Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1895-03-19
PREAMBLE AND CONSTITUTION
-uF THE
Pc pies Party State League Of
Minnesota.
Adopted January 8, 1854.
PREAMBLE.

wherein centralized capital, made
possible by corporate monopoly, is
destroying individual rights and
reedom, we bind ourselves together
II grand fraternity known as the
Peoples Party State League of
with the solemn pledge
hat we shall never cease demanding
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 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.
W tn to accomplish this purpose, we
ledge ourselves to use our best
eudeayors, personal, financial and
org mic, 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 ]. The otficers@of this
eague shall be President, Vice
President, Secretary and Treasurer,
and an Executive Board consisting Of
thirtynine members, us follows:
President, Vice-President, Secretary
.nd 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-
ional district, to be elected from and
by the members from each district,
shall constitute IA committee of
eleven, and the s, cretary of this
League shall be governed and directed
by said Executive Committee.
ARTICLE III.
SECTION l. The Executive Board
>hall have authority to appoint a
State Organizer and Local Organ
,zers, as it shall deem best.
10 provide for payment of salaries
of Secretary and Stare Organizer.
To provide headquarters, and pay
therefor, in their discretion.
To raise money, purchase and dis
tribute literature.
10 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
hall have become member of some
local league organized under the
direction of the Executive Board, and
ill 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 Lea :ue, providing
also, that zach member of Local or
township leay ues shall be assessed
he sum of FIVE cents per month, to
be paid into the treasury of the State
League.
| ARTICLEv.
SECTION l. Each delegation present
III the convention held Janu Try 9th,
1865, shall be and constitute ii local
league for its county, with power to
i'd 10 it's numbers as it shall deem
best; and the Executive Board shall
take steps to organic loo Il leagues in
every county, town, school district
and precinct il the State.
ARTICLE vi.
SECTION l. Regular st'te meetings
f lhi> Leayue shall br c..ll.d ono. I.
year by the Executive Board 1T such
place as they hall d. EN- best, "a, any
time dur ng the Scc,nu week in
January, but 1T least one month !
notiCe thereof III II lie given in ID
vince to each local league. Such
me ting sh Il consist Of delegates
from each local league, one for ca, h
nIty Numbers or major fraction there
of, but each local league shall be
entitled to ut least one d. l,'gate.
| ARTICLE VII.
SECTION l. Whenever on--third of
all The: members ut this Leaguc sh Il
petition the II esident to call 4 ~" CT.
slate meeting for any purpose, it >h;. !
Dr.: his duty ~, to do; and heutvrl
one fifth of thu members shall pei it or
him t" submit any proposition to The
different leagues, he shall do SO, ahC
the decision Of the majority on such
proposition sh"ll be law. and c..nnOl
l.he distnrhpd changrd mlMifitli Or II,