Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-02-26
A Meeting in st. Louis of all the
Disafected Political Organ
izations.
Delegates From Nearly all the
Reform Organizations Wee
Present.
Farmers Alliance, Knights of Labor,
Temperance People, Anti-Mo-
nopolists, Etc, ETC., Etc.
The st. Louis Meeting.

81. LOUIS, rep. @3.-lhe year tnat
marks the quadro-eentennial of the in
trepld voyagers ON the shores of an un-
known land, and the day upon which
all loyal Americans pay homage to that
father of his country who was first in
war, first in peace and first in the hearts
OF his countrymen, has been signalized
by the greatest gathering of represent
atives Of disatfected political elements
that the world has ever seen. The be-
wlgged patriots who met in the carpen-
ters' hall of the Quaker City to bring
into existence new order of things
were nominal in comparison. The
chartlsts, that more than century lat
er, gathered from the four quarters of
the fatherland to protest against the
continuance of monarchial abuses; and
their successors, under whose auspices
the gates of Hyde park were leveled to
the ground, were but forecast of lat
ter-day radicalism and new world ad-
vance in the ethics of civilization.
In the throng that occupied the plat
form in the Exposition hall there were
men and women who have made their
impress upon the social page
OF the age. Francis Willard was
there as representative of opposition to
tho rum power and the saloon. The
venerable A. T.Streator sat as champion
OF the anti-monopolists and Represen-
tative Taubeneck, of Illinois, and Robert
Schilling, of Wisconsin, in behalf Of the
Peoples party. Grand Master Work
man Powderly with Secretary Hayes
and Congressman Davis occupied front
seats as the delegates from the knights
of Labor. W. A. Carsey, of the New
York City Anti-monopolist league sat
side by side with Judge Snyder, of
Kansas. In others of the front seats
were Post of Georgia, Washburn of
Massachusetts, Representative Taube-s
eek of. Illinois, General John B.
J Yeaver OF Iowa, L. L. Polk of North
Carolina, Congressman Livingstone, c.
A. Rankin and Ignatius Donnelly, the
Minnesota sage. Back of these were
the rank and file of the various delesa-
tions. the credentials of which repre-
sented nearly every state and territory
+ IN the Union. Whether or not the dis
cordant elements could effect coalition
upon grounds that would be satisfac-
tory to all concerned was the question
that had engrossed the consideration Of
/. the leading spirits Of all the movements
fQf the preceding twenty-four hours
AS an outcome the draft of platform
was prepared which deals only with
the question of the land. finance, and
transportation, and leaves all other
questions severely alone. This pro.
CRANE is not agreeable to certain ele-
ments of the delegations, and as a re-
suit the entire platform will be fought
! out on the floor of the convention. The
gathering was called to order at 2 D. m.
by Ben Terrell, of Texas. An address
u OF welcome was delivered by G. P.
Waldridge, of st. Louis, and responses
!. made by L. L. Polk, on behalf of the
I Farmers Alliance and Industrial union,
IT. V. Powderly and Ignatius Donnelly
The appointment of committees occu-
pied the most of the day, and the real
business of the convention has not vet
4 begun.
Prior to the convention some of the
leaders of the different elements that
make up the gathering expressed them
selves.
T. V. Powderly said: "The repre-
sentatives Of the Knights of Labor are
here in obedience to resolution of the
general assembly of the order directing
that we attend the conference and as
sist in preparing political platform
upon which we can all stand. We are
here, therefore, in representative ca
pacity and while there is nothing oblig-
/ atory on the members of the knights of
Labor to endorse our action it is but le-
gitimate to suppose they will. We will
certainly formulate platform includ-
! ing all national points of vital interest
on which we can harmonize, and then,
as natural sequence, all the industrial
organizations participating in the con-
ference will support, in the coming cleo
tion that political party which comes
sthe nearest to adopting our platform.
4 While I do not hope for either Of the
aold parties TO adopt our plat form, n an
tor giving them all tho saow III tl,e