The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-05-10
POPULISTS HOLD
TWO C0NY YENTIONS
Assemble in Cincinnati
and Sioux Falls.
CHEERS AND JEERs.
Brvan's Name Evoked Great Ap-
pIause at Sioux Falls.
DENOUNCED AT CINCINNATI
I.natius DonnelIy at the Iiddle-of-
the-Road Populist Convention
Excoriated the Exponent of
the Chicago Platform.
Bryan an.. Towne Ban
ners Wave.
DENOUNCED AT CINCINNATI

SIOUX TAILS. S. D., May Sit was
but a few minutes after 2 o'clock when
Chairman Butler called the National sPopu-
list Convention to order.
All the delegations entered quietly, with
the exception OF those from Minnesota ana
Nebra ska, both of which evoked much ap-
plause as they came marching down the
aisles.
The Minnesota men carried banners and
a large shield upon which was inscribed
BRYAN and Towne.''
A large number of the delegates carried
tin horns and made their presence mani
fest by ear-splitting toots.
After the band of the Fifty-first Iowa
Infantry had rendered a patriotic selection,
Bishop OfGorman read an invocation. Ihen
the band played medley of patriotic airs,
amid deafening cheers and waving OF ffass.
Governor Lee, of South Dakota, on behalf
of his State, welcomed the convention IN
a vigorous speech, in which he sketched
Populist principles, asserted that four years
more of McKinleyism may forever hufy
Democratic government in America, ana
eulosized Bryan as a standard bearer lie
referred to the splendid herosm of the
South African republic amid an outburst
of cheers.
The allusion to Bryan brought the dele
gates to their feet in a hurricane of cheers
and waving of flags, some enthusiastic
delegates climbing on their chairs to voice
their approval.
Senator Butler, in his speech calling the
convention to order. referred TO the DIS
satisfaction resulting from the seemingly
unavoidable episode of two v.ce-presdential
candidates in the last campaign.
After reciting some other facts connected
with the mana cement of the party. Sena-
tor Butter referred briefly to the platform
to be adopted by the convention, saying IN
part:
THE TRUSTS.
every political party will go into this
campaign denouncing trusts. The English
language will be exhausted in searching
for adjectves with which to paint the un-
lawful combinations, but Mark Hanna
platforms will not have the courage or the
honesty to point to the causes that pro-
.duce trusts and to offer remedy for tnem
That remedy is already in every platform
ever adopted by Peoples party conVen-
ton.
.Any combination of people who can con-
troll the three great instruments of COM
merce will control all commerce and con-
troll the government itself. These instru-
ments are money, transportation, and
transmission of intelligence. Turn to the
constitution framed by our forefathers.
What do you find? At the head of the
list that it is the duty of Congress to con-
troll the instruments of commerce. Has
Congress done it? No. What is the re-
suit? A government of the trusts. for the
trusts, by the trusts. What is the remedy?
Stand by the Constitution. Let Congress
carry out its sworn duty and control these
instruments of commerce in the interests
of all and not permit them TO be con-
trolled by private individuals for the bene-
fit of the few
Next Senator Butler called attention
briefly to the action Of the Peoples
party in the last campaign, and the sltua-
ton that confronts the party now Ihe
Democratic. Convention, which had for
many years been following false gods,
named a candidate that commanded the
respect and confidence of every follower
of Jefferson and Lincoln to so great a
degree that the PEOPLES party put
pa triotism and country above party ana
refused to nominate another candidate
but accepted the Democratic candidate
and had the nominee for Nice-Presldent
stood for what the nominee for President
did, that candidate also would have been
accepted.
Temporary Chairman Ringdale, OF
Maine was introduced. He said the
conventions mission was two-fold. TO re-
affirm, tha Declaration of Independence
and to name the next President Of the
Tinted States !. The convention stands
as a guarantee that liberty shall not die
@on this continent.
Hon. Thomas Peterson was selected as
zpermanent chairman of the convention
bv acclamation, and j. n. Curran, OF
Kansas. and Leo Vincent, OF COLORADO,
ania Williams Fl. Deisher. of Pennsyi-
yania. permanent secretaries.
The evening session was devoted entirely
10 singing and music by the Fifty-first
Iowa Regiment Band.
The Committees on Credentials. Resolu-
at;ons and Permanent Orsanizat ton were
not ready to report. Cries for .Pettigrew.'' =
S..JerryE simpson, and Cyclone Davis at
once went up, but none of these gentle
men appeared.
THE PLATFORM
The Committee on Platform at mid
night had agreed up on the planks on
Imperialism, n1ilitarism, trusts and the
finances.
The first deplores the conduct of the
administration .'ln changing the war OF
E humanity Into the war Of conquest q
SDsnounces the Philippine policy and the
Porto Rican policy, and the increase. OF
the standing. army. Sympathy is eX-
tended to the eBoers and our mediation de-
manded.
Trusts are denounce1 as the greatest
evil of the age.
The financial plank demands tfe~open.