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Show TWO POPULIST TICKETS. BRYAN AND TO'vVNE AND BARKER BARK-ER AND DONNELLY. Bloax r all Kusioa C'onenllon 'ame Bryan and Town. Cincinnati i e.ldle-of -t ha Road Convention Name Barker aud Uonnelly. The Sioux falls fusion Populist con-Tention con-Tention has named W. J. Bryan, ol Nebraska, and Charles A. Towne oi Minnesota, &.- its standard bearers. The platform consists of a preamble, and a long series of resolutions. The preamble congratulates tne People's party o th marvelous growth of its principles during the last four years among people of all political parties. This condition the platform continues gives renewed hope and courage for the future, in the efforts of the party to avert the subversion of free institutions institu-tions by corporate power and to resist the evident purpose of the Republican party to establish a strongly centralized central-ized imperial government. The resolution on imperialism and militarism deplore the conduct of the administration in the Spanish-American war, and denounce its conduct in connection witli the Philippines. Referring Re-ferring to the latter matter they say it is in conflict with all the precedents of our national life, at war with the constitution con-stitution and without' reasonable excuse. ex-cuse. Demand is made for the cessation cessa-tion of this war. Porto Rico is declared subject to the constitution, sympathy for the Boers is .expressed. The gold standard is denounced and the Chicago platform plank of the Democrats aftirmed, and the party is pledged anew "never to cease agitation until the financial conspiracy con-spiracy is blotted from the statute books, the Lincoln greenback restored and the bonds all paid and all corporation corpor-ation money forever retired." Both candidates were finally nominated nomi-nated by acclamation, but the nomination nomi-nation of Mr. Towns was only accomplished accom-plished after a struggle - of Beveral hours' duration in which an effort was made to have the question of the nomination nom-ination of a vice-presidential candidate referred to a committee to confer with the Democratic and Silver Republican parties in their national conventions. A motion to this effect was defeated by a vote of 268 to 403. |