Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1898-01-15
The PEOPLES PARTY
National Committee Meets
in St. Louis.
ADDRESS TO THE PUBLIC
Popaiists Civ Out the Details of TbeI,
PLAN fof rakiTg Referendum
Vote OF the Rank and File
of Their Party.
(By TeIepraph,

ST LOUIS, MO, JAN 1.-THE ma
tonai committee of the Peoples party.
which met here yesterday. has issued
an address to the people Of the United
States, in part AIS follows:
he fusion movement consunlnna ted
at st. Louis in .Iuly, 1856, and .ths. IN
excusable treatment of our eandi date
for Vice President Din the campaign
that followed, gave rise to such diSsat-
lShaction among the rank and file OF
the Peoples PARTY as to threat ten thx.
absoluts ACKNOWLEDGMENT of the only
polltlcal organization honestly contend.
ing for the social and political, nights of
the iaborins and producing classes of
the country.
1t has beer the purpose always of
the committee to be courteous to the
NATIONAL cUmmibtee and our supreme
desire has been at all times to promote
harmonious cooperation with the
said committee, that ,factional differen-
ces might be obliterate1. our party
prestige regalned and our orga nizat ION
RESTORED to it's once splendid estate
The committee feels confident of its
ability ito show THAT 1T is no fault of
ours that the national COMMITTEES is NOT
present as a body today, but it does not
choose to waste valuable ttmeinwran's-
Ing over questions OF official etiquette.
We avow 1T to be our sincere purpose
TOW as ever heretofore. to promote in
every honorable way the reform move
Teem the issues too monentouS and
the dangers thereafter free govern
Trent too inaninert to allow us to pause
20 consider personal grievances or af-
fronts, or to permit wounded dignity
neal or ina ginary, to overthrow patri-
otto duty.
'Unde,r present conditions our Beloved
organization ds slowly but surely dis
anteg grating and our comrades are clam
ring for aggressive action. Having i'm
vain impcrtuned those who assumed to
be our superiUrs to permit us to aid
,hen in the grand work of re-orgamz-
ing the Peoples Party, that it may ac-
campllsh its glorious mission, we now
appeal to the people. he true source OF
all political power"
( The referendum committee IA appointed
S as follows:
Messrs. Dixon, Missouri: Tracey, Tex
as; Reynolds. Illinois; tMatzinger, In
iri.ana and MdGregor. Genrgia.
A number of rules We're adopted for
the government OF tire national orsan1-
cation, among them a rule THAT the ala-
rionaf organization committee shall
submit TO a vote of the Peoples Party
amy proposition when petitiored ITO do
SO by not less than $1,000 members OF
the part iSsssy a
On the adjournment Of the orga niza.
tion committee OF the Peoples Psrst y
The members OF the national commit
tee present met at the Laclede Hotel
and adopted the following resolutions:
Resolved. That we. the members of
the Ma tionaI committee present. endorse
the action taken by the Organization
committee and recommend THAT it's pro
visions be carried into effect, believing
that such action will harmonic all diff
fereneess in the party
There were seventy-four members OF
the committee represented by members
present or proNies. and letters who ia
.vorsd a Joint meeting of the national
commltt.e and organization commits
tee in the spring. Forty States were
represent ted ait this meeting.