The Chipley banner. (Chipley, Washington County, Fla.) 1893-1943, 1898-01-22
NEW POPULlST PARTY.
conference OF Leaders at 81, Iou,. Ad,,.
New Name.

~ cts Louis AdOpt
New Name.
AT the conference Of the ponnli,,
leaders held in st. Louis new politi.
cal party was christened. II was given
'ne cognomen Of people Party. 2
After lengthy discussions, the mode
VI procedure for future action was
agreed upon. A report was adopted
as follows, in part: ''D
10 the people Of the United Statss.
ne fusion movement cousummated at
OF Louis in July, 1896, and the inex.
oussoie treatment Of our candidate for
vice president in the campaign that
Followed, gave rise to such dissatisfac.
ton among the rank and file Of the
peoples party as to threaten the abso.
lutte dismem berment Of the only politi.
cal organization honestly contendinp
Tor the social and political rights Of
the laboring and producing classes Of
the country.
1T has been the purpose always OF
the committee to be courteous to the
national committee and our supreme
desire has been at all times to promote
a harmonious cooperation with said
committee, that factional differences
might be obliterated, our party pres.
tige regsined and our organization re.
stored to its once splendid estate.
This committee feels confident OF its
ability to show that it is no fault of
ours that the national committee is
not present as body today, but it
does not choose to waste valuable time
in wrangling over questions Of official
etiquette. We avow it to be our sin.
cere purpose now as ever heretofore,
to promote in every honorable way the
reform movement on true populist
lines, and We deem the issues too mo.
mentous and the dangers threatening
free government too imminent to allow
us to pause to consider personal
grievances or affronts, or to permit
wounded dignity, real or imaginary,
to overshapow patriotic duty.
Under present conditions our be.
loved organization is slowly but sure.
" disintegrating and our comrades are
clsmorous for aggressive action.
"Having in vain importuned those
who assumed to be our superiors to
permit MS to aid them in the grand
work of recognizing the peoples
party, that it may accomplish its glori-
GUS mission, we now appeal to the
people, the true source Of all political
power"
The referendum committee appoint
ed is as follows:
Messrs. Dixon, of Missouri; Tracey,
OF Texas; Reynolds, OF Illinois; Mat.
singer, Of Indiana, and McGregor, Of
Georgia.
A number OF rules were adopted for
government Of the national organiza-
ton committee, among them a rule
that the national organization shall
submit TO vote Of the peoples party
any proposition when petitioned to do
SO BY not less than 10000 members OF
the party.
This concluded the work Of the con-
ference.
On the adjournment Of the organiza-
ton committee Of the peoples party,
members Of the national committee
met at the Laclede hotel and adopted
the following resolution:
Resolved, That We, the members
of the national committee present, ill.,
dorse the action taken by the organi.
cation committee and recommend that
its provisions be carried into :, effect
believing that such action will har'
monize all differences in the party"
There were seventy-four members
of the committee represented by mem
bers present or by proxies and letters
who favored Joint meeting OF the M
tionsl committee and organization
committee in the spring. Forty states
were represented at this meeting.
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