Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-02-25
THE CONFERENCE
OF Representatives Of Industrial
Organizations
AT ST. LOUIS LARGELY ATTENDED.
Some of the Prominent Men Present
What II Likely to BE Done
"A Sermon Lat
Nigh.

ST. LOUIS. Feb e2-Among the latest
| arrivals are T. v. Powderly, J. w.
Hayes, Congressman Joe C. Davis. A.
W. Wright, John Devlin. of the K. of
l., and Fred Kohlor, of the National
economist In an interview tonight
Mr.. Powderly stated that the
platform will have the support of the
K of L. President Polk said that they
expected to get through in two or three
days The sub-treasury scheme and
Ocala platform would be indorsed He
believes that a plank will Re inserted
in the platform asking that the federal
government stop interfering with the
state regulations of the liquor traffic
A monster religious meeting was held
| at Music hall. Exposition building. last
night, at which Rev. De La Maytr, of
Ohio, preached a sermon. Fully 5000
farmers were present
ST. LOUIS, Feb 22.-To-day great
| number of delegates to the National
Industrial conference, to be held at
Music hall, arrived from all parts of
the country. The conference proper
begins this afternoon at 2 o'clock.
Delegations from all the industrial
organizations in the country will
be present. and it is estimated
that the number will exceed 600. The
object of the conference is to discuss
the policies of the different industrial
alliances and ultimately agree upon n
platform upon which all industrial or
CARNATIONS may unite. If such an end
is attained the conference will recon-
mend the calling Of convention and
the nomination of national ticket tC
enter into the political arena The
conference delegates are not at issue
on the silver question, but are quite
united on that point, so much SO, in
fact, that the silver men will present
the conference with a silver gavel to
commemorate the reform movement
1t is expected that, besides the regu-
lar delegates, there will be attend
ance Of several thousand enthusiastic
supporters of the movement Part of
the delegations from California, Texas,
Kansas and South Carolina are already
quartered at the Richelieu hotel, which
is to be the headquarters of the dele
gates. The cofere nee will be opened in a
speech by BENJAMIN Terrell, of Texas,
who will be followed by C. P. Wal
bridge, president of the city council:
Col L. L. Pope, Ignatius Donnelly and
several others.
After these speeches the temporary
organization of the conference will be
taken up, and it is probable that Col
Pope. national president of the Farm
ers' Alliance, will be chosen temporary
chairman. T. V. Powderly, of the
Knights of Labor, is strongly Endorsed
for the permanent chairmanship of the
conference.
Saturday morning at Chatsworth hall,
Seventeenth and Olive streets, the
Citizens Alliance held it's annual
meeting for the purpose of electing Of
fcers and delegating twenty-five mem
bers at large to attend the National In
dustrial conference. Among the ar
rivals were Col. L. e. Pope, General
Lecturer Turner, of the Farmers AL
lance of Kansas. and w. F. Rightmire,
secretary of the Citizens Alliance,
from Topeka The conference will be
in session about three days, at the end
Of which time the delegates hope to
have agreed upon a platform suitable
to the members of all alliances and
labor declarations represented.
Among the advance guard is A. J.
Streeter of New Windsor. Ill. Mr.
Streeter expressed the opinion that the
prohibitionists will uuite with the
labor organizations and other reform
elements of which the party will be
composed.
Every member of the executive COM
mittee of the peoples party is in the
city. Ignatius Donnelly, of Minnesota.
was the last Of the committee to arrive.
This committee is authorized to call a
national convention to adopt a pat
form and nominate presidel tial candi-
dates in the event that the st. Louis
conference should fail to agree.
This means that if the opposing fac
tons which have come to st. Louis
should get into a wrangle and adjourn
this executive committee would take
up the work and go ahead with it
Every member of this committee is en-
Enthusiastically in favor of making fight
for the presidency