Los Angeles herald., 1891-06-11
POLITICAL PARTIES.
Gatherings of Some of the
Of-COlOr Clans.
Stanford a Prime Favorite for
the Presidency.
Resolutions Adopted by the WiscOn-
sin Farmers Alliance.
Ohio Cold Waterites Fishing for the
Farmer vote-Iowa Prohibition
lists in War Paint.
Associated Press Dispatches.

guafQ OF Jne executive committee OF the
Peoples party which convenes here Sat-
urday, to select the place of meeting for
the national convention, has arrived.
E. L. Sexton, one OF the secretaries of
the Cincinnati convention, stated to a
reporter that many advocate the placing
Of state tickets in the field in number
of states, while others think that such a
course would be unwise and have ten
dency to divide the party's strength.
AS to the candidates that would be
placed before the national convention,
Sexton said variety OF names had been
suggested, but so far Senator Stanford Of
California seems to be the favorite.
WISCONSIN FARMERS ALLIANCE.
LACROSSE. Wis, June 10.-At today's
session of the State Farmers Alliance
convention lengthy get of resolutions
were unanimously adopted. They
favor a system of taxation that will not
favor one class at the expense of an
other; free coinage silver; the abolition
of national banks and the substitution
of legal tender currency issued by the
government in sufficient volume to do
the business of the country; that the
government should loan money to citi-
zens with certain prudent restrictions
on real estate security, at interest not to
mend an uncompromising effort to
secure to farmers and other wealth
producers a fair share in the manage
ment of the government; favor the CO.
operation of industrial organizations in
securing the demands of the st. Louis
platform; demand the prohibition of
gambling on boards of trade; favor gov
ernment control of telegraph and rail-
roads; the election of the president,
vice-president and senators by direct
vote of the people; the prohibition of
nonresident alien ownership of land;
the establishment of postal savings
banks; that all interest accruing
from the loan of public money
by any municipal corporation
shall be returned to the treasury from
which money was loaned; that towns,
cities and villages where license is
granted for the sale of liquor, be COM
PEELED to pay all the expenses of the
prosecution, including the expense
of defense now allowed under the present
laws, which shall be incurred in the
prosecution Of persons for any offense
committed while under the influence of
Intoxicating liquors.
The resolutions also favor woman suf-
frage; provide for the admission to the
Alliance of the wives and daughters of
members with equal privileges and with
out fees, and that the executive COM
mite be authorized to establish pur-
chasing agency to be under the control
of said committee.
IOWA PRoHIBITIoNISTS.
DEs MONIES, Ia, June 10.-The Pro-
hibition state convention this afternoon
adopted platform and nominated
full state ticket. The platform adopted
is long and complicated. 1t favors
straight>out Prohibition; free and un-
limited coinage of silver; Australian
ballot reform; state constabulary to
enforce prohibition, and the immediate
abolishment OF the whole United States
internal revenue system, since its opera
ton is to encourage, by recognizing, the
liquor traffic. There was considerable
discussion over the platform, but it was
finally adopted as whole.
The candidates nominated are as fol-
L.
lem; Acknowledgements J. 7. Little,
Perry; superintendent OF public instruc-
ton, Mrs. M. HI. Dunham, Burlington
railroad commissioner, G. S. Hart,
Coyne; supreme Judge, D. B. Twiney,
Bennett.
A state central committee was elected,
composed of one member from each dis
trict, and other plans were formed to
carry on an active cqmnaion
The action of the Peoples party in
lodging the prohibition issue, both in
the Cincinnati and DesMoines platforms,
was commented upon and denounced.
THE OHIO COLD WATER PARTY.
SPRINGFIELD, o., June 10.-Over 1900
strangers are in the city, drawn by the
Prohibitionist state convention, which
met here this afternoon, and many Pro-
hibition notables are on the ground, in
Guiding Rev. Sam Small of Georgia and
Samuel Dickie, chairman of the National
Prohibition committee. The talk of the
delegates now is for strong farmer and
labor platform, and union with the
farmers meets with wide favor.
PEOPLES PARTY OF UTAH.
SALT LAKE Cry, June 1O.-Pursuant
w o"hA ohN lOiioWiuk buC dppaAOhO P1O
gramme of the Peoples party, the terri
torial committee held secret meeting
this afternoon. Tonight it is given out
that it passed a preamble that it is the
sense of the territorial central commit
tee of the Peoples party of Utah, that
the party throughout the territory
should dissolve and leave its members
free to unite with the great national
parties, according to their individual
preferences. Little Importance is at
tached here to this action.
NEW POLITICAL PARTY.
ST.. PAUL, June 10.-A new political
party has been started here under the
name of the National Association, sixty
gentlemen of this city and vicinity filing
the articles of incorporation. The OBJ
jects of the party, as stated in the arti-
cles of Incorporation, are to unite
socially and fraternally all respectable