The Goodland republic., 1896-03-27
THE HlT6HaN CONVENTION.
Tie PopUlist Stats Convention Selects Rsls-
gates to St. Louis.
Party Leaders ssnguine Over the situa-
tiOn Both State and NatiOnaI-The
Platform Adopted.

I pOpullSt5 were waiting on Inc commit
tees, a love feast was il order. Jerry
Simpson was first called upon and re-
ceived an ovation as he presented him
self. He said that the issue of the day
was that the men who toiled and work
ed we're entitled to what they produced.
The men who worked had little share
of the fruits of their labor, men who
lived in idleness getting the best Of it.
Life for the toiler was never so hard a
struggle as to-day. The effect of labor
saving machinery was to enslaEe the
toiler the more, and to enrich the men
who command the money of the coun-
try He stood for the great 'trinity of
reform, land, transportation and f.
nance" All men should have an equal
chance in the race for life.
Ex-Gov. Lewelling was called upon
and the convention shouted Justify.
He said that this convention had been
a reunion for him. 1t was gratifying
"to again meet the dispersed fragments
of the populist party" Abiding to the
republican promises of 1894, he said it
must be very gratifying to the popul-
lists to know that their redeemer liYeth,
that the state had been redeemed. The
country was now confronting the great
est epoch of the times, and it must cul-
inmate in the two great conventions at
st. Louis. There must be common
ground upon which the people might
unite to fight the greatest wrongs of
the history of mankind. He spoke for
more than free siIver-he spoke for
currency reform, for postal savings
banks He spoke also for government
ownership of trunk lines of railroads;
he spoke for the initiative and referen-
dun. But to accomplish these things,
the people must be as wise as serpents
and as harmless as doves. All elements
must come into the new, grand old
party to overcome the damned old
party. "God," he said, "will provide
the man to lead in this great fight
which now confronts the country. We
want no pampered son of luxury
through whom to make our demands.
When the democrats come boiling from
Chicago, and come knocking at our
doors in st. Louis, the man will ap-
pear" His reference to Ben Tillman
as "John the Baptist coming out of the
wilderness" was cheered again and
again.
Frank DOster on Republicans.
Frank Doster was the next speaker.
He said: "We are called calamity howl
ers. It is said our political stock in
trade is woes and lamentations. You
know our mortgages stand for our
prosperity. But we can't keep up a
sorrOwful strain always. There are
some things upon which we may con-
gratulate ourselves. 1t is gratifying
that this so-eaIled republican prosper
ity has not prevented you from coming
here. Not one of you has come on a
railroad pass, and none of you can use
a telegraph frank. Neither H. A. Low
nor Tom Anderson nor Bailey Waggen-
er nor A. H. Horton nor George R.
Peck nor A. A. Hurd are here to guide
OF direct your deliberations. Every
man here has convictions upon the
great questions of the day. And you
have the the courage to declare these
convictions. We believe without fear
in the free coinage of silver at 16 to l;
we are in favor of all those things
which our distinguished ex-governor
has just now spoken of. We are not
in sympathy with that pot-beilied man
of Maine who says Do nothing nor
with the one-idea man of Ohio, Dor
with the no-idea man of Iowa, who says
| Me, toO;' nor with the whole line OF
iaokasses from John Ingalls, and Nor
rill down to T. B. Dawes, who bray out
meaningless platitudes about bimetal-
ism" In contrast with these men he
referred in eulogy to weIl-knOwn popul-
ist leaders of the country, the name OF
Ben Tillman electrifying the audience
Leedy Makes Talk.
| John w. Leedy of Coffee county was
called out. He said he had come here
to see what manner Of men would dare
to discuss economic questions when
the president Of the United States had
said ali that was needed out here was
missionaries and United States mar
shals. Beside the convention had The
holy example of the Wichita convention
which was presided over by a man who
allowed no man to speak VINO was not
branded, and which had been enter
tanned by Tom Anderson singing negro
melodies while the railroads we're steal
ing the farmers corn. This caused
tremendous applause. Then he launch
ed into the railroad question, and said
that the men whose only business was
to water stock and rob the people