The herald., 1898-01-14
A LONE HAND
For Playing the Next Game
of Politics
P0PULISTS REINCARNATED
ASSUMING THE NAME OF THE
PEOPLES PARTY
The Avowed Purpose Is True Popu'
listic Reform and No Fusion
With Anybody
associated Press Special Wire

associated Press Special Wire
ST. LOUIS, Jan. ia new party was
born tonight in the conference of the
Populists and named the Peoples party
The Peoples party proposes to go ii
alone and has severed all connections
with the national Populist committee
and made arrangements for administer
ing upon its estate without the aid or ad-
vice of any outside party. With few eX-
ceptions, the delegates declared them
selves unequivocally in favor of going it
alone in the future. The referendum
system was highly complmented and
recommended for use among the middle
of-the-roaders in settling matters of ma
tional Importance to the order, and there
was a practical agreement among the
delegates that national presidential
convention should be held this year. The
entire afternoon and evening was spent
in the discussion and it was not until a
late hour tonight that the mode of pro-
cedure for full action was agreed upon.
Finally a report was adopted as fol-
lows, in part:
ITO the People of the United States;
St. Louis in July, 1896, and the inexcusa-
BILE treatment of our candidate for vice
president in the campaign afterward,
gave rise to such dissatisfaction among
the rank and file of the Peoples party
as to threaten the absolute dismember
ment of the only political organization
honestly contending for the social and
political rights of the laboring and pro-
oIo Of 10
1T has been the purpose always of the
committee to be courteous to the ma
tional committee and our supreme desire
has at all times been to promote har-
monious cooperation with said commit
tee, that factional differences might be
obiterated, our party prestige regained
and our organization restored to its once
splendid estate This committee feels
confident of it's ability to show that it
is no fault of ours that the national COM
mittee is not present as body today,
but it does not choose to waste valuable
time in wrangling over questions of ofti-
cial etiquette We avow it to be our sin
cere purpose now, as heretofore, to pro-
mote in every honorable way the reform
movement on true Populistic lines, and
we deem the issues too momentous and
lU6 udIlStlS IGeitcllliIS llCC SONNl ~
ment too imminent to allow US to pause
to consider personal grievances or af-
fronts or to permit wounded dignity, real
or imaginary, to overshadow patriotic
duties.
Under present conditions, our be-
loved organization is slowly but surely
disintegrating and our comrades are
clamorous for aggressive action.
I,
assumed to be our superiors to permit
us to aid them in the grand work of re-
organizing the Peoples party, that it
may accomplish its glorious mission, we
now appeal to the people the true
source of all political power"
The referendum committee appointed
is as follows: Messrs. Dixon of Mis-
souri,, Tracey of Texas, Reynolds of
Illinois, Matsinger of Indiana and Nc
Gregor of Georgia.
A number of rules We're adopted for the
government of the national organizing
committee, among them a rule that the
national organizing committee shall
submit to a vote of the Peoples party
any proposition when petitioned to do
so by not less than ten thousand mem
bers of the party.
This concluded the work of the con-
ference.
On adjournment of the reorganization
committee of the Peoples party, the
members of the national committee
present met at the La Clede hotel and
adopted the following:
Resolved That we, the members of
the national committee present, indorse
the action taken by the organization
committee, and recommend that its pro-
visions be carried into effect, believing
that such action will harmonze all diff
ferences in the party"
There We're seventy-four members of
the committee represented by members
present, or by proxies and letters, who
favored joint meeting of the national
committee and organization committee
in the spring. Forty states were repre-
sented at the meeting