The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-08-08
JONES FOR GOVERNOR.
Missouri PopuIists Nominate n State Ticks
Fusion on Electors.

SEDALIA, Mo, Aug. 1.-The peoples
party state convention nominated the
following ticket: Governor. o. ID.
Jones, of Knox; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
J. IL. Hill:s. of Harrison; secre-
tary of state, Thomas Day, of
Henry; auditor, Sheridan Webster,
of st. Louis; attorney-general, f..
Il. RitcFie of st. Louis; treasur-
er. G. O. Wood. of Chariton; railroad
commissioner, u. NJ. Cowen, of Chris
tian; supreme judge, John NJ. Vorhis,
of Livingston: in lgc Kansas City court
of appeals. q. X. Elliot, OF Kansas City;
jud. e of the st Louis court of appeals.
J. II. North. of Neosho.
Electors: First district. j. y. Lnudon;
Second, c. L. lIcd@epcth; Third, Frank
Ward: Fourth. j. =. Shoccraft. Jr. z;
Fifth. George y. IIrfner; Sixth, s. j.
Martin: Seven; II, s \. Wright; Fig hth,
A. l.. Douglass; Ninth, J. ID. Wilson;
Tenth, J. Sattincer; Eleventh, w. A.
Jess; Twelfth. j. w. Egan Thirteenth,
r. J. Walker: Fourteenth, S. A.
Haulcy; Fifteenth, j. Il. Roberts.
The platform was then taken up and
discussed. AS adopted it declares for
the initiative and referendum in lcgis
lation; favors calling n national con.
vention to revise the federal con-
stitution; the enactment of stringent
immigration laws; favors the green
back as full legal tender for all de BITS,
to be issued to make n volume of mon.
ey equal to $50 per capita, and declares
hostility to the issuing of interest.
bearing government bonds at any time.
On questions of state interest the plat.
form says:
We demand the enactment of a statute pro-
viding that all evidences of debt, not in judg
ment. shall be presented to the assessor and
assessed and have his stamp upon them to be
colectible by law.
We demand that morgaged property shall be
assessed to the mortgager and mortgagee ac-
cording TO their respective interests, and the
mortgagcr shall pay his portion, as well as
that of the mortgaEee, and the tax receipt
shall be evidence and entitle him in law to a
credit on his debt to the amount paid for the
mortgagee.
The fees and salaries OF some OF our officials
federal, state and county, are far above the
earnings of labor in other avocatons Of life.
and we demand they shall be reduced to level
with toll in other departments of labor.
We demand the enactment of such laws on
the subject OF land and land tenure that poor
families shall be able by reasonable effort to
secure small land holdings for homes. To this
end we declare that no alien shouli own land
in this state: nor shall any railroad other
corporation nOlu any lanu NOT necessary 10 LHe
exercise of its duties as common carrier.
The fight of the convention began
when the address prepared by the COM
mittee was read, declaring for n union
of forces with the democrats of the
tickets. A dozen delegates wanted to
speak at once and the chairman with
difficulty restored order.
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n substitute for the address that "our
chairman and executive committee be
and they are hereby instructed, as a
condition precedent and absolute, that
before any division of said electoral
ticket shall be made, pledging any of
the electors selected by this con-
vention to vote for Hon. William
j. Bryan for president, the said
democratic state committee or the
chairman and executive committee
thereof shall enter into written obli-
cation in duplicate, pledging the demo-
cratic electors selected by the demo-
cratic state committee and remaining
on the union ticket, to vote for Hon.
Thomas E. Watson for vice president;
but if this proposition be rejected, we
hereby instruct our electors in case of
their election to cast their votes for
Hon. S. +. Norton, of Illinois, for pres
ident and Thomas Z. Watson, of Geor-
gia for vice president
The motion to adopt the committee
address as submitted was carried by
majority of PCT to 1S2. When the vote
was announced Atkinson said that he
would refuse to be bound by the action
of the convention. He bolted the con-
vent;on solitary and alone, and in his
shirt sleeves, and delegates called
good-by to him as he left.