The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-05-18

shall send delegation to contest the seats of
the fusion delegation in the State convention.
If the State convention is controlled in the
interest of fusion and against an honorable
and straightforward Peoples party policy, as
road delegations shall leave the convention,
and, uniting with the contesting delegations,
shall hold another State convention and send
a contesting delegation from that State to the
national convention. Should the national con-
vention be controlled by straight PoRulists, all
delegates sent under this plan shall feel them
selves in honor bound to nominate those can
didates for President and Vice President
recommended by the referendum vote. pro-
vided, in the Judgment of the national organ
ization committee, there shall have been suff-
cient organization to make such vote both
practicable and representative of the will of
the party.
Should the national convention of 1900 be con-
troiled In the interest of fusion the straight
delegations shall leave said convention and
join the contesting delegations sent under this
plan IN straight convention and there carry
out the will of the Populists of the nation
without regard to the fusion convention. In
this case the national organization committee
and the several State, district county and
shall be recognized as the only committees
having any authority in the affairs of the
Peoples party.
If it should SO occur that the national com
mittee fail to issue the call for national Peo-
pies party convention within due time, in the
discretion of the national organization COM
mittee, said organization committee shall then
proceed to issue a call for national conven-
We offer this plan of action knowing that It
will, first, show to every Populist that we are
willing to remain in good fellowship with our
fusion brethren, from whom we have diff
fered in the past in accepting distasteful al
legiance with the enemies of the Peoples par
ty; provided they will, with us, stand square
ly on the original principles of the party and
the lines OF action intended by its founders who
declared in Omaha in 1892 that the two old
parties were jointly responsible for the miser-
les of the people and the unjust legislation
which oppressed them: second, IL they refuse
to do so. that we wish them to know that
we can go with them no further, preferring
to adhere to the grand principles of untainted
Populism than to traffic in those sacred prin-
ciples for personal political advancement
and gain.
We share the humiliation of the Popuist vot-
ers who have found themselves in the past
forced to vote for candidates not in sympathy
with each demand of the Peoples party plat
form and urge them TO diligently work in the
future to avert any repetition of such COM
plications
We recommend that an earnest effort to carry
for by the Cincinnati convention be made so
that the fullest expression the question may
be obtained.
In order that States using the national pre-
cinct referendum club systems of party govern
ment may be made most effective, recon-
mend that these clubs be prepared to vote on
national candidates and other questions be-
send a tabulated vote of same by States to Hon
Milton Park, chairman national organization
committee, Dallas, Tex, who prac-
ticable shall certify national results of same to
the public
WILLIAM L. PEEK chairman,
JOE A. PARKE,
L. STEBBINS,