The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1892-03-01
THIRD PARqYIFES CARRY TIE DAY.
Amid fumult and Cproar the Deal IL
Fully NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Given
the Cold Shoulder-The Platform
Is Presented Adop, ed Amid
Wild Shouts and Bro:h-
cry Feeling.

ST. LOUIS, Mo, Feb. 25.-A mammoth
new political organization is in existence
Tor the coming presidential campaign. So
! It least the delegates to the big national
Industrial conference which end~l here
last night profess to believe.
So stormy a convention probably never
| before ended so ouicklv and in seeming
harmonv-tbat too after virtually slam.
ming the doors in the face of a national
party claiming .OOl. O.o voters and yainly
seeking a union with the organization act
ing so summarily. All the efforts Of Miss
Frances Willard for a junction with the
Prohibitionists were coolly snufYed out by
the convention at the last moment
The net result of the convention as
figured by the Peoples party men who ere
chiefly from the Northern tiers of states
Is that they have by magnificent strategy
effected q complete capture Of the political
strength Of the Farmers Alliance in the
South On the other hand the Southern
Alliance men, under the plea of having
acted as individuals, without in any way
| binding their organization, say that they
have not altered one iotu the position
they have consistently held from away
| back.
July 4 was finally selected as the day.
the place for holding the convention being
eft to be chosen by a. subcommittee OF
ten. TO be appointed by Mr.. Tapbencck OF
Illinois.
When the conference got together YES
tsrday most of the see ne of confusion and
wild excitement of the previous day were
re- enacted. Finally the committee On
platform announced that it was ready to
report.
Amid almost brea,hless silence the con.
yent:op listened while Ignatius Dounelly.
full voiced. began impressiyely to read the
platform. as follows:
The Platform.
This the first prea, labor conference NJ
the IYn;,es States and NJ the wor,a ran
rosen,;no ali divis;ons ~ nrban ,nd rn,.,
oroan,,eo ;naustrv assembled in national
conoress invoLin, unon ire action the
bless;ny and nro,ection of AImivbtv Cod
pu,s forth IN and for the PRODUCERS NJ thu
nation, this declaration of union and indie
perdeuce.
The conditions which surround us best
iu.tifv our co-oneration- We meet in thu
midst of q nation brought to the verge of
moral. political and material ruin. Cor
ruption dominates the ballot box. the legis-
lature, the congress, and touches even the
ermine Of the bench The people are de-
moralized. Many Of the states have been
compelled to isolate the voters at the poll
ing places, in order to prevent uni.
versal intimidation or bribery The news
papers arc subsidized or muzzled, public
opinion silenced. business Frustrated, our
homes covered with mortgages, labor i'm
poverished, and the land concentrating In
the hands Of capitalists. The urban work.
men are denied the right Of organization
for self-protection, imported pauperized
iaoor beats down their wages. a hireiing
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A Ne" Party Necessary.
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United States have come together. in the