The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-09-14
PENNSYLVANIA
POpultsts of Pennsylvania Repudi-
ate Fusion and Put Up a Straight
POpulist Ticket.
Cincinnati Action and Candidates
EndOrsed and a Radical Plat.
form Put Forth.


form Put Forth.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. Z, 1899.
The state convention of the PEOPLES
party, which met here today, nominated
a full state ticket and placed it upon a
platform that Is a ringing exposition of
true Populism, and f1at-footedly in
dorsed Wharton Barker, of Pennsylva-
MIA, and Ignatius Donnelly, of Mime
sofa, as the candidates of the party next
year for president and vice-president
respectively. The nomination of Bryan
by the Peoples party national conven-
ton would not be listened to by these
Populists, and under no circumstances
would they give him their support The
convention was well attended and rep
resentative, and all expressed them
selves as determined to make an aggres-
sive fight not only in support of the
state ticket put in nomination, but to
make their party real factor in Penn
sylvania.
BY the action of its convention today
the Peoples party of PENNSYLVANIA
plants itself firmly against fusion, and
pledges its unqualified support to the
national ticket nominated last year at
Cincinnati. The state ticket nominated
is as follows: For supreme court, S. F.
Lane of Susquehanna; superior court,
D. o. Couchlin, of Luzerne; state treas
urer, Andrew Story, of Crawford
Wharton Barker, who was a delegate
to the convention, spoke briefly, ex-
planning the present position of the
Peoples party in other sections of the
country, telling of the active work be-
ing done in the South and elsewhere in
organizing for an aggressive campaign
next year. He further stated it as his
firm belief, based upon information
from reliable and influential quarters,
that Bryan would fail of the Democratic
nomination, and that German would be
the probable nominee. He said with the
old lines thus drawn, Populists need not
despair of electing their candidates.
His remarks were received with rapt
attention and enthusiastic applause.
Hon. J. ]. Streeter organizer of the
state of New Jersey, and the leading
Populist of the state, was present as an
invited guest, and spoke a few words
in which he pledged his earnest support
to the cause of Populism.
The platform adopted, which takes
very advanced and decided grounds is
as follows:
PLATFORM.
We. Populists of Pennsylvania as
sembled in state convention this 7th
day of September 1899, affirming our
unshaken belief in the basic tenets of
the Peoples party as expounded in the
Omaha, st. Louis and Cincinnati plat
forms, and pledging ourselves anew to
continued advocacy of those grand prin-
ciples of human liberty until right shall
triumph over might love over greed, do
proclaim:
That there are two great domestic
questions before the American people:
First, the money question, and second,
the railroad question, which involves
the trust question All these questions
we would solve by the issue of paper
money irredeemable in coin, and by the
naturalization of the railroads. We
know that the Democratic and Republi-
can parties do not advocate these mea-
sures. We know that they stand in the
cannot. prostitute our principles by sup
porting the candidates of either of such
parties. The Populist does not want a
gold dollar, nor a silver dollar, but
paper dollar that will be an honest dol
lar, something that gold and silver doll
lars, the volume of which cannot be
regulated at will by the government and
in response to the demands of trade.
cannot be; and he does not want the
railroads to continue to be operated by
corporations as preferential carriers,
but by the government as common car
riers; and seeking to secure these things
and unable to secure them by voting for
Democrats or Republicans, who are op-
POoSu ~ IhOSC IAluSS, VINO are ODcO1cnC
to those who profit unfairly from things
as they are, he must support his own
candidates.
And therefore, as true Populists. do
we solemnly pledge ourselves to our
brethren throughout the land to sum-
port straight Populists for president.and
vice-president in 1900, and none other.
and asserting our supreme confidence in
the probity, ability and untainted Pop
ulism of the candidates named by the
Cincinnati convention, Hon. Wharton
Barker, of Pennsylvania, and Hon. Ig-
natius Donnelly, of Minnesota, and our
belief in their fitness for courageous,
uncompromising and successful leader
ship we proclaim them as the candf- !
dates of our choice, and do pledge to
them our support.
AS American citizens honoring the |
memories Of our forefathers who dared |
light for liberty, and cherishing the
ales Of eternal rectitude they handed
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