The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-01-22
THE LEAGUE MEETING
GETS THROUGH A LOT OF BUSI.
NESS.
With the Customary Amount of
Parliamentary Practice.


| called the convention to order at o'clock
| and preceded at once to appoint a COM
mittee on credentials, consisting of two
| members at large and one member for
| each congressional district This ar
rangement was made in order to pre-
pare places for two Hennepin men so
| That the two warning fractions within
that county might have one represent
alive each.
The credentials committee was ap-
pointed as follows: AT large, H. A. Swain,
Rice; l.. d. Brown, Hennepin; First dis
trict. T. J. Meighen, Fillmore; Second
district; E. J. Melicke, Cottonwood Third
district, Frank Warner, Renville; Fourth
district. E. w. Bohan, Ramsey; Fifth
district, A. D. Rowe, Hennepin; Sixth
district, F. D. Culver. 8. Louis; Seventh
district, A. H. Sperry, Willmar.
committee on constitution was ap-
pointed as follows: j. 1. Vermilyea, First
district; l.. G. Long, Second district; F. c.
Gibbs. Third district; H. A. Waldraff
FOURTH district; r. p. Hoskins, Fifth
district; L. A. Paddock, Sixth district;
Dr. G. johnson, Seventh district.
Inc committee on resolutions was con-
stituted as follows: c. l.. Blair First
l,
Third district, ]. T. Ames; Fourth dis
trict. F. H. Clarke; Fifth district. e. F.
Clark: Sixth district, John Boyer; Sew
enth district, DR.. Christian Johnson.
DIR. Christian Johnson, of Willmar
| made speech while the committees, es-
peciaily the credentials committee, were
| wrestling with the problems that con-
fronted them. The doctor thought that
| the people had met for the purpose OF
| orga nizing victory in the next campaign.
| They were here to organize the army Of
| the people, that will sweep over the
| brea stworks of plutocracy next fall
| Garrett Murphy, OF the Second district,
| followed DR.. johnson in a rafting speech
| In which he declared for one paramount
| issue in the platform, advising against
| the Incorporation of minor questions in
! the Platforms
F. H. Clarke. of st. Paul. made fervid
| speech on the meaning of the Populist
| party and the lessons It's members should
| learn from experience. He warned his
hearers against following the example of
the Bourbon kings, who forgot nothing
| and learned nothing. The burden OF his
| speech was that tn silver question must
| be the only issue in the next campaign.
| for 1T is what the people want. ION that
| issue" he said, in the midst of applause.
| we can carry every state west Of the
Missouri and every Southern state.
The venerable Maj. w. A. Hotchkiss, Of
| Preston, was urged to take the platform
without the financial question:" he de-
| clared, there is no POpulist party. Its
| agitation is making Wall street and the
Rothschilds trembie. l am not sure that
| hell itself is not haking. l have stood
| in the front ranks of this peoples party
| movement ever since Peter Cooper was
! born"
| Adjournment was here taken for the
| noon recess.
The afternoon session was called to or
q ~ 1nss1 lint yho%
| to do with itself, as the report Of the
| committee on credentials was not yet
| ready.
| few songs having been sung by Miss
| Bessie Wasserzier, of this city, Paul Fon-
| tain was given the floor, and used it to
| make a red-hot speech.
The report of the committee on creden-
| tfals came in by o'clock. and was read
| by Secretary H. D. Brown, of that COM
! mittee. The report declared 233 delegates
! from 40 counties to be entitled to seats.
| Mrs. Lease was expected to have ad-
| dressed the assembly in the afternoon,
| but she was prevented from doing SO by
| indISpOsition. The convention extended
| an invitation to her to speak in the even
| ing.
The report Of Secretary L. NJ. Aver was
| read by w. r. Dobbyn. 1t was chiefly a
| record Of the efforts Of the secretary to
| effect an organization of the state at
| large. Not until shortly before the con-
vention had his appeals met with any
| response. During the last few months the
! work has been carried on successfully in
| all the congressional districts A num-
| Der Of changes in the constitution of the
| bylaws were recommended, the most
| important being the one meant to make
| the service of the state organizer more
| efficient. Also, It was proposed that the
| system Of monthly dues be abolished,
and replaced by popular subscriptions.
| A thorough poll of the state was called
| for
A supplementary report of the commit
| tee on credentials increased the number
| of seated delegates to some 260.
Chairman T. G. Hodgson of the COM
| mittee ON constitution, delivered d
| lengthy report which was adopted as a
| whole, only few amendments being ad-
| ded to it.
Chairman F. H. Clark, of the commit
| tee on resolutions. who followed with his
report, declared that his committee had
| tried to combine the best principles of
| his party into a dynamite bomb, which
| might be thrown into the camp Of the
| enemy with the most destructive results.
| That bomb was represented by the re-
| port, which in substance read as follows:
Ion the financial issues we declare our
selves unalterably opposed to the single
| gold Standard and demand the immediate
| return to the constitutional standard Of
gold and silver, as it existed prior to 1873,
| Dy the restoration Dy tnlS government, IN
dependently Of any foreign government,
of the unrestricted coinage of both gold
and silver into standard money at the ra-
ito of 16 to /, and upon terms of exact
| equality, the silver coin to be a full legal
tender equally with gold for all debt and
| dues, public and private.
| Second We hold that the power to con-
| troll and regulate paper currency is in
| separble from the power to coin money:
and hence that all currency intended to
| circulate as money should be issued and
it's volume controlled by the general gov
| eminent only, such money to be based on
the faith and the credit of the nation (be-
ing the same basis as that Of government
bonds) and to be full legal tender for all
| debts public and private, the volume to be
| limited so as to protect the people against
| undue imitation contraction
Third, We are unaterably opposed to the
| bearing bonds in time of peace, and de-
of the United States as provided by exist
ing laws, either in gold or silver coin, at
the option of the debtor.
| "Fourth-We demand the enactment Of
graduated income tax, so adjusted under
| capital to bear it's just share OF the bur-
dens of taxation.
"Fifth-We favor government of the
| people, for the people and by the people;
| hence, wherever practca BILE, we demand
| Germ shall, under proper safeguards be
through the operation of the initiative and
| rofor Sr1Yo