The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1892-07-07
GEMS. WEAVER AND FIELDS.
Are at the Head Of the Peoples Party
Ticket.

A Big Convention at Omaha-A Com
Portable Hall Col. Polk Eulogized
by Donelly and Powderly.- The
Convention is Down on Railroads.
OMAHA, July 5.-The Peoples par
ty Convention adjourned after three
O'Clock this morning. It completed
the ticket with General James B.
Field, of Virginia, who fought under
Hill. Weaver and Field both made
long acceptance speeches.
GEN. WEAVER NOMINATED.
General Weaver was nominated in
the Peoples party convention on
the first ballot.
There was good deal of ill feel
ing engendered because the Weaver
crowd would not consent to delay
| nominations until a delegation sent
to confer with Judge Gresham at
Chicago could be heard from.
Every thrust at railroads by the
speakers was received with wild ap-
plause, the convention going wild
and many minutes elasping before
order could be restored.
| Nearly all the wood work of the
great platform and the wall behind
it is already covered with festoons of
flags and bunting, and the pillars
| swathed in draperies of the national
colors and voluminous folds of red,
white and blue almost hide from
view the great arched trusses that
ventjon hall could not have been bet
10 I,
sole reference to this end. Many
| who were at Minneapolis and Chica-
go declare that it is better arranged
| than were the convention halls of
those cities and that the interior ap-
pearance is much more attractive.
''THE SPIRIT OF '76."
"The Spirit of 1776'' is the favor
tie motto of these latter day reform
ers and much of the inspiration of
the hour is gathered from the fire.
quent declarations of the leaders
that in the peoples wrongs of today
is parallel to tie grievances of
1776, against which our forefathers
revolted, fought and won. And so
in revolution alone these wrongs
were righted, but the revolt of today
is to be wrought by the ballot. 1t is
true that the tocsin is to be sounded,
but it is as a signal of alarm to a
slumbering people, for the victory
to be won is to be all the more tri
umphant because it is the result of a
campaign CT education.
"Land, transportation and f.
nance" is to be the battle cry from
now to next November, for in these
three subjects are Involved all the
principles to which the Peoples par
ty owes it's birth. To correct the
abuses which have grown under the
ownership of the first, the monopoly
of the second and the tyranny of
the third is the avowed mission of
this great political party. which has
sprung up like a mushroom in the
night; but instead of whitening in
the sunshine Of the day, has thrown
its boughs to the breeze and towers
like young oak above the political
horizon.
s@ PRAISE FOR COLONEL POLK.
The vast assemb1age which at
tended the second days session of
the Peoples party afforded strik.
ing proof of the respect in which the
memory of the late Colonel Polk is
held by the supporters of the move
ment which he was instrumental in
forming. The session was devoted
exclusively to the delivery of ad-
dresses eulogistic of the dead cham
pion of reform and expressive of
the reference in which his name IS
held. Though the speeches con-
tanned many inspiring sentences as
to the future of the fight in. which
the Independent party is engaged,
the recognition of the loss which the
party has sustained in the death of
its leader seemed to be the one
thought which filled the minds of
the delegates, and rarely was there
a departure from a solemn silence,
which gave to the gathering more
the air of a church service than to a
great National Convention.
After prayer by Chaplain Diffen-
hacher the opening address was de-
livered by 81. L. Loucks, Of South
Dakota, who has been selected for
the permanent chairman of the con-
ventiou. One of the sentences that
broke the painful stiffness of the
gathering was the declaration that
I the people of the new movement
looked to l.. L. Polk as the Lincoln
of an era of freedom.
Brother Polk" the speaker con-
| tinued, twas the one man whose
| place can not be filed. He was the
one around whom all our hopes CEN
tered as thee can ronnd no other
| man. 1t is meet that we should pay
our respects to his memory. He
died martyr to our cause from
| overwork. Bis kindly spirit looks
down on this meeting and will re.
| main to guide it until our proceed
ings are ended"
| Speeches were also made eulogis-
tic of the dead leader by Ignatius
Donnelly and T. V. ,Powderly.
County Finances for June.