The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-02-25
The Industrial Conference.

National Industrial conference profess to
believe that mammoth new political COM
bination is in existence for the coming
presidential campaign. So stormy a con-
vention probably never before ended SO
quickly in seeming harmony, and that, too
after virtually slamming the doors in the
lace of national party claiming a million
voters, all efforts OF Miss Willard for
juncture with the Prohiuitionists having
been snuffed out at the last moment. The
Peoples party men, who are chiefly from
the northern states, figure tonight that
they have captured by strategy the polit-
lcal strength Of the Alliance in the south.
On the other hand, the southern Alliance
men, under plea of having acted as indi-
viduals, assert they have not altered the
position they held from way back.
Late tonight the conference committee
selected July 4, as the date of the conven-
ton, selection OF place being left to sub
committee of ten, to be appointed by Tau
beneck. of Illinois.
When the Industrial conference
opened to-day, Fred Sayne ex-
member of the Missouri legislature and
laoor agitator, attempted to introduce an
eight-hour resolution. A fight followed,
in which Sayne was ousted from the hall
At the Industrial conference to-
mittee on resolutions was read. With
out taking vote on tbs platform recess
OF two hours was taken.
The platform states the nation is on the
verge of moral, political and material ruin ;
that corruption dominates tue ballot box
legislatures, Congress and touches even
the ermine of the bench; newspapers are
subsidized or muzzled; public opinion 81
fenced; business Frustrated; hemes are
covered with mortgages; labor impover-
ished and land and money concentrating in
the hands of capitalists. Workmen, it de-
clares, are denied the right of organization
for self protection. Imported pauperized
| labor beats down wages; hireling stand
| ing army, unrecognized by our laws, is
established to shoot them down and they
are rapidly degenerating TO European con-
ditions. The national power to create
money is appropriated to enrich bond
holders. Silver has been oemohetiZed to
add to the purchasing power of gold, and
the supply OF money is purpossly abridged
to fatten usurers, bankrupt enterprises
and enslsve industry. The resolution de-
clares the old political parties allowed this
! to exist without an effort at restraint, and
| therefore, IL asserts, new official organ
ization, representing the principles herein
stated, is necessary.
A declaration of principles is then made.
| 4 national currency is demanded that is
safe, sound and flexible, issued by the gen.
eral government as full legal tender for all
debts, public and private, and without the
use of banking corporations. Just anc
equitable means Of securing this circula
ton is a tax not to exceed per cent as
set forth in the sub treasury plan of the
Farmers alliance or some better system
1t demands the free and unlimited coinage
of silver; that the amount of circulating
medium be speedily increased to not les.
than $50 per capita; a graduated income tax
that all national and state revenues bt
limited to the necessary expenses of the
government, and that postal service bank
be established by the government. Thu
platform declares that land should not b.
monopolized for speculative purposes an
alien ownership should be prohibited. Al
lands now held by railroads and other cor
porations in excess of their actual need
and all lands now owned by aliens shoul
be reclaimed by the government and he'll
J for actual settlers, and it declares the gov
| eminent should own and operate railroads
telegraphs and telephones, and demand
that the government issue legal tende
notes and pay union soldiers the differenc
] between the price of the deprecated M one
in which he is paid and gold.
On motion OF Simpson to lay the minor
tty report on the table, viva voce yot
showed an almost even split for and agains
/. Emma Curtis, of Colorado, handsom
young woman, captured the floor and pre-
posed ths following substitute: "We d,
mand that the question of universal suffra
be submitted to the legislatures of the dill
= ferent states and territories for favorab
j action" Jerry Simpson shouted, "She ha
solved the problem" and some one immed
ately demanding the previous question, tn
substitute was made by a crushing maio,
ity amid a volley of cheers, Miss Wiliar
4 locking very glum. Soon after Powderl
. announced Miss Curtis substitute ws
q withdrawn as part of the platform and b
= Weaver and other leaders. Miss Curt
a arose and declared she had done no sue
thing.
The idea of dealing with the liquor cues
ton by separate resolution instead of /
the platform was preached several time
during a confused discussion and favor
ably received. 1t was now apparently til
D purpose Of Powderly, having kept Mis-
Wizards minority report out of the pla
S form, to placate her and her friends b
: having the convention adopt the Willar
plank as resolution in place of that
d Miss Curtis. When roll call was reache
I on what now became Miss Curtis minor
ity report the vote was taken by state
1t was thought Powderly (Weaver follow
ing) would resent Miss Curtis spunkine:
q by defeating the report, but Powderl
e voted the knights solidly for the minori,
n report. Secretary Hayes declared it ca
3 ried 254 to 246. Unofficial tally keeper
= made very different totals. they declarin
the vote really was 352 noes and 23S aye
which, il official, would defeat the mino
iiy report Meanwhile Miss Willard an
+. Lady Henry Somerset left the hall an
u didn't return. The knights and most
j. the Alliance mon then retired for caucr
f despite some vehement paotests.
: When the convention got together agai
+ half an hour later, 1gnatius Donnelly,
the surprise OF Of great many, declare