St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-01-10
CHANGE OF NAME DECIDED ON
Party to Be Known as "Peo-
pies Farty State
League
BOWLER IS PRESIDENT.
Election Of Officers Held and
Organization Com
pleted.

The state POpulists had hard time
to get a quorum yesterday morning at
their meeting in Century hall. The
meeting was called for 10 o'clock. but at
that hour there was not a cOrporal's
guard in attendance The delegates
came Struggling i'll by twos and threes,
and by noon the meeting was able TO
get down to business.
The fist thing that came up was the
completion of a state bureau OF educa-
ton and organization.
". A . HotchkisS. of Fillmore county;
T. L. Lam bert. of Otter Tail county;
David Cochran. of Wright county: A..
4. BTackenTeed. of st. Louis county,
and a. NJ. Morrison, OF Blue Earth
county, were appointed committee on
constitution TO draft the working basis
of the new organization.
While the committee were getting
their heads together Mr.. Yeoman ltY-
ened things up by singing very tire
some song entitled "Debs in Jail" The
labor leader and agItatoT was depicted
as a suffering martyr who had been IN
Justly convicted 1t was a long time
before the audience recovered its cOm-
posure from the effects OF the song.
Secretary BerrieT reported progress
on the canvass for funds to keep up a
permanent organization to be slow. II e
recommended that 1900 of the I6,O 900
POplulIst voters in the county be as
sessed five or ten cents to create an eX-
pense fund.
Prof William R. Dobbyn, of this city.
gave the delegates present an account
of the conference recently held at St.
Louis.
A letter was received from Il. J. o.
Reed, dated at Fort Worth, Tex. giving
Mr.. Reeds ideas of the St. Louis con-
ference Nh Reed was the Peoples
party candidate for mayor of Mime
apOliS. AlT. Reed idea OF the st. Louis
conference was that it was a great sue
cess. He sounded the slogan OF mo
fusion, ana warned the convention Of
its dangers.
H. 3. Martin. another delegate to the
St. Louis conference. was called upon
for his impressions. and substantlated
the statements OF the other delegates.
Eric Olson made a strong appeal for
subtreaSuTy. j. 5. HOSklns, OF GOOdhue
county, gave some OF his observations
while travelling through Kansas TO show
LQaL HODQllSlu NaU llau not ruined ILdI
state as was claimed by opposing parties.
The committee on credentials reported
173 delegates present who were entitled
to seats. At the afternoon session the
committee OIL constitution ana bylaws
submitted its report, which provided that
the association be called the Peoples
Party State League"
William K. D0bbyn moved an amend
ment that the name be changed to the
Peoples Party Bureau OF Employ
ment" There was a division on the
motion. because it was thought il might
cause trouble and Inconvenience with
the old party. A. D. Campbell, pres
idenI of the Hennepin County league,
said that the Old party would Join forces
with the new organization, so the
amendment was withdrawn.
There was considerable discussion on
the report OF the committee providing
that Two members be appointed from
each congressional district Some Of
the delegates wanted five, but Ignatius
Dounelly thought five too .many. A
motion was finally adopted making the
number from each district five dele
gales. with power to appoint a subeXec-
utiYe committee.