| Show POPULIST STATE CONVENTION I The Populist state convention was called to order yesterday morning by State Chairman Hasbrouck I As a number of delegates had no arrived no business was done in the morning except the appointment of the usual committees James Thompson was made temporary tempo-rary chairman and Mrs Kate S Hil I ri secretary After ar hard temporary < chairman I T Alvorc the address by of Pleasant View made a characteristic characteris-tic Popuiistlc speech in which he tools rvrrn ion to score F J Cannon At 230 in the afternoon the convea again called to order and a tier was Popuhetlc song by Mr and Miss L T Alvord of Pleasant View was given Lake wher Dr Hasbrouck of Salt I I would i said he speech caied on for a work with the Populist party till its j triumph He believed th bf tr ultimate Populists would carry the state In 1900 Pep had The Republicans clf Salt Lake howled for free silver and now they were howling for McKinley He apol men ogized for what the newspaper dtc used woud say today saying he u man himself The be newspaper a newspaper men would say that this of 130 delegates was body magnificent a small convention but no matter The first Populist convention had contained I the second no more only fiftyone than twenty and the third about forty i five and the one laot year between sixty and eighty The committee on resolutions through Its chairman H L Gaut oi Weber reported a platform which reaffirms re-affirms allegiance to the Omaha platform plat-form and declares that ai 1 laws should be enacted and administered for the whole people It asserts thait for thirty thir-ty years the Democrats and Republicans Republi-cans alike have failed to fester the interests in-terests of the Industrial classes The initiative and referendum system ol legislation Is favored and also a graduated grad-uated tax on estates American money of gold silver and greenbacks is favored fa-vored The repeal of laws authorizing issuance issu-ance of bonds is called for The enactment of a measure giving each man a home worth 1500 exempt from taxation and execution is favored fa-vored The protection of American indus trier for the people and restrictive emigration em-igration laws are asked for An amendment to the constitution calling for the election of the president I presi-dent by the direct popular vote is favored I fa-vored I The Coxey bond scheme reductions of taxation and government expenses are called for Churches should be free from the dictation dic-tation of priests In closing the document caLls on a3 citizens to unite in warding off impending im-pending revolution from the nation The platform was adopted Hon H W Lawrence of Salt Lake wart made permanent chairman and Miss Josephine Kellogg permanent ssc retary with S S Smith her assistant Mr Lawrence on taking the chair congratulated the convention that EC I many independent and free thinking men and women had met together This was a time if ever there was one when independent < men and women whc would stand up for their principles regardless re-gardless of pafty or politicians were needed In referring to the financial questior he paid I Money is creation of law it is l whatever a nation says shall be money Ail money is fiait money its creation is a sovereign right of government and of no other corporation or iinetitution Leading Democrats and Republicans Fairchild and Carlisle have said tha the nation cannot create wealth Can it destroy it he asked Yes yes answered several Money of Itself is not wealth but a measure of wealth The wealth is the food clothing shelter of whteh the money measures the value and which it will purchase Both parties are clamoring for a return to power promising prom-ising to give better times They have been crying the same thing for twenty years Can you stand it thirty years more It is not the question of Jree silver It is the question of money more money S The Populist party is accused of trying try-ing to flood the country with money but Mr Lawrence thought the country could stand one flood at least and besides there would be no flood as the silver of foreign countries was needed at home and would not be sent to this country as demagogues assert The nomination of delegates to the St Louis convention was next begun During the nominations a letter was read from James Hogan pledging himself him-self to go if elected and to do his best to overthrow the imperial Napoleonic policy of McKinley and donothing policy pol-icy of the other side and would otand by the Omaha platform I Mr Merritt was nominated and a good deal of heat developed One delegate said he was not a middleoftheroad Populist Mr Merritt rose and said he was as good a Populist as any anarchist on the floor He was a resident of Wyoming and would not go as a delegatefrom Utah but he wanted it understood that he was a Populist When Mrs Kate L Hilliard was nominated the question was asked if she would go Mrs Hilliard replied that she would if she could and would be a middleoftheroad Populist too The delegates elected were James Hogan H W Lawrence M M Kellogg Kel-logg Frank S Luethi and Mrs Kate S Hilliard S Each delegate is privileged to name his or her own alternate On this point Mr Merritt of Salt Lake moved that the convention adjourn ad-journ until September 1 His point was that they might by that time fuse wlth some other party The motion was not wall received and was voted down only three voting ays aysThe The candidates nominated for delegate dele-gate to Congress were Warren Foster Fos-ter of Salt Lake R T Alvord of Weber and Elijah Sells of Salt Lake Foster received 115 votes Alvord 09 and Sells 3 Foster was declared < he nominefi Presidential electors were named as follows Henry W Lawrence T L Jones of Davis and H O Young of Summit The state committee chosen was as follows Dr Hasbrouck L H Gray John South I Maxwell S H B Smith Mrs J Gary Mrs James Hogan Tl L Gaut G F Brown Otto Lund Charles Sernelious A Bucklam J B Cooper H F Broods A C Belmont I J C McKendrick A Leichter Oscar Lawrence T N Jacobs J C Tyler J S Weaver Thomas Jessup Swen Malmgrien Adjourned T M Hansen I |
