The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1896-06-26
DETECTION OF A MILLION VOTERS
FROM M'KINLEY PREDICTED.
ORDER MUCH DlSPLEASED.
of the Ignoring of the Orders
Declaration and the Election of
kerens An Independent
Ticket Hinted At-Con-
ventiOn Scored.

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, June . E. II.
Sellers of Michigan, president of the
A. Z. A. national council, and Con-
gresham WIS. Linton of Michigan are
deeply incensed at the refusal of the
resolution committee of the Republi-
can national convention to incorpor-
ate the declaration demanded by the
order in the platform declaring
for absolute freedom of all public
schools from sectarian influence and
civil inspection of all private educa-
tional Instructions, for the absolute
separation of church and State, for no
more sectarian appropriations, for
stringent immigration laws, for re-
striction of suffrage to citizens only,
for ownership of lands to actual Amer
lean citizens and against alien owner
ship, for prohibition of contract con-
vict labor, for national system Of
education and for the taxation of all
but public property.
Colonel Sellers says the Repub-
lican party will lose million votes,
and will not be able to carry several
states that they are now counting in
the Republican column. He declares
the party will lose 100,0 votes in
Missouri alone, and that it will lose
Illinois as a result OF Nlr. Hanna'S
stupidity or his intentional insult to
the order.
why did the committee on resolu-
tions take this action? One of two
reasons can be given: Either the Re-
publican party designed and intended,
by leaving out this (non-sectrian ap-
preparation plank proposed portion
of the platform, to placate the Roman
Catholic hierarchy of this country,
and by so doing make a bid for that
vote; or, second, to insult the patriotic
associations of the country and at
tempt TO whip them into lne and
make them worship at the shrine of
the golden calf. The action of the
an exhibition of the rankest coward
unparalleled corruption and dishon-
csty that ever emanated from the
heart and mind of man.
The election of Kerens, a pro-
nounced Catholic, and a political ad
visor of Satolli, as member of the
national Republican committee, was
a direct insult, and designed as such,
to all our patriotic societies. {"
Colonel Sellers was asked if the A.
P. A. would put up ticket in Mis-
souri,. He said that that would be
left entirely with the State organiz-
alton, but he thought there would be
an American ticket in nearly every
State in the Union He confirmed
the story that Mark Hanna had re-
ceived an ultimatum from the A. P.
A. of this State, and that he had gone
ever to Kerens in defiance of the
wishes of the order 10 keep Kerens
out of the national committee.
II am going from here to the Dem
cratic convention in Chicago next
month, and l will present the same
plank to the resolutions committee of
that body. While there l will con-
suit with the supreme president of one
of the largest patriotic associa tions in
the country. do not expect to re
ceive any worse treatment at the
hands of the Democratic convention
than [ received here.
Il will come here to the Populist
and Silver party convention, July ~,
aud present the plank. If the result
is the same, believe it is the duty of
the Am rican people to prepare for
the organization of an American party,
pure and simple, based upon the oriei-
nal idea of our fathers"