St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-01-28
A WONDERFUL WORK,
Reformers Of Every Possible
Kind Convene and Hob
mob at Chicago.
Isms, Hobbies, Projects and
Plans of All Varieties in
a jolly Mix.
Minnesota'S Sage a Leading
Spirit. and Frances Will
ard In 1t.
Money, Liquor, Railroads,
Speculation, Suffrage, All
Shot At.

CHICAGO. Jan. Git is safe to say
that such a gathering as that which as
sembled here this morning has seldom,
if ever. been seen before. IL was ma
tional conference of representatives of
the various political reform movements
now existing in this country, including
prOhicitioniStS, farmers, laborerS, green
hackers, general refOrmerS, etc. Miss
Frances Willard presided, and stated the
object of the conference 10 be to devise
ways and means of electing president
of the United States who will with one
blow kill the rum traffic.
Among those present at the meeting
were Lady Somerset, George A. Wash
burn, of Boston. secretary OF the Peo-
pies party of Akron, O.; Gilbert Della
mater, of Akron, o., who led some of
his countrymen a wild chase after
greenba"ks; Mrs. Anna NJ. Diggs, of
Kansas; Gen. Weaver, of Iowa; A.
Wardell and II. l.. Loucks. of Huron,
S. d., and Prof. Samuel Dickey, of Al
bi0n college, Michigan. Ignatius Don
nelly was down for an opening speech,
but failed to appear.
The central idea is to unite all of
these elemants on one candidate for the
presidency, in the belief that they out
number either of the regular parties.
The meeting was held with closed
doors. 1t was decided that the repre-
sentatiYes of the various movements
hold separate meetings and decide upon
the plankS which they would insist on,
respectively, i'll the joint platform.
Before separating, however, most of
those present stated that they would not
be bound by their action. When the
meeting reassembled and the reports
were made, it was found that many
things were insisted on by one party
which would not be tolerated by an
other. For example, the Peoples party
refused point blank to carry prohibit
DitiOn and wOman's suffrage, and the
Prohibitionists would not accept free
silver.
National Liquor Traffic.
G. F. W Instrumentation secretary
of the Peoples party, aid the other
members of his organization present
labored in the general meeting and aft
erwards in committee for the adoption
of the following:
1--WE believe the principal solution of
the liquor problem lies in abolishing
the element of profit, which is source
of constant stemptation, evil and cor
ruptiOn. We: therefore demand
that the exclusive importation,
manufacture and sale of intoxicating
liquors shall be conducted by the gov
ernmcnt. or state. at cost. under condi-
tions and restrictions which may be
adopted by the various states. In
adopting this as national plank we
give no otfense to either the personal
liberty man or to the prohibitionist.
We merely declare for the principle and
leave the restrictions for adoption to
the various states, according to the
temperance sentiment in each state"
The fight for Matchmaking the liquor
traffic. was largely Intellectual, however,
for it found no place in the address
brought In by the committee to be pre-
sented to the coming conve ntion of the
Peoples party in st. Louis.
DonneIIy's Views.
Ignatius Donnelly, in reporting the
result of the committees labors, noted
the omission, and expressed the
opinion that the address, in its
present form, would not be
acceptable to the Peoples party.
He referred to the number of foreign
ers in the party, and said the prohibit
ton clause should be modified so as to
save to them the idea of individual right
in the matter of beer drinking, held to
by them so tenaciously. In the COM
mittee room he said he had, though him.
self believer in temperance, advocated
the substitution of the phrase, "abate-
ment of the liquor traffic. as being
more acceptable to the Peoples party,
but he had been oyerruled by the rest of
the committee.
Taubeneck, of Illinois, moved to ac-
cept Donnelly'S suggestion and substi-
tute the word "abatement'' for -"anni-
hilation," but E. j. Wheeler suggested
that suppression" would be better
word, and in that form the address was
adopted. After the vote Taubeneck
announced that he had neither
voted for nor against the address
because he was confident that
its statement of the prohibition
question would not be acceptable to the
Peoples party. The following commit
tee was then appointed to present the
address to the St. Louis convention
Feb. %: DR.. q. Delamater, Frances e.
Willard, G. w. Miller, Gen. j. B..
Weaver. Ignatius Donnel1y, Samuel
Dickie, E. J. Wheeler.
The Address Adopted.
Following is the address in full: 1.-THE
undersigned, expressing consensus of
opinion of an informal voluntary gath
ering of members of the Peoples party,
the Prohibition party and the National
Reform party, held Jan. 81, 1892, at the
Sherman house, Chicago, arrogating to
themselves no right to speak author
itatively for any one but them
selves, or to dictate the flu
ture course of platform of any
organization, but perceiving the abso-
lutte necessity which exists that the
people, rising up in their primal capac-
ity as citizens and voters, should wrest
the the government of the state and
nation from those who have so long
mlsgoverned both, hereby put forth the
following suggestions to the people of
the United States upon which we our
selves are substantially agreed We
are in favor of consolidation of all
political elements in behalf of these
issues, to wit:
First-That money should be issued by the
general government in sufficient quantities
to prevent the Intervention Of private insti-
| legal tender for all debts, both public and
| private.
Second-That the saloon is the great en-
envy of reform in these matters. As the chief
fountain of corruption in our politics, we de-
nounce its pernicious influence upon our
country and demand It's suppression.
Third-All means of public transportation
| and communication should be controlled by
| the government, to obtain for all the people
| ices, and if the effort to control said means
| of transportation and communication shall
| prove impracticaple. then we favor govern
Ihent ownership OF the same.
Fourth-That we are opposed to specula-
| ton in land and alien ownership of the