The record-union., 1892-07-04

The resolution was seconded by Ig-
natius Donnelly and carried by acclama-
ton. Tomorrow the resolution will be
formally presented to the convention,
and the late DR.. Delamater will probably
be included.
With the singing of the "Sweet Bye
and-Bye" the gathering dispersed.
WHAT THE PLATFORM WILL DEMAND.
OMAHA, July 3.-The platform will de-
mand constitutional amendment limit
ing the office of President and Vice
President to one term, and providing for
the election of United States Senators by
direct vote of the people. The Sub
Committee on Resolutions was in session
to-day, and considered various planks
which it proposes TO append to the reso-
lutions already adopted by the full COM
mittee. Among the planks is one de-
nouncing the Pinllerton system and de-
manding its abolition; condemning the
invasion of Wyom;Lg by cattlemen; ia
yoring pensions toex-U Mon soldiers and
sailors; denouncing the present ineffect-
i've laws against contract labor.
1t was decided to refer the eight-hour
plank to the main committee, as well as
the educational plank.
The Subcommittee decided to recon-
mend to the full committee the adoption
of the following: SIN graduated income
tax lies the true solution of the vexed
question of federal taxation"
The Subcommittee on Resolutions has
agreed upon preamble to the platform.
1t states that assembled upon the 10th
anniversary of the declaration of inde-
pendence, the Peoples party, invoking
the blessing 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
nation brought to the verge Of moral,
political and material ruin. Corruption
dominates the ballot box, the Legislature,
Congress, and even touches the ermine of
the bench; the people are demoralized,
most Of the States have been compelled to
isolate the voters at the polling
places to prevent universal in
timidation or bribery; the nows-
papers are subsidized or muzzled: public
opinion is ssilenced; business is prostrated,
and our homes covered with mortgages.
labor is impoverished; land is concen-
trating in the hands of capitalists; the
urban workman is denied the right of or
ganization for self-protection; imported,
pauperized labor beats down their wages;
a hireling standing army, unrecognized
by law, is established to shoot them
down, and they are rapidly degenerating
to the European condition; the fruits Of
the toll of millions are boldly stolen to
build up colossal fortunes unprecedented
in the history of mankind, and the pos
session of these in turn are detrimental
to the republic and endanger liberty.
From the same prolific womb of govern
ment injustice we breed two great classes
-tramps and millionaires.
''The national power to create money is
appropriated to enrich bondholders; q
vast public debt, payable in legal tenders,
has been funded into gold-bearing bonds,
thereby adding millions to the burdens
of the people. Silver, which has been
accepted as coin since the dawn of his
tory, has been demonetized. to add to
the purchasing power of gold by decreas-
ing the value of all forms of property, as
well as human labor, and the supply Of
currency is purposely abridged to tatten
the usurer, bankrupt enterprises, and en-
slave industry. a vast conspiracy against
mankind Ihas been organized on two
continents, and it is rapidly taking pos
session of the world. If not met and
overthrown at once, it forbodes terrible
social convulsions, the destruction of
civilization or the establishment of abso-
lutte despotism.
'We have witnessed for more than a
quarter of a century the struggles Of the
two great political parties for power and
plunder, while grievous wrongs have
been inflicted upon suffering people.
They agreed to get her to ignore in the
incoming campaign every issue but one;
they propose to down the outcries of a
plundered people with the uproar of a
sham battle over the tariff, so that capi-
talistic corporations, national banks
rings, trusts, watered stock, the de-
monetization of silver and expressions of
usurers may all be lost sight Of They
propose to sacrifice our homes, lives and
children on the altar of mammon, to de-
stroy the multitude in order to secure
corruption funds from the millionaires.
Assembled on the anniversary of the
birth of the nation, and filled with
spirit of the grand generation who es-
tablished our independence, we seek to
restore the government of the Republic
TO the hands of the plain people, with
which class it originated; we assert our
purpose to be identical with the purpose
of the National Constitution, to form a
more perfect union, establish Justice, in
sure domestic tranquility, provide for
com mon defense, promote general we'll
fare, and secure the blessings OF liberty
for ourselves and posterity.
''NNe declare this republic can only en-
dure as Tree Government upon the love
of the whole people for each other and the
whole nation; that it cannot be pinned to-
gether by bayonets; that the civil war is
over, and every passion and resentment
which grew outof it must die with it, and
that we must be in fact as we are in name,
one united brotherhood of free men,
'Our country finds itself confronted by
conditions for which there is no prece-
dent in the history of the world. Our
annual agricultural productions amount
to billions of dollars, which must within
a few weeks or months be exchanged for
billions Of dollars worth of commodi-
ties consumed in their production.
The existing currency supply is wholly
inadequate to make this exchange.
The results are. falling prices, the for
| nation of combines and riags, and
in the impoverishment of the producing
class.
eve pledge ourselves, if given power,
that we will labor to correct these evils