The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-07-12
STATE DEHocRATIc oONVEHTIoH.
Judge john Martin, Of Topeka, Nominated f
anvsrnor-The Platform.


| The democratic convention at Leay
enworth, nominated the following
state ticket:
For governor. Judge John Martin, o
Topeka, was nominated by accIama
ton.
III. Miles Moore, of. Leavenworth
was nominated for lieutenant governor
] by reclamation.
Allen G. Thurman, of Parsons, ha.
| just received the unanimous vote o.
the convention for secretary of state
Biz. Thurman is nephew of the OhiC
statesman.
w. H. Willhert, of Paola, was then
placed in nomination for auditor; w
ii. White. of Morris county, for treas
for attorney general; A. N. Cole, OF
Phillipsburg, for superintendent of
public instructions; w. H. Campbell.
of Wichita. for associate judge.
The platform is as follows:
The democratic party of the state of
Kansas in convention assembled OH
this one hundred and twelfth auniver-
SarY Of our independence, solemnly inn
pressed with the glorious memories of
traditions connected with and that has
made and sanctiied the Fourth of July
as political Sabbath, and proud of
our history and labor in connection
with the establishment and mainten-
ance of our federal union, hereby de-
clares;
FirSt-That we Teaffirm and endorse
the declaration of principles set forth
in the national democratic platform
adopted at Chicago, H., in 1884, and
in st. Louis, Missouri, in 1888.
SecOnd.-That we most heartily rati-
fly and approve the action of the ma
tional democratic convention held in
st. Louis, Missouri, in June last in the
nomination of that honest, capable and
fearless statesman, Grover Cleveland
for the Office of president of the United
States, and for the wisdom and prlI-
dence displayed in the nomination OF
that accomplished leader, sterling pat
riot and stalWart democrat, Allen q.
Thurman for the Office of Vice-presi-
dent.
Third.-We earnestly endorse and
commend to the voters of Kansas the
presidents message to congress em-
bOdying his views on the question of
tariff reform and adopted by the ST.
Louis convention, as being a true in
depreciation of the principles of the
democratic platform on the question Of
tariff, which favOrS taxing the luxur-
les and not the necessities of life.
Fourth-We are opposed to all sump-
tuary laws as being vicious in princi-
pie and unsuccessful in practice; also
to the action of the republican party in
Kansas in passing the law for the es-
tablishment of metropolitan police
system in certain cities in this state
and for its ineQuitable and unfair ap-
plication and enforcement of the same
for purely political reasons. We de-
N tho cU0fnn0 q h0inu HA0Ffi0l
unjust and undemocratic. 1t is sub
stantial denial of home rule and the
right of local self-government. 1t i'm
peaches the intelligence, challenges the
integrity and denies the patriotism OF
1.-THE people affected by it. 1t brands
them Individually and collectively as
being ignorant, vicious, dishonest, cor
rupt and wholly incapable of sef-gov-
eminent, and we demand repeal OF
this law.
Fifth-We now are, as we always
wrong, injustice and tyranny in what
ever form it may exist, whether politi
cal or civil, and we therefore deeply
sympathiZe with the gallant people Of
Ireland in their righteous and glorious
struggle for elf-government on theiI
native soil, and we extend to them Oul
hearty sympathy and bid them God
speed in their grand contest for lib
erty; and we likewise extend to the
suffering and oppressed laboring mel
of this country our earnest sympathy
in their contest with the soulless an(
unjust monopolies, corporations anf
trusts created or operated for the pull
pose or with the effect of reducing to /;
condition of Servitude the labOrini
men and women of this county, anC
We pledge them the support of thi.
party in the passage and enforcement
of all just measures that may be neces
sary and proper for the protection anC
promotion of their rights, and we op
pose any system of state policy which
permits competition between cOnvic
labor and the labor of flee American
Workmen.
Sixth.-We favor the abolition of thu
grand jury system as a useless, unnec
eSsary measure, which adds greatly tt
the cost and burdens of a tax-TiddeI
people, and we demand its repeal a:
expensive and inquisitious legal ma
chinery.
The convention was in the hands o
the supporters of Mr.. Martin from
the start, and the only delay in its &c
liberations was occasiOned by the f1gh
on the amendment to the resolution
offered by Ex-Governor Click, demand
| ing a re-Submission of the prohibition
amendment to a vote of the people
The convention adjourned at l2:45.