Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-06-20
SECOND DAY.
The Platform Adopted and the Candidates
Nominated Woman Suffrage Wins.

TOPEKA, Kan, June 14.-After a
bitter fight which began earlyTuesday
evening and continued until after
midnight in the resolutions commit
tee and was then taken up in the con-
vention yesterday and kept going for
four hours, the Populists of Kansas in
state convention declared in favor
of woman suffrage by the vote
of $40 to 26s, and ordered the plank
proposed by the women to be incor.
porated in the state platform.
p. p. Elder led the fight against
woman suffrage from beginning to
end and was most bitter in every way
The women took a prominent part in
the discussion and Mrs. Anna L..
Diggs was allowed to close for the ad-
vocates of that cause. Speeches
without number were made during
the morning and for time the
women were in despair, but in the
end they triumphed.
Although less than two-thirds of
the delegates were in their seats
when the appointed hour for reas-
sembling yesterday morning arrived
Chairman Dunsmore used the gavel
was SO great, however, that he made
no effort to proceed with business I'M
til the convention had settled down
and the spectators provided, so far as
possible, with seats.
Then the congressional district s
announced their central committee
men as follows:
First district-J p Sands Seneca and
James fSckens. Linwood,
Second-D. c. zercher, Olathe, and Ross
Williams Fort Scott
Third o L. McCaslin, Howard, and F. J.
Fourth.W T Tipton Burlington, ana
Taylor Riddle, Marion.
Fifth--D C Crlnston, Abilene and w J.
Dunnocks, Maryville.
sixth-o. L Smith, Phillip ,burg, and j F.
Seventh-Rufus H Cone, Wichita, and J. J.
Barnes, Pratt
Carpenter of Marion nominated
John w. Breidenthal as committee
man-at-large, eharacterizing him as
the greatest political general in Kan
sas. The nomination evoked great
cheers and he was chosen by acclama-
tion.
The committee on resolutions by its
chairman, 2. p. Elder, then presented
the majority report. He prefaced the
reading of the report with state
ment that the committee had had
laborious duty to perform and that
the planks had received the unani-
nous support of the committee. So
far as the minority report was con-
cerned, its supporters had received
the courteous consideration of the ma
jority.
The reading of the majority report
caused little enthusiasm, but when E.
6cIn of rxyfn nrH
the stand to read the minority report
the convention made a tremendous
demonstration Of approval Ridglcy
said before reading the report that at
the outset of the meeting of the COM
mittee it was fairly understood that
no matter what side of the suffrage
question should have the majority of
the committee, the other side would
bring in minority report.
THE PLATFORM.
The majority and minority reports
are as follows:
We, the representatives, o. the People pai
ty of kanaaS in convention assembled dc
hereby reaffirm our allie lance to the principles
enunciated in the Omaha platform and point
to the record of our represent tltiveS In Con
Gress as an evidence of their loyalty to that
platform We meet at this time under con IL
tions which see every prophecy then made
made therein against the Republican and
Democratic parties proven
Our sympathies 20 out TO the unemployed
homeless and lan1leSs people Of the country
who have been brousht to their present CON
ditton in a great me isure throu the vicious.
un-American financial policy OF this overn-
ment: and, we hold sacred the declaration OF
independence that all men are created equal
they are endowned by their Creator with
certain inalienable rights, that among these
are life, liberty and the pursuit of happine ss
We most heartily commend our pre- sent
state officials Tor their wise and economic ad-
miniStration of state affairs. that has saved TO
the taxpayers thousands of dollars, and the
Populistic legislators for their efforts to enact
into law every demand Of the state platform
adopted at Wichita in 1892
We demand the free coinage OF silver at the
ratio of IS to /, and denouuce any party that
is so completely under the control of the gold
bugs that II dare not take a stand for the peo-
pie on this all-impoTtant question which
means so much 10 the wage earner3 and pro-
ducers of our country
during the year l5e national banks suspended
leaving financial ruin in their wake we again
refterate our condemnation of this, the so
called best banking system the world has
ever known. and demand in its stead banks OF
deposit under the control OF the depositors
ana the deposits guaranteed by this govern
That we are unaIterably opposed 10 issues
OF government interest bear IN bonds and de-
mand instead the issue OF full legal tender
treasury notes and the payment of the same
tosether with silver money, to meet the needs
OF the government
We condemn the un Wise and cruel policy OF
al tne government parties in this nation
whose legislation has favored capital and op-
pressed labor and we hereby declare our
sympathy with all foilers in their efforts to
Improve their condition, and demand such
legislation as will remove some of the burdens
OF toll by shorteneniny the hours OF labor
without iessenfn their daily wage
We demand national and state boards OF ar
bitration to settle and adjust differences be.
tween the employers and the employees and
we further demand that where the property
of corporation has been placed in tile hand,
OF receiver the wages of the efnDioye ss-h All
be nrSt letu on fts earnings AMI ene-ts and
We denounce the appointments Of officfals or
parties interested as receivers of any corpor !
tion
We demand service pension grld 1lisd 80
the man WHO carried the muskct shall &c en-