The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-01-21
THE THIRD PARTY.
The Platform 10 Be Adopted at the st.
Lous Conference.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.-It will be re
membered that a conference of delegates
from all the labor organizations the trade
unions, the Farmers Alliance, and kindred
institutions, was to have been held in this
city on the 22d of next month. The meet
! ing place has, however been changed to
! st. Louis. it is expected that there will
! be at least 1000 delegates present, and
! though the experience of the past has been
that 1t is next to impossible to harmonize
all the diverse interests that gather at
! such a conference, the leaders seem to
have no fear that such an untoward finale
! viii disturb their plans
Believing that this conference will.
without doubt, direct the holding of a
convention for the nomination of a presi-
Dental ticket, the third party leaders here
have gone so far as to frame a platform to
be adopted at the nominating convention.
1t will consist of seven planks, of which
the most important relates to land, trans
pOrtaJlOn, finance and the tariff
As TO the wording of the land plank
there has been no final agreement eXcept
that pronounced opposition to the hold
ing OF large areas of land by individual
aliens or foreign syndicdtes is TO be incor-
porated The exact declaration as to the
individual ownership of land and the taxes
thereon has not yet been framed
In the matter of transportation there is
no division of sentiment The platform
Will declare i'll favor of government con-
troll of railroads, with the additional pro-
viso that if this control through commits
stons should be found TO he unsatisfactory
the absolute ownership of railroads by the
government should follow The control
by the government of all highways.
telegraphs. etc. is TO be advocated the
precedent therefor being the present sys-
tenn OF placing the postal service in the
hands of the federal power
The financial PLANK will declare against
the national banks, not as system, tor it
Is realized that banks are as necessary rs
money, but as means of issuing money
TO the people The plank will declare that
the government should issue its money
direct TO the people. and will also be in
favor of the establishment of sub-treas.
uries for the loaning of money by the
government at low rates of interest upon
good security The platform will not state
the nature OF this security, leaving it To be
grain, cotton, land. or anything else that
the borrower may possess. The govern
meut warehouse scheme will not be men
toned specifically.
The tariff plank vill be a radical depsrt-
ure. Hitherto the Democratic position.
which proposes the levying of duties oniy
to the extent OF providing for the expenses
OF tAe government economically admins
tered. has been satisfactory to the element
which compoSes this new party Il will
be so no longer 4 step forward will be
taken, and the platform viii declare in
favor OF duties only upon imported lux
uries, the ueCessarles OF life 20 DE admitted
Tree. To recompeuse the treasury for the
loss OF revenue from the abolition OF Gus
toms duties an income tax i proposed
Having thus framed the platform. il Is
natural that the leaders should have dis /
cuSSed the personnel of the ticket Il i Z
generally coucezied that the vice-u-esi-
dency will 90 to l. L. Polk. tine president
Of he National Farmers Alliance. = It
has been his ambition 10 head the ticket /
but aS he i au eN-CODfederate soldier II I.
has been deemed iGadviSah!e 10 place him
IN tn8t position Senator stanford cou!d 4
have the presidential nomI-
nation II he desired IL. for notwtttiSrand-
Ing his Identification with large railroad /
interests ne = very popular with the class
which Will vote i0r this third ticket all thu. 4
more since he has declared so emph:.t- 4
iCaliy IN iavcr ot land loan idea. Ex-
Representative Weaver " Iowa. = also he
IN talked Of, bu, % : doubtful whether
ne VIII accept ou account OF his financial
condition. There l. no pos>ibigi of the
ol Henry George He has pos
luveiy retired from politics, aud regrets
now that he was led into Inasin- the fight
Tor lac c1ice uf mayer Of New York Clty. !
de Will not attend The II. Louis confer
'nce Tor fear that /, might oc imagined
-hat he was seeking political nrelerment
Altogether. this new third party ticket
VIII give the politicians little diversion.
specially as Z l. claimed that il will r.
'elYe no less than three million votes.