Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-24
THIRD PARTY WINS.
Warning Factions Make a
Lively Session Of the st.
Louis Conference.
GEORGIA OPENS THE BALL
In a Fierce Fight Which Seals the
Fate of the Ants Minority.
WRlT THE PLATFORM is TO SAY.
The Sub-Treasury Scheme and Free Silver
Will Be Endorsed, and
GEORGIA OPENS THE BALL
WHAT THE PLATFORM is TO SAY.
VERY LIKELY A PROHIBITION PLANK


the medley of strange and iarring ideas
known as the Industrial Conference has
passed into history, and practically nothing
has been done Even the Committee on
Credentials, after nearly an all-night
sitting, only made partial report
Yet enough has transpired in the slip-shod
proceedings to make it tolerably clear what
will happen. The Third party idea will al
most certainly be indorsed. The sub:Treasury
idea and free coinage of silver will form
part of the platform, and, if the committee
has its way, demands for prohibition and
woman suffrage will be incorporated. There
will be lively fights on these two latter
propositions, and it is not altogether clear
that the convention will pay such price
for the temperance vote.
Georglans Ind plge in q Family Quarrel
The Third party fight began in dead earn
est at the opening of the convention by the
report of the Committee on Credentials
seating Post and Branch, the two Third
party delegates who it was sought to shut
out. Post, in general scramble for the
floor, got in first, and in the bitterest speech
heard in the convention denounced Con-
gressman Livingston, of Georgia, as at
tempting to hand over the Alliance in that
State, bound hand and foot, to the Demo
cratic party.
The excitement caused BY this accusation
was intense and scores Of the delegates were
running about waving their hands like so
MANY bedlamites. After an exchange of
hot personalities and extraordinary con-
fusion, participated in by Moses, of Georgia,
Ellington, Branch and others, the report of
the Credentials Committee was finally
adopted bv large majority substantial
triumph for the Third partyites.
The row among the Georgians continued
fercely, however, and it was only ended by
the Sergeant-at-Arms, club in hand, forci-
bly, jamming the warring Southerners down
into their seats.
How the Various Bodies Are Represented.
The report of the Credentials Committee
recommended seating 246 delegates from the
Farmers Alliance, 50 from the F. NJ. B. A,
81 from the Knights of Labor, 95 from the
Colored Farmers Alliance, 5 from the Ma
tional Citizens Alliance, 81 from the
Colored f. NJ B. A, q from the National
Citizens Independent Alliance, rs from the
Patrons of Industry, % from the Patrons of
Husbandry; total, 677. The Farmers Alli-
ance was given Is delegates at large, and Is
minor detached organizations and individ-
uals were given representation of 56 The
contest from Georgia was left for the COM
m:ttee to wrestle with.
Ignatius Donnelly moved as an amend
ment that Miss Frances Willard, Lady
Somerset, Clara Hoffman and f. II. Ingalls,
be seated as delegates representing the
National Womeu's Christian Temperance
Union. The amendment was greeted with
deafening cheers, and both amendments and
report went through like wildfre.
After much parliamentary wrangling
over methods of voting, Mr.. Polk, Presi-
dent of the Farmers Alliance, was unani-
mously elected permanent chairman of the
convention.
The Woman Element Is Recognized.
Wild cheering was ELECTED by Wardell,
of South Dakota, who nominated Miss
Frances Willard as one of the Vice Presi-
dents. Kentucky nominated Terrill once
more as the favorite of that State Both
were chosen unanimously. Miss Willard
was called upon to address the convention.
She was enthusiastically received and made
a ringing address of congratulation. John
w. Hayes was made Secretary of the con-
vention by common consent.
A colored delegate from Virginia arose at
this juhcture and stating in dignifed but
extremely earnest manner that the colored
alliance seemed to be getting no recogni-
tion. He firmly demanded that this be
stopped. A delegate in the rear of the hall
fippantly suggested that Mr.. Warwick be
given an ofice-that of an Assistant Secre-
tary. The convention took the suggestion
seriously, and Gilmore, of Georgia, with q
marked show of courtesy asked that War
wick's election be made unanimous. An
Alabama delegate loudly proclaimed that it
could never be done. A vote was taken,
and, to the Alabama mans surprise and
= chagrin only one negative voice was heard
in the hall-his own.
Simpson and McCune Lock Horns.
While motion of Simpson, of Kansas,
to adjourn for two hours was pending, DR..
McCune adroitly secured the floor long
enough to read a telegram from Messrs.
Whitaker and Davis, who have been advo-
eating the antI-option bill in Washington,
urging that the conference adopt resolu-
tion asking Congress to pass the anti-option
bill
Simpson and McCune locked horns on
this question. Jerry objected to McCune's
motion to select a special committee to
draw up such resolution, saying that the
motion to adjourn was not debstable. Gen
eral Weaver and Mr.. Powderly finally Sc
cured recess of so minutes, with the under
standing that the committee asked by Nc
Cune be appointed.
When the convention reassembled and
quiet had been measureably restored, the
long list of the members of the Platform
Committee was finally completed and read,
making a total of nearly 150 members. The
announcement of Post as the Platform Com
mitteeman from Georgia nearly started a
personal encounter between him and Moses
a fellow Georgian. The convention. as.
whole, was now thoroughly disgusted with
the Georgians, and plainly showed it with
Kisses and cat-calls.
Jerry Makes Show of Wit
Jerry Simpson turned the whole DISPUTE
into ridicule by suggesting that half the
to give them a chance to cool of. The later
patched up q peace, WAS received with
sigh of relief.
willett, of Kansas, National lecturer of
the Farmers Alliance, moved that the con-
vention demand the passage of the SUBJ
people, instead of petitioning the Washing
ton Solomons to enact the proposed anti
option law. Wheat, lecturer for the
self together after this bombshell was
thrown. He moved to lay willett's motion
on the table, and, on o vote, the sub-treas-
ury was showed under.
Kelly, also of Kansas, sprang another
idea, offering resolution that the appro-
priation pending in Congress for a perma-
nent census bureau be endorsed, if provis-
ions were made for continuing the investi-
cation of farm mortgages as . permanent
part of the work of the bureau. Jerry
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