Show THE industrial conference has a high old time and 0 adjourns prohibition IS KNOCKED OUT and woman SUI suffrage recommended COmmit committee tep to meet the peoples party committee etc ST louis feb 24 atthe at the indus industrial trial con conference terence today to day the platform cent committee cittee arted reported and the resolutions were presented and 1 I read without taking a vote on the adoption atlon of the tile platform a recess of two burg are wa was taken staken the tile platform states that the nation is ou the verge of moral political and matei rial ruin that corruption dominates the ballot box legislatures congress and touches even the ermine of the bench the newspapers are subsidized or muzzled public opinion Is silenced silence business prostrated homes covered with th mortgages labor impoverished and land and money concentrated in the hands of ca capitalists a lists VI the tile workmen it declares are denied i bied the tile right of organization for self protection imported pauperized labor beats down w wages hireling standing a armies emles i unrecognized biages zed by our laws are established to shoot them down and they are ra rapidly eidly degenerating er atin g to the european con conditions I 1 irions the na national lie nal power to create money has been a appropriated pr to enrich the bondholders bond holders ders myer silver has a 9 been de to add t to 0 the purchasing power of fold gold and nd the supply of currency is purpose purposely Fy abridged to fatten usurers rs bankrupt enterprise and enslave industry the resolution resolutions declare that the old political parties have allowed these evils to exist without an effort at restraint and therefore it asserts a new political organization representing the political stated is necessary the tile declaration of principles is then made A national currency is demanded that tha t I 1 Is safe sound and flexible issued by the gen general ral government 0 vern ment aa as fuh full legal tender of all 11 de debts E ts public and jiri vate ate at and id that without the tile use of banking e corporations or ora just and equitable means 0 of circulation cu at a tax not to exceed 2 per r cent as set forth in the tile sub trea treasury surab p plan fa n of the farmers alliance orsome or some better etter system it demands the free and unlimited coinage of silver that the amount of the circulating cu medium be speedily increased to not less than 50 per capita a graduated income tax that all national and state revenue be limited to the necessary ebsary expense of the government that bostal postal savings banks be established esta established blishel by t the e government that land should not he be mono monopolized for speculative purposes and t that rat alien ownership of land should be prohibited hibi ted all lands now held by the railroads and other corporations I 1 in n excess of their actual needs and all lands now owned by aliens should bo be reclaimed by the government and held hold for actual settlers only the platform declares that the government should own and operate the tile railroad railroads telegraph and telephone and demands deroads that the tile government issue legal tender notes and pay the union Vol soldiers diers elenoe between the price of the de precia ted money in which they were paid and anti gold IV ahen eold en the conference reassembled after recess the platform committee presented a majority and arid a minority report the latter recommending the insertion of a prohibition plank and after considerable debate beba te on oil motion of simpson to lay the finont minority report on the table a viva voce vo vote t e showed an ail almost even split for and against prohibition hibi tion coached by powderly miss emma curtis of colorado a handsome young woman ca captured the floor and p proposed the following substitute we demand that the question of universal suffrage gul be submitted u to the tile legislature of the tile different states and territories for favorable a action c t ion jerry bimpson simpson shouted she has SO solved ived the problem and someone some one demanding deso tieso the tile previous question the substitution ution was made by a crushing majority amid a volley of cheers Miss wi Willard lard looking in i very elum glum boon alter poi powderly V derly announced miss curtiss substitute withdrawn as a part of the platform to be offered later on oil as a simple resolution to the cli chagrin agrin of pow derly weaver and other leaders miss curtis arose and declared that she had done no such tit thing ing the idea of dealing wil with it the liquor question bv by a separate resolution instead of in ili the platform was broached se eral erat times during daring the confused discussion and favorably received it was now apparently the the purpose 0 e of powderly having kept miss willards wll ar ilya lards r d s minority report out of the platform f orl to placate her tier and anti her friends bg by it having abing the convention adopt the willa willard r plank ian aa as a resolution in place of that of miss curtiss ur fine WI when a the roll call was readied reached on what now became miss curtiss minority report the vote NN was as taken by states it was thought that the powderly weaver following would resent miss curtiss Our spun spunkiness kine 89 by defeating the report but powderly voted the tile knights solidly for the minority report secretary haves declared it carried to tally keepers made very dit different totals they declai declaring ing that the vote really was poe noes 9 and 8 ayes byes which if official would defeat the tile minority report meanwhile miss willard and arid lady henry somerset left the hall and did not riot upturn the knights and most of the All alliance lanco men then retired for a caucus despite ve vehement protests when the convention got together again half an hour later ignatius donnelly to the au surprise trise of a great many declared that all fill the business could be woj wound nd up in half an ail hour defer sul b by unanimous consent the little woman suffrage matter adopt the majority platform report appoint a committee to act with the national committee of the peoples party to call a national convention to nominate presidential and vice president ial candidates and the thing was done the idea took like wildfire among the tired and hungry delegates and within two minutes the tile majority report was adopted without a solitary voice of dissent and arid am amid id tremendous enthusiasm miss curtiss woman muff suffrage r age resolution as a substitute for prohibition I 1 was then adopted without 0 opposition and arid the con volition ad adjourned journel lp sine M die die after appointing the tile following foU owing conference committee to act with the peoples party national committee van wyck of nebraska mccune of texas georgia powers of nebraska laguire of new york polk of north baroline ba carolina rolina willets A illets of kansas president humphreys of the national colored alliance hackett of missouri barnett of Illino ig P 31 B A morrill of louisiana lease of kansas A mrs dr ir dabbs of texas benjamin terri 11 of texaco late tonight to night the bonfe conference rence committee ts selected elected july ath aa as the date for the tile convention yenti ven tion oll the tile selection of the place being left to a subcommittee sub committee of often tell to be appointed by of illinois |