The record-union., 1896-05-14

ter through the convention and keep 1t
in order.
"Wen be there next year." said Miss
Anthony.
IN DEEP WATER.
The tariff and immigration plank
came next, and ]. v. Webster moved to
strike out certain lines in the report
and insert, 80 long as an import duty
be necessary, we favor reasonable tar
iff ON imports, for the purpose of reve-
nue. and protection Of American labor"
Judge Gibson opposed the amendment.
A. Motheral said the party was COM
posed of members Of the old parties,
who were not agreed on the tariff ques-
ton. The old parties would like nothing
better than to have the Peoples party
interject it into the campaign. to its
cWn detriment. He moved to strike out
all reference to the tariff
Delegate Harris of San Francisco said
the Peoples party did not ask the old
parties to define protection for it. The
Republican party has never protected
+be people. This resolution is the tariff
views of the Peoples party, and in con-
scnance with its whole utterances, and
it was competent to judge for itself
what it meant.
Motheral moved to lay the whole reso-
luton on the table.
Fowler said he did not see why men
who were no longer Democrats or Re-
publicans should meet this question on
CID party lines All knew that the Gov
erEment must be sustained by revenue
partially derived from a tariff, and
could be sustained in no other way.
This question should be met-not as
Democrats or Republicans-but as
members of the Peoples party, who
wish to bring the question fairly before
the people 1t is a selfish question, and
a mans opinion is influenced by his per-
scnal interests. The party should meet
it as a national party, as the two old
national parties do.
Fowler was Chairman of the COM
mittee which had drafted the plank,
and he talked until his time ran out,
when he was called down. But this
course did not suit the powers that
were, and Thomas V. Gator was on his
feet asking that Mr.. Fowler be given
all the time he desired. Gator evidently
thought Fowler's remarks were good
ones and to the point.
Then when Fowler finally did get
through, Jonathan V. Webster, who
made the race for Governor in 1894, and
was showed under very deep, got the
floor and said that while the sense of
the committee had been that a tariff
plank should be inserted, he was
strongly opposed to it, and the idea
that any good would follow from its
adoption was extremely absurd and
ridiculous.
Delegate johnson of San Francisco
was next recognized, and made a strong
speech for the tariff and Gator If
there had been two things in American
politics which should be remedied. they
were the civil service and the tariff.
The tariff problem never would be set
tied until it was placed in the hands of
a commission of experts appointed for
the purpose.
Bowman of Los Angeles favored the
plank. 1t, according to him, turned the
old theories of the Democratic and Re-
publican parties inside out.
Woods of Sacramento got the floor
and told a coon story, and then switched
off for a fve-minute talk on the tariff
question. The old parties had always
fought over the tariff like coons and
while watching the fight the country
had gone to Hades. He believed the
two old parties should be allowed to
continue the fight, and that the Popu-
lists should stand from under.
Wilkins of Santa Clara said that at
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