St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-02-22
GREATEST ON EARTH.
That the Prediction Of Third
Party People for the st.
Louis Convention.
Strangely Ignatius DonnelIy
Is Not Mentioned as Pres
idential Timber.

Indications Point to a Ticket
Made Up Of Tommy and
George.
All the Isms in This Broad
Land Have a Chance to
Speak.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Feb. 21.-There will
be Peoples or third party or an In
duStrial presidential ticket in the field
in the coming campaign. This much
may be set down as a fact. The NOM
mating convention will be held prior to
the first week in June, when the repre-
sentatives of the Republican party will
assemble in national convention in
Minneapolis. The location .ofithe gath
ering will be either this city, Birming-
ham, Ala, or Atlanta, Ga. The presi-
dental timber will be confined to l.. l..
Polk, OF North Carolina; Congressman
Tom Watson, Of Georgia; ex-Congress-
man Featherstone, of Arkansas; Col.
K. M. Humphreys, of Texas, and Fl. G..
Tubeneck, of Illinois. The choice for
vice president will rest between George
F. Washburne, of Massachusetts, Con-
gresham John Davis, of Kansas, and
Marion Cannon, of California. Present
indications favor the somewhat eupho-
MUS ticket of Tommy and George"
Politics are mighty "onsartin," but this
is the barometer of the delegates to the
'confederated industrial conference"
which assemblies in formal session in
the exposition building tomorrow morn
ing.
Fifteen Hundred of Them
have arrived up to this evening
enough to crowd the Hotel Richelieu
and all the boarding houses for quar-
ter of mile around, and five times
that number is expected, according to
the advance credentials that have been
received, by noon on Monday. Dele
gate Washburne, of Boston, who was
secretary of the Peoples party conven-
ton held in Cincinnati last February,
says that tomorrow's assemblage will
be the biggest industrial conference
ever held on earth, that the delegates
will represent organizations with an
actual membership of 100000, and
that majority of the actual voters OF
the South will be represented. Present
appearances apparently favor the claim.
Certain it is, moreover, that all the pc
litical ismS that have ever been gwen
birth in the home of the free and the
land of the brave will have voice and
utterance. The spokesman of the single
tax theorists, of the grangers. of the
prohibitiOnlSts, the greenbackers, the
bi-metallists, the subtreaSuryites, the
ants, the knights of Labor, the anti
monopolists, and the women suffraglsts
are here in great numbers. IgnatIus
Donnelly, of Minnesota, is here, and
others, including Gen. Weaver, of Iowa !:
Col. Humphreys, of Texas, Superintend-
ent of the colored Alliance of the South !;
Representative Tubeneck, of Illinois !;
Robert Schilling, of Milwaukee; l.. l..
Polk, of North Carolina, and Congress-
men Otis and Davis. of Kansas. Gen
eral Masterworkman Powderly and Sec
rotary Hayes, of the Knights of Labor,
came in late tonight. Senator PETER
and
ssSOckless'' Simpson
will be here in the morning, and, ac-
cOrding to the dispatches received,
there will be beIated delegates suffi-
cient in number to fill the Exposition
hall to overflowing. How to reconcile
the divergent elements was one of the
problems that early confronted the
leaders already on the ground, and to
consider it Seven-hourS' conference
was held with closed doors in one of the
parlors of the Richelieu. Those partici-
pating were 1gnatius Donnelly, repre-
senting the Northwestern Alliance {:
Washburne and Tubeneck, of the Ma
tional Citizens Alliance; l.. L. Polk and
Gen. ]. B. Weaver. Farmers Alliance;
Robert Schiiling and c. a. Rankin,
members Of the Knights of Labor. At
the outset it was announced that the
Peoples party, as all organization,
would not be officially represented in
the convention, although all of its Off
GERS and most of the members of its eX-
ecutive committee would have seats
upon the floor as delegates from other
organizations. If, so it was stated, the
platform to be adopted proved to he in
cons Onance with its declaration of prin-
ciples, then 1T would coaiesce with the
movement: otherwise it would go it
alone, and, in compliance with the
powers vested in it by the Cincinnati
convention, call national convention
of its own, and place ticket in
the field. There was a concensus of
opinion to the effect that the Peoples
party would get all that it wanted. if
not more. As the interchange of opin-
ion proceeded it was developed that a
majority of those present were in favor
OF confinIng the platform to
Three Points,
land. transportation and money. On the
first question it was agreed that the
dec laration should be in favor OF the
adoption of laws prohibiting alien OWL
erShip. the purchase or conhscation by
the national government of all lands
held by alien and foreign Syndicates,
and the reclamation by the gov
eminent for ultimate distribu-
ton among actual settlers of
all lands held by railroads and other
| corporations in excess of what may be
| in actual use. There was unanimity
| of sentiment in favor of free and ull-
| limited coinage of silver, and then the
| issue between the subtreasury advocates
and their opponents was forced to the
| front. Both sides had their say. and
| finally, after debate at times exciting
and acrimonious, a resolution was
| agreed to declaring in favor of a govern
ment issue of treasury notes of sufficient
volume to properly transact the business
| of the country, such issue to be distrib-
uted to the people in limited amounts
upon land or other approved securities
| at, to quote the resolution: ga tax not
| exceeding the natural increase of
wealth." Some of the participants in
the conference, while confessing that
they might not be as brainy as some
| other men, declared that the natural in
crease in question was trifle ambigu-
| Gus, and gave notice of their intention
| of substituting a specific rate of interest
of or per cent. With this reserva-
| ton the proposition went through.
Whether the programme as thus out