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Show THE THIRD PARTY CALL. Their rnnventiou to tie Held at Omaha, July 4th The 1'rohlhltlonista Will Have a Ticket Too. St. Lotts, Feb. 3d. The joint committee, in whose charge the matter was placed by the industrial conference, after an all day sesslou, selected Omaha, Neb., as the place of hulding the nominating convention of the newly-born third party on July 4th. A formal call was issued. It repeats the platfor.u adopted, and urges all oiti.cns w ho support the demands, on the last Saturday Satur-day in March, in their respective towns and villages, to hold public meetings to ratify the demauds and take steps to organize preparatory to electing delegates to the national na-tional convention. It calls upon all duly qualified voters in the United States In favor of these principles to send delegates to the national convention. The basis of representation repre-sentation is four delegates from each con-gressiouol con-gressiouol district and eight delegates at large tro:n each state, making a lota) number num-ber of lTTti. The address, in conclusion, says: "We call upon all citizens of the United States to help us make our principles tri-umphunt. tri-umphunt. We believe that, if the. voters neglect this year, it may be impossible in any future canvass to protect the rights of the people aud save the free institutions of OUT Cotttitry. In the name of the rights of the people, the homes of the laud and the wellfare of all future generations, we call upon all honest men to come to our support in this great contest." Chicago, Feb. -tl. Miss Frances I". Will-ard, Will-ard, president of the National Woman's Christian Temperance uulou, who has returned re-turned from the St. Louis conference, said: "The, prohibitionists will hold a national convention in St. Louis on June 80, and that the convention will adopt a platform sound on economic principles, treating of the government gov-ernment ownership of highways and the means of communication, monetary reform, ownership of laud, prohibition and woman suflruge. Candidates will be chosen for president and vice president, aud we will have the spectacle presumed of two tickets in the Held among the reform forces, who seek the people's good. The prohibitionists would have been glad to meet the people's party half way, if the woman's suffrage and prohibition planks had been placed in the St. Louis platform. The next step woura hove been a joint meeting meet-ing of the national commons of both par-tics, par-tics, in w hic h they would have united on a platform for the campaign." The movement for party union hau its inception in-ception iu a conversation she had with General Gen-eral Weaver lust fall. She, is not yet w ithout ith-out hope that BUeh a Union may still take place In time for the campaign. |