The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-02-25
JOINT CONVENTION CALLED
FUSIONIsTS AND MIDDLE ROAD
 POPULLsTS TO MEET.
Call Issued for Nstional Gathering to Meet in spriasasld. Ili.. July Pledges Made aud Two Factions Ap- psrently Fuse Harmsnioualy-Th Basis of Representations.
nasis Of Representation.

St. Louis, Feb. 24.-The joint commit tees of the fusionists and the Middle of the Road Populists, representing the Peoples party of the United States to- day issued the official call for a na- tional convention of the Peoples party to meet in Springfield, Ills. on July for the purpose of nominating candi~ dates for the offices of president and vice president of the Unietd States and for the formation of a national plat form.
 Prior to the joint conference of the two committees the following resolu- tion of the fusion committee in the ma ture of a pledge to the Middle of the Road committee was presented:
 Resolved, By the Peoples party in its national committee meeting held at St. Louis, Mo, February 22 and g, 1904, do hereby set out and state, that we do fix the 4th day of July as the date of Peoples party, and we further declare ourselves determined to name as our candidates for president and vice presi dent only members of the Peoples par ty and further resolved that we shall give the same our undivided support.
 Resolved, It is our most earnest and sincere desire that all persons who are in favor of the principles of populism will jointly assist this committee in it's efforts to perform the duties above out lined. (Signed)
 J. P. Edmiston, Chairman. Charles De France, Secretary Pro Tern.
 This pledge effectually eradicated all existing differences and fused the two factions harInoniously.
 The official calendar was issued late to-day. The basis of representation shall be one delegate from each con- gressional district in each state, with an additional delegate at large for each state for each two thousand or rnador- ity fraction thereof cast for General James B. Weaver for president in 1892: the Indian territory and Oklahoma ter ritory five delegates each and three delegates from each of the other terri- torias.
 The declaration of the principles of the Peoples party formulated and is- sued by the national committee in joint session to-day reiterates of the VI tlSseA tS7u tfIlt dQQSy
 Tn both of the great political parties of the nation are to be found two ire .concilable factions-on one in favor of gov- ernmentalusurpation, tending to the es- tablishment of a new feudaIisfn. and the other standing for political liberty.
 Tn the Peoples party Of the nation lies the only hope Of the Derpetuation of popular institutions. We ratify and reaffirm the fundamental principles of the platform of the Peoples party adopted at its national convention in Omaha in 1892.
 The platform of the Peoples party made at Omaha. 1892. was originally made in conference called and held by the labor organizations February 22, 1S9s- We therefore, invite the wealth producers to take part In the primaries that shall choose delegates to our com vention, guaranteeing that the inf1u- ence of this party shall be given to ad- vance the interests of organized labor by the recognition of the union label on manufactured products as well as in legisltaion, which at last, is the only hope of just conditions for labor. We criticise as unfair, illegal and unjust those decisions of the courts declaring labor laws unconstitutional and we de- nland constitutional amendment ail- thorizing legislation requiring the states, municipalities and public fran chise owning corporations, their con- tractors and sub-contractors to nay workmen the prevailing rates of wages and that upon public works eight hours shall constitute a days work and we demand the abolition of the contract system upon public work.
 We invite the cooperation Of all re- form and labor forces. believing in the above principles''