Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-07-16
WEAVER SHALL LEAD THEM
The Iowa Orator Nominated on the
First Ballot.
General James q. Field, of Virginia,
Chosen for the Second Place.
Gresham Declined to Allow
tho Use of His Name.

thC y VI nav ENahiSs
For Presidcnt-GEN. j.. b WEAVER
For Vice.President-GEN. j.. q. FIELD
OMAHA, July s.
"The robber of old was simple and bold,
And rarely put on any frills,
But the robber today has n different way,
And the Taxpayers foot up the bills"
That was the song, to the tune of
robin Hood" which greeted the del
egates and spectators who filed into
the big Coliseum for yesterday after
moons session. Get of, Get of the
Earth, We Can't Have Rest Upon It."
was the successor to The Taxpayers
Foot Up the Bills" They We're sung
from the stage with spirit by u
phenomenal glee club and were re-
coived with enthusiasm. A half dozen
others followed, being accompanied by
a kicking shuttle of the feet rs If the
bassos saw with Il prophetic vision the
propulsion Of IN invisible army of
oficeholders of the old parties making
an involuntary exodus.
These songs served the double pur-
pose of keeping the audience in good
humor and in n semblance OF order.
1t was 2:O7 O'Clock when Chairman
Loucks called the convention to order,
but it was after 3 before all the dele
a.a~--I-- is~--
and the rap of the chairman had re-
suited in even n beginning of
business. The tickets which had
been withheld early in the day had evil
IDENTIFY got into the hands hat would
use them, for the immense hall was al
most completely filed. 1t was very
sultry and fully n third of the dele
gates were in shirt sleeves.
A motion was carried that the reso-
lutions committee report such parts of
the platform as were ready, and that
these be considered by the convention
while the other parts Of the platform
were being considered by the commit
tee. This was apparently the first
move on the part of the Weaver men
to hasten n ballot A suspicion had
gained currency that the COM
mittee on resolutions was
not anxious to make very speedy pro-
gress for the reason that it AS a whole
preferred Judge Gresham for tho can
didate and wanted time TO get an
agreement from him that he would let
the convention nominate him The
motion was carried. but the committee
reported that it was not prepared just
vet to make u partial report.
George c. Ward, of Missouri, got rec
IGNITION at once on this announcement
and moved to suspend the rules and
proceed to ballot for nomination Of
candidates. This was seconded, but
there was 10 intention on tho part
of the ardent Gresham men TO give
So ,,,t,1 AIA 1u.t aNxn -, ,lt,1, tLa-
leaned was broken, and an Illinois del
agate made the point Of order that the
motion was contrary to the rules fixing
an order of business.
The chairman overruled the point on
the ground that the convention could
do as it pleased.
Ellington, of Georgia. made a coun-
ter move on the chess board to this
ruling by moving the tabling OF the
motion and carried his point by q very
large majority.
The Weaver men knew they were
strong in view of the Kyle kilograms
INC laughed at assurances from
Gresham men that he would accept.
and they wanted more speed put on
the wheels of the convention.
Lamb, of Texas, a Weaver man, and
also working for Terrell for vice-pres-
ident, moved to adopt the entire st
Louis platform as the party platform
This motion was greeted with mingled
cries of approval and disapproval.
Brown, of Massachusetts,, made n
speech on the subject declaring, amid
applause, that the st. Louis platform
was the u upon which the organiza-
tions of united labor stood. They did
,,A ,ntA,I chat ar,.. alA,1I -
taken from or added to l.. ''Ihe CON
pact OF st. Louis it," he continued,
they desire some additional resolu-
tons as the sense of this body they
can move them when they return.
Cheers. But ! see no reason why we
should sit here and be kept
here while all those who
have crude theories appear before
the committee IN resolutions and air
their superior knowledge of what the
country needs at this time [cheersL,
therefore let us adopt the ST. Louis
platform and proceed with Tn, nom
ination of the peoples leader upon the
principles which are to smash plu-
tocracy. Let the nominating speeches
be made on the Fourth of July, the
natal day of the country's %indepen-
dence."
The effect OF the proceedings in the
convention was to alarm the resolu-
tions committee. They became STAN
peded, and soon fled TO the stage with
u platform hastily brought To n COM
pletion. Their appearance removed
the cause for the fight on the floor and
it was permitted to go by the board,
and the convention became silent
xul,slA fII,Ay-n1 NJ TNA. - C.l.f~--.-
read the preamble of the unanimous
report of the resolutions committee
on the platform adopted. Gator
moved the adoption of the preamble
and it was adopted by a unanimous up
rising of delegates and tulnultuous APP
plause.
The Preamble.
Assembled on the 10th anniversary of
the declaration of independence, the peo-
pies party, invoking the blessings of
Almighty God, puts forth in the name of
the people OF the country the following
preamble and declaration of principles:
We meet in the midst of n nation brought
TO the verge of moral, political and mate
rial ruin. Corruption dominates the bal
lot box, legislatures and congress, and
even touches the ermine of the bench
The people are demoralized; most of the
states have been compelled to isolate
voters at polling places to prevent univer-
sal intimidation or bribery; n~ewspapers
are subsidized or muzzled; public opinion
is silenced; business is prostrated; our
homes covered with mortgages; labor i'm
poverished; land concentrating in the
hands OF capitalists; workmen are denied
the right OF organization for self-protec.
ton imported pauperizcd labor beats down
their wages, n hireling standing army. un-
recognized by law, is established to shoot
them down, and they are rapidly degener-
ating into u European condition.; the
fruits of the toll of millions Is boldly
stolen to build I'D the colossal TO tunes
unprecedented in the history of mankind.
From the same prolific womb of govern
mental injustice we breed two great
classes, tramps and millionaires. Ia
national power to create mQney l. appro-
priated to enrich bondholders; the vast
public debt. payable in legal ten Ter, has
been funded into gold.be airing bonds.
thereby adding millions to the burdens of
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