Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-08-14
BORN In ILLINOIS.
The Peoples Party Given Very
Quiet Start.
A COMPLETE MACHINE IN MOTION.

Full State Central Committee Selected;
Everything Ready for Business-Tau-
beneck's View of How to Accomplish
Reforms Illustrated by a Hen Parable
President Polk To BE Heard from
Senator PETER Addresses the Granger
Encampment
SPRINGFIELD Ills, Aug 1.-THE Peo-
pies party of Illinois has been born A
little before 10 O'Clock yesterday morning
A. j. Streeter wendell his way to the cap
itol, where he was soon joined by the two
other members of the national committee.
a half dozen men dropped in, and were
Immediately recognized and seated as del
egates. s F. Norton, of Chicago, raped
the half dozen men to order, and death
like silence prevailed. There were no
speeches and no enthusiasm. 1t was sug-
gested that state central committee be
named, but after fruitless attempt to
rake up dozen Peoples party men in the
state, it was abandoned. A committee
| was appointed to draft a constitution, and
then everybody took a short cut to the fair
grounds to hear PETER
State Central Committee Named.
At $50 O'Clock the conference recon-
veued. The same lack of enthusiasm was
manifested as in the morning. A state
| central committee was wanted and after
some comforting the following were
| named: Chairman, Lester c. Hubbard,
| Chicago; secretary, II. Z. Baldwin, Joliet:
treasurer, J. ID. Hess Pittsfield: First
| district. Francis J. Shuttle, G. J. Kerr A
\. Smith; Second, William League, c. G.
Dixon; Third, Clark Irving, Charles
| Smith, John McGovern; Fourth and
| Fifth, no representative; Sixth, B. W.
Panton, Elgin, w w. Sharp, Elgin. J. l.
NcDonough. Sandwich; Seventh, John
Miller, Galva, Simon Elliot, Princeton,
Martin Johnson, Bishop Hill; Eighth, A
Langdon, Du Page; Ninth, Charles
Boon, Warren. &. d. Saxon,
Graymont, E. w. Pierson, Cayuga; Tenth,
l. n. Hedrick, Cuba; 5. G.. Buckner,
| Peoria; E. G. Bates. Bradford Eleventh,
James Glazier. Charles s Mcmillan, 7.
Edmandson, Nashville. Twelfth, Milton
| Colvin, Tirney; c. J. Crisp, Roodhouse
| Thirteenth, J. W. McElroy, Rosemond;
! H. H. Miller. Waverly; c. w Ewert,
| Owanaco. Fourteenth, Lo representative.
! Fifteenth, F. a. Reel Oakland; c. B.
| Fenton, Danville; F. \. Mccarthy, Gill
| son. Sixteenth, Thomas Ratcliff, H. H.
| Jessup, A. l.. Maxwell Seventeenth,
| William Cup. Carlinville; Fred Nye,
Noawequa; Richard Osborn, Bradford
Eighteenth. l.. A. Wuellhull, Belleville;
! Louis Nichols, L. Ngiolo, Petersburg
Nineteenth. F G. Blood, Mount Vernon.
| Twentieth, + J. Cross, p j. Luby,
! Cairo.
| Voting Masses Must be Rulers.
The constitution adopted provides for
| the number of subcommittee in the
! counties and townships. The preamble
! acknowledges a debt of gratitude to the
various farmers and workingmens socie-
| ties, which, II declares have educated the
| people on basis of more righteous sys-
TEN of political economy and given them
wise instruction in their duties as citizens
of great democracy, which cannot be
well grounded unless the voting masses
made the ruling of the country matter
| of con scious personal duty.
An Illustration from the Hen. -
| No fusion with any other party will be
tolerated. H. F. Taubeneck. chairman of
the executive committee said last night
! in discussing the attitude of the granger
| organization toward the formation of a
new party: Il have no use for lot of re-
formers who can't reform, but propose to
get it by working through the old parties.
III tell you hen can lay a fresh egg good
deal easier than she can purify rotten
one. That Is the principle we are work
ing upon These men have got to cut
Loose from something. They can't carry
water on both shoulders. The farmers
associations were started a. non partisan
| organizations, but they have been dragged
into politics.
Want Independent Changers.
"Now we have organized a political
party. If farmer believes the old parties
give him the reforms he desires let him
vote their tickets. We don't want him.
Farmers elected on the old party tickets
no sooner reach the legislative hall than
they are under control of the caucus poll
ticians When it comes to doing some
thing for the farmers they fight worse
than two cocks in a barnyard. We want
to elect farmers who will be for the far,u-
ers" 1t is stated here apparently upon
good authority, that President Polk, Of
the National Alliance, will soon issue a
manifesto TO the farmers throughout the
country urging them to join the new
party and give it their support.
PETER Advocates His Plan.
There was but a small crowd at the en-
campment of the farmers and industrial
organizations, and little interest was
manifested in the proceedings. At 8
o'clock Senator PETER arrived and pro-
ceeded to address the people. His speech
was the same that he delivered at Oak
Ridge Park week ago and that has been
delivered at many other points through
out the country. The whole trouble was
a scarcity of money and high rates of in
terest. Neither a nigh tariff, revenue
tariff, nor reciprocity would meet the
case. The government must issue bill
ion of money and loan IL to the people at