Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1895-03-26
PREAMBLE AND CONSTITUTION
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Pc: ples' Party State League Of
Minnesota. r.
Adopted January 9, 1894.

centralized capital, made
possible by corporate monopoly, is
destroying individual rights and
freedom, we bind ourselves together
in grand fraternity known as tho ..
Peoples Party State Lea que 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 AMI maintain their
rights and better express their
desires, it becomes 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
SECTION l. The officers of this
eague shall be a 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 memb ers 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-
ional district, to he elected from and
by the members from each district,
shall constitute committee of
eleven, and the Secretary Of this
League shall be governed and directed
by said Executive Committee.
ARTICLE III.
SECTION l. The Executive Board
shall have authority to appoint a
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 a
member of this League unless he
shall have become 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 vf 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 cf the State
League.
ARTICLE
SECTION !. Each delegation present
. at the conventio held January 9th,
1885, 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 if
l.. every county, town, school district
y and precinct III the State
ARTICLE VI.
SECTION l. Regular State meeting.
q of this League shall be called once a
t year by the Executive Board ut suct
l. place as they shall deem best, at an,
J. time during the second week Il
Q January, but at least one month
l. notice thereof shall lie given in i'd
Il Vance to each local league Sucl
o melting sh Ill consist Of delegate
d from each local league, one for eacl
b fifty members or major fraction ther.
j. Of, but each local league shall b
It entitled to at least one d, lrgate.
J. ARTICLE VII.
b SECTION l. Whenever one-th:rd q
all the members OF this League sh.l
petition the President to call Il spec;
state meeting tor any purl ose, it sh;
Isl be his duty 50 to do; and whentVe
= one fifth OF the Numbers hal pei it ;O
=. him t" submit amy proposition to tn
= different leagues, he shall do SO, an
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