The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-07-22
Nominate State Ticket and Elect
Delegates to St. Louis.

For Superintendent Of Public Instruction
MISS KATE TAUBMAN Aberdeen
For Commissioner School Lands
A. N. ALLEN WATERFOWL
w. T. LA TOILETTE :. Chamberlain
ALEXANDER KIRKPATRICK -.
:. ;. :. :. ............ Hand County
w. H. TOMPKINs Bennington County
For Electors ..S.,,a.
H. p. Jason :. :. 80. .Tyndall
+. M. GOODYKOoNTZ :. 49,. Dawson
FRANK McLA FISCH :. :. ..Deadwood
Huron, 8. D., July l6.-After a session
which lasted until late Tuesday night the
Populist state convention resumed BUSH
ness yesterday morning and before adj
journing nominated the ticket named
above. There was warm fight over the
congressional and gubernatorial nomina-
tions. The vote for governor stood: Andrew
Lee 327, H. 3. Wynn 137, Melvin Grigsby
156.
At times the contest for places on the
ticket was warm and 1t was not until
early this morning that a platform was
adopted.
The following is the platform as adopt
ed by the conventions:
We hold that to restore and. preserve
the rights granted US under Republican
form of government, private monopolies
Of public necessities for public purposes,
whether of the means of production dis
tributiOn or exchange, should be prohib-
tied. AS the first steps in this direction,
all lands now held by railroads or other
corporations, in excess OF their actual
need. and all lands now owned by aliens.
should be reclaimed by. the government
and held for actual settlers only. The
government should purchase or construct,
operate and control sufficient mileage Of
railroads to effectually control ali rates
of transportation on just and equitable
basis, and we favor the foreclosure of the
government liens on the Pacific roads.
The telegraph and telephone should be-
come a part Of the postal system. The
government should provide for the free
and unlimited coinage of silver and gold
at a ratio Of 16 to 1, Independent of any
other nation on earth, and in addition,
should provide for a full legal tender ma
tional currency, safe, sound and flexible,
issued without the use of banking cor
porations, and in sufficient volume to do
the business Of the country on cash
basis. The government should provide
postal savings banks for the safe deposit
Of the savings Of the people. Relying
upon the good common sense of the Amer
lean people, and believing that majority
of them, when uninf1uenced by party
prejudice, will vote right on all questions
submitted to them on their merits, and,
further, to effectually annihilate the per-
nicious lobby in legislation, we demand
direct legislation by means of the initf-
alive and referendum. We demand the
direct vote of the people; that each state
shall be divided into two districts Of
nearly equal voting population, and that
q senator from each shall be elected by a
direct vote Of the people of the district.
More money to increase prices and legis-
system Of finance and trade for the
American people, should be the battle
cry Of every loyal American citizen until
industrial emancipation has been OBJ
tanned. Therefore, we demand that our
tariff laws shall be administered by a
non-partisan commission under well-de-
fined instructions to protect the American
laborer. We demand that settlers upon
all public lands be granted free homes, as
provided in the original homestead law.
We denounce the present policy Of adj
ministration for it's utterly extravagant,
incapable and corrupt maladministration
of stS>te affairs. We denounce the present
policy of administration of our state de-
partments by proxy and demand that all
state officials shall in the future attend
to their departmental business. We de-
mand the enactment of the Iowa railroad
law. changed to suit this state, as en-
bodied in house bill No. /, which was in
troduced in the last legislature and was
known as the Wheeler bill. We indorse
the work of Senator ]. H. Kyle during his
term in congress. We extend our sincere
congratulations to Senator Pettigrew and
his colleagues in refusing to follow the
Republican party into the gold standard
camp. We heartily commend their patri-
otto stand for American freedom from
European domination and extend to them
a cordial welcome to the ranks of the
peoples party. In case the electors
elected by the peoples party in the ma
ton are not sufficient in numbers to
elect a president. the electors elected by
our party are instructed to cast their
vote in the electoral college so as to elect
a free silver president and thereby de-
feat the gold standard. We instruct our
delegates to our st. Louis convention to
use all honorable means to unite the free
is the sense Of this convention that Will
liam j. Bryan of Nebraska is the most
available man upon whom union can be
made. The submission to the voters of
this state of the proposed amendment to
the constitution repeating the provision
prohibiting the sale and manufacture for
sale OF intoxicating liquors as a beverage
is direct legislation, and we hold that the
voters should consider and vote on this
proposition entirely on it's merits and
should in no manner consider or act upon
1t as party matter.
The delegates to St Louis are H. L.
Loucks, A. L. Vandosel. w. ]. Bulow. C.
B. Kennedy, H. p. Smith, H. s. Volkman,
]. A. Hooker. John Colyin, ]. H. Patton,
J. J. Conway, c. N. Howe, L. p. Sweet
land, George Sparkling, Edward Smith, L.
Meredith, r. B. Moore and VIM. Lardner.
The state free silver organization was
perfected under the direction Of Senator
Pcttigrew and the following delegates
were chosen to the bimetallic national con-
vention to be held at ST. Louis on the
I'D inst: c. A. Jewett. Sioux Falls; w.
1. Lafollette, Chamberlain; c. A. John
son. Hill City; II. S. Jumper, Aberdeen;
Andrew Beveridge. Sioux Falls; w. H.
Davis, Redfield; S. NJ. Daboll. Olivet; y. F..
Teets, Huron; w. D. Russell, Yankton;
John Olberg. Bookings; A. w. Lavender,
Scotland; Harry Sawyer, Miller: J. T. Ma
son. Aberdeen; Gus Gilbert, Parker; Geo..
Palmer, Lennon; G. w. Cleveland, Custer;
J. A. Stramsky, Pukwana.
Senator Pettigrew left Huron at noon
yesterday for Denver in response to a
dozen kilograms from Teller and Dubois
urging him to come there for conference.
Senator Pettigrew was asked to say some
thing in regard to his alleged confession OF
a senatorial conspiracy published last
week in number of Western papers. He
denied that he was ever interviewed upon
the subject, was ever asked word con-
corning It by anyone. that he never ad-
vanced an opinion thereto, and said he
never had any knowledge of such q stua-
ton. He pronounces the interview q fab
rication from beginning to end
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TELLER FOR BRYAN.
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