The record-union., 1891-08-06
THE PEOPLES PARTY.
OPENING OF THE STATE CONyEN-
TION AT SPRINGFIELD, OHIO.
Four Hundred Delegates Present-Sen
ator Sherman to be ReIegated
to Political Oblivion.
Special to the REcoRD-USroS.

| Special to the RECoRD-UNIoN.
SPRINGFIELD tO.), Aug. 5.-The Peo-
Pies party State Convention was called
to order this afternoon by III. f. Barnes
of Tiffin, Chairman of the State Commit
tee. There were about four hundred dele
| gates present.
After prayer the Chair read a letter
from George T. Gather, Chairman of the
Alabama State Committee, promising to
| carry that State in 1892. Another from
Senator Pfeiffer, advising the adoption OF
| the Cincinnati resolutions and the plank
advocating honest money, was greeted
with cheers.
The Chair introduced as temporary
Chairman Hugh Cavanaugh, who said in
part: 'Too long have the farmers OBJ
served the injunction, You till the soil;
We'll manage public affairs They are
tired Of it, and that is the reason of the
meeting here to-day" He treated finance
forth IN the Cincinnati resolutions. Cav
anaugh added that this movement will
relegate John Sherman to the political
oblivion that is enjoyed by his friend In
gals.
ii. B. Hinchman of Urban was chosen
temporary Secretary, and committees
appointed.
While the committees were out Robert
Schilling, the National Secretary, ad-
dressed the convention. He prescribed
the platform of the Peoples party as a
panacea for all evils wrought by both
home and foreign capitalists. He de-
nounced the misrepresentation Of the old
party organs, and said it was not the OBJ
Ject OF the party to have unrestricted
loans. 1t would restrict them as to the
needy, fixing the maximum loan to any
one person at $1,000. The party leaders
are not crazy yet and would so regulate
the supply of currency that the country
would not be flooded with an over-sup-
ply of irredeemable currency. as it is
charged by harpies of the old parties
The Peoples party has declared in favor
OF the free coinage of silver. The majority
OF the members are not in favor of it, but
tolerate it as the entering wedge by which
they nope to overturn their present
monetary system.
Schilling said it was just as safe for the
Government to loan money on products
OF the farm, taking a first mortgage, as
for it to loan on gold and silver, as 1t is
now doing when it issues silver and gold
certificates. Senator Sherman and other
great men who oppose lending money to
farmers on good security, had raised
their voices in favor of the Government
his colleagues an enormous sum asked to
dig ditch in Nicaragua. The national
banking system he denounced as infa-
nous, and said the cry honest money,
makes him mad. He devoted much time
to comparison of the old parties on the
tariff question, and found that the differ
ence, when divided among the members
OF them, amounts to just two and two
thirds cents apiece. He felicitated the
party on its successes in Nebraska, Kan
sas and other States, and urged them to
stronger efforts in Ohio.
Congressman-e n-elect Otis of Kansas
spoke briefly.
The Committee on Device reported a.
plot and hammer for the State party.
The convention adjourned until to-mor-
row without adopting the report
The Committee on Resolutions has
been wrestling with the platform since
P. NJ, and at 10 adjourned until to-mor-
row. The sticking points are the prohibi-
ton, land tax and farm-produce loan
features. The districts which insist on
prohibition plank would cost the party
thousands Of votes, and they will fight
it to the bitter end.
Regarding the ticket, there are dozen
candidates, and the prospects are for
lively times tomorrow.