The San Francisco call., 1896-05-14

great applause and the vote was made
unanimous.
The proposition to assess all who nomi-
mated candidates for office SO each was
defea ted.
The next matter taken up was a resolu-
tion providing that all resolutions should
be handed up to the desk without being
read, provided that the author of any reso-
luton should Eave the privilege of read
ing 1t in case OF its rejection by the COM
mittee on platform. This was unani-
mously carried.
The report of the committee on per-
manent organization and order of business
recommended that G. H. Castle of Merced
be appointed vice-president of the conven-
ton, and that the temporary officers OF
the convention be made the permanent
officers. This was adopted with a shout
ana recess was taken till 1 P. NJ.
After the noon recess the pla tform was
read by Professor Douglass T. Fowler of
Fresno. He has a fine voice and very
clear enunciatlon and not syllable was
lost Nearly every plank in the platform
was greeted with cheers and yells, many
of the delegates standing on their chairs
and waving their hats while they cheered.
The greatest applause greeted the plank
denouncing the Supreme Court of the
United States.
Out of courtesy to the fair sex the
woman-suffrage plank was taken up first
and was adopted with a shout and much
cheering and waving of hats. The air was
full of enthusiasm and Susan B. Anthony
was affected TO tears. She was called to
the platform and in voice showing traces
OF much agitation said that like Zacharias
she had not come the Lord to see, but to
see the 800 men before her. She thanked
the convention on behalf not only of
the women of the State of California
but of every State in the Union.
who were looking to California and wait
ing and hoping that this convention would
pass the resolution. She was sure that
when the news was flashed over the wire
the people in the far East will chorus,
GLORY, glory, hallelujah!'' for the Popu-
list party of California. She was more
gratifed and reioiced at the action of the
Californian political parties SO far than she
had words to express.
Il could not take a single word from
your resolution or add to it, it is so well
and so strongl ~ worded," she added.
The speaker advised the friends of wo-
man suffrage not to relax in their efforts
to convert unbelievers among their neigh
bors. Woman suffrage was simply estab-
fishing in mans family republican
form of government. She called attention
to the fact that in New York State the
property of women is assessed at a much
higher value proportionately than that of
men. Because women could not vote they
could not complain, and like the poor man,
who is taxed higher In proportion than is
the rich man, they were obliged to suffer
under this injustice.
When the plank indorsing the Omaha
platform and demanding direct legislation
came up an attempt was made to add the
words imperative mandate" to it, but
after considerable waste of time and
words in which frequent claims were made
by the speakers that they had studied the
subject" the plank was adopted as origi-
nally presented.
The anti-bond plank went through with
out an objection
Haskell of San Francisco moved that the
TWO financial planks be consolidated into
one, but the motion did not prevail. Jud ge
Dillon introduced the following substitute
for the financial plank:
We are in favor of sound money and define
the same to consist of gold and silver and the
United States notes, full legal tender for all
debts, private and public, issued by the Gen.
eral Government, without the Intervention OF
banking corporations, and in volume sufficient
to transact the business of the country on a
cash basis, and demand the restoration OF silver
to the place II occupied before the demonetiza-
tion act OF 1873.
After brief discussion the substitute
was laid upon the table and the financial
plank demanding the free coinage of silver
at 16 TO l was adopted unanimously.
The plank on the non partisan tariff
tribunal, over which the committee had
wrangled for several hours last night, was
the next to be taken up for consideration.
1t was read as follows:
We request our delegates 10 the National
Convention to present the following for its
consideration: 1--WE favor genuine protection
to American labor by the restriction OF the
immigration OF foreign labor. and by true
American system OF finance which will render
justice to la Dor and industry and restrain the
evils of usury; and we demand the creation of
a National non-partisan tribunal of experts by
Congress- which shall be subject to The con
troll of Congress; to the end that tariff agita-
tion may be taken out of politics; and to the
end that tariff schedules shall be so adjusted
that the benefit derived therefrom shall result
to labor and not TO trusts; and we denounce
the Democratic and Republican parties for re-
fusing to properly restrict immigration of
foreign labor when having power SO to do in
Congress-
J.V. Webster of San Luis Obispo offered
to amend by striking out all after the
word using" down to the words land we
denounce," and inserting in lieu thereof
the following:
So long as an import duty is necessary we
favor reasonable tariff on imports for the
purposes OF revenue and protection 10 Ameri-
can labor.
Motheral of Kings County declared him
free trade, and he therefore opposed the
amendment.
S. E. Fulton of Los Angeles moved to
lay the entire plank on the plank.
Professor Douglass T. Fowler of Fresno
addressed the convention at length on be-
half of the tariff commission plank. He
wanted something when he went before
the people of all classes by which he could
claim that the Populists could regulate
this as it mad never been regulated by the
old parties. The question was a selfish
one, he agreed. If a man lived in the
south he wanted tariff on raisins, and #
he lived in the north he wanted high
tariff on something else. In order to
ascertain what mans opinions were on
the tariff it was necessary not only TO
know whether he came from the north
or the south, but also his business
must be known. The tariff should
be taken out of politics because business
In the United States was overturned eyery
time there was Congressional or Presi-
dental election. Representative business
men OF the country, would meet this
month in Detroit for the purpose of taking
the tariff out of politics as far as it could
be done, ana they proposed to ask for a
tariff commission or tribunal to deal with