891-05-21
NEWS BY TELEGRAPH. From All Quarters. THE PEOPLES PARTY. |" Name of the Organization
 Born at Cincinnati. INCIDENTS OF THE CONVENTION. Twelve Persons Killed by a
 Terrific Tornado. EXTENT OF THE PATHoF DESTRUCTION Cause of the Explosion
 At TarrytOWn.
OF THE PATHoF DESTRUCTION

At TarrytOwn.
 THE THIRD PARTY MEN.
 Work Done by the National Union
 Conference at Cincinnati-The Or
 ganfzatfon Given Name-Repert
 of tho Committee on Resolutions
 The PIatform-Exciteme and En-
 thusiasm en Its Adoption-The
 Prohibition Amendment Defeated.
 CINCINNATI, May 20.-The committee on resolutions appointed by the National Union conference yesterday was in session until a. m. From time to time there were intimations of discord. About 10 o'clock p. m. MT. Powderly was summoned, room. It is said that he was called in to enlighten the committee on the subject of the labor plank. The eight-hour proposi- tion submitted in the interest and at the request of the New England and eastern men is said to have been aimed at him, ,and the object in having him before the com mittee was in reality to force from him declaration as to his attitude on the ques- tion in it's present bearing.
 It was no accident that the new party enthusiasts scored heavily in the adoption of the report of the committee on rules. The Massachusetts delegation which con- trolled the rules committee fearing that the platform committees report would be adverse to immediate action for third party conceived the idea of providing in the rules report for a national comm ittee and Delegate Brown of the Bay state, in explaining the rules, gave warning that the adoption of the report meant the birth of a new party, his idea being that there could be no executive committee was nevertheless adopted and the result is that while the committee on reso- lutions was tugging away, some of it's members being the brainiest opponents of third party ideas, their action, should it be adverse, was practically forestalled by the adoption of the report of the committee on rules. When the convention reassembled letter from L. L. Polk, which was lead, advising this conference to issue an ad- dress and defer action on third party until 1892, caused breeze, and when motion to refer to the committee on reso- lutions was declared carried there was loud demand-notably from the Minnesota delegation-that the negative be put more forcibly by the chair. Mir. Fish of Minne- | sota argued that MT. Folks letter was ill., | timed and claimed it showed how useless | it would be refer the third party question | to the meeting in 1899, at which Polk and his followers will be leading spirits.
 l Ignatius Donnelly, chairman of the l committee on resolutions, climbed upon the rostrum at this juncture and almost l his first words caused a whirlwind of | excitement. The declaration from Don nelly which set the convention wild was | to the effect that he was there to report that the committee on platform was a unit | for organization of third party. Two alternates were presented, he said. Either | to ignore a third party, or divide the friends of reform.
 He gave way to Robert Schilling of Wis consin, secretary of the committee, who read the platform as follows:
 That in view of the great social, industrial aar aRe ne% | confronting the American people, we DeIeve the time has arrived for n3 i6e formation of what should be known as the peo- ple's party of the United States of America
 l 2-That we most heartily endorse the demands of the platforms as adopted at St Lotus, Ho.' m m 1889. Ocalla Fla, in 1890, and Omaha, Neb, in ls9 by as faIoWs 's'0 iA"The right to make and issue money is a l sovereign power to be maintained by the people l for the common benefit hence we demand the l abolition of national banks as banks Of issue, and l as substitute for national bank notes we de msn4 in taeo Youme to transact the business | the country on a cash basis; without damage ol
 any ea M l public and private and such notes when demand | ed by the people shall be loaned to them at no nershable products as indicated in the sub-treas | tlry plan and also upon real estate with proper limitation upon the quantity of land and amour
 A B"We C demand the free and unlimited coinag' | of silver. .r.,.;,, alien Ownership of land and that congress tax, prompt action to devise some plan to obtain al and that all the land held by railroads and othe l corporations in excess of such as is actually use
 SS ts
 D-Beleving the doctrine Of equal rights to al and special privileges to none we demand ou tna : taxation-national, state or munlclpal-shau no l be used to build up one interest or class at th r l expense of another. , t l Eve demand that all revenues-nationa : l state or county-sha be limited to the necessar r | expenses of the government economically an t honestly administered II Eve demand @ just and equitable system j. | graduated tax on income.
 eG-We demand the most rigid, honest and jul l national
 nnblic Communication and transportation, and
 this control and supervision does not remove II
 abuses now en,ss of sscS h means of communic
 tion and transportation
 H-We demand the election of president, vit | president and United states senator's oy uire
 vote of the people. ,-,-
 organizations in attending conference caiied or Is
 'EThat a national central committee be a ~Aol 1>ryf id CYVfa
 Chairman to be elected by this body, and thr, members from each state represented to | named by each state delegation
 IThat this central committee shall repr sent this body attend the national conference
 and all other reform organizations there asseI
 bled. If no satisfactory arrangement can pc
 fected this committee shall cal saa M t co co
 yention not later than June ], 1o92, TOT tne pu
 pose of nominating candidates for president al
 Sfhat the members of the central commit
 for each state where there IS no lndepende
 political organization conduct an acIise z. syste syst
 of poIitical agitation in their respective states
 Additional resolutions not part Of the pl'
 form were presented They recommend favol
 ths p1e tpessp1v notss to pay soldiers equivalent 1 coin, favor eight hours a day ana conuemn ton of the worlds fair commission with ref' 4 l ence to wages.
 a The name of the new party, "The Pc 3 nle,s Party of the United States" elicit 8 a magnificent outburst of applause, and 3 | each plank was read there was renew A cheering. A plank recommended univt s sal suffrage to favorable consideration, al S another demanded the payment of pc 5 sions on gold basis. The former met 3 chilly reception, but the latter was rour E ly cheered. At this juncture delegs E objected that the platform was one-sid . for the Farmers alliance. but he met wi with little ecouragement, and Schilling
 clared that the convention was here
 harmon and for the "new declaration - independence." He announced that u pension plank was left to the soldier me Ii, Der of the committee with an inqu whether it was satisfactory, and on his
 uuiesence it was adopted unanimously.
 Davis of Texas, lank six-footer in
 light suit, who had electrified the conv
 ton during Donnelly's speech by a le vith weird whoop of exultation, was conduc the to the platform and to the intense delit lar. of the convention repeated the uneart ish, Indian-like trill. Then he announced hi vby self as an ex-confederate and decla
 himself on the platform-every plank
 every resolution. An extraordinary sp'
 acle followed. Wadsworth of Indiana,
 ex-Union soldier, rushed up to ex-Con1 .r crate Davis in full view of the convent