The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-07-05
THE NIGHT SESSION.
Supplementary Resolutions Adopted Relating
TO the Platform.

Supplementary Resolutions Adopted Relating
to the Platform.
OMAHA, July 4.--The dele gates were
prompt in arriving for the night session
and all were nervous and expectant
owing to the lack Of positive snd final a
formation as to the possibility Of the ac-'
reptance Of the nomination Of Judge Ores
ham.
The first actual business was the reading
by Chairman Branch OF the resolution
committee Of q supplement- to the platform
as follows:
'sOther questions have been submitted
for our consideration and we hereby sub
nit the following. not IS part of toe plat
form Of the Peoples party, but as resoiu-
ton expressive Of the sentiment Of this
convention:
We demand free ballot and fair count
IN all elections and pledge ourselves to Sc
cure II TO every legal voter without federal
Intervention through the adoption by
states Of the unperverted Australian or
secret ballot system. The revenue derived
from the graued income tax should be ap-
piled to a reduction OF the burden Of taxa.
tion now levied upon domestic industries
OF The country
We pledge our support to the fair and
liberal pensions 10 ex-union soldiers and
sailors. We condemn the policy of protec-
Ing American labor under the present sys-
TEN, which opens our porte to the pauper
and criminal classes OF the world and
crowds ont our wage eRrners; and we de-
nounce the present inefficient laws against
contract labor and demand further restric-
ton OF undesirable immigration.
w e cordially symprthise with the efforts
Of organized working men TO shorten the
hours OF labor. and demand rigid enforce
ment Of the existing eight hour law on
government work, and ask that penalty
clause be added to said law.
We regard tic maintenance OF the large
standing army OF mercenaries known as
the Plnkerton system, as a menace 10 our
liberties and demand its abolition. and we
condemn the recent invasion into the terri
tory OF Wyoming by hired assassins of the
plutocracy, assisted by federal officers.
We commend TO the thoughtful con-
siderRtion of the people and reform press
the legislative system known az the
ipitiative and referendum.
We favor constitutional provision limit
ing the office CT president and vice presi-
dent TO one term, and providing for the
eiection OF senators Of the United States
By direct vote OF the people.
We oppose any subsidy or national aid to
any private corporation for any purpose"
The immigration plank and anti-Plnkerton
PLANK were LOUDLY cheereu. When the
first paragraph relating 10 the force bill
and Australian ballot system was read q
delegate moved to lay il on the table They
already had the St Louis platform, he
said. His motion was beaten decisiYely on
the vote.
The motion TO adopt the supplementary
report was promptly seconded, and 1t was
adopted before some Of the protestants
could get @ hearing. They protested
against any s'gag" law and moved recon
sioeration, but on It's Being put 10 vote It
was defeated by viva voce vote, though
the delegates from Ohio and Missouri pro-
tested against this method of counting and
demanded call Of states on the vote.
Branch then introduced Hugh Cava-
naugh Of Ohio, the secretary OF the resolu-
tons committee, who read the following
resolution unanimously adopted by the
committee:
Resolved. That this convention sympa-
thizes with the knights Of labor in their
righteous contest with the
TrRASx1cAL COMBINE
Of clothing manufacturers Of Rochester.
and declares It the duty Of al who hate
tyranny and oppression 10 refuse TO pDr-
phase goods made by said manufacturers,
Dr patronize any merchant who sells sucn
goods.
Peters, Of Texas, moved to table the
resolution, spo Dean, Of New York 10
Divide il. The first pars, expressing SYM
patty, he wanted 10 vote for. but not for
4 boycott. This Is political convention,
said he, andtbe latter part OF the resolution
Is out Of order
General Secretary Hayes Of tho Knights
Of Labor declared that sympathy was not
what they wanted The Knights Of Labor
demanded boycott
Gator OF California earnestly supported
the resolution ana entered upon what he
described as a scientific basis OF botcoIt
and pointed 70 the action OF Moses, when
the children Of Israel were oppressed, TO
show its ancient character. ''l3oycotting
10 not hrman but divine said he
eCyclonc' Davis OF Texas was for the
boycott.
After some further debate Ignatius
Donnelly took the platform. The resolu-
ton, he declared, was ia keeping with the
spirit OF the preamble 10 the platform
adopted with SO much unanimity earlier in
The Gay.
On rising vote the motion TO strike out
the boycott clause was overwhelmingly
defeated and the resolution was adopted
by scolam2ticn.
During the Knights Of Labor discussion
the Gresham movement received the coup
De grace by the following dispatch from
Judge Gresham himself;
CnIckcn. July 4 1892. TO j. b. Weaver.
Ignatius Donnelis, Ben Terrell, John w.
Hayes--l have just returned and md your
dispatch of the lst. must stand by my
dispatch 10 Mr.. Orr OF the I'd. Accept my
grateful acknowledgements.
W. 9. GEEsHAM