The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-09-07

or place for another convention, and
they considered their campaign for 1900
now opened.
The most important action of the con-
VentiOn was the adoption of the refer
endum system as the cardinal prin-
ciple in the future Of the government
of the reorganiZed party.
After the nominations had been made
resolution was offered by Capt. Frank
Burkett, Of Mississippi providing that
the nominations just made be referred
to a referendum of the voters Of the
Peoples party Of all states and ter
ritories, and said referendum be taken
in accordance with the rules adopted
by this convention for the future gov
eminent Of the Peoples party. These
rules constitute a radical substitute
for those adopted al st. Louis in 1895.
The main change provides that the new
Peoples party should never again hold
a delegate convention of any sort, ma
tional, state, district or local, but that
the nominations for all offices shall be
made through the initiative and
referendum or petitions endorsed by
popular vote"
Another supplemental resolution was
was adopted, II0Viding that the new
national coEcmittee, of which Milton
Park Is chairman, shall take such ac-
ton as it may find necessary In the
courts or otherwise to see that the
names Of all the candidates Of the Pec-
pies party in all localities shall appear
in the regular and legally prescribed
ballots.
Those who followed Palmer of T.
linois, out of the convention, afterward
held q conference and appointed j. a.
Parker, of Kentucky; James E. Nc
Bride, Of Michigan; James H. Ferris, OF
Illinois, and Horace Merritt, OF Tennes
see, a committee to draft another ad-
dress This committee reported the
following which was unanimously
adopted by the boilers:
ANOTHER ADDRESS.
To the Peoples Party of the United States:
On behalf of our delegates who attended
the meeting called at Cincinnati by some of
the old members OF the Peoples party, we
submit the following protest to the action Of
that body:
We attended the convention for the purpose
Of preserving harmony among those who
espoused the straight, pure and simle Peoples
party doctrine But those who controlled
the convention were prompted by some pur-
pose provoking them to override every eff
fort made to promote the interests of the
party. The convention proceeded properly to
establish a referendum system through which
nominees Of the parry for the several Of.
the party voting in their respective pre-
cincts. When we sought TO have central and
national organization committees put the
programme into effect within an hour, they
refused, disregardng the plan adopted by
themselves, and Immediately proceeded to the
nomination of president and vice presidents
and by their action we believe they have
placed themselves outside the regular organ
izauons Of the Peoples party, and created
for themselves a new party. Thereupon, quite
one-half Of the delegates withdrew, prefer
ring TO remain loyal to the Peoples party,
and willing to trust future developments to
remedy party difficulties We implore the
Dom TliuAc pf ctntn 10 YAnU NJ n
to attach importance to this small s-oughing
off Of party timber, but to maintain an ag-
gressive warfare on the line hitherto followed,
to build up and preserve our STATE and local
organizations, in accordance with the recon-
mendstions of the national organization COM
mittees as adopted at Nashville, July 4, 1897,
and the subsequent agreement between our
two national committees at Omaha, relying
on the patriotism and good judgment of men
advocating both policies Of party management
to heal their differences before the time fixed
for our regular national convention.
The above resolutions were unani-
mously adopted by delegates in whole
or part from the state Of Michigan,
Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, Illinois,
Ohio, Tennessee and Arkansas.
THE POPULIST CANDIDATES.
While the candidates of the reor-
ganized dle-of-the-roaders for
president and vice president have never
been in public life before, both Of them
are we'll known. They have been iden-
titled with the Peoples party ever since
its inception, and both are known as
ultra-radicals on the most extreme doc
triDes of the PopuliSts. Both of them
supported Thomas Watson for presi-
dent in 1896, and bitterly opposed the
efforts at fusion at that time, and ever
since. They are both bitterly opposed
to Col. Bryan, and charge him with
instigating Senator Butler as the chair
man Of their former national commit
tee in his efforts to drive them into
fusion and to break UP the Peoples
party. Wharton Barker, Of Philadel-
phia, the candidate for president, is
the editor of the American, the national
organ Of the middle of-the-roaders.
Ignatius Donnelly, Of St. Paul, the
candidate for vice president, has been
known for years as the author who
advocated that Lord Bacon wrote the
plays credited to Shakespeare, and is
also the author of numerous works on
finance, especially on the silver ques-
ton, and on spiritualistic questions