Los Angeles herald., 1891-05-21
AppIrIoNAL REsoLurloNs.

ADDITIONAL RESOLUTIONS
Additional resolutions, not part Of the
platform, were presented. They rec
commended the favorable consideration
OF universal suffrage; demanded treas
ury notes to pay soldiers, equivalent to
coin; favored the eight-hour day. and
condemned the action of the worlds fair
commission with reference to wages:
also resolution calling on the attorney
general to submit the act providing for
the opening of Oklahoma to homestead
settlement, to the supreme court at the
earliest possible moment, that settlers
may understand the lawful and consti-
tutional meaning of said act, and put
stop to ruinous litigation.
- THE NEW NAME APPLAUDED.
The name of the new party, the "Peo-
ple's Party of the United States, "
elected magnificent outbuIst of ap.
plause, and as each plank was read
cheering was resumed SO frequently that
the great hall seemedto to reverberate con-
tinuously. The plank recommending
universal suffrage to favorable consider
alton met with a rather chilly reception,
but the one demanding the payment OF
pensions on gold basis was roundly
cheered.
At this juncture a delegate objected
that the platform was one-sided for
the Farmers Alliance, but he met
with little encouragement.
Schillings announced that the pension
plank was left to the soldier member of
the committee, with an inquiry as to
whether it was satifactory, and on his
acquiesence, it was adopted unani-
mously.
A CYCLONE OF ENTHUSIASM.
Amid perfect cyclone of enthusiasm,
the delegate moved the adoption of the
platform, as read. The convention went
wild. Delegates mounted tables and
chairs, shouting and yelling like Co.
manches. A portion OF the convention
in tremendous chorus sang, to the
tune of Good Bye, My Lover, Good Bye.
the words Good Bye, Old Parties, Good
Bye, and then the Doxolegy. The tu-
multi SURPRISING in its remarkable sud-
denness and vigor anything that had
previously taken place in that conven-
ton, lasted fully quarter of an hour,
till it ceased from sheer exhaustion.
Several delegates urged the adoption
of the report, but the enthusiasm had
to have vent. and one after another, the
orators relieved themselves. When
order was finally restored, the platform,
proper, was adopted by rising vote.
PROHIBITION KNOCKED OUT. .
At this stage the convention was little
better than bowling mob, and in the
California came to the front on the
prohibition question, which had been
ignored in the platform and resolutions.
All efforts to shake him off with points
of order were Intellectual. A resolution
offered by him was brief, but to the
point. 1t said: Resolved, that we
favor the abolition of the liquor traffic"
Fifty orators clamored for recognition,
but the first to succeed was Schilling OF
Wisconsin. He declared himself a
strong temperance man, but he opposed
the discussion of the question of piohi-
been fully considered and voted down
by the committee on platform. To
spring it now was plainly throwing a
frebrand into the convention, and in
his opinion a deliberate attempt to
cause split.
After another awful uproar the prohi-
bition amendment was overwhelmingly
defeated.
The resolutions were adopted, with
only three dissenting votes. A resolu-
tion against trusts was choked off by the
point of order, raised by Schilling of
Wisconsin, that all resolutions should be
referred to the committee without being
read. Then the convention got down to
business again, and the matter of choos-
ing national committee was taken up.
Chairman Weaver, who had relieved
PETER, declared welcome recess.
After recess the roll of states was
called for members of the national com
mittee, the convention adopting the in
novation of appointing three members
from each state, instead of one member,
as the old parties have.
THE LAST OF THE BIG THREE.
Alliance Congressman j. G. Otis, of
Kansas, nominated H. E. Taubeneck, of
Illinois, as chairman of the national ex-
ecutive committee. and amid much
cheering Taubeneck was chosen by ac-
clamation. In his speech he said "You
see before you all there is left of the
celebrated independent party in the
Illinois legislature, so often called the
Big Three"
He added that while he sincerely ap-
preciated the honor the convention had
conferred upon him, he scarcely felt
equal to the position, but would do