The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-05-25
THE MEETING
AT KANSASClTY
An Important Gathering
The Address.

Peoples Party, May II, at Kansas City:
That the voters of the nation may
feel assured that the Peoples Party shall
not again be betrayed in national con-
vention, or its working forces passed in
to the hands of the enemy, and to inspire
confidence among the masses in the in
tegrity of our acts and sincerity of our
demands for independent action as a
party, we respectfully submit to the Pop
ulists of the nation the following plan
of action:
First, that the national organization
committee hereby instruct it's chairman
to proceed with the formation of PeO-
pies party precinct clubs in all the
states, on the plan recommended by the
Cincinnati convention of September,
1898, or some relative plan, and to ap-
point in each state not having members
already selected three members of the
national organization committee, and
with the advice and ability of these COM
mittees to select a state organization
committee of the same number of men,
bers in the then existing state commit
tee, and through these committees to or
ganize, as far as possible, organization
committees in congressional districts,
counties, and voting precincts. Where
ever it Is positively known that these
members of national, state and other
committees now existing are unquali-
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the old parties, and for Independent
straightforward action by the Peoples
party, they are to be selected as men,
bers of the several organization commit
tees.
DUTIES OF WORKERS.
"Second-It shall be the duty of these
several committees to use all honorable
means to secure the selection of dele
gates to the various conventions leading
up to the nominating presidential con-
vention of 1900, who are opposed to fu-
sion; and, failing in this, to provide for
and send contesting delegates to the
several conventions. That is to say, if
those who are opposed to fusion are un-
fairly or dishonorably treated in the
county convention, they shall send del
egation 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 Peo-
pies Party policy, as soon as this is de-
termined the middle-of- -the-road dele
cations shall leave the convention and
send contesting delegation from tina,
state to the national convention. Should
the convention be controlled by straight
POpulists, all delegates sent by this plan
shall be in honor bound to name those
candidates for president and vice-pres-
ident, provided by the referendum vote;
provided, in the judgment of the ma
tional organization committee, there
shall have been sufficient organization to
make such a vote both practicable and
representative of the will of the party.
SHOULD the national convention of
1900 be controlled in the interest of "fu-
sion," the straight delegations shall
leave said convention and join the con-
testing delegations sent under this plan
in straight convention, and there carry
out the will Of the people for the nation.
without regard to the fusion conven-
ton.
"In this case the national organiza-
tion committee and the several state,
district, county and precinct commit
tees organized under this plan, shall be
recognized as the only committee having
any authority in the affairs of the Peo-
pies party.
CALL FOR CONVENTION.
IF it should occur that the national
committee fails to issue the call for
national Peoples Party convention with
in due form, in the discretion of the ma
tional organization committee of said or
ganization, the committee shall then
proceed to issue call for a national
convention.
1--WE offer this plan of action, knowing
it will, first, show to every Popuiist that
we are willing to remain in good fellow
ship with our fusion brethren with
whom we have differed in the past in
accepting distasteful allegiance with the
enemies of the Peoples Party; provided
they will, with us, stand squarely on the
original principles of the party, and the
line of action intended by it's founders,
who declared in Omaha, in 1892, that the
two old parties were jointly responsible
for hn Af fho h.
unjust legislation which oppressed them.
"Second-f they refuse to do so, that
we wish them to know that we can 20
with them no further, preferring to ad-
here to the grand principles of untainted
Populism rather than traffic in those sa-
cred principles for personal or political
Advancement and gain.
I'VE share the humiliation Of the Pop