The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-02-22

state ticket. We demand a vigorous
campaign in favor of our state ticket
and for the PRONUNCIATION of the princi-
pies of the Peoples party" Resolution
adopted by Populist conference.
The Populists adjourned their confer
ence shortly before IL o'clock last night,
after. hours of wrangling, and nearly all
of them went home unsatisfied. The
conference accomplished practically
nothing except to decide that it refuses
to die. The way is still left open 10
fusion, just as it was before the con-
ference, but there was no recommended
ton in that direction The extreme
anti-fusionists who controlled the OPEN
ing of the conference and the personnel
of the resolutions committee, conceded
so much to the fusionists for the sake
of harmony that the action of the con-
ference really amounted to nothing, and
neither side is satisfied with il. 1t map
ped out no way by which fusion might
be accomplished, and it made no rec
concentrations by which the difficulties
placed in the way of the Populists by
the anti-fusion election law might be
overcome, nor did it make any proviS
ion for testing the law in the courts.
What victory there was in the confer
ence was won by the ''antis.' The ten
ma jority members of the resolutions
prevailed, and the four minority mem
bers brought in minority report A mo-
ton to substitute the minority report for
the majority lost after hours of wrang
ling by a vote of 1854 to 1884, The
majority report was then adopted over
a feeble protest and the conference i'm
mediately broke up.
The conference was not through talk
ing when the final vote was taken.
Somebody would have been talking yet
had not the previous question been
moved to the great relief of the mass OF
the listeners p. P. Elder had been try
ing to get the floor to move the previous
question and shut off the debate, but ne
had at last given up in despair. A news
paper man who was getting tired. pass
ed note up to Chairman Grant Har-
rington which read:
For Heavens sake let Elder move the
previous question and cut this stuff
OUT
In the meantime Governor Elder had
settled back in his chair for a nap, but
as soon as the man who had the floor
sat down Chairman Harrington said:
tion.''
Huh? What's that? What's that?"
said Governor Elder, waking up Yes
yes, that's right, move the previous
question"
1t carried with whoop over the pro-
tests of the fellows who still had speech
eS to make, and the roll was called
which decided the matter.
The members of the resolutions COM
mittee who favored the majority report
were w. ]. Babb chairman; C. B. Hoff-
man, secretary; S. H. Allen, John w.
Breidenthal J. p. Hindman, W. A.
Street, C. H. Moody, VIM. Stryker.
The minority report was signed by
Andrew Shearer, L. r. Wright, Taylor
Riddle and p. P. Elder.
The big row was precipitated about
o'clock yesterday afternoon when the
resolutions committee reported after
stormy session lasting for four hours.
T. b. norman, as secretary of the
resolutions committee, presented the re-
port. There were two pages of type
written generalities and on the end was
tackled the Recommendation that a state
convention be called either at Topeka or
Hutchinson and a state ticket nOmi-
mated. w. J. Babb chairman of the
committee, moved the adoption of the
report.
Immediately L r. Wright of Lyon,
appeared with a minority report 1t
recommended that the state convention
be called at the same place and on the
same day as the Democratic convention
and that a joint ticket be agreed upon
with the Democrats to be placed upon
the official ballot under a name to be
determined upon by the conventions.
Then the fireworks started. Fourteen
men spoke in rapid succession and then
the reporters lost count. They hurled
great chunks of oratory at one another.
There was every prospect of a tremen-
dous row, when Babb came forward and
said there had been a misunderstand-
ing. He said the majority report had
been greatly modified in order to please
the minority, with the understanding
that there should be no minority report
and he asked that the committee be
given another chance at the report.
After another half hour of wranglins
the request was granted, and the con-
ference took a recess until after supper
When the conference met again the
majority, ten members, presented the
following brief report:
We recommend that a state convention
for the purpose of nominating a state
I'VE demand vigorous campaign in
mitigation of the principles of the Peoples
Again L. r. Wright. representing the
four fusion members of the committee,
presented the following:
islature has attempted. through the en-
actment OF an infamous election law, to
opposed to the corruption and dishonesty
of that party; and,
Whereas. The passage of such law has
made it necessary for the Peoples Party
to formulate and adopt some means by
which the voters of that party and of the
Democratic party in this state may come
together in a united effort against a COM
Resolved, BY the Peoples Party. in
conference assembled at Topeka on the
21St day of February, 1902.
That we request and advise the Popu-
list state committee to call a Popuiist del
egate state convention to meet at the
same place and on the same day of the
meeting Of the Democratic state conven-
ton for the purpose of cooperating with
the Democrats in formulating a state
platform embracing the fundamental prin-
ciples contained in our platforms in 1886
and 1900 national and state. and for the
further purpose of having equitable
number of splaces assigned on the state
ticket to the Populist party And we fur
Their advise that when the platform and
places on the ticket are amicably arranged
so that the fopulist convention can select
their candidates from their own party to
and in that case the Populist convention
should fndorse the combined ticket so Sc
lected and nominated, and place such tick
ct on the ballot under either the Demo-