Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1892-07-16
tract labor, and demand a further rsstric.

tract labor, and demand q further restric.
tion Of undesirable immigration.
We cordially sympathize with the efforts
Of organized w~orkiugmen to shorten the
hours of labor. md demand n rigid en-
torcement of the existing cight-hour law
IN government work. md nsk that n pen
Atty clause be added to said law.
We regard the maintenance of the large
standing army Of m~ercenaries, known as
the Pinkerton system. as "a menace to our
liberties, and demand its abolition, and
we condemn the recent invasion OF the
territory of Wyoming by the hired assas-
sins OF tho plutocracy unassisted by fed
eral officers.
We commend TO the thoughtful consid-
GRAFTON of the people and reform press the
legislative system known rs the initiative
and referendum.
We favor n constitutional provision linn
Ting the Office OF president and vice-pres-
ident to one term, and providing for the
election of senators to the United States
senate by n direct vote of the people.
We oppose any subsidy or national aid
to any private corporation for any pur'
pose.
The immigration plank and the
nti-Pinkcrton plank were loudly
cheered. When the first par
ngraph relating TO the force bill
and the Australian ballot system
was read n delegate moved TO lay il on
the table. They already had it in the
st Louis platform, he said. His mo-
ton was decisively beaten on a vote.
A motion to adopt the supplementary
report was promptly seconded, and il
was adopted before some protestants
could get "a hearing. They protested
against any gag" law and moved q
reconsideration. but on the motion be-
ing put TO vote it was defeated by a
viva voce vote, though the delegates
from Ohio and Missouri protested
against this method of counting and
demanded n call of states ON the vote.
Enthusiastic for the boycott.
Branch then introduced Hugh Cava-
ne"rh, Of Ohio, secretary of the reso-
lutions committee, who read the fol
lowing resolution, which was unani-
mously adopted by the committee:
Resolved, That his convention sym
pathizes with the X. of l.. in it's righteous
contest with the tyrannical combine of the
clothing manufacturers of Rochester, and
declare 1t the duty of all who hate
tyranny and oppression to refuse to pur-
chase goods made by said manufacturer
or %patronize any merchant who sells such
goods.
Peters, of Texas, moved to table the
resolution, and Dea, of New York, to
divide it. The first part, expressing
sympathy, he wanted to vote for, but
not for the boycott. This is a polit.
ical convention" said he, ''and the
latter part of the resolution Is out OF
order"
In vehement language General Sec.
rotary Hayes, of the X. of L., declared
that sympathy was not what was
wanted. The X. of L. demanded a
boycott
Mr.. Gator, of California. earnestly
supported the resolution, and entered
upon what he described as the scien-
tifc basis of the boycott, and pointed
to the action of Moses when the chill
dren of Israel were opposed to show its
ancient character. "Boycotting is not
human, but divine" said he.
Cyclone" Davis, of Texas, was also
for the boycott
Then lgnatius Donnelly took the
platform. The resolution, he declared,
was in keeping with the spirit Of the
preamble to the platform adopted with
SO much unanimity earlier in the day.
The Rochester clothing manufacturers
had said TO their workmen and work.
women that they could not gain a
means of livelihood without yielding
their rights as American citizens Mr..
Donnelly said tat on this there could
be no compromise.
The agriculturists of the country must
stand by their brethren, and we will crush
all men who seek TO Cypress our fellow
men There can be no hesitation and no
compromise. 1t is war to the knife and
knife to the hilt. trust that those
who have staggered away from his rcso-
luton because of the opprobI.um thai n
hireling press has applied TO the word
boycott will withdraw their opposi-
ton, and that the resolution will be
adopted by a rising vote. Tremendous
applausel.
At the conclusion of Donnelly's ad-
dress Powdcrly, Hayes and others
grasped him warmly by the
hand. A Kansas delegate moved
the previous question and
on a rising vote the motion to
strike out the boycott clause was over
whelmingly defeated and the resolu-
ton adopted by reclamation.
During the boycott debate the
following dispatch from Chicago
settled the Gresham boom:
CHICAGO, July Al. B Weaver. Igna.
tious Donnelly, Ben Terrell and John w
Hayes: / have just returned and find
your dispatch of the LIST must stand by
my dispatch to Mr.. Orr of the I'd inst
Accept my grateful acknowledgment
w. q. GRESHAM
A resolution declaring all office
holders ineligible to sit in any onve
ton was adopted.
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