The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-09-08

President ami Vice President by adirect vote
of the people; the extension OF the term OF
office OF the President ana vice PRESIDENT to
six years and making the President ineligible,
To a second term; the election OF United
States Senators by a direct vote OF the PEG
pie of the United States respectively;
fixing the term OF office OF senators
and of Representatives in Congress
at four years: the election of Postmaster by
the direct vote OF the people OF the city,
town or district I'm which the officels located
biennial sessions of Congress; the election OF
all Federal officers to be under the control or
the Federal Government and to be held at a
time other than holding State elections.
ii. We demand that the fees ana COM
pensation paid all public officers, Federal,
State and municipal, be so regulated as to-
give a fair and just compensation Tor
services performed, but not so great as to-
tempt the applicants to adopt corrupt meth
DDS to obtain office or to impose unjust bur
dens upon the people.
IL We demand the enactment Of addition
al and more stringent laws, both Federal ana
State, for the punishment Of bribery and cor
ruption in office, and to secure the purity OF
elections-general, special and primary.
13 We are opposed to monopolies OF every
kind, believing them to be at war with the
best interest OF the country, importing It's
power, prosperity and security, and con-
trary to the genius and spirit of free in
situations
IA We are opposed to the doctrine of
woman's suffrage, but when any respectable
number of worthy and intelligent women OF
this State shall request the right &c vote we
shall not oppose the submission of an amend
ment TO our constitution TO meet this de
mand, but so far no such request has been
made
- We are opposed to national banks, and
insist that gold, silver and greenback cur
Of h.ls
l6 That fidelity to the constitution ana
obedience to the laws made in pursuance
thereof is the first duty OF good citizenship,
because of welfare and personal interest.
Obedience to the law shields from anarchy
and protects from lawless violence and con-
fusion, and upon its honest, just and impair
tial enforcement depends the safety OF
liberty and property, and we now recall with
just satisfaction the traditional history OF our
party for its constant and unbending hdenty
to the constitution and to the laws OF the
land, and while now, as heretofore, we have
been opposed to all sumptuary laws and are
in favor of the widest latitude OF personal
liberty consistent with the public safety, and
view with alarm any legislation in effect
abridging the natural rights of the citizens,
we emphatically announce that we do and
shall insist and demand of all public officers
a fair honest and impartial enforcement or
every law of the land, not for political pur-
poses or reasons, nor to crafty the clamor
and maudlin sentiments OF hypOcrites, dema-
gogues and shallow pretenders, but because
patriotism, good citizenship and self-preser-
walton demand it, and the safety and happi-
ness of the people require it.
II We are unqualfiedly in favor of tenn
perance, sobriety, morality and good order,
and we rely largely upon the wisdom, pat
riotism and honesty of the citizen TO so order
his life and conduct individually as TO ac-
complish these ends We are in sympathy
with the cause of temperance in truth and
in fact not as political hobby for the per-
sonal benefit of ambitious demagogues, I'M
principled adventures and sham reformers,
and we demand the enactment and en-
forcement of wise and just laws for the pur-
pose OF promoting the cause of temperance,
and we submit to the impartial Judgment OF
every candid man that the existing law on
this subject, by reason of its unwise, OPP
pressive and tyrannical provisions. has not
been enforced, and that it now stands as a
hindrance and obstruction TO the growth of
true temperance; that it has been and is still
the cause of neighborhood quarrels, coDoen-
tions and strife, of fraud, corruption, per
jury and violence, and because of these facts
we demand the enactment Of such amend
ments, changes and modification of the law
as Will make the law effective and useful for
the purpose for which it was designed.
Is. 1t is a cardinal rule in our system Of
government that the majority shall rule. 1t
is equally fundamental that all just Govern
ments derive their powers from the people
and 1t Is alike fundamental rule that when
any respectable number of the people de-
mand that any great public question once
passed upon be again considered, Justice,
| hrnness and right requires that it be done,
because it would work no injustice TO any
one. As there exists in the public mind a
difference of opinion as to the wis
dom and policy of what is known rs the
prohibitorv amendment TO our constitution,
and because of the uncertainty whether
said amendment fairly and honestly reflects
the judgment and will of majority OF the
people of Kansas on the subject and il being
important that the question be fully and
finally settled at the earliest possible mo-
ment therefore
ResotOed, That we are in favor of the sub
mission Of the probationary amendment 10
the constitution of the State of Kansas at the
general election of State officers in Novem-'
Der, 1884, believing by that time the people,
of the State will be fully advised as to the
feasibility of said amendment.
10 This being the first representative
meeting of the Democratic party OF Kansas
since the assassination of the late President
James A. Garfield, we deem il due To the
country, TO his memory and TO the party we
represent that we express as we now do our
sense of that terrible and melancholy event
as great public calamity and the events
preceding the assassination of the President
challenge our thoughtful consideration. in
connection with the baneful and dangerous
fanaticism OF personal and partisan politics.