Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-02-17
A TIMELY WARNING.
Political Parties Will Have No Delegate
Representation at the ST. Louis Confer


Political Parties VIII Have No Delegate
Representation at the st. Louis Confer
ence.
There seems to be a general mis-
understanding as to the object of the
meeting at st. Louis February %. The
meeting which is held under the aus
pices of the various reform organiza-
tions, and not of the peoples party,
was originally called for Washington,
but owing to many protests from the
west, the committee changed the loca-
ton to st. Louis.
1t is not a convention to nominate
presidential candidates, but confer
ence between the delegates of various
reform organizations to decide what
action they are to take politically.
1t was called originally at a meeting
of officials of tie various alliances and
the X. of L. at the national alliance
meeting in Ocala, Fla, in December,
1890 The date was set so late to give
tho old parties chance to show what
they would do for the people at this
session of congress.
The ca / for the meeting of the peo-
pies party committee in another
column VIII make things clear to those
who do not understand the statues of
aft irs
OF course it is impossible to fore
shadow the action of this conference,
which will be composed of delegates
only from the great reform organiza-
ton, such AS the various farmers and
citizens alliances, the knights of labor,
the patrons of industry and number
| of trade unions, but the action of the
state presidents of the Farmers Alliance
and Industrial U Union, who met at Wash-
| ington, January may indicate the re.
suits.
They adopted the following:
! Resolved, That it Is the sentiment and desire
of this conference of the presidents of the Farm
ers' Alliance and Industrial Union that the del
egates for the Farmers Alliances and Indus
trial Unions who attend the industrial confer
ence to be held in St Louis February %, '92,
use their influence and votes to establish and
maintain perfect fraternal relations with the
labor organizations represented in said meet
ing, with The Ocala demands as basis for q
platform of principles. and that such platform
be presented to the national conventions of the
democratic party, the republican party and the
| peoples party this year. with an earnest re-
! quest that the principles involved be engrafted
into the platforms for the coming national cleo
| tions of 1892. But that they carefully refrain
from committing our order as such to aff1liation
| with any political party.
A memorial to congress was adopted which
deploreS the agricultural depression and asserts
that it is due mainly TO partial and unfriendly
legislation 1t says that the present financial
| system is detective that all money should be is
sued directly by the government to the people
at low rate of interest and in sufficient volume
to meet legitimate demands, and that silver
should have all the rights in coinage and the
qualities of legal tender that gold possesses.
All the organizati ms that will be
represented at St Louis are non-parti
san and none of them are political par
ties Hence the resolutions above are
strictly in accord with their laws.
The action at St Louis may be some
what in advance of these resolutions il
urging the mem bers of these organiZa
tions to vote for the party that indorse
their principles.
They can go no farther and shoult
go no farther because the members o
these organizations belong to differen
parties and any attempt to turn then
into political party as body woul'
be an injustice TO the members of al
other parties belonging to those organ
iZatiOns.
In fact the alliances and other kin
dred organizations are a primar,
school as it were, through which tn
members are advanced in the school o
political reform until they gradual
into the peoples party. Schill
ing, Secretary Executive Committe
Peoples Party.