The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-09-07

declarations in the platform do not
differ from those of other platforms,
except in the plank which especially
/ denounces Senator Marion Butler of
North Carolina, as chairman of their
national committee for attempting Ito
! drive the Popuiist party into the DEM
! ocratic party
The resolutions also provide for the
reorganization of the party with Mil
| ton Park of Dallas, Tex, as chairman.
/ The boiling delegates said they were
instructed not TO participate in the
nomination of a ticket
The convention adjourned without
liking any time or place for another
convention, and they consider their
campaign for 1900 now opened.
REFERENDUM SYSTEM.
The most important action of the
convention was the adoption of the
referendum system as the cardinal
principal in the future of the govern
ment of the reorganized- party. After
the nominations had been made, a res
olution was offered by Captain 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 terri
tories, and that said referendum be
taken in accordance with the rules
adopted by this convention for the fu-
ture government of the Peoples party.
These rules constitute a radical SubSti-
tute for those adopted at st. Louis in
1896.
The main change provides that the
new Peoples party should never again
hold a delegate convention of any sort,
national, state, district or local. but
that the nominations for all offices
should be made through the initiative
ard referendum or petitions endorsed
By popular vote"
Another supplemental resolution was
adopted, providing that the new nation
al committee. OF. which Milton Park is
chairman, shall take such action as it
may find necessary in the courts and
otherwise. to see that names of all the
candidates of the Peoples party in all
localities shall appear in the regular
and legally prescribed ballots.
THE BOILERS ADDRESS.
Those who followed Palmer of I'LL
nois out of the convention afterward
held conference and appointed Joe
A. Parker of Kentucky, James Z. Nc
Bride of Michigan, James II. Ferris of
Illinois and Horace Merritt of Tonnes
see. a committee to draft another ad-
dress. This committee reported the fol-
lowing, which was unanimously adopt
ed by the boilers:
States: On behalf OF our delegates who
attended the meeting called at Cincin-
natl by some old members of the Peo-
pies party, we submit the following
protest to the action of that body:
1--WE attended the convention for the
purpose of preserving harmony among
those who espoused the straight pure
and simple Peoples party doctrine. But
those who controlled the convention
were prompted by some purpose pro-
VOking them to override every effort
made TO promote the interests of the
party.
1.-THE convention proceeded properly
to establish a referendum system,
through which nominees of the party
for the several offices could be selected
by the members of the party voting in
their respective precincts. When we
sought to have the national, central
and national organization committees
put the programme into effect, within
an hour they refused, diSregarding the
plan adopted by themselves and imme-
diately proceeded to the nomination of
president and vice president; and by
their action we believe they have
placed themselves outside the regular
organization of the Peoples party and
created for themselves a new party.
''Thereupon quite one-half the dele
gates withdrew at once, preferring to
remain loyal TO the Peoples party and
willing to trust future developments to
remedy party difficulties. We implore
the Populists of every state to pay no
heed nor to attach Importance to this |
small sloughing off of party timber, but |
to maintain an aggressive warfare on |
the line hitherto followed; to build up !,
and preserve our state and local or
CARNATIONS, in accordance with the rec
concentrations of the national organi- !
cation committee, as adopted at Nash
vile, July 4, 1897, and the subsequent |
agreement between our two national |
committees at Omaha, June Is, 1898, !
relying on the patriotism and good |
Judgment of men advocating both poll |
cies of party management to heal their |
before the time fixed for our
regular national convention /
The above resolutions were unani-
mously adopted by delegates in whole
Or part from the states of Michigan,
Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, Ten
nessee. Missouri and Arkansas.