The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-02-25
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and Powderly finally smoothed the
feelings of combatants by givin O re-
cess of thirty minutes, with the
understanding that the committee
asked for by Macune be appointed.
A change in the plan for the Sc
lection of the platform commit
tee, apparently in the interest
of the large organizations as dis
tinguished from the minor ones was
made at the instance of DR.. Macune.
The big bodies were given additional
representation, the basis being for
each organization one representative,
and one additional for each twenty-fiv
delegates of the organization in con-
vention, one representative for each
state as geographical division was al
lowed.
When quiet had been measurabIy
restored the long list of members of
the platform committee was finally
completed and read, making total OF
nearly $50 members.
The breath of the delegates was
taken away later on by Willetts of
Kansas, national lecturer of the
Farmers Alliance. When after a
half hours roll calling the special
committee was completed to frame
the proposed resolution asking of
congress the passage of the anti.op.
tion law, Willetts moved that the con-
vention demand the passage of the
subtreasury bill as q means of relief
for the people, instead of petitioning
washington to enact proposed anti
option law. On the vote the SUBJ
treasury substitute was showed under
Mr.. Kelly of Kansas, undaunted by
the fate of Willitts, sprung another
idea from the Sunflower state. He
offered resolution that the appropri
alton pending in congress for perma-
nent census bureau be indorsed if
provision were made for the continu-
ing of the investigating of farm mort
cages as permanent part of the
work of the bureau. The convention,
after some desultory discussion,
adopted the resolution by sn emphatic
vote.
The discussion of the seemingly
burning question of free coinage was
now pitched among the delegates by
Wilson of Georgia offering resolu-
tion that the convention petition con-
gress for the adoption of the pending
bill for the free coinage of silver.
Waite of Colorado hurled himself
into the breach and declared the sil-
yer men wanted no one-horse resolu-
tions, they wanted silver plank
where it belonged in the convention
platform. He was taken at his word,
and the free silver resolution was un-
tremendously ordered dumped upon
the table out of the way. The conven-
tion then adjourned until tomorrow.
The committee on platform went
into executive session as soon as the
approximately complete roundup
of the many members could be
made. They went to work
hammer and tongs, behind
closed doors and kept up their labors
until far into the night. Hugh Cav
anagh, general worthy foreman,
knights of Labor, was chosen chair
man; N. X. Taylor, Tennessee, and
S. McLabin of Kansas, secretaries.
During a lull, Ignatius Donnelly,
the leading member of the committee
said it had practically been decided
to incorporate in the platform the sub
treasury scheme, the free coinage OF
silver, woman suffrage and prohibit
tion. The latter point, Donnelly said,
would cause somewhat animated
discussion, but he believed in modi-
fled form it would-be part of the
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