People's voice., 1900-08-02

OF Populism has every person who at.
tended a state convention been so
thoroughly enthused and so thorough
ly satisfied with the work done.
The proposition urged by Jerry
Simpson to nominate a United States
senator was voted down principally be-
cause the call did not include it and
the matter had not been discussed.
The question of Associate Justice
was by far the most important one be-
fore the conventions, The following
excellent write up on this and other
matters is from the Kansas Populist:
1.-THE gage of battle had been thrown
down by the railroad corporations,
when one of their attorneys on the
democratic executive committee, at
the Throop hotel, succeeded in so man.
ipulating affairs in the division of
officers between the Democrats and
PopulistS and Silver Republicans, as
to shut David Martin out of the race,
because those corporations recognized
in him a man who could never be
swerved from the line of his plain duty
to the people. For two days at Ft
Scott, the battle ragged over this ques-
tion and everything else was subor-
dinated to it. 1t was an issue on
which the people were wide awake.
They felt that to permit the railroads
to blacklist Judge Martin, no matter
who else might be nominated, would
indicate the surrender of our party to
the corporations and lose us thousands
of votes in the state. Some of the
leading politicians thought differently,
and were urging ratification Of the
Throop hotel agreement, in the inter-
est of harmonious fusion. On the other
hand, good many democrats saw the
wisdom of acceding to the Populist de-
mands and permitting us to nominate
Martin, and were advocating that
course.
"A conference committee of fourteen
Populists, seven Democrats and seven
Silver Republicans were appointed by
the three conventions to find the way
to get together. The Populists de-
manded the justiceship; as counter
proposition the Democrats were will
ing to 60 into joint convention under
the two-th:rds rule to make the nomi-
nation. The Populist committeeman
came within one vote of accepting this,
standing seven to seven iupon it
Finally, however, it was decided to
concede that place to the Populists,
and allow the Democrats to name the
attorney general This decision was
arrived at late Tuesday night, and
there was bitter opposition among the
friends of the candidates thus shut
out. When it came to vote in the
Populist and Democratic conventions.
though, the overwhelming sentiment
was in favor Of the adoption of the re-
port. Indeed, it was followed by a
magnificent demonstration, lasting a
quarter of an hour, and accompanied
by the waving of flags and every pos
sible exhibition Of JOY and enthusiasm.
This matter settled, everything else
came smoothly and easily. During
the demonstration referred to, an
immense picture Of Breidenthal was
let down from the gallery and held
aloft over the chairman's desk. and
hailed with tumultuous applause.
"The platform, which is published
elsewhere, was received with frequent
applause, especially the allusion to the
South African republics; and it was
adopted without a dissenting vote.
Its declarations in favor of public
ownership of monopolies are as rad
ical and as far reaching as any social
ist could ask, and are in keeping with
the position of our candidate for gov
ernor as an avowed socialist