The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1892-03-04

almost split even for and against the pro-
hibision plank Miss Willard called for
formal division, but points Of order and
parliamentary twists of every sort inter-
Vened A Texas prohibitionist delegate
declared that he had been assured the Ma
tional Prohibition party would be salts
fed with either woman suffrage alone or
the liquor plank proposed by Miss Will
lard.
Coached by Mr.. Powderly, Miss Emma
Curtis of Colorado handsome young
woman with swapping black eyes and
dashing insborough hat, captured the
floor and proposed the following substi-
tute: 1--WE demand that the question of
universal suffrage be submitted to the leg
islatures of the different states and terri
tories for favorable action"
Miss Curtis made clever speech and
Jerry Simpson shouted, "She has solved
the problem" and someone Immediately
demanding the previous question, the
substitution was made by crushing ma
jority amid yolleys of cheers, Miss Curtis
blushing like rose and laughing heartily
at the success that had crowned her effort,
while Miss Willard, seated upon the plat
form, looked sober as If attending fun
eral Meanwhile Miss Willard and Lady
Somerset had slipped out of the hall unob-
served and did not again return.
Close of the Convention.
After half hours painful uncertainty
the convention slowly got together again
Ignatius Donnelly was granted three min
utea, and to the somewhat general surprise
declared all business of the convention
could easily be finished up within half an
hour. Defer by unanimous consent the
little woman suffrage matter, he smoothly
urged, adopt the noble majority platform
report, appoint committee to act with
the national committee of the Peoples
party to call the national convention to
nominate president and vice president Of
the United States and the thing was done.
The idea took like wildfre among the
harrassed, hungry delegates. Two min
utes later the majority report had been
swallowed at one gulp, being adopted
without a solitary voice Of dissent. A
great, pent-up volume of doubt and des-
pair now seemed to be lifted to the roof in
the enthusiastic cheering that broke forth
at every hand. Hats, papers, umbrellas,
fags-everythi portable within reach,
was flung into the air, the ten minutes of
continuous applause stopping only with
five minutes more Of tremendous "Glo-
ryl Glory Halleluiah"
The woman suffrage resolution as sub
stitute for prohibition was lost sight Of in
the excitement and the convention, instead
took up collection to pay expenses, in
dorsed laws forbidding option dealing, but
did not specifically mention the proposed
Hatch statute. Endorsed the stand of the
Rochester, N. Y, knights of Labor against
a clothing combine and threatened boycott
if necessary and Endorsed all goods bear
ing the Knights of Labor label
When the woman suffrage resolution
did at last come up, Acting Chairman Ter
rell, in response to an inquiry, announced
that it had nothing to do with prohibition.
Washburne, of Massachusetts, insisted
that the resolution was a substitute for
both of Miss Wizards minority plank,
prohibition and woman's suffrage, the
idea being that whenever throughout the
nation woman suffrage was secured pro-
hibition would soon follow. The previous
question was called, and Miss Curtis
resolution, now thoroughly separated
from the platform, was adopted without
further opposition.
Numerous efforts to have the convention
proceed to appoint the committee suggest
ed by Donnelly to act with the Peoples
party national committee were wholly in
effectual under the rulings of Acting
Chairman Terrell, and the insistence Of
National Lecturer Willetts, of the Farm
er's Alliance, upon motion to adjourn
sine die
Mcclure, of the Farmers Alliance an
nouncsd, however. that all the delegates
would hold mass meeting in their indi-
vidual capacity Immediately after adjourn
ment.
After ratification meeting the great
industrial conference adjourned.