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PARTY OF THE PEOPLE.It Meets Ht Dnittill* ami Include* Every* thing hihI Everybody.Special to Ink Lkadrr.Danville, May 19. —The state convon-tion of the people's party opened here today. It will elect delegates to the Omaha convention of July 2d and will indorse the St. Louis platform. Resolutions will be submitted urging that the state should, under the right of eminent domain, seonre possession of the coal mines of the state, and operate them so that consumers may secure coal at cost; demanding that the state treasurers shall turn into toe state treasury all interest received on public moneys; condemning tbe interference by tbe police with liberty cf speech and fret-* dotn of publio meetings in Chicago; and favoring tbe prohibition of tbe leasing of convicts in the state penetentiary.The state ticket wbioh seems to commend itself to a majority of the delegates is as follows: For governor, Representative H,E. Taubeneck; lieutenant-governor, lion. Jesse Harper, better known as one of the leaders of the greenback party; attorney-general, Jesse Cox; treasurer, A. J. Streeter, the people’s party nominee for president four years ago; state auditor, 0* G. Dixon; congressman at large, 8. F. Nor* ton, until recently editor of the “Farmer’* Voioe” of this city. There is some objection to this ticket, however, on tbe ground that Cox, Dixon and Norton all come from Cbioago and it is held that the candidate* should be pretty well distributed over the state.
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Bloomington Leader
Bloomington, Illinois, US
Thu, May 19, 1892
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