The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-02-15

entitled TO one delegate to the rational
league and one delegate for each al
ditional 500 members
Powers Of President
= national president. TO hold Office
two years. is provided for, with power
to choose remaining officers, including
q national committee with three MEM
beTs from each state and territory and
q national executive committee of fif-
teen, Of which the league officers shah
be members and shall appoint a COM
mittee on ways and means to raise
necessary funds
Your committee recommends that
the platform adopted by this body be
made the declaration of principles of
the national organization.
Resolved, That We recommend the
Hon. William /. lockwood for presi-
dent, II. 3. Martin for secretary, c. T.
Bride for treasurer and W. b. Fleming
for financial secretary.
General Weaver moved the adoption
CT the report.
Ignatius Donneuy get the floor and
pleaded with the delegates TO do some
thing tangible. The desired movement.
he said, could not be brought about by
leagues. He called on the conference
to form a new party, and call for a ma
tional convention. Unless that was
done. he asserted. the conference would
not amount TO as much as a last years
biTGnest."
The -the-road Populist fac
ton in the convention cheered these
sentiments wildly.
Jerry Simpson on the Floor.
Jerry Simpson of Kansas followed.
He challenged the statement Of Mr.
Parker Of Kentucky that this conven-
ton has fallen into the hands Of a lot
of cOWardly politicians" lie declared
that no delegate had asserted party
! preferences, but every one was entirely
unselfish. He demanded that Mr.. Par
ker apologize for his statement instead
/ Of attempting to align the conference
I in partisan movements. Simpson was
cheered repeatedly.
This movement is" he declared,
SOLELY educational. When the people
understand the purposes for which We
/ are mere, they viii stand by the party
/ that stands for their principles
/ Congressman Sulzer of New York was
/ then recognized. He called on the del
/ egates to adopt the report verbatim.
| He denounced Donnelly as seeking per-
/ sonal support, saying this conference
1 stood for principles and not for men.
I He faced Donnelly and shouted:
/ you are doing more than any man
! hereto. help Mark Hanna"
/ Tammany, which had been denounced
/ by Mr.. Donnelly, was declared by Mr..
/ Sulzer 10 be doing more for municipal
ownership than any other organization.
! He closed with a plea for the adoption
| of the report.
! Delegate Parker was then recognized
! on question of personal privilege. He
I utterly disregarded the opinion of Jerry
/ Simpson, he said. and did not propose
| to take back a word he had uttered.
Any one could see the hand Of the pol
itician in the hail This statement was
greeted with mingled boots and cheers.
Quiet is Restored.
After five minutes Of disorder, Mr..
Parker was permitted to proceed. He
defended his position at length. con-
1 Guiding; Let US all unite for the peo-
pie and let the old. ballOt-b0x stuffing
parties go to the devil"
Judge William PTentiss followed, He
deprecated partisan feeling. We are
here he said. for one purp0se-that
is to fight trusts"
General Weaver scored Parker and
his resolution as IAN evident attempt
to bind the delegates to support the
middle-Of- the-D02d platform.
Mayor Jones of Toledo followed. He
/ hoped every delegate would be true to
/ his own best principles. The reSolu-
! tiOns already adopted were the best
| that could be framed. He favored this
[ convention because it was educational
In the word education" he said, us
our only hope"
At the close Of Mayor Jones remarks
| the report Of the committee on national
organization was unanimously adopted
| NJ. L. Lockwood Of Pennsylvania was
| unanimously elected president of the
| national organization. Franklin Went
worth Of Chicago was chosen seCTe-
| t3Fy, c. T. Bride of Washington, d. c.
was elected treasurer, and W. B. Elem
ing Of Kentucky financial secretary.
The following committee To bear the
protest of the convention against the
passage of the currency bill VIII 60
to Washington: w 3. Fleming. Viii
liam Sulzer George Fred Williams
Mrs Helen Cougar. F. r. Ridgeley
William Abbot, 7. Carl Spelling, Judge
/ William PTentisss J. b. Weaver, J. r
/ Sovereign, W II. Harvey, J. B. Ro-
mans, ]. w. Wilson John J. LentZ, NJ
] c. WettmOTe and c. A TOWne
Ths committee decided to meet al
! Washington next Monday afternoon
The list of vice presidents and commit
! teemen was adopted without reading.