The herald., 1894-06-13
POPULISTS' CONVENTION.
The Third Party in Session
at Topeka.
Slow Progress in Getting to
Work.
A Telegram Received From MRS.
Jerry simpson.
The COmmtttee Resolutions Agreed
to a Platform of Primo ncipies--No
Nominations Have Yet
Boon Made.

BY the Associated Press.
Topeka, June 12.-The Populist state
convention met at IL O'Clock. III. &.
Henderson was chosen Temporary chair
man. This ives a victory for the suf-
fragists. Henderson said: st takes
brave men to meet issues, and we will
be found square to them. We will not
show the cowardice OF the Republicans
in avoiding the suffrage question"
Charles s. Davis wse chosen temporary
secretary. The convention adjourned
till p. m.
The Sixth district caucus, which it
wac understood would decide on a cam
didate for secretary of state. has chosen
j. W. Amis, who received nearly twice
as many votes as Isborne, the incum-
bent.
The following telegram from Mrs.
Jerry Simpson was read II have Jerry
at Berkeley Springs, Va, 100 miles
from Washington, and he 10 doing fine
ly. Don't worry; he will be ready for
fight"
This afternoon the convention was
late in getting committees completed
the list. Governor Lewelling denies
that Brown was the administration can
didate for chairman. 1t is generally
believed Lewelling will be nominated
by proclamation. No one else is talked of.
The afternoon session was taken up
with the selections of various commit
tees and addresses. Miss Susan B. AM
thony and Mrs. Chapman Call, in be-
Lalf OF q woman suffrage plank in the
state platform, addressed the conven-
tion. At the conclusion of Miss An
thony's address, q delegate demanded to
know whether she would take the stump
and urge all friends of woman suffrage
to vote the Populist ticket. Miss An
thony's response was in the affirmative
and was greeted with prolonged ap-
plause. The committee on permanent
organization reported with great ap.
plauee the name of j. M. Dinsmore as
permanent chairman and Ben Rich as
secretary. Dinsmore was speaker and
Rich clerk Of the Populist house, de-
clared to be illegal by the supreme court
at the time of the legislative trouble in
the winter of 1893.
The report OF the committee was
adopted.
There was considerable sparring be-
suffrage forces over q motion to refer all
resolutions to the committee on resolu-
tione.
Ex-Speaker Elder was the leader of
the anti-sutfrage forces and Judge Foster
of the suffragiets. There was much en-
thusiasm whenever the question of ex-
tending the franchise to women was
mentioned.
At 6 D. m. the convention took O re.
cess until z 80 p. m.
The night session was devoted to rais-
ing money for the campaign and the
transaction of routine business until 10
O'Clock, when the convention adjourned
without reaching any nomination.
The committee on resolutions agreed
to the following:
We, the representatives of the Peo1
ple's party of the state of Kansas, in
convention Assem- bled, do hereby re-
affirm our allegiances to the principles
enunciated in the Omaha platform and
point to the record of our representa-
tives In congress as an evidence of their
loyalty to that platform. We meet at
this time under conditions which ses
every prophecy then made fulfilled and
every indictment which was made
therein against the Republican and
Democratlc partlee proven.
Our sympsthies 20 out to the unfor-
tunate homeless and lsndless people OF
the country who have been brought to
their present condition in q great meas
are through the vicious. una American
financial policy of this government, and
We hold sacred the Declaration of Inde-
pendence that all men are created equal;
they are endowed by their Creator with
certain inslienable rights; that among
these are life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness.
| We most heartily commend our pres-
ent state officials for their wise and eco
nomio administration of state affairs,
that has saved to the taxpayers thou
sands OF dollars; and the Populist legis-
lstors 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 16 to l, and denounce any
party that is 30 completely under the
control of the gold bugs that it dare not
take a stand for the people on this all
important question. which means so
much to the wage earners and producers
of our country.
The comptroller's report for 1898
shows that during the year 1853 national
! bank5 suspended, leaving financial ruin
in their wake. We again reiterate our
condemnation of this, the so-called best
banking system the world has ever
known, end demand in its stead banks
of deposit under the control OF the de-
positors, and the deposits guaranteed by
this government.
That we are unalterably opposed to
Issues OF government Understanding
bonds, and demand instead the issue of
full legal tender treasury notes, and the
payment of the same, together with
silver money, to meet the needs OF the
government.
We condemn the unwise and cruel
| policy OF all the government parties in
this nation whose Legislation has
favored capital and oppressed labor, and
we hereby declare our sympathy with
all toiers in their efforts TO improve
| their condition, and demand such les;s