Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-02-25
THE WIND UP.
The InduStrials Adjourn Sine
Die Yesterday.
INDUSTRIAL PARTY.
The Proceedings-Adj ourned Sine
Die.

Die.
ST. LOUIS, Feb. 25.-The fight for
recognition of the prohibition issue
in the platform started immediately
upon the reassembling Of the con-
vention yesterday afternoon. Miss
Frances Willard presented the
minority report, which she moved
be adopted Immediately as an
amendment to the majority report.
It favored woman suffrage and de-
manded suppression of the liquor
traffic. After considerable discus
sion, the minority report was shelved
by substitute ignoring the liquor
question and referring woman suf-
frage to the state legislatures.
Fred Swayne, ex-member of the
Missouri legislature and labor agi
tator, attempted to introduce an
eight-hour resolution. A fight fol.
lowed, inwhich Swayne was ousted
from the hall.
On motion of Simpson to lay the
minority on the table viva voce
vote showed an almost even split for
and against prohibition.
Coached by Powderly, Miss Emma
Curtis, of Colorado, handsome and
accomplished young woman cap
tured the floor, and proposed the fol
lowing substitute: We demand
that the question of universal suf.
frage be submitted to the legislatures
of the different states and territories
for favorable action.
Jerry Simpson shouted, "She has
solved the problem" and some one
Immediately demanded the previous
question, the substitution was made
by a crushing majority amidst a
volume of cheers, Miss Willard look
ing very glum. Soon afterward
Powderly announced that Miss Cur
tis' substitute had been withdrawn
as part of the platform by Weaver
and other leaders. Miss Curtis arose
and declared that she had done nc
such thing. The Idea of dealing
with the liquor question by separate
resolution instead of in the
platform, was broached sew
eral times during the confused
discussion, and was iavora-
bly, received. 1t was now apparently
the purpose of Powderly, after hav-
ing kept Miss Willard's minority re-
port out Of the platform, to placate
her and her friends by having the
convention adopt the Willard plank
as resolution in place of that OF
Miss Curtis. When the roll call
reached on what now became Miss
Curtis's minority report, a vote was
taken by states, it was thought that
the Powd erly- Weaver following
would resent Miss Curtis's spunki.
ness by defeating the report, but
Powderly voted the knights solidly
for the minority report,
Secretary Hayes declared it car
ried, 2'0 TO PAS. The un lfiiclal tally
keepers made very different totals,
by declaring the vote tally was 352
noes, and 2SS ayes, which, il official,
would defeat the minority renor t
Meanwhile Miss Willard and Lady
Henry Som arset left tn hall and
did not return. The knights and
most of the Allience men then re-
ired for a caucus, despite some We.
hement protests.
When the convention got together
again half an hour later, Ignatius
ponnelly, to the surprise of a great
many, declared that all business
could be wound up in half an hour;
defer by unanimous consent the
little woman suffrage matter; adopt
the majority reporti appoint com
mittee OF the peoples partyi to call a
national convention to nominate
presidential and vice-presldential
candidates, aud the thug was done.
The idea took like wildfire among
the tired and hungry delegates, aud
within two minutes the majority re-
port was adopted without = solitary
voice OF dissent, and amid, tremen-
dOus enthusiasm,
Miss Curtis's woman suffrage re-
solution, as a substitute for prohibit
tion, was then adopted, without op.
position, aud the convention adj.
Journed sine die.
Late last night the conference
comml1te selected July 4th as tho
date for the convention, the selection
~ lhe place being lefl 10 a sub COM
mlt,ee % ten, 60 be appointed by
TaUbeneck. Of IllinOls.