Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-08-28

| OF new xOfk, ana I0Om0S "A. do00f1ck8 OF In
diana; and we pledge them our hearty and undi
vide ID support In the coming election.
SecondDThe administration of Geo. W. Click,
as Governor of this Commonwealth, commenos
itself to every fair minded citizen without re-
spect to party, because it has been wise, pure,
strong and convincing. The interests of all our
people have been attended to. One million two
hundred and fifty-nine thousand acres OF land
have been reclaimed to the State, and isnow open
for homestead and settlement Large amounts Of
railroad lands which have hitherto escaped
| county and State taxation, have been placed
upon the tax-rolls of the various counties.
| The rates of fare and freight have been greatly
reduced on all lines Of railroads within our State
| The cattle disease which threatened 10 paralyze
the live stock industry OF the State, promptly
checked and confidence restored The pardoping
| power has been sparingly and wisely exercised,
and only where the sentence was unjust or un-
usually severe, or where the trial was partial IN
fair and not in accord with the spirit of our Con-
stitution, and the recent decisions of the Supreme
Court. The stream of immigration which had
ministration has again been restored. and two
hundred and fifty thousand inhabitants added to
| our population; and finally, the giving of major
ity and minority representation on the boards of
all the public institutions of the State thereby
lifting them above party control, and making
them public blessings to all our people.
ThTd-That constitutional prohibition has been
fruitful of discord, perjury and discrimination;
has not lessened the evils of intemperance, but
rather destroyed the pure freside influences
which must ever be the loving power to control
the appetites of the weak and wayward; that it
has never been endorsed or acquiesced in by
majority of our people, that it is an assault upon
the liberty of the citizen; that it has destroyed
and literally confiscated private property without
compensation and that it is not in harmony with
the spirit OF free people to dictate to the indi
vidual what he shall eat, drink, or wear, or what
foregoing, ana for other reasons, we demand q
resubmission of the prohibitory amendment, and
pledge ourselves to work increasingly for this OBJ
ject. We demand a repeal of the present obnox-
enforcement
hibitiOn ana in its stead well regulated license
system rigdly enforced whereby the interests Of
~ of the citizen restored, and we reiterate the
views of our worthy candidate for President in
his letter of Acceptance, that laws unnecessarily
interfering with the habits and customs of any of
the people which are not offensive to the moral
sentiments OF the civilized world and which are
consistent with good citizenship and the public
welfare are unwise and vexatiOus."
FOurth-We congratulate the people of the State
on the successful establishment by law of a Board
OF Railroad Commissioners, with statutory enact
ments for their guidance, the necessity for which
was clearly presented to the people by Geo. W.
Click in his canvass for governor, and in his In.
sugral message to the Legislature. As result
the railroad charges for transportation of passen
gers and freight have been materially reduced In
the past year. thereby saving to the people of the
State several millions of dollars, and guarantee.
ing to the producer and shipper unchanging tar.
ifs for the transportation of future products.
Where the railroads in the State have yielded
obedience to this law, and have modified their
charges in harmony with its provisions, ii should
be accepted by the people as an act of good faith
on their part, and entities them to just and i'm
partial treatment by legislature as industries
of incalculable value to the State; and we de-
mand such additional legislation as may be nee
essary to do exact justice between the railroads
and the people
Fifth-Tbat the good work of restoring the
public lands to the State for homestead settle
ment be continued until the last acre is recov-
ered and that corporations and foreign powers
be not permitted to acquire and fence in tracts of
lands to the injury of the settlers.
Sixth That all public lands of the United
States wherever situated, should be opened TO
actual settlement, aud We are therefore in favor
of opening up for occupancy by actual settlers all
such lands now comprised within the boundaries
of the Indian Territory, and we emphatically de-
nOunce as unjust and outrageous the arrest and
removal of actual settlers from such lands by
United States troops The continued refusal by
question in relation to the title to lands located
in the socalled Indian Territory to be decided by
the United States Courts is an outrage upon the
rights of all citizens and cowardly evasion of a
direct call to answer question OF vital impor
lance to such citizens.
Seventh That the laborng classes require the
fostering care Of our Legislature and the protect.
ing hand of official power In their struggle for
"life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. This
we pledge to them now in the spirit of pure Dem
ocracy which has ever been the friend of labor;
and that we denounce and will oppose the i'm
portation of foreign pauper labor under contract
to compete with our citizens; and further that we
are opposed to convict labor being in OppoS-
ton to the free labor of our country.
Eghth-That We respectfully invite the coop
peratiOn of all good citizens, without respect to
party, who can give a hearty endorsement to
this, our platform of principles, touching the
questions involved between the political parties
i'll our State.