Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1891 — OHIO PEOPLE’S PARTY [ARTICLE]

OHIO PEOPLE’S PARTY

Nominate Candidate for Governor and a Full State Ticket. The Platform A* It Relates to National Issues—An Inharmonious Convention. The regular associated press dispatcher give the following report of the proceedings of the State Convention of the People's party, which met at Springfield, Q.. on the 6th: The People's party convention was aremarkable gathering. It was comi>osed ol the dissatisfied elements of all parties. Every delegate had his own idea of how existing troubles could be remedied, and was disposed to insistowdraviTig it adopred. The total representation was 1.2 U delegates, about 4.0 of whom were present. The great majority were totally unskilled in howto proceed in regular convention form, which made the duties ol chairman particularly onerous. THE PI.ATFOKM. The committee on resolutions reported’ the following platform, 4 which was adopted; We hold that labor is the basis of all wealth, happiness and progress and must have equal protection by the law in the organizaxtOTrof bur party North, South, East or West, and we are determined that the government of our country shall be so administered as to secure equal rights to all people. We demand that taxation, national.state or municipal, shall not be used to build tit one interest or class at the expense of another. We demand the abolition of national banks as banksof issue and as a substitute for national bank notes we demand that full legal tender treasury notes be issed in sufficient, volume to conduct the business of the country on a cash scale. We demand the payment of all bonds of the government, instead of refunding them, in such money as they were originally made payable in. We demand government ownership of all means of transportation and cornmuni cation between and by the people of the United States. We favor liberal pensions to all honorably discharged Union soldiers of the late civil war and generous care for their widows and orphan*.' and demand that the difference between the value of gold and greenbacks at the date of payment be made equal to gold, so as to place the soldier oti the same footing as the bondolder has been. A woman's suffrage plank is included in the platform. The platform favors government loans directly to individuals, favors free coinage of silver, opposes alien ownership of land and demands that Congress devise moans of obtaining all lands already owned by fofeign syndicates; also demands all lands held by railroads and other corporations in excess of what is actually needed be reclaimed by the government and held for actual Settlers only ; demands graduated tax on incomes. Other planks in the platform related to State matters. The following ticket was nominated: Governor—John Seitz. Lieutenant Governor—Frank Rist. State Auditor—David N. Cooper. Attorney General—Rial M. Smith. Treasurer—Henry Wolf. Judge of the. Supreme. Court— Si. Yaple. School Commissioner—.T. E. Peterson. Member of Board of Public Works—J. S. Borer. Dairy and Food Commissioner—W. J. Weaver.