Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-08-07
BUCKEYE POLITICS.
Three-Cornered Fight in the
Ohio Field.
A THIRD PARTY TICKET NOMINATED


factory to Some of the Delegates-The
Ticket Headed by John Seitz, Who
Believes He Rides Atop of Tidal
Wave-Nebraska ProhIbitionists Also
in the Field.
SPRINGFIELD, o., Aug THE Peoples
party is in line for the battle in this state
next fall. Yesterday the convention made
Hugh Cavanagh permanent president, and
DIR. II. F. HiXson, of Stark county, secre-
tary, and with an anvil for desk and a
sledge hammer for a gavel, proceeded to
business with blood in its eye. The de-
vice of pillow and hammer reported to the
convention Wednesday as the insignia for
the head of the ticket, was adopted over
several others that We're proposed. and
the committee on resolutions being ready
TO report, the declaration of principles
was read. 1t begins by the statement that
labor is the basis of all wealth, aud the
demand that it be protected, and declares
that the new party is for equal rights for
all the people, north, south, east and west.
A Series of Demands.
1t then goes on to demand that taxation
shall not be used TO build up any interest
~ N-''No '' 'iAS f'tilSt vi Niidt the
national banks be abolished and legal
tenders issued sufficient in volume to per
NIT of business being done on a cash
basis; that all the bonds be paid in the
money they We're originally made paya-
bic in, and not refunded that the gov
erument take possession of all the means
of transportation and communication;
that liberal pensions be paid to all honor
ably discharged soldiers of the Union and
the soldiers be paid the difference between
gold and greenbscks at the time they
were in the army 80 as to place the sol
der on the same footing as the bondhold-
err that all dealings in futures and such
speculations be prohibited; an income
tax plank also has place
Government Loans to individuals.
1t favors government loans directly to
individuals, free coinage of silver and the
FORGETTING of all lands held by railways in
excess of what they need for operations: il
demands thaS aliens be made ineligible as
land owners IN this country and that the
land now owned by them be obtained
from them by some means; favors woman
/ suffrage, the election of senators by vote
of the people and free school books for
the public schools, ii demands that the
charter OF the standard Oil company be
| forfeited because ii has turned over its
rights and privileges to an alien trust. A
plank also demands the amendment of
the state constitution 50 as to require, on
the demand cf certain number Of voters,
that acts OF the legislature shall he ap-
proved 10y popular vote before becoming
laws.
Government Control of TanSiefoot.
The platform was adopted. and a resolu-
| ton favorinE government or state control
OF the sale, manufacture, importation, and
expectation of spirituOus liquors, was
recommended to the national convention
| as the solution Of the liquor problem.
Having put up a platform. the next thing.
was the selection of men to stand thereon
This was accomplished with great enthusi-
asm. The ticket IS as follows: Governor.
John Seitz; lieutenant governor, Frank
Rist; treasurer, Henry Welt; auditor. d.
NJ. Cooper; attorney general, Rial NJ.
Smith; supreme court judge, Alfred Yaple:
| school commissioner, j. f. Peterson.
Setiz Had to Make "a Speech.
| The widest enthusiasm followed Seitz's
nomination, and he was called to the stage
| for speech by hundreds of voices. Seitz
| thanked the convention for his nomina-
| ton and said he thanked God he saw be-
| fore HIM the most honest, the most noble
| convention of men ever assembled in
| Ohio. He hoped to meet them all before
| the campaign closed and promised to do
| all he could TO carry the state standard to
! victory in November. He believed the
| tidal wave of the Peoples party sentiment
would rise high enough to elect the entire
| ticket.
| Rist Declares His FeaIty.
! When the nominations for lieutenant
| governor We're all in, the candidates were
called on 10 give in their adhesion to the
| platform, and they all did so Rist was
| received with cheers, and when they had
| subsidized SO that he could be heard he said
that be wasIin sympathy with the move
ment, and would support the platform.
| but he believed in eXpediting business
| and therefore would not intlict upon them
a speech. This statement was made the
occasion for renewed cheers, and Rist
| bowed his thanks.
Gossip About the Convention
! After selecting the ticket the convention
| adjourned sine die with cheers for the can
didates. Many of the delegates declared
! their intention last evening to bolt the
ticket on account of the liquor plank in
the platform, which they say they did not
| intend to adopt as part of the platform.
| The leaders are confident of forming "A CO.
| alition with the Prohibitionists not later
than 1892, and going into national cam
! paign very strong. Their plan is
to extend the plank demand
ing government ownership of railroads
and telegraph, no liquor traffic, and have
| agents in charge who will conduct the
business much as postofiices are now run
| The boiling elements strength can not be
estimated unit! the delegates report to
| their constituents. Old politicians of
| other parties consider grave mistake has
been made. The personnel of the ticket is
generally considered good.
| Nebraska "Prohibs" Nominate Woman.
LINCOLN, Neb Aug AT yesterdays
session of the Prohibition state convention
K. w. Richardson, of Omaha, was nomi-
mated for judge of the supreme court: Rev.
| w. NJ. Gorst, of Neigh, and Mrs Caroline
NJ Woodward for regents of state uni
versity. A platform Of the usual style
was adopted, and the convention ad-