The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-07-05

try should be kept as mucn as posslbLe IN tne
hands of the people and hence we demand that
all state and national revenues shall be limited
to the necessary expenses of the government,
economically and honestly administered.
(e) We demand that postal savings banks
be established by the government for the safe
deposit OF the earnings OF the people and TO
facilitate exchange. Transportation being
means or exchange and public necessity, the
government should own and operate the rail-
roads in the interest of the people,
% The telegraph and telephone, like the
postofiice system, being necessity for the
transmission OF news, should be owned and
operated by the government in the interest OF
The land, Including all national sources of
wealth, is the heritage of the people and
should not be monopolized for speculative pur-
poses, and alien ownership OF lands should be
prohibited All land now held by railroads and
other corporations in excess OF their actual
needs and all lands now owned by aliens should
bs reclaimed by the government and held Tor
actual settlers only.
READ BY MR.. BRANCH.
Mr. Branch of Georgia read the platform
proper. Strong sentences, picturng graph
ically the ruin of the country unless there
were reform, were well received and met
approbation but when the sentences re-
latinR to governments ownership OF trans
portation in the peoples interest was
reached there was a demonstration which
interrupted progress, ex-senator Van Wyck
in front of the hall leading the Nebraska
delegation and the convention. The read
ing of nearly every plank of the platform
proper was received with some applause.
The free silver plank was enthusiastically
greeted with cheers aud the waving OF hats
and the government ownership of railroads
plank again got a tumultuous greeting, in
which 1t was noticeable that Nebraska,
Georgia, Kansas and Texas led. APP
plause and cries of "Amenn from all
parts of the house was the reception
accorded the paragraph favoring govern
ment control of telephone and telegraph
lines. A regular Baptist camp meeting
chorus greeted the land plank. The conclu-
sion of the reading Of the platform was
warmly greeted. It's adoption was instantly
moved, and though Missouri delegate was
striving for some unknown purpose TO get
recognition, it was put through by unani-
nous consent, the whole convention rising
in advance of the chair and adopting the
platform almost before he could put the
motion for its adoption
WILD ENTHUSIASM.
At once on the adoption of the platform
the convention broke over all restraint and
went wild in q demonstration that had like
ness TO the descriptions of the enthusiastic
bastile demonstrations in France. The
whole convention, aud ience and delegates,
rose to their feet and the first platform of
the Peoples party was ushered into the
WOTIQ Will a bScuO Va OhbhuSeAoAh Ouab
in intensity and earnestness, though
not in absolute length, almost
eoualed the cvclonic ovation
which greeted the mention of tie name OF
ex- Secretary Blaine at Minneapolis. That
scene lasted thirty-one minutes and this
scene between twenty and twenty-five
minutes. The leaders finally concluded TO
stem the tide and with vigorous efforts en-
deavored for time by pushing and hector
ing their delegates to secure order, but It
took some minutes to accomplish this. The
remarkable demonstration still continued,
and forming in the center of the hall, the
band played yankee Doodle" and "Dixien
while the effervescence Of the audience con-
tinued to expend itself in volcanic cheer
ing.
s. M. SCOTT, state lecturer Of the Kansas
alliance, when he got an opportunity, aided
by other singers ON the stage, started up
"Good-By, Old Party, Good-By," the
delegates joining in the chorus. "My
Country, 'Tis of Thee" played by a second
band, closed the extraordinary Fourth Of
July celebration OF the new party.
A MARVELLOUS CLIMAX.
Now came a marvellous climax. Mr..
Taubeneck of Illinois, chairman of the
national committee. had during the latter
part Of the scene following the adoption of
the platform, been In despair seeking to get
an opportunity to make himself heard. He
was on his chair wildly waving telegram
just received. A surmise that the dispatch
was from Judge Gresham spread like wild
fire, and from all over the hall people ran to
get information from Mr.. Taubsneok,
while others became excited and added to
the confusion by bowling down their
neighbors. The people on the stage were
noisiest. Mr.. Ingersoll Of Kansas regard
less Of the rapping of the chairman's gavel,
excitedly rushed up and ivehemently
warned them to keep quiet Chairman
Loucks, whose speech on first taking the
gavel in the morning had stamped him as
an anti-Gresham man, sought now to create
diversion against the imminent plan of the
Gresham men to stampede the convention.
The chairman began his maneuvers by
starting out with denunciaLlou of the al
legged action of the Postmaster General in
excluding from the mails as anarohistio
certain OF the Peoples party literature.
Continuing, ne said: There is only one
question before the old politicians of to-day;
that is the presidency; the platform is never
discussed. At Minneapolis the enthusiasm
was after the man who had the patronage
TO dispose of had been named. Here we
have our enthusiasm on the platform on
which this party is going before the people.
Can there be a greater contrast in the char
acter of the parties, and who can doubt
which party has the peoples hearti"
GREsHAM's NAME FINALLY SPRUNG.
Mr.. Taubeneck by this time was on the
platform aud there was comparative quiet
but attention was again taken from the
matter Of real interest by the chair reoog-
nizing. instead of Mr.. Taubeneck, a delegate
named Wadsworth, OF Indiana. He was
well started in q rambling gloridcation
speech when it became apparent that the
impatience Of the delegates and spectators
was fast approaching a dangerous pitch
and the orator suddenly subsidized.
And Mr.. Taubeneok, telegram in hand,
was at last, amid renewed cheering
and confusion, accorded a hearing by the
chair. Ladies' and gentlemen" said Mr..
Taubeneck when silence was restor ed, 81
have just received a telegram from DR..
Hauser Of Indiana. In order that you may
know what credit to place in it, l will tell
you who he is. He is the present candidate
for lieutenant governor on the Peoples
party ticket and author of the celebrated
work: Is Marriage..a Failure Laughter.
This is the telegram: 4 have seen Gresham.
II unanimous he will not decline.'"
THE EFFECT ELECTRICAL.
The effect OF this telegram was electrical.
Thousands Of people sprang instantly to
their feet and thousands of voices cheered
again and again for Judge Gresham. I'm
mediately after the reading of this dispatch
Mr. Brown of Massachusetts took the stage