Los Angeles herald., 1892-07-05
EVENING SESSION.

Nominations Made.
OMAHA, July 4.-Delegates were
prompt in arriving for the night session,
and all were nervous and expectant
owing to the lack OF positive and final
information as to the possibility of the
acceptance of the nomination by Judge
Gresham. The first actual business was
the reading by Chairman Branch of the
resolution of supplement- to the plat
form, as follows:
Whereas, Other questions have been
presented for our consideration, we
hereby submit the following, not as
part Of the platform of the Peoples
party, but as resolutions expressive of
the sentiment of this convention.
We demand free ballot and fair
count in all elections, and pledge our
selves to secure it to every legal voter
without federal intervention through
the adoption by the states of an unper-
verted Australian or secret ballot sys-
TEN.
Revenue derived from graduated in
come tax should be applied to the re-
duction of the burden of taxation now
levied upon the domestic industries OF
the country.
We pledge ourselves to fair and lib.
eral pensions to ex.union soldiers and
sailors.
We condemn protecting American
labor under the present system, which
opens our ports to the pauper and crim
inal classes of the world, and crowds
out our wage-earners; and we denounce
the present Ineffective laws against con-
tract labor and demand further restric-
tion of undesirable immigration.
We cordially sympathize with the
efforts of organized workingmen to
shorten the hours of labor and demand
rigid enforcement of the existing
eight-hour law on government work,
and ask that penalty clause be added
to said law.
We regard the maintenance of large
standing army of mercenaries, known
| as the Pinkerton system, as a menace
| to our liberties, and demand it's aboli-
/ ton and we condemn the recent inva-
sion of the territory of Wyoming by the
hired assassins of plutocracy,e assisted
by federal officers.
We commend to the thoughtful con,
sideration of the people, and the reform
press, the legislative system known as
initiative and referendum.
We favor constitutional provision
limiting the Office of president and vice.
president to one term, and providing for
the election of senators of the United
| States by direct'vote of the people.
We oppose any subsidy or national
aid to any private corporation for any
| purpose.
The motion to adopt the supplement
was promptly seconded, and it was
adopted before some protestants could
get hearing.
BoYOGuTING ENDORSED.
Hugh Cavanagh of Ohio, secretary of
the resolutions committee, read reeo-
luton which had been unanimously
adopted by the committee, expressing
sympathy with the knights of Labor in
their contest with the clothing manu-
facturers of Rochester, and declaring it
the duty OF all who hate tyranny and
oppression to refuse to purchase goods
made by Haid manufacturers. or patron
ize any merchants who sell such goods.
Dean of New York wanted to divide it.
The fret part, expressing sympathy, he
wanted to vote for, but not for the boy
colt.
General Secretary Hayes of the
Knights of Labor declared that sympa-
thy was not what was wanted. The
knights of Labor demanded boycott.
Gator, of California. supported the
resolution and entered upon what he
described as a scientific basis of the
boycott, and pointed to the action of
Moses when the children OF Israel were
oppressed to show it's ancient character.
sBoycotting is not human, but divine"
4said he.
After some further debate Ignatias
Donnelly took the platform in favor OF
the resolution. He declared it was in
keeping with the spirit of the preamble
to the platform adopted with go much
unanimity earlier in the day. On
rising vote the motion to strike out the
boycott clause was overwhelmingly de-
Heated and the resolution adopted by
acclamation.
GRESHAM BOON KILLED,
During the Knights of Labor discus
sion, the Gresham movement received
coup de grace by the following dispatch
from Gresham himself:
CHICAGO, July 4.
J. B, Wesyer, Ignatius DonneIy, Ben Terrell,
John Il. Hayes:
have just returned and ind your dis
patch of gst. l must stand by my dis
patch to Mr.. Orr of I'd. Accept my
grateful acknowledgements.
w. O. GRESHAM.
Immediately on the receipt of this