The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1892-02-25
The Consolidated Conference, BY Its
Committee, Formulates
Few Demands. !.
Free Coinage and More Money, Sub
Treasures and Tariff For
Revenue Only.
Blue and Gray Veterans Shake Hands
Across the Bloody Chasm- Dom
nelIy's Manifesto.

ST.. LOUIS, Feb 25.--Across the stars
and stripes, held aloft by Texas ranger
who lowered above his surroundings
like q giant, Paul Vandervort, of Ne
braska, ex-commander-in-chief of the
G.. A. n, and Colonel L. L. Polk, one
of sde bravest of the men who followed
the gray from his native state Of North
Carolina. joined hands on the stage Of
Exposition hall and swore eternal
friendship. It was . stirring prelude to
the third days session of the national
| industrial conference. Save for the
members of the committees on anti
options and platforms all of the dele.
gates and over a thousand of the general
public were in their seats at Q o'clock,
when President Polk resumed control of
| the gavel. Comrade Wachter, OF Indie
ana, was selected to make the opening
prayer. but his supplication was inter-
larded with stump speech, and when
he concluded delegate in the Illinois
| section shouted out amid approving
cheers that such q prayer as that ought
to have been addressed to the conference
instead of to the Almighty. Then the
patriotic proceedings we're inaugurated
by Ben Terrell, of Texas, who
| was loudly cheered as he
came forward with the big
banner bearer. He said he was not
ashamed of the fact that he was one of
the men who wore the gray. He wore
it honorably and the Union brothers
honored him as he honored and respected
| them, but the time had come when all
sectional strife and enmity should be
buried and the North and South be
united under the grand old stars and
stripes In that spirit and with that
view he would present to them COM
mander-in-chief of the Grand Army,
4 Paul Vandervoort When the robust
Nebraska man, with the Grand Army
badge on, made his appearance under
the flag he received . hearty welcome.
Without preface he proceeded to read
the following resolution:
We, the representatives Of the blue
and gray, believe that the day has come
to bury in one common tomb the disen-
sions, malice and sectional hatred re-
sulting from the war, and, united under
one flag and citizens of one grand ma
tion, we gladly join hands to emanci-
pate the homes we cherish from the
tyrannical oppression of the money
power of the land.
When The enthusiasm that this reso-
luton caused had in measure subsidized
Vanderyoort made an earnest address in
its support.
The Platform.
The following platform was presented
by Hugh Cavanaugh of the Knights Of
Labor on behalf of the committee on
platform:
We demand a national currency, safe.
sound and flexible, issued by the general
government only, full legal tender for all
debts, public and private, and that, with
| out the use of banking corporations, a
i just, equitable and efficient means of dis
tribution, direct to the people, and not to
exceed 20 per cent, to be provided as set
| forth in the sub-treasury plan OF the
Farmers Alliance or some better system.
Also by payment in discharge of its obli-
cation for pubic improvements.
We demand free and unlimited coinage
OF silver. We demand that the amount
OF circulating medium be speedily in
creased to not less than $50 per capita.
We demand graduated income tax. We
believe that the money of the country
should be kept as much as possible in the
hands OF the people, and we demand that
all state and national revenues shall be
limited to the necessary expenses of the
government economically administered.
We demand that postal savings. banks
be established by the government for the
safe deposits of earnings of the people and
to facilitate exchange
The land, including all the national
sources ofwealth is the heritage Of all the
people and should not be monopolized for
special purposes. while alien ownership of
land should be prohibited.
All lands now held by railroads and
other corporations In excess of their nat
urai needs, and all lands now owned by
the alien should be reclaimed by the gov
ernment and held for actual settlers only.
Transportation being means of ex
change and public necessity, the govern
ment should own and operate the railroads :
in the interests of the people.
The telegraph and telephone, like the
postofice system, being q necessity for tbe
transmission OF news, should be owned
and operated by the government In the
interests OF the people.
We demand that the government issue
legal tender notes and pay the Union sol
diers the difference between the price Of
the deprecated money in which he was
paid in gold. lss
Resolved, That we hail this conference
- the consummatfon Of perfect union Of
hearts and hands of all sections Of our
common country. The menssho wore the
grey and the men who wore the blue are
here to extinguish the last smouldering
embers OF civil war in tears Of Joy for Z.
united and happy people, and we agree to
II carry the stars and stripes forward forever
4 - tho highest point Of national greatness.
Mr.. DenneIIY's 1Isnifssto. 50
| The following address 10 the people OF
the United States was presented by