St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-12-30
POPS AIR THEIR GALL.
National Committee, in Ses-
sion at st. Louis, Issues
an Address.
"REMARKABLE INCREASE"
In the Vote Of the Party Cited
as a Subject for Con-
graduation.
OPPOSE CURRENCY PLAN.
Pooling Bill and the Use of
Troops in Strikes De-
nouneed.
REMARKABLE INCREASE"
OPPOSE CURRENCY PLAN.

ST. LOUIS, Dec. 29.-The work Of the
| conference Of the national committee Of
| the Peoples party with the leading
members of the rank and file came TO
| fruitlOn tonight, when that committee
| submitted to the conference, as the re-
| suit of its consideration of the discus
siOns of the conference, an address to
the party and to the people. Its present
alton was met by the gathering with
| shout that rang through the hall, and
the Endorsement of the conference was
| given with vigorous viva vOce vote.
The address follows:
The national committee Of the
Peoples party sends greeting to its
constituency throughout the United
States.
The rapid increase Of our vote in
every part of the Union and the start
ling events of the past two years vivid
ly justify both the existence and neces-
sity of the Peoples party. The conten-
ion of the party that one of the great
needs of this country has been and is an
enlarged volume of circulating medium
is now practically conceded by all par
ties and by the government. The gold
power and banking interests are in
sisting through the president and his
secretary that the enlarged issue of our
money supply shall be given exclusively
into the hands of the banks: that silver
shall! be excluded, all treasury notes re-
tired and that gold alone should be legal
tender, thus making the
Monetary Question an Issue
which must be met at once
Within the present year the corpora
tiOns, grown arrogant because of the
vast possessions of wealth and the ex-
erclse of unconstitutional powers, have
made war upon the people and induced
the federal courts TO exercise in their
interest unusual and arbitrary powers,
induced the invasion Of the states by
federal troops without the request of
either the executives of said states or
the legislatures thereof, and are at this
time, through a recreant administration
and truculent congress, attempting to
clothe the railroad corporations, by
means OF a pooling bill, with power to
further and more systematically rob,
Cypress and Dlunder the. people; and,
having already deprived the people Of
access to the silver mines of the
country as an independent source
Of money supply, are now, in
the interest of banking oigarchy,
| endeavOring to deprive them of
the right to have their government, in
| the exercise of its constitutional power,
| Issue the money of the nation and con-
| troll its volume. In the opinion Of your
| committee these events are startling,
snbYerSive of the liberties of the citizen,
and destructive of business and social
security; and adhering to the Omaha
platform in all its integrity. your COM
mittee insists upon the restoration of
the coinage Of gold and silver as it eX-
listed prior TO 1S73-at the ratio of 16 to
without regard to the action of any
other nation, and that all paper money
shall be issued by the general govern
ment without the Intervention of banks
of issue, the same to be a
Full Legal Tender.
We also declare our inpacable hos
tility TO the further issue of interest
bearing bonds.
| We denOunce the pooling bill as a
move toward completing the monopoly
| of transportation, and demand that in
stead congress proceed to bring the
! railroads under government ownership.
The powers given congress by the
constitution to provide for the calling
forth of the militia to execute the laws
of the Union, to suppress instructions,
to repel inyaslOns, does not warrant the
| government in making use of stand.
Ing army in aiding mOnOpolies in the
| oppression of the public and their en-
| plOyeS. When free men unsheath the
sword it should be to strike for liberty,
bot for despotism, or TO uphold prjyf-
legged monopolies in the oppression of
the poor.
We ask the people to forget all past
political differences and unite with US
in the common purpose to rescue the
government from the control of mono D.
| OliStS and concentrated wealth, to limit
| powers OF perpetuatlOn by curtaiing
their privileges. and to secure the rights
| Of free speech. free press and trial by
jury-all rules, regulations and judicial
dicta in derogatlon of eithor of Whicn
are arbitrary, unconstitutional and not
to be tolerated by free people. We
recommend the Immediate organization
of an educational campaign by the IA
tional, state and local committees.
| A AhIIIe hQlD1Sm.
In addition to this address the national
committee adopted the following reso>
| luton: In view of the fact that the
state Of Alabama and other Southern
states are without Republican form of
government because of the rule of a
political oligarchy, which is perpetuated
by monstrous frauds at the ballot box,
the imperative necessity OF free ballot
and an honest count is constitutional
right, and we demand that it be given
and move that the chairman of the ma
tional executive committee appoint a
committee of three to submit evidence
to the president of the country and to
congress, 10 subStantiate this alarming
and revolutionary condition, that thew
may be awakened to the threatenings of
peril, caused by this existing autocratic
anarchy in the South.
The following were appointed: ]. G.
Manning, Alabama, chairman: Henry
D. Lloyd, Illinois, aud Lee CrandalI
Alabama.
The Days Proceedings.
The mornlng's session opened with
no regular business at hand, pending
reports OF committees. BY unanimous
consent the temporary officers we're cor.
tinued as permanent. A committee OF
five to prepare plan for a methodical
campaign Of education, with I. M.
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