The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-09-04
KANSAS ANTL-MONOPOLISTS.
Proceedings of the Convention at Topek,
The Platform and the Nominations


Proceedings of the Convention at Topeka
The Platform and the Nominations.
TOPEKA, August 29.-The Anti-Monop
oily, or Greenback-Labor Fusion Convention
met at nine o'clock yesterday morning
While waiting for the Committee
on Credentials to report, W. c. Tinney
Greenback candidate for Congress in the
fifth district, was called out and made a
speech. After Mr.. Tnney commenced
talking it soon became apparent to the fu-
sion faction that they had made a mistake
in calling him out.
! The Committee on Credentials reported
that the Convention was entitled to 179
votes, and the report was adopted. Follow
/ ing this the Committee on Order of Business
! made its report, and III said report recon-
mended that Presidential Electors and a
/ State Central Committee be selected before
! proceeding with the nomination of State
: officers. This met with objection and
I three or four motions were made to amend
/ by placing the selection of these Electors
/ and Committeeman at the tail end of the re-
! port. The motion was lost by vote of Al to
40 The Convention then took recess of fif-
| teen minutes, SO that the delegates from each
! Congressional District could caucus together
and select the Electors and State Central
| Committeeman. Reassembling, the Sub
Committees reported as follows:
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS.
q First District l.. c. Duell, Leavenworth
County; Second District; ID. G. Campbell,
johnson County; Third District, j. j. Nc,
Feelv, Labette County; Fourth District, c.
| w. Marsh, Shawnee County; Fifth District
w. d. Vincent, Clay County; Sixth Dis
trict, A. j. Hart, Rocks County; Seventh
District, w. d. Ross, Sedgwick. At large
"A. J. Ulley, Usage County, and S. d.
Underwood, of Davis County.
STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE.
First District, B. II. OldieId, Leavenworth
County; Second District, c. T. Sears.
Franklin County; Third District, f. H.
Benham, Christian County; Fourth District,
c. Corning, Usage County; Fifth District,
J. II. Limbarker, Riley County; Sixth Dis
trict c. j. Lamb, Phillips County; Sew
enth District, j. II. Franklin, Summer
County. At large-H. p. Vrooman, Shaw
nee County; A. J. Ulley, Usage County;
Allen Williams, Douglas County; w. j. A.
Montgomery, Douglas County; j. G. COu-
ger, WyandOtte County. This business hav-
ing been completed, the committee on resO-
buttons was called on and made its report,
which, as amended, was afterward adopted,
and reads as follows:
THE PLATFORM.
We, the National Greenback party of the
State of Kansas. in Convention assembled do
hereby indOrSe the platform of principles as
set forth in the platform adopted by our Ma
tional Party Convention, held at Indianapolis,
on May IS, 1884, and we further indorSe the
nominations of said convention, the Hon.
Benjamin F. Butler, OF Massachusetts, and A.
NJ West of Mississippi, and as heartily pledge
TO- hrt, III
cure their election, and we further heartily
approve and indorse the letter of acceptance
of our brave leader. Benjamin +. Butler.
We believe that the public lands of the Gov
eminent ought TO be open to settlement, and
that the people ought to have the right to set
tie upon said lands without molestatiOn, and
we denounce in unreasonable terms the I'M
Just ana brutal expulsion or peaceable citi-
Zens fromGovernment lands by United States
soldiers, in the interest of monOpolicS and cat
tie kings who are left IN undisputed posses
sion.
We demand as a matter of right that all the
public lands not actually occupied by Indian
tribes under legal treaty, be at once opened
to settlement for homesteads for actual set
tiers, especially the lands known as Oklahoma
and Cherokee Strip.
We demand the abolition Of the present sys-
tenn of convict labor; that the laws be SO con-
strued as to prevent the labor of convictS
from coming in competition with the labor of
free men ut prices that will bring the State
less returns than free labor should receive for
like work.
Viewing with alarm the rapid accumulation
of our public domain by subjects of foreign
countries we do especially reiterate the
demand that the alien ownership of land inGi-
vidual or corporate. should be prohibited.
We are in favor OF more stringent railroad
law than the one now upon our statute books
which shall tend to reduce freightS in justice
to the producers and consumers of the State
And that rates shall be based on actual cost OF
construction and maintenance, not on wat
cred stock as is now done, and that we de-
Nhn f,Rl- ak,nN
been lowered by the Railroad Commissioners
schedule. when such is not the case.
That we believe that the advancing ciyili- |
ZatlOn of the last quarter of the nineteenth
century, demands that women should have
equal pay for equal work, and equal laws with
menAtO secure her equal rights, and that she |
is fully entitled to the ballot.
Reiterating the resolution of the Greenback !
Convention at Emporia, in 1878, we emphatic !
ally pledge our earnest support to such legis- !
lation as will tend TO the entire suppression !
we demand the strict enforcement of ali stat /
utOry laws.
We denounce the action of the Republican I
party in so manipulating the currency as to /
defraud and cheat the Union soldier. and |
that for a score of years, through red tape /
laws. compelling the disabled soldier and the |
families of the Slain to be humble supplicantS /
for recognition of their rights.
Reiterating the demands of our National |
we are in favor of restoring the !
right of issue of all the money of the country /
properly belongs under the Constitution, and
are emphatically opposed to continuing the
National interest bearing debt of the United
States as banking basis.
The above platform was amended after
the Committees report and adopted in the
afternoon after considerable discussion.
The following ticket was then nominated:
For Governor, II. l.. Phillips, of Miami
County; Lieutenant-GOvernOr, J. w. Breid-
enthal, Labette County; Chief Justice, ii.
2. VrOOman, Topeka: Associate Justice j.
D. McBryan, Chautauqua County: Secre-
AIRY of State, j. c. Hubbard, Shawnee
County; Treasurer. d. II. Hefflebowen,
Miami County; Auditor, w. II. r. Wake
ielG, Dickinson County; Attorney General,
i. l.. Brush, Elk County; Superintendent
If Public Instruction, Miss Fannie Ran
lOlph, of EmpOra. The Central Committee
vas empowered, in accordance with Ben
Buffers suggestion, TO effect fusion with
he weaker party, and the convention adj
burned.
River Matters.
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