The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-08-30
IN NEW YORK.

IN NEW YORK.
Platform AID Resolutions Adopted and
Candidates Nominated by the Populists.
The state convention of the Peoples
Party of New York was held at Sylvan
Beach, with about $50 delegates present
Addresses were made by the following
prominent Populists from other states:
James B. Weaver of Iowa, William J..
Kerr of Colorado, Mary E. Leaseof Kan
sas and Mrs. Marion Todd of Michigan.
Farmer" Isaac E. Dean presided over
the convention, and the following plat
form was adopted:
The Peoples Party Of the state of New York
In convention assembled at a time Of almost
unprecedented national distress reiterates it's
allegiance to the three basic planks of the
Omaha platform: safe, sound and flexible
national money, which shall be full legal ten
der, with free and unlimited coinage of silver
and gold at 16 to l; increase in the amount of
the circulating medium to so per cent per cap
ita; the establishment of postal savings banks;
government ownership of railroads, telegraphs
and telephones.
We declare that the business depression of
1873 was caused by the demonstration of silver
and the contraction of the currency, and that
the immediate cause Of the present financial
distress is the loss of confidence induced by the
wall OF the capitalists over the expectation of
gold and the urgent demands Of the bankers
for the issuance Of more government bonds.
We denounce the Republican and Democratic
fusion In the last legislature by which the
minor political parties were excluded from
representation In the constitutional conven-
ton.
We demand the construction of public works
for the unemployed, including q rapid transit
road for New York city; an eight hour law rig
idly enforced; state and municipal ownership
Of street railroads and gas and electric light
ing plants; the Incorporation in the new con-
stitution of the principles Of the initiative and
referendum: the enactment of general laws
classifying our cities and towns, SO that cities
of the same class should have charters and
municipal government uniform as constitu.
lions will permit, as by this the principles OF
home rule may be observed without keeping
our citizens In constant peril from danger
Gus and oppressive legislation at Albany,
prompted by partisan or mercenary motives;
compulsory arbitration of labor disputes with
sufficient facilities to insure compliance with
the findings of the state board of arbitration
and mediation, this board to be elected direct
~ by the people; the speedy and otherwise i'm
our strictly secular common school system,
with libraries and courses Of free lectures and
instruction, so that general education may be-
come the basis of universal suffrage, without
regard to sex or property qualifications; the en-
forcement Of all laws by proper police, re-
sponsible to and paid by the people, without
recourse to Pinkertons, White Caps or agents
or detectives employed for the suppression of
vice or crime under the management and sup
port of societies, whether incorporated or not.
This ticket, to be voted for at the COM
ing state election, was nominated: Sec.
rotary of state, James Wright of Elmira;
comptroller, D. NJ S. Zero of Glens
Falls; treasurer, F. II. Purdy of Bluff
Point, Yates county; attorney general,
Thaddeus B. Wakeman of New York;
engineer and surveyor, j. AVERT Web
ster of New York; judge of the court of
appeals. Lawrence J. McParlan of Buff
falo.
The delegates and speakers in attend.
ance upon the Farmers Alliance and
Peoples Party convention united in the
following address:
FARMERS OF THE WEsr-A cry of hunger and
starvation comes from the heart Of the great
metropolis-New York. 1t comes from the
Threats Of tens Of thousands of American citi-
zens who are without bread. It ascends tc
heaven amid the noise OF the call board on
the Stock Exchange and the jingling of the
gold on the money counters of Wall street.
It is intensified by the tears and means OF
starving mothers and furnishing children; men
are becoming desperate from want, and the
gAunt specter Of famine stalks abroad unheed-
ed by those who have grown fat by the pillage
Of labor and the ravaging Of industry.
The lobby approaching the council chambers
of the republic is filled with the paid agents IT
the moneyed oligarchy, ready to debauch the
peoples represen tatives and weld the chains
of financial slavery still more securely on the
neck of labor. The money sharks are unre.
lenting, the government Indifferent and the
people desperate.
By the pangs Of hunger law abiding, honest
men are being transformed into reckless
wolves, and this is the condition desired by the
enemies Of the people. They starve them first
in order to furnish an excuse to kill them aft
erward. This must not be. The starving poor
of New York must not become the prey of de-
signing enemies.
Farmers, you must feed them. We know
you are poor. We know the labor Of your
hands is unreQuited and your toll and perse-
verance unrewarded. but these men and won.
en- are your brothers and sisters. Their cause
Is your cause. Their starvation and your pow
erty are the joint production of our common
enemy.
Send speedily Of your corn and wheat, your
potatoes and breadstuffs, that disorder and
bloodshed may be averted. Let the president
of each Alliance call his Alliance and act with.
out delay. Ask your railroads to furnish
transportation free, as you give your substance.
Organize relief committees at once and com.
municate with Mr.. David Rosseau, $40 Mott
avenue, New York city, who has been selected
by us as the consignee of relief supplies, and
who will arrange for their prompt and effective
distribution.
j. B. WEAVER, Iowa,
L E. DEAN, New York,
MARY E. LEASE, Kansas,
WILLIAM J. KERR, Colorado,
Mrs. MARION TODD, Michigan,
L. G. PADDOCK, Colorado,
Delegates and speakers to the Farmers ALI
ance and Peoples Party state convention.
Ohio Right In It.
From information received at the Peo-
pies Party headquarters at Columbus,
it is learned that the farmers through
out the state are displaying great activity
op1 %okinu doom intorocf in tho oo,,,iy n