Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1895-05-07
PREAMBLE AND CONSTITUTION
Peoples Party State League Of
Minnesota.
Adopted January 9, 1894.
PREAMBLE.


dowed with certain inalienable rights;
that among these are life, liberty and
the pursuit of happiness" and recog-
nizing as We do the present condition
wherein centralized capital, made
possible by corporate monopoly, is
destroying individual rights and
freedom, we bind ourselves together
in grand fraternity known as the
Peoples Party State League of
Minnesota, with the solemn pledge
that we shall never cease demanding
''inalienable rights,' and that we
are unchangeably opposed to all
governmental and industrial systems
that infringe on the same; and that
in order to carry out the foregoing,
the work Of this organization for the
coming two years shall be to educate
the people on the influence of finance
on national prosperity; the injury of
commerce by the monopolistic owner
ship of land and, in order that the
people may reign and maintain their
rights and better express their
desires, it be comes necessary to elect
U. S. senators by popular vote, and
believing that the Initiative and
Referendum, in conjunction with an
equable system of proportional re-
presentation is the best system where
with to accomplish this purpose, we
pledge ourselves to use our best
endeavors, personal, financial and
organic, to educate the people in all
great principles of the Peoples Party,
to the end, that all men may be equal
before the law.
CONSTITUTION.
|: ARTICLE I.
SECTION /. The officers of this
eaguc shall be President, Vice
. President, Secretary and Treasurer,
, and an Executive Board consisting Of
, thirty-nine members, as follows:
: President, Vice President, Secretary
and Treasurer of this League, and
five members from each congressional
district, to be chosen by the delega-
!, tions from the several congressional
} districts, to be elected annually at
) each state meeting.
ARTICLE II.
SECTION l. The President, Vice.
President, Secretary and Treasurer of
this League, and one member of the
Executive Board from each congress-
, Il tro 1T t0 ho III
by the members from each district,
shall constitute a committee of
eleven, and the Secretary of this
League shall be governed and d directed
8 by said Executive Committee.
ARTICLE III.
SECTION l. The Executive Board
shall have authority to appoint
State Organizer and Local Organ
izers, as it shall deem best.
10 provide for payment of salaries
Of Secretary and State Organizer.
To provide headquarters, and pay
therefor in their discretion.
To raise money, purchase and dis
tribute literature.
To encourage and sustain a strong
local reform press throughout the
state.
To form local leagues throughout
> the state.
To do and perform all other acts
which they deem proper for the good
, Of the League
ARTICLE w.
SECTION |. No person shall be
member of this League unless he
shall have become a member of some
= local league organized under the
direction of the Executive Board, and
: all members of local leagues shall be
members of this League when the
duly elected Secretary Of such local
league shall forward his name to the
: Secretary Of this League, providing
also, that each member of local or
township leagues shall be assessed
the sum of five cents per month, to
} be paid into the treasury of the State
League.
ARTICLE
SECTION l. Each delegation present
at the convention held January 9th,
1895, shall be and constitute local
league for its county, with power to
add to it's numbers as it shall deem
best; and the Executive Board shall
| take steps to organize local leagues in
every county, town, school district
and precinct in the State.
ARTICLE VI.
SECTION |. Regular state meetings
OF this League shall be called once a
year by the Executive Board at such
place as they shall deem best, at any
time during the second week in
January, but at least one months
notice thereof shall be given in ad-
vance to each local league. Such
meeting shall consist of delegates
from each local league, one for each
fifty members or major fraction there
of, but each local league shall be
entitled to at least one delegate.
: ARTICLE VII.
. SECTION l. Whenever one-third of
all the members of this League shall
petition the President to Gala special
state meeting for any purpose, it shall
be his duty so to do; and whenever
one fifth of the members shall petition