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Show A I'oi.ithh. inniDiiixii. A ruirnlloti tr ifie llilr.1 l-arlr IVopte. Ci.ncim.iati, May 17. Tho coming week will bring to tills city a tdltlcai gathering of uul'iuo form, In whose action there Is wide Inters it. It I not acouveution, In the usual senso of thtt term, for It has no party call ai bls. Hit perhaps best described as n national na-tional unbm conference. Originally It n ss called not by the P'armeia' Alliance Al-liance cciiicntlou at Ucala, Florida, but by memb-rs of that couvoutlon, and tho llmo was set for February "3rd lu this city. That call as addna-ed to all orgauliatlous who havo stood up for llldelldellt llllcal nctloll oil quetltons ol finance, lrajiortaUuii, lalnr and laud, Tbu rail was signed by about seventy iroiis, from suaeiiteeu Htatea, It met Willi objection Irom varljua sources, partly U aula Its pur-so pur-so was announced to bu to forma national union party, based on the fundamental Ideas of nuance, transpor-lallon, transpor-lallon, labor and land. This opposition opposi-tion had tho ellect of nccesallatlngA delay and thn date of tha conference was changed to May 19lh. The Htalo executive committee of Iho People's itorty of Indiana, comjiosed of some of the original signers of the call, enlarged Ihe representation s. as tu Include Ihe American Federation of labor, trades' unions and trades' assemblies, as-semblies, tho Federation of Hallway ICmploycs and Ihe Nationalists by their represeulatlvrs. Tha CltUens' Alliance Alli-ance of Kant'it on February 7th re Issued tho call, stating thoolject tu Ihi to adopt n platform and make such ar-miigcmeutj ar-miigcmeutj for Iho conflict of 19'JJ as thc i-onfert'iice may leem fit. From Ibis outllneof IU call It Is plain that diniculty will arise In settling tho questions, If any arise, upon thu cn-tlentlals, cn-tlentlals, aud also that the real purposo of the mnfereui-o la not clearly uellmsl. Alriadytwo views aro being urgid In various quarters u)un the quesllou of forming n thlnl I'Srty, and It Is gone to fir In tome places at to camo tbo or-ganlxitloiit or-ganlxitloiit onjioseil ton third party to refusu to send ilolegates, while others are electing delcftalee for the avowed lairiwsu of deriallus tho formallon of n iblrdaily. The confereni a promises to Isi one not without a dllllcult task Ivforo It, but 1 likely to call for the best wlidoni of lis delegate. About ?M delegates of the fWWJ or more tlut are exjaicted lotako eirtln tho dsllberatlons, are on thu ground tonight. Among Ibexi nro Congressman rilmpsou, Ueneral James 11. Weaver of Iowa, ox-Con-gressmau Weller of Iowa, belterknown as "Calamity" Weller.i.and tleneral Hecrclary Hayes of tho Knights of Labor. |