The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-25
PoPULISM'S NEW PLATFORM
MIDDLE OF THE ROAD COMMITTEE
DRAWS UP AN OUTLINE.

Recommend Holding the National
day in April Next-Demand AbsO-
lutte Paper Money and Free Coin
age of Silver at 16 to I-GOVern-
ment Ownership of Railroad, Tel
egraph and Telephone Lines-The
Initiative and Referendum and
Imperative Mandate Recommends
cd.
st. Louis Mo-, Nov. 24.-After an all
night session. the national organization
committee, representing the middle-of- the
road faction of the populist party, conven-
ed to-day behind closed doors. This after
noon T Abe Sternberger of Kansas gave
out the following resolutions as having
been unanimously adopted by the commit
tee:
Considering the Importance of active
and aggressive work to the end of lining
up all reform forces for future campaigns,
we, the national organization committee
OF the peoples party. hereby call a meet
ing of said committee at the LaClede ho-
tel, st. Louis, for Jan 70, 1898, to the end
of the party and effectng a more compact
organization. we respectfully invite the
national committee of the peoples party
to act with us in conference on the above
date, appealing to their patriotic sense of
duty to aid us in restoring to its once
splendid estate our party Organiza ton.
Feeling it due to the masses of the peo-
pies party to outline the objects of this
call, we submit the following:
1--WE recommend the holding of a ma
tional nominating convention on the first
Wednesday in April, '1S9S.
I'VE recommend the holding of state
conventions at which state delegates to
the national convention shall be chosen,
on the third Wednesday in March, 1898.
1--WE recommend that the nominations of
congressman be delayed until after the
holding of the national convention.
I'VE recommend that the platform on
which the contest for 1898 and 1900 be
waged should embody the following propo-
sitions:
a. Absolute paper money, based on
every commodity and resource of the ma
ton, full legal tender and receivable for
al duties by the United States. +
''2. The free coinage of silver at the
present legal ratio; the coin debt of the
United States payable in either, at the
option of the government.
80. All money to be issued by the gov
eminent and to be paid out direct to the
people, for services rendered. or to be
loaned them at a low rate of interest on
safe security and without the Intervention
of private banks. provided that the vol
ume of the currency shall not exceed $50
per capita.
"a. Government ownership and opera
tion OF railroads, telegraph and telephone
lines.
IS. Opposition TO alien ownership and
of holding land for speculative purposes.
sc. Opposition to court-made law.
81. Opposition TO trusts.
'S. We earnestly recommend the initia-
tive and referendum and the imperative
mandate
Milton Park, the chairman of the com,
mittee, said he believed the address en-
bodied the platform upon which the peo-
pie of the United States would stand and
give hearty support.
AT the meeting to be held next Janu-
airy In ST. Louis, Mr. Park said that he
believed that there would be many promi-
nent populists from all sections of the
country. Whether or not the national
committee would attend, he said, he did
not know, but even if it did not, his COM
mitlee would go on and make its own
nominatio for President in 1900.