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Show POPULISTS ISSUE CONVENTION GALL Will Meet at Springfield.. 111., July 4th, and Name a National Ticket Declaration of Principles. ' ST. LOUIS, Feb. 24. The joint committee com-mittee of the fusionists and the middle-of-the-road Populists-, representing the People's party of the United States, today to-day Issued the official call for a National Na-tional convention of the People's party to meet in Springfield, HI., on July 4, 1904, at 12 o'clock noon, for the purpose of nominating candidates for President and Vice-President of the United States and for the formulation of a National platform. The basis of representation will be one delegate from each Congressional district in each State, with an additional addi-tional delegate-at-large for each State and for each 2000 or majority fraction thereof cast for Gen. James B. Weaver for President in 1S92; the Indian Territory Terri-tory and Oklahoma Territory five delegates dele-gates each, and three delegates from each of the other Territories. The declaration of principles for the People's party formulated and Issued by the National Committee In joint session today reiterates oft-repeated declarations, declara-tions, and adds: "In both of the great political parties of the Nation are to be found two ir-reconclleable ir-reconclleable factions, one In favor" of Governmental usurpation, tending to the establishment of a new feudalism, and the other standing for Industrial and political liberty. "In the People's party of the Nation lies the only hope of the perpetuation of popular Institutions. We ratify and rcaflirm the fundamental principles of tho platform of the People's party adopted at its National convention in Omaha In 1892." |