St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-09-16

ana cheers.
ID. Barnard wanted the people to keep
thelI eyes open.
James Dillon wanted to know II there
were any destinations.
X. II. McGee, of Chisag0 county, said
that the platform of MIR. Darragh is not
in keeping with that Of the POpulist
platform on the money question. He
believed there was chance to elect a
third party man to congress.
Judge j. l.. Macdonald made a speech,
in which he said that the convention
met as a Peoples party, and no man
could be nominated unless O member
of the party. IF E. j. Darragh is
ready to subscribe to our platform then
his place Is here, and not in the conven-
ton OF the Democratic party. oppose
Col. kiefer. and l oppose the call
didate of the Democratic party. 1t
is too late in the day for the
other party to come to us and ask an
Endorsement at our hands. Mr.. Oar
ragh's friends secured Il solid delegation
for him TO the Lindstrom convention.
But did they send delegation to the
state convention for Mr.. Owen? Voices
they tried it.
Judge MacDonald-But they did not
do IT, ana that is enough. If the people
OF this district are true to themselves
the third party man has as good chances
as any of them.
Z. w. Hall-This is the first time l
have been in Populist convention. l
was first Republican, but for the past
ten years l have been Democrat. He
gave as his reason for leaving the DEM
ocratic party was because of its record
i'll congress.
He Left the Republican
party when it became corrupt and a
party Of monopolists. He did not want
to indorse a Democrat because it would
be indorsing the party back of him.
AT this point The Glee club sang I'M
CALLS Lament"
James Dillon said that he wanted to
correct misrepresentation made. He
wanted it understood that the plutocrats
never wanted Mr.. Darragh nominated
While he might vote for the nominee of
the convention, yet refuse to nominate
Mr.. Darragh and The party would 10
down.
Mr.. Cowle, of Washington county,
moved that, as MIR. Darragn had never
been Peoples party man, the secre-
tary be instructed to cast the vote of the
convention for MIR. Clark.
Mr.. Dillon said that it could not be
done.
MIR. Carlson wanted Mr.. Darragh to
pull out in favor of MIR. Clark. He
moved the previous question.
On the adoption of The motion for the
previous question there were cheers,
and Mr.. Dillon, trying to be heard, was
to be the nominee, after vote was
taken on the motion to instruct the Sec
rotary to cast the vote of the convention
for him.
IhomaS Montgomery, James White
and Judge Macdonald were named to
escort the nominee to the platform.
Clark Accepts.
Mr.. Clark made speech in which he
said that lie accepted the nomination.
He asked no man to vote for him except
upon principle. He would ask no man
to vote for him except as member of
the Peoples party. lie knew tine senti-
ment OF the people in the district.
The bulk of the Populists are
in Ramsey county. The clubs
have a membership of 5000, and each
member represents three votes. and he
believes that he has a chance for cleo
ton. He said Mr.. Kiefer is bound by
the caucus of his party. and by that he
was bound to vote against the interests
OF the whole country. He could not
represent anything better than
the worst element of his party.
He pledged that if elected he would
vote for the reconciliation of silver, for
the free coinage of silver, for the pur-
chase of all railroads worth anything.
He would favor the abolition of the
senate and 60 the election of the presi-
dent by direct vote of tho people. He
would support the POpulist platform.
and was in favor of anything advocated
by the laboring people. He would
advise with the labor leaders. His
motto would be Equal Rights to ALL"
j. ID. Fry wanted declaration OH the
question of convict labor by Mr.. Clark.
He asked if he favored remedying the
convict contract labor system. Mr..
Clark satisfied Mr.. Fry that he was with
him on the point raised.
Ii. A. Carlson moved the appointment
of congressional committee of one
from each county and one at large.
This prevailed after an amendment had
been made giving Ramsey county two
delegates. The committee will be named
later.
The platform adopted is as follows:
The Platform.
We, the Peoples party of the Fourth
congressional district, in convention as
SeIuOleu, TcdlurIN Iue principles OF our
party as enumerated in our national and
state platforms and pledge the candi-
dates of this convention to their uIl-
swerving support. We believe that the
oppression of the working classes of our
country is, for the most part. due to the
manipulation of capital in the hands of
greedy and INSCRIPTIONS schemers and
the alliance of true capital with sham,
fictitious and fraudulent capital in the
form of watered stock, fictitious values
and inflated bonded Indebtedness. We
favor the enactment of laws which will
provide for the punishment by the most
severe penalties of these forms of fraud.
We believe that the working people of
our country have hitherto been dis
eliminated against in the making of our
laws, and we pledge our candi.
dates for congress to work in
season and out of season to REM
edy this monstrous defect in our legis.
lative system. We believe that the
Democratic and Republican parties
have abandoned the basic principles of
their faith and are no longer the parties
of Jefferson and Lincoln, but are the
plant tools OF corporations and trusts.
We believe that the salvation of our
country demands radical changes; that
the government should issue its own
money direct to the people without the