Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-07-27
THIRD PARTY CONVENTION.

Hoihihhte cdnuio3leS Tor Congress. Inc
meeting WAS held i'll the east end of the
dining room OF the Braddock House
and ten delegates were present-nine
from Fauquier-B. B. Turner, w. P
Herbert, Jos. Blackwell, H. V. Glass
cock, w. H. Smith, G.. i. French, NJ. f
Courtney, c. C. Randall, L. T. Robin
son and one from King George county
q. o. Taylor. Six spectators and foul
newspaper reporters were also present
/ The convention which was one Of the
quietest and most unanimous ever held
i'll this city. and which was in session but
little over an hour, was called to order
by Mr.. Turner, chairman of the district,
who said it had met to nominate can
didate for Congress.
Mr.. Herbert was chosen temporary
chairman and Mr.. Blackwell secretary,
and they were subsequently made the
permanent officers.
Messrs. Glasscock, Smith and French
were appointed committee on creden-
tials and soon reported sail credentials
correct
Messrs. Randall, Smith and Robinson
were appointed a committee on plat
form and after few moments consulta-
ton with Mr.. Turner, handed plat
form to the secretary.
The secretary said that as he was a
poor reader he would ask the chairman
to read the platform, but the chairman
suggested that as the document was in
Mr.. Turner's handwriting he had bet
ter read it. The platform was then
read by Mr.. Turner as follows and was
unanimously adopted
We, the representatives, of the peoples
party, in convention assembled, do adopt the
following preamble and platform
Resolved, That we see the occupations of
our people governing less and less rcmunerl-
ton. their homes becoming more heavily COW
cred with debt and mortgage and our farms
yielding US each year less return for the labor
expended upon them, owing 10 the low prices
which our products bring, aud that we despair
OF ever being able to release cur homes of the
mortgage Indebtedness which now covers
them unless more liberal financial policy
shall be adopted in our government.
That We entirely dis-believe in the theory
of over production, rs We see an advanced de-
mand for every product of labor, lacking only
Il medium of exchange to make it available.
That we deprccate a system of finance and
taxation which requires 10 bear a burden of
about 50 capita TO support the politi-
cal government while we pay capitalists an
interest on thirty million dollars Indebtedness,
thereby rObbing the producers ofTca, th to en-
rich the manipulators of our currency drawing
from us an annual interest gilmore than thirty
times as much money rs Is contained i'll our
circulating medium, compelling us to pay
more than one hundred aud eighty per cent.
on the money actually furnished us to use.
And we believe that by returning to the
policy advocated by Jefferson, Calhoun, and,
in short all the founders of democracy, we
may greatly reduces the amount OF interest
burden which We bear and nearly if not en-
tircly rid ourselves of tho separate burden of
fedora! taxation, amounting TO nearly nine
dollars per capita, not of the voting. but of
the whole population, and that the wealth
producer need no longer be robbed of the
wealth he produces TO increase the millions in
the possession Of those who produce not, which
policy having been persisted in ever since the
war by both old parties, either agreeing with
the other in such financial measures as tended,
t. make the rich richer and the poor poorer
has cnablci less fiiGn onetwentieth of one
per cent. nj cur population 70 acquire over
threo-fltlis Of the wealth Of our country.
That we adopt rs our platform those de-
mands formulated III Ocaia in 1880, again
adopted at Indianapolis III 1891, reailirmed
by the great labor conference at st. Louis on
the END ct February last and finally re-
affirmed 1T the greatest convention this nation
ever kncw-the second Declaration of indie
pcndencc-in Omaha on the last 9TH of
July, by . unanimous rising votc-which de-
mands enacted into laws, Wc bclicyp will
remedy these evils.
We condemn the democratic tariff reform
because il is 50 formulated us TO reform moth
ing
We condemn the republican protection
policy, because as operated by them it fails to
protect any except the wealthy dcpressor of
peoples party c,n and will be so carried out
as 10 release the consumer from tariff oppres-
sion and al The s,inp tmc protect the pro-
duccrs of our wealth from undue competition
with the paupcr labor from abroad.
We do unhcsitatingly declare that we believe
no country can he prosperous where the wages
of its laborcrs are low and its money is dear,
and that rice rersa high wages and cheap
money will bring prosperity to any land.
The next business in order was the
nomination OF q candidate Tor Congress,
Mr. Randall placed Mr.. BIB. Turner in
nomination, and in his speech said they
had not left the democratic party, but
the democratic party had left them.
He also wanted the constitution
changed.
Mr.. Blackwell seconded the nomina-
ton
OTessrs. Randall and Blackburn were
appointed q committee to notify MIR.
Turner of his nomination, and as Mr.. T.
was present he was at once escorted to
the desk, and in a third-party speech
accepted the nomination, in which he
admitted that his chances of election
were slim, and gave that as his reason
for accepting the nomination:
Before the meeting adjourned one of
The delegates inquired if the third party
press was represented, and seemed So
iictous as to the nature of the reports
the newspapermenp present would make
OF the meeting.
The King George delegate maintained
a rigid silence during the meeting.
The evening was intensely warm and
most of the delegates waived ceremony
and sat in their shirt sleeves,
The nominee, Mr.. i. B. Turner, is a
son Of the late E. c. Turner, of The
Plains, and nephew of Mr.. Robert
Beverley. He is about 80 years old and
for some time has been a dissatisfied
democrat.
Free silver and dissatisfaction with
the democratic party seemed to be the
actuating hobbies Of the ten delegates