The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-07-01
THE PEOPLES PARTY.

OMAHA, June 3O.-'The Peoples party
will meet in national convention at ~
O'Clock Saturday morning The delegates
are already beginning to arrive, and there
are indications that the natal day of the
republic, the Fourth of July, will witness
the birth of great political party, which
lis to be menace to the old organizations
(which have so long strlven for supremacy
in the nation. There is not the slightest
levideDce of discord IN any direction, and
fthere seems a general resolve all around to
make this convention Il harmonious gath
,ering at which is to be firmly cemented
kinto one symmetrical whole all the hetero-
sgenous elements that go to make up the
various political and industrial orders and
associations that have heretofore refused
ITO asSimalite into any great political or
ganization.
The platform is already practically
agreed upon. The leaders have been in
constant correspondence for months past,
End it is tacitly agreed that the St. Louis
paiform of Feb. % shall be taken for "a
basis; that the only eXtraneous matters to
receive consideration will be denCncia-
tion of the force bill, a demand for a
broader reciprocity than is offered by the
party of republcanism, and condemna-
Iion of the recent state bank plank adopted
at the national Democratic convention.
The adoption OF the force bill plank Is eX-
pected to Illustrate the herculean efforts
being exerted by the Democratic leaders
of the south to reclaim their fellows from
the Peoples party ranks. This plank Will
he denunciation of the Republican force
bill, and it will be ringing and as EN-
phatic as the arraignment by the Demo
cratic national convention week ago.
In one very significant respect could the
old parties afford 10 follow the example
being set by the Peoples party leaders in
these latter days of practical politics.
iS M xx-ira tnr "A ma.
tions. The man who receives from the
national Peoples convention the nomina-
tion for the presidency will receive it un-
sougbt. The nomination must seek the
man, apd not the man the nomination.
Half a dozen prominent leaders are freely
discussed, but not one has yet arrived
upon the ground, and none is making the
slightest effort for the nomination. The
+ magic of but one name rs sufficient TO take
the whole convention 10y storm. Walter
O. Gresham could have the nomination by
+ the most signal assent. but he has forbid
! den his friends to allow HIS name To be
mentioned In this connection.
: Other gentlemen prominently mentioned
in connection with the presidential nomi-
nation are General James Is. Weaver, eX-
congressman from Iowa, and formerly a
green back candidate Tor The presidency;
Hon. Marion Cannon, president OF the
California Farmers Alliance; Hon.
Ignatius Donnelly of Minnesota. Hon.
John +. Willis of Kansas, the Farmers
Alliance candidate for governor two years
ago; ex- nited Stat es Senator Van Wyck
OF Nebraska, and Congressman john II.
Davis of the Fifth district OF Kansas.
There is disposition TO give the vice
presidency TO some live young campaigner
of the party, and the eloquent Tom Wat
son of Georgia, the leader of the People ;
party in the national house of representa-
tives, could have the nomination if he
would accept ii. He wants TO stay III
congress, and will not accept the nomina-
tion. Hon. J, Ii. Davis OF Texas is also
mentioned for the vice presidency.
The temporary chairman of the conven-
tion will be Hon. {. ii. Ellington, a
prominent Farmers Alliance leader OF
Georgia.