People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1900-05-17
Thursday, May II, 1900.
OUR TICKET.
The National Convention.

Ozaha where on that evening banquet
was given at which Mr.. Bryan and
others spoke. After the banquet a
special train heavily loaded with dele
gltes started for Sioux Falls, which place
was reached about 10 O'Clock the next
morning. The trip throughout was
through a magnificent country well
under cultivation and with splendid
prospects for an excellent crop. The
meetings at Omaha and at Sioux Falls
were enthusiastic and earnest. The fol-
TOWing taken from the Omaha World
Herald is all excellent though briet
account of the convention:
Sioux Falls, SD, May Io.-William
], Bryan was nominated for president by
exclamation and as q result of a steady
dnft OF sentiment for the last two DAYS,
the Populist national convention tonight
by vote Of two to one voted down all
propositions intended to defer a vice
presidential nomination and then by &C
C,amatlon, and amid greatest enthusiasm,
nominated Charles A. Towne as Mr..
Bryan's running mate in the ensuing
Campaign. Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado
and Kansas stood almost solidly to the
end against vice president nomination.
but the sentiment of eastern and south |
eTn delegations was too strong to he
overcome.
Alta noon conference participated in
BY the chairman Of all the state delega- |
tons, presided over by Governor Poyn-
Ter, the Towne support was clearly indi- |
Gated controlling the convention and !
tie fght thereafter was a hopeless one.
The opposition to Towne's nomination
was made, of course, purely on grounds
CT expediency. To man, almost, the
delegates were for Charles A. Towne for
vice president, the minority acting from
belief that his nomination by this con-
veutlon might imperil his nomination at
Kansas City. The majority, however,
contended, and successfully, that his
nomination here was essential to the con-
~nueu existence OF the Peoples party.
UNANIMOUS FOR FUSION.
The great significant features of the
session, overshadowing everything else
was the everywhere expressed determine
tson that nothing that the Kansas CITY
convention may or may not do on the
vice presidential question shall be al
fHTed to hinder fusion or in anv wav
take from Mr.. Bryan Populist support.
When Senator Butler, the leader of
the Iowne forces declared in the con-
yention that even should the Democrats
tail to nominate Towne the two vice
presidents candidates would work to-
gether to secure Bryan's election, he
voiced the unanimous sentiment of the
delegates.
Although there was a grave and vital
difference Of opinion on all important ,
question, factionalism and bitter FEELING
were noticeably absent. While two or
three of the leaders clashed once or
twice, the body of the convention was ,
always calm, temperate and devoid of
II feeling.
BRYAN's NOMINATION.
BRYAN was nominated for the presi-
Gently By reclamation by a wildly enthu-
siastic vote, the delegates rising, cheer
ing aud waving flags and Bryan's
pictures for full three minutes. The
nominating speech by Senator Allen, ell
oquert and strong as it was brief, had
started rolling a wave of enthusiasm that
was heightened and intensified BY the
seCsnding speeches of Jerry Simpson,
General Weaver and George F. Wash
burn Cyclone" Davis, Marion Butler,
W. J. Thomas Of Colorado, and A. D.
Olds of Pennsylvania. The last named
gentleman was a gray and venerable
patriarch of Sc, who declared he had
voted for Henry Clay, John c. Fremont,
and Abraham Lincoln.
The great Observation-Disclosures Bry-
ans Nomination having subsidized, there {
was intense stiffness that presaged the /
ceining storm when Chairman Patterson {
said 1.-THE next order of the business
reads as follows: To take action on the
nomination Of candidate for vice presi-
dent Of the United States. The chair
awaits the pleasure of the convention"
Charles A. Towne, after a long de-
bate was then nominated for vice presi-
dent by reclamation
PLATFORM ADOPTED:
The Populist party of the United States,
IN convention assembled, congratulating
Its supporters on the wide extension of
lis principles in all directions, does here
by reafirln its adherence to the funda-
mental principles proclaimed in its two
prior platforms and calls upon all who
desire to avert the subversion of free in
Stitutions by corporate and imperialistic
power to unite with it in bringing the
government back TO the ideas of Wash
iHgton, Jefferson, Jackson and Lincoln.
Ii extends to its allies in the struggle
for financial and economic freedom as
sur3uceS of its loyalty to the principles
which animate the allied forces and the
promise Of honest and hearty co-opera-
zion in every effort for their success.
To Jhe people of the United States we
offer the present platform as the express
sion Of our unalterable convictions:
Resolved, That we denounce the act
OF March IL, 1900, as the elimination of
long series OF conspiracies to deprive
The people of their constitutional rights
ever the money of the nation and rele-
gate to gigantic money trust, the con-
Uol of the purse, and hence to the
people.
We denounce this act first, for making
all money obligations domestic and for
eign, payable in gold coin, or its equiva-
Eent, enormously increasing the burdens
OF the debtors and enricSing the credi-
tors.
Second, for refuuding ucoin hondsn