The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-07-03
by the people and for the people, shall not
perish from the earth
DoNNELLY SPEARS.


While awaiting the report OF the COM
mittee on credentials. Hon. Ignatius Don
nelly was introduced and spoke at length
on the issuds Of the Peoples party. He
said in part
.sThis body in many respects is the most
astounding gathering the country has ever
seen.
IA convention without q single tool or
instrument of monopoly in its midst;
convention whose every man paid the ex-
penses Of his journey hTther and return. or
which was paid by men as poor as himself.
Cheers. There's not in this gathering a
single president of railroad company, not
a representative of the rings which are
rohbing and sucking the life blood of the
American people. / cannot help but think
Of the
ASTOUNDING CONTRAST
to the conventions which recently met in
Minneapolis and Chicago. On yonder
banner / see The words spirit of 1876"
This is the spirit which animates this
august gathering. We are the linenl repre-
sentatives Of those men in homespun and
deerskln who founded the nation. a nation
without millionaire and without a pau
per. A hundred and sixteen years of ma
tional life under Ihe management of the
two great parties has given US, according
to the different estimates from eight thou
oAnu w tulFby buOusduu MillSHdlIcS duu
one and a half million tramps, while the
whole land is clustered with mortgages
and the people stepped to lips in poverty.
My friends every great fight ever made
in the past for right and liberty, culmi-
mated In the present gathering. The battle
IN which we are employed is the battle of
mankind. Every oppressed nation Of the
world is looking upon this convention to
discover whether the star spangled banner
ur,1f 1o nfn hall
the country Of steadily rising generation
after generation to higher levels of culture
and civilization, or shall it float in solemn
mockery above a land cursed as Europe is
cursed.
"The middle classes are driven off the
land, while concentrated in the hands Of a
few is the wealth provided by the filler. !"
[Cheers.
Having quoted figures showing that the
possession Of wealth IN the hands OF the
farmer had decreased from fve-eighths in
1880 to one-fifth in 1890 he declared no man
would fail TO see and mark tho terrible
future into which they we're advancing.
II can promise you the solid electoral
vote OF Minnesota for the Peoples party.
believe / can promise Nebraska. North
and South Carolina and Georgia, and know
we can count on Kansas. | tell you there
is no such word IS failure. SO far as this
movement is concerned
After Donnelly's speech. J. G. Mansing,
the eloquent boy orator from Alabams,
was called 10 the platform and addressed
the assemblage.
Norton of Chicago afterwards led to the
platform Alexander Campbell OF La Sale,
ILL.,, ana presented him as the original
green hacker, formerly known among poll
ticians as ''Old Green backs,
A resolution was adopted that when the
convention adjourned today, TO meet again
at 1880 p. N. Sunday, 10 participate in
memorial services for the late Colonel Polk
and the late Rev. Gilbert De Lameter, Of
Cincinnati
Z. v. Pcwderly excused himself from
speaking, and the members Of the commit
tee on resolutions were then announced,
which in part is as follows:
California, Thomas " Gator; Idaho, E.
j. Peffley; Montaur Daniel Mccain !;
Nevada, J. A. Plumner; Oregon, Nation
Perch; Washington, z. Il. Knox; Wyom-
ing, Fl. B. l3retenstien.
After the announcement of the commit
tee Cyclone" Davis was called for and be
painted in vivid colors e picture of the con-
dition of things as they existed today in
this country. When the committee on
credentials announced itself ready to re-
port, he abruptly concluded.
The committees report shows no contest
and ], 1866 delegates present. The report
was adopted amid applause, and the sitting
delegates declared entitled to seats.
Hon. j. Jaxon OF Chicago was invited to
address the convention. lie is the rep
resentative OF the Mettas council of the
northwest mixed race of Indians and
Frenchmen.
The committee on resolutions was
directed to retire at once and beein labors.
At 6 80 the convention adjourned until 5
o'clock Monday morning.