Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1908-03-05
Heavenly Twins
Held Conventions
The Democrats end Populists Held Mass
County Conventions and Elected
Delegates to State Conventions
THE POPULISTS.

The populist mass convention
held in the court house last
Thursday afternoon was called
to order by c. w. Beal who stat
ed the object as being to elect
delegates to state convention
to be held at Omaha on the 5th,
which convention would elect
delegates to the National conven-
tion to be held in St. Louis for
the purpose of placing in nomi-
nation candidates for president
and vice president.
A temporary organization was
effected by electing ]. ]. Tooley
as chairman and ]. G. Leonard,
secretary, and motion followed
and carried 10 make the tempo
rary organization a permanent
one.
c. w. Beal, James Stockham,
Geo. Greenwalt, c. II. Jeffords
and C. II. Holiday we're APP
pointed a committee on resolu-
tons. While this committee
were considering the resolutions
that had been prepared a della
cation of twenty-five to the state
convention was selected, as
follows:
| NJ. l.. Lamb G. w. Willis
| c. II, Holiday M. O'Brien
| Jesse Candy e. w. Layton
| v. Allen G. II. Orr
| c. II. Jeffords w. L. Warren
| James Stockham George Greenwalt
| Alvin Daily John PRIME
| J. II. Brown Tom Byers
| John Murray J. L. Evans
| w. II. Lewis John Conley
| liver Johnson ice Wilson
The convention adopted the
resolutions reported, as follows:
We, the Populists of Custer County in
mass convention assembled, hereby re-
new our faith in the doctrines of the
party as declared in the Omaha Platform
of 1892 and re-affirmed in each subse-
quent National Platform.
We call the peoples attention to the
fact that subsequent events have proven
the correctness of positions taken by the
party on all public questions.
We demand the immediate reduction
of the tariff, and the removal of all tariff
duties on all necessaries of life.
We demand the free ahd unlimited
coinage of both gold and silver at the le-
gal ration of 10 to supplemented by the
issuance of government paper money i'll
sufficient volume to meet all the demands
of trade, all money to be full legal ten
der, and we demand Government Pos.
tai Savings Bank.
We demand that the Government
shall own and operate all public utilities
but until this can be accomplished we
demand that all dividends declared by
railroads and other corporations shall be
based on actual value and no more
fraudulent stocks shall be issued.
We favor the election of the United
States Senators by direct vote OF the
people.
We commend the last legislature ir
enacting into law the Populistic princi
Piles of 2 per mile passenger fare
the abolition of the iniquitous free pass
system and all other measures thai
have redounded to the good of the people
and we demand the immediate and rad
ical reduction of freight and express
rates.
We rejoice i'll the fact that the SEED
sown by the Peoples party have fallen
on good ground and are springing up All
hundred fold. The so called vagaries oil
the Populists have been espoused as
sound doctrine by men in all politica
parties and we call upon all good men to
join us in one supreme effort to rescue
the government from the hands of its
dispoilers and restore it to the people
There being no further bust,
ness the convention adjourned.