The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-18
AND RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF 1T,
WILL BE THE PEOPLES
PARTY MOTTO
An ADDRESS TO THE VOTERS
1T IS ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL
ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE
- AT KANSAS CITY
POLICY IS MADE PLAIN


Presidential and Vice Presiden-
tiaI Nominations of POpuIist
Party FaiIs-TeNt of Address
1T Provides for Contingencies.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, May 17.-An ad-
dress to the Populists of the country
was issued here tonight by the national
organization committee of the Peoples
party, with the endorsement of the Ma
tional Reform Press association These
two bodies, whose common object it is to
Keep the Peoples party In the middle of
the road, avoiding fusion with either of
the other political parties everywhere
has been in session here since Tuesday
morning, and the adoption of the address
concluded their labors. All was not har-
mony between these middle,of the road
leaders, and only after long and heated
discussions was an address agreed upon
hard fight was made to secure the in
dorsement of Wharton Barker and Igna-
thus Dopnelly for president and vice pres
1dent in 1900, but this the committee re-
fused to recommend. Instead thorough
organization Of the middle-of- -the-roaders
in every section of the country is urged
enter the next national campaign with
the present Populist organization, but
that wherever fusion shall gain the day,
whether in county, state or national tick
cts, the middle-of- f-the-roaders shall bolt
and begin an active campaign to carry out
their principles.
The alleged fusionist tendencies of Mar
lon Butler, chairman of the Peoples ma
uonal committee, are provided against in
a clause which authorizes the national or
ganizatIon committee to call national
convention If they shall be convinced that
The national chairman or national COM
rnittee are playing into the hands of the
fusionists. The address of the committee
In substance follows:
ADDRESS TO VOTERS.
That the voters of the nation NAV feel
assured that the Peoples party shall not
again be betrayed in national convention,
or Its working forces passed into the
hands OF the enemy, and to inspire con-
f1dence among the masses in the integ-
rlty OF our acts and sincerity of our de-
mands for Independent action as party;
we respectfully submit to the Populists
zion: :'e i-4'-'A TUG ioi'O"ine plah OF ac-
First, that the national organization
committee hereby instruct its chairman
10 proceed with the formation of PEOPLES
party precinct clubs in all the states, on
the plan recommended by the Cincinnati
relative plan, and to appoint in each state
not having members already selected
three members of the national organiza-
tion committee and with the advice and
ability Of these committees to select q
state organization committee of the same
number of members in the then existing
state committee, and through these COM
m1tteeS to organize far as possible
organization committees in congressionei
districts, counties and voting precincts
Wherever 1t is positively known that
these members of national, state and
other committees now existing are un-
qualifedly opposed to fusion with either
of the old parties, and for independent
party, they are to be selected as mem
bers of the several organization com
mittees.
DUTIES OF WORKERS.
Second, 1t 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 fn-
: sion; and, failing in this, to provide for
and send contesting delegates to the
those who are opposed to fusion are un-
fairly or dishonorably treated in the
county convention, they shall send dele
cation to contest the seats of the fusion
delegation In the state convention
II the state convention, is controlled
an honorable and Straightforward Peo-
pies party policy, as soon as this is de-
termiped the middle-of-th -the-road delega-
tions 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 convention be controlled by straight
PopuliSts, all delegates sent by this nIan
shall be in honor bound to name those
candidates for president and vice presi-
dent provided bv the referendum vote.
provided, in the judgment of the national
organization committee there shall have
been sufficient organization to make
such vote both practicable and repre-
sentative Of the will of the party.
Should the national convention of 1900
be controlled In the interest of fusion
the straight delegations shall leave said
convention and Join the contesting dele
cations sent under this plan in straight
convention, and there carry out the will
of the people of the nation without re-
gard to the fusion convention.
In this case the national organizat ton
committee and the several state district.
county and precinct committees organ
ized d. under 9l, this plan shall be recognized
ity In the affairs of the Peoples party
CALL FOR CONVENTION.
IF 1t should occur that the national
committee fails to issue the call for a
national Peoples party convention with
In due time, in~the discretion of the ma
tional organization committee of said or
ganization, the. committee shall then pro
ceed TO issue call for national con-
vention.F
I'VE offer this plan of action knowing
1t will, first show to every Po.ulist, that
we are willing to remain in good fellow
ship with our fusion, brethren with
whom we nave differed in the past in
accepting distasteful allegiance with the
enemies les, of ,.tl3 the Peoples party; provided
original principles of the party, and the
line of action intended by its founders
who declared in Omaha In 1892 that thc
two old parties We're Jointly responsible
for the miseries of the people, and the
unjust legislation which oppressed them
second, if they refuse to do SO; that
We wish them to know that we can go
with them no further, preferring to ad-
here to the grand principles of untainted
sPopulism rather than traffic in those sa-
cred principles for personal or political
- advancement and gain.
I'VE share the humiliation of the Pom
ulist voters who have found themselves
in the past forced to vote for Candidates
not in sympathy with each demand of
the Peoples party platform, and urge
them to diligently work in the future to
avert any repetition of such compIica-
tions.
I'VE recommend that an earnest effort
to carry Que the request for the referen-
dunn vote asked for at the Cincinnati
convention be maze, that the fullest ex-
preston on the question may be OBJ
tanned.
I'm order that states using the national