The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-08-04
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by delegates.
Doniphan, Jefferson, Wyandotte'
johnson, Douglas, Franklin, Bour-
BON, Crawford, Cherokee, Mont
yomery, Allen. Wilson, Cofey,
Usage, Shawnee, Pottawotomie,
Marshall, Davis, and Riley. There
were 80 delegates in all. J. G. Otis
Of Shawnee, was made temporary
and j. S. Stockton, of Wyandotte, |
permanent chairman. A telegram
was received from New York an
that Peter Cooper had |
fully accepted the greenback nom
ination for President. A resolution |
endorsing him was: after some |
unanimously adopted. Mr.
5. A. Riggs of Lawrence, chairman
of the committee ON resolutions re-
ported the following platform
which was adopted:
The Independent Reform party of
Kansas makes the following declara-
ton of Principles:
l. That we are opposed TO all banks
Of issue, whether chartered by Con-
gress or the State Legislatures, and
we desire that banking on the part of
corporations or private individuals
shall be confined by law exclusively to
exchange, discount and deposit.
2. We demand that the act of Con-
gress creating the National Banking
system be repealed, that the notes of
the National Banks be Withdrawn
from circulation, and in lieu thereof
the paper of the government of the
United States be substituted.
3. That as Congress has the sole
power to coin money and to regulate
the value thereof, that it should also
have the sole power to provide pa
per currency for the people.
4. That such paper currency be
made legal tender in the payment of
debts public and private and that the
same be receivable for all demands of
the government, including duties on
imports, and Immediately placed on
specie basis by being made in
| Interchangeable at the option
of the holder with United States
bonds bearing 8 rate of interest not
exceeding three and sixty-five hum
dredths per cent per annum.
| 5. That we regard the act of Con-
gress requiring the resumption OF
| specie payment in 1879, the retirement
of legal tenders and the substitution OF
the inferior currency of the National
Banks in its stead as a fraud and an
outrage and we demand that Congress
Immediately pass bill for its uncon-
ditional repeal.
6. That the legislation of the Repub-
lican Congress of 1878 which took
away the legal tender power OF silver
coin, was a gross outrage upon the
people, adding at least twenty per
cent, to the aggregate of public and
private indebtedness, and we demand
the immediate restoration of silver as
a standard OF value and q legal tender.
z. That we demand that Congress
shall place a tax upon all incomes OF
over fifteen hundred dollars per an
mum.
s. That we hereby endore
the platform of the Indepen-
dent Indianapolis Convention and the
nominees.
8. We demand reform in the admin
istration of public affairs in the State
of Kansas.
10. That the school fund of our
State shall forever be preserved invio-
late, and that such legislation be
henceforth had as will put it beyond
the reach of spectators and preclude
the possibility of a precarious invest
nent. We demand also that imme-
date steps be taken to collect from The
school fund commissioners of the State
the money of the State which they
with such culpabie recklessness invest
ed in fraudulent school bonds.
IL. That we deplore the fact tina
| Ia- IL,
permitted so many public criminals o
our State to go unwhipped OF justice
II. That we urge upon Congress
and especially our representatives il
the U. S. Senate, the necessity of i'm
mediate legislation to the end of afford
ing relief to the settlers upon thu
. Usage Coded lands and placing thei
lands and homes in the market.
The following ticket was nomin
ated:
For Governor, NJ. E. Hudson, o
Bourbon county; Lit. Governor
Judge j. Beals, of Pottawatomi
county for Secretary of State, W
NJ. Allison, of Cowley county
for Treasurer, Amos McLouth, o
Jefferson; for Auditor, II. T
Sheldon, ofFranklin Co.; for Attor
ney General, j. y. Brumbaugh, O
Marshall county; for Sup
Public Instruction Thos. Bartlett
of Allen county; for Asso
ciate Justice of Supreme cour
Wilson Shannon, of Dougla
: county.
The Convention then proceede
d to nominate an electoral ticke
, which resulted as follows: J. Nj
: Limbocker, of Pottawatomie S.
Crawford, of Lyon; S. A. Riggs, {
e Douglas John Richie, of Shawnee
n and A. 6. Barrett, of Marshall.
a State Central Committee Wa
then elected as follows:
1st District-H. G. Evans, j. I
i Williams, S. B. Todd.
Q I'd District-U. F. Sargent, j.
= Mcmahon, j. III. Waterman.
- Sd Districts. II. Downs, Ell
: Lewis, r. E. La Fetra.
t The committee organized by e
n Getting U. F. Sargent Chairman.
: On motion the convention az
n journed Siae de.
4 The Convention is said by IL
e Commonwealth to have been ''larg
L earnest and en- thusiastic." Its non
3 inee for Governor is the Master O
r the State Grange, and we believ
r that we have reliable authority fo
3 saying that he has been activel
= seeking the nomination for tW
S years, and is generally regarded b
n the grangers as man of ordinar
II ability, of little experience in pull
: lie matters, and possessing no sper
/ ial qualifications for gubernatorii
r duties. The other members of tt
# ticket are better fitted fer the r
= spective officers which they al
. named, than Mr.. Hudson is for IL
: governorship. If the coming Sta