Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1892-03-03
4 PEOPLES PARTY TICKET.
A New Political Factor to be
Launched in the State
This Year.
Dunstan Gets Damages to the
Amount of $1,000 from
the NJ. r.

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Amount Of $1,000 from
the N. p.
The Jury Acquits Three Men
Charged with Burglarizing
Goodman's Store.
M. ID. Williams, chairman of the inde-
pendent Peoples party state committee
returned from st. Louis Saturday. lie
has been in attendance at the Peoples
party convention as the delegate for
North Dakota. He says the St. Louis
papers gave . very fair report of the pro-
oeedings, but the Twin city press, and
many other papers unfairly and untruth-
fully represented many of the proceed
ings OF the convention. Mr.. Williams
says the impression created that the
meeting was an ungoverned, unruly and
factious con yention, is wrong. The meet
ing was large and enthusiastic as all con.
ventions are but not more
bolsterous than others. Every
big convention has scenes OF dis
order and passion, and the only wonder
10 that the different elements comprising
the st. Louis meeting got along 80 her-
mOnlOusly.
There were thirteen organizations
represented at St. Louis. They we're
farmers, laborers, artisans, miners, and
men working at all kinds of trades. II
these organizations cast the vote that
they represented at the convention it
will amount to or million votes. Mr..
Williams says that the belief existed at
st. Louis that the Knights of Labor, and
the working mems unions are more united
on the labor question than the farmers.
end more certain to cast the vote nearly
in full. The majority of the southern
members of the new party will not vote
the democratic ticket, as is claimed in
the north. Many of the leaders OF the
southern delegations declared the demo-
cratic r1ng rule OF the south had become
insupportable aud that as guaranty of
the obliteration of sectionalism. the
southern Peoples party men would vote
that ticket this fall to show the world
that they are sincere. The delegates
from the southern states complained
louder Of poor prices and bard conditions
there, than the northern men did, says
Mr.. Williams. They Say that the price
OF cotton has hardly made the crop
worth raising.
1.-THE new party casts 2 million votes, or
even gets halt Of the number of members
represented at st. Louis, it 10 gong to
mske it all guess work as to who will be
elected president this year. The demo-
Gratis will lose in the south and republl-
cans in the north, and four years ago the
popular vote OF the two great parties was
nearly equal with majority in favor of
the democratic.
In the new vote the prohibition ele-
ment is not considered. Prohibition was
left out Of the st. Louis platform to &C.
ceed to the wishes Of the southern dele
gates and the labor union delegates, al
though the majority Of the convention
was both for prohibition and woman's
suffrage. The national prohibition party
will probably adopt the platform OF the
Peoples party as their own, says Mr..
Williams, although they will make pro-
hibition the leading issue and work for
that cause.
It was declared that Nebraska, Minne-
sota and South Dakota we're sure north
ern states for the Peoples party. In
Nebraska they claim the independents
carried the state at the last election, but
we're counted out. In South Dakota
two years ago the same counting out
process is charged.
The most important feature of Chair
man Williams information is that the
Peoples party will have full state
ticket in North Dakota this year, and
will extend the fight for reform iato the
county tickets. A convention will be
called before July 4, for the two objects
Of electing delegates to the national
Peoples party convention At Omaha
July 4, and also to nominate full state
ticket, from governor down. for this state.
The alliance is not officially connected
with the Peoples party. but the leading
alliance men are in sympathy
with it, and nearly all favor it. The time
OF the state convention is not yet decided
upon. Mr.. Williams expressed con-
viction that the ticket would get large
vote IN the state.
The prohibitionists will probably join
with them. AZ to the favorite for govern.
or to lead the party it was yet too early
to say, but he will bes man identified
beyond any question with the cause OF
the producing farmers in this state. The
Scandinavian vote or great part OF it
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