Los Angeles herald., 1892-02-25
A NEW PARTY BORN.
The Infant Said to Be a Lusty
Youngster.
1T Is Started in Life Without a
Bottle.
The Door Slammed in the Face of the
ProhibitiOnists.
Woman Suffrage side-Tracked-A Can
didate for President of the United
States to Be Nominated on the
Fourth of July.
Associated Press Dispatches.

Sr. LOUIS, Feb. 24.--The delegates to
the big national industrial conference
profess to believe that mammoth new
political combination is in existence for
the coming presidential campaign. So
stormy a convention probably never be-
fore ended SO quickly in seeming har-
mony, and that too, after virtually
slamming the doors in the face of
national party claiming million voters,
all the efforts OF Miss Willard for q
juncture with the Prohibitionists having
been snuffed out at the last moment.
The Peoples party men, who are chiefly
from the northern states, figure tonight
that they have by strategy captured the
political strength of the Alliance in the
south. On the other hand, the southern
Alliance men, under the plea of having
acted as individuals, assert that they
have not altered the position that they
held from way back.
When the industrial conference was
opened today, Fred Swayne, an ex-
member OF the Missouri legislature, and
labor agitator, attempted to introduce
an eight-hour resolution. A fight fol-
lowed, in which Swayne was ousted
frOm the hall.
THIRD PARTY PLATFORM.
The platform of the committee on
resolutions was presented and read.
Without taking a vote on the adoption
of the platform, recess of two hours
was taken.
The platform states that the nation is
tho nf moral vonliftoo1 a rd q.
terial ruin; that corruption dominates
the ballot box, legislatures, congress,
and touches even the ermine of the
bench; newspapers are subsidized or
muzzled, public opinion ia sienced,
business prostrated, homes covered with
mortgages, labor impoverished and land
and money concentrating in the hands
of capitalists.
Workmen, it declares, are denied the
right of organization for self-protection !;
imported pauperized labor beats down
wages; hireling standing army, unrec-
ognized by our laws, has been estab-
lished to shoot them down, and they
will rapidly be degraded to European
conditions.
Silver has been demonetized to add to
the purchasing power of gold, and the
supply of currency is pnrposely abridged
W ldbJtu ubuTcTs, UdukIupb enterprises
and enslave industry.
The platform declares that the old
political parties have allowed this to ex-
ist without an effort at restraint, and
therefore it asserts that new political
organization, representing the political
principles herein stated is necessary.
A declaration OF principles is then
made. A national currency is demanded
that is safe, sound and flexible, issued
by general governments only, full legal
tender for all debts, public and private,
and that, without the use of banking
corporations, just, equitable means of
circulation at Il tax not to exceed per
cent, as get forth in the sub-treasury
plan of the Farmers Alliance, or some
better system be found and. put into op-
Grafton.
1t demands free and unlimited coin
age of silver; that the amount Of the
circulating medium be speedily in
creased to not less than $50 per capita !;
graduated income tax; that all ma
tional and state revenues Re limited to
the necessary expenses of the govern
.ment, and that postal savings banks be
established by the government.
The platform declares that land
should not be monopolized for specu-
fldblV6 RuTpOsCbs anu SllOA OWncIeulp Vi
land should be prohibited. All lands
now held by railroads and other corpor-
ations, in excess of their actual needs,
and all lands now owned by aliens
should be reclaimed by the government
and held for actual settlers only.
1t declares that the government should
own and operate railroads, telegraphs
and telephones, and demands that the
government issue legal tender notes
and pay union soldiers the difference
between the price of the deprecated
money in which he has been paid, and
gold.
THE PROHIBITION FIGHT.
A fight for the recognition of the pro-
hibition issue in the platform was start
ed Immediately upon the reassembling
of the, convention. Miss Frances Will
lard presented minority report, which
she moved be adopted Immediately as
an amendment to the majority report.
1t favored woman suffrage and de-
manded the suppression of the liquor
traffic.
On motion of Simpson to table the mi
nority report, viva voce vote showed
an almost even split for and against pro-
hlbition.
Coached by Powderly, Miss Emma
Curtis of Colorado, handsome young
woman, captured the floor and proposed
the following substitute: "We demand
that the question Of universal suffrage
be submitted to the legislatures of the
different states and territories for favor
able action"
Jerry Simpson shouted: "She has
solved the problem" and some one i'm
mediately demanding the previous ques-
tion, the substitution was made by a
crushing majority amid volley of
cheers, Miss Willard looking very glum.
Soon after Powderly announced Miss
Curtis's substitute Withdrawn as part
OF the platform, to be offered later on as
simple resolution. To the chagrin of
Powderly, Weaver and other leaders,
Miss Curtis arose and declared that she
had done no such thing.
The idea of dealing with the liquor
question by separate resolution, instead
of in the platform was breached several