Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1890-06-19
Shawnee County Alliance.

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June 9th. The proposed amend
ments to the constitution of the state
increasing the supreme court bench
from three to seven members, and
allowing the legislature ninety days
instead of fifty were discussed at
length, and resolution against both
propositions passed unanimously.
A resolution passed the body in favor
of county uniformity of text books
for the common schools and the fol-
lowing committee was appointed to
take the matter under ADJUSTMENT and
report to the county alliance at the
next meeting: J. o. Butler, Josiah
Jordon, Alex Gardner, Hugh Lawler,
L. L. Kiene.
The secretary of the county alliance
was instructed to correspond with
President L. L. Polk with view of
getting him to deliver an address in
this county during the summer.
John G. Otis offered the following
resolutions, which were adopted:
Resolred, That we require any
candidate for congress in this district
to answer squarely in the affirmative
the following questions to secure our
vote:
| l. Do you fully indorse the de-
mands made by the National Farmers
Alliance and Industrial Union of
America at their meeting at St. Louis
in December 1889, copy of which is
herewith encloseda
2. If elected to congress will you
refuse to enter any caucus for the
selection of speaker of the house of
representatives which does not make
said demands test of admission and
membership? And will you refuse
to vote for candidates nominated by
any caucus which does not require
such tests? And be it further
Resolred, By the Shawnee county
Alliance that we will not as Alliance
men, give our support to any candi-
date for congress that fails to come
out plainly and unequlvocally and
place himself squarely upon our ALI
ance platform, 1t matters not what
political party he may be the nominee
OF, and that henceforth we will vote
in the interest of agriculture and not
in the interesto f any political party.
Resolved, That the congressional
committeeman from this county be in
structed to present copy of the
resolutions passed by this convention
on the subject of congressman, to
each convention assembling for the
purpose of nominating member of
congress from this district, and fur
nish copy of these resolutions to
the public press for publication.
The st. Louis demands are as fol-
lows.
l. Resolred. That we demand the
abolition of national banks and the
substitution of legal tender treasury
notes in lieu of national bank notes,
issued in sufficient volume to do the
business of the country on a cash
system. regulating the amount needed
on per capita basis as the business
interests of the country expand; and
that all money issued by the govern
ment shall be legal tender in payment |
of all debts, both public and private.
2. That we demand that congress
shall pass such laws as will effectually |
prevent the dealing in futures of all |
agricultural and mechanical produc-
tons, preserving a stringent system
of procedure in trials as shall secure
the prompt conviction and imposing
such penalties as shall secure the
most perfect compliance with the law.
3. That we demand the free and
unlimited coinage of silver.
4. That we demand the passage
of laws prohibiting the alien owner
ship of land, and that congress take
early steps to devise some plan to
obtain all lands now owned by aliens
and foreign syndicates, and that all
lands now held by railroads and
other corporations in excess If such
as is actually used and needed by
them upon which to transact their
lawful business be reclaimed by the
government and held for actual set
Tiers only.
5. Believing In the doctrine of
equal rights to all and special privi-
eges to none, we demand that taxa
ton, national or state, shall not be
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