Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-04-03
P0PUL|SIS INDULGE
N MERRY CONTEST.
Resolutions Committee in All
Night Session Fight Carried
to Convention
DISAGREE OVER MONEY PLANK
Majority Report Declared in Favor Of
Government Issue of Money Alone
AIdrich and Fowler Bills Denounced
Other important Features Of the
Platform.

st. Louis, April 3.-The platform 10
be submitted to the populist convention
was completed at daylight, after AN all
night session of the committee on res
olutions Much consideration was
given to the money plank. and when
committee it was not satisfactory to
the minority, and a fight over its
phraseology on the floor of the con-
venton was certain.
Debate also is expected on the trust
plank As prepared by the committee
the financial plank declared that issu-
ing money is the function of the gov
ernment alone, and that it should not
be delegated to any corporation or in
dividual. Demand is made that money
be issued direct to the people without
the intervention Of banks and be full
legal tender for all debts. public and
private. The working of the national
banking law is criticized and demand
made that the power to issue money
be taken from the banks The Aldrich
and Fowler bills are denounced.
The plank on trusts demands that
the government own and control rail-
roads, and all public utilities which, in
their nature are monopolies.
Other planks submitted favored ini-
tiative and referendum: power to re-
representatives; the enactment of leg
islation looking to improvement of
conditions for wage earners; abolition
of child labor; suppression of sweat
shops: abolition of convict as opposed
to free labor; exclusion from Amer
can shores of foreign pauper labor, an
eight-hour work day and legislation in
favor of safety appliances; immediate
adoption of precautionary measures to
prevent repetition .of recent mining
disasters; work on public improve
ments at times of depression for un-
employed men; the passage of law
prohibiting courts from assuming jur-
isdiction involving the constitutional
ity of any law enacted by congress
and approved by the president; main
tanning farmers organizations and ex-
tension of their power of influence.
Delegates Obstreperous.
The first clash of the day in the
convention came on the report of the
committee on permanent organization,
which recommended that George A.
Honnecker, of New Jersey, be made
permanent chairman. w. B. Jones, of
Nebraska, moved as substitute, that
the temporary organization be made
permanent. The convention worked 1T
self into parliamentary tangle which
ended in the substitute being defeated.
Honnecker ives elected chairman.
Honnecker made an address Of con-
siderable length in which he vigorous
ly attacked the courts of the county
under whose rulings he declared many
gross njustices had been committed
He deprecated the industrial situa
tion of the country, and declared the
opportune time for revolution was
present He asserted that it only needs
genius of Robespierre, with the elo-
quence of Danton, to set the country
ablaze"
Following his address the report of
the committee on resolutions was pre-
sented.
The report of the committee on
resolutions was read by j. A Parker,
of Kentucky, and on motion to adopt,
F. H. Tibbles, of Nebraska, objected,
saying the more important part of
the plank adopted by the committee
last night was omitted. Parker in ex-
planning said that at the subsequent
meeting Of the committee the plank on
money had been materially modified.
Tibbles charged it was done without
the knowledge of the committee on
resolutions. There was much confu
sion in the convention, and many del
egates clamoring for recognition. The
motion to incorporate the resolution
advocated by Tibbles in the platform
was submitted to the special commit
tee which was ordered to report at the
afternoon session.