The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-09-10
DEMOCRATS OF KANSAS
Opposition Declared 10 PaternaliSm in
Government.
The People Asked to Repudlate
Senator lngalls-Dissatisfied
Republicans Uniting With
Democrats.

WITcHrTA, KAN. Sept. 9.--The demo
cratic and resubmissionist state conven-
ton met to-day. The resubmissionists
compose faction OF the republican party
which opposes prohibition, favors high
license, aud is striving to obtain, through
the legislature the resubmission Of the
prohibitory amendment 10 vote Of the
people. To attain these ends they formed
a separate party and fused with the dem
ocrats.
Both CONVENTIONS met at the same hour
in different halls. The democratic con-
vention elected John 5. Sheridan of Pa
ola, temporary chairman, and n recess
was taken. During recess sub-commit-
tee conferred with one from the submis.
sionists on resolutions and reported the
platform TO the full committee.
On rcassembling the democratic con-
vention made temporary organization
permanent and adopted a platform.
IL declares opposition 10 patcrnalism in
government, state and national affairs;
deplores the tendency manifested by
preacher politicians who pose as leaders
of the republican party in this state 10
make religious belief a test OF eligibility
for political preferment; declares the fed.
eral election bill legitimate offspring of
the party which iilched the presidency;
favors tariff based upon public necessi-
ties free coinage of silver; liberal pension
law; expresses sympathy with labor in its
struggle with the insatiate money power,
whether in factory or farm; opposes
sumptuary legislation and demands early
resubmission OF the prohibitory amend
ment, believing prohibition has brought
upon the people of the state incalculable
evils, and declares emphatically IN favor
OF high license and local option.
Another plank asks the people of Kansas
10 repudiate Senator ILgalls. the man who
denounced reform in politics as dream,
declared the decalogue has no place ia
politics and expressed belief in the Use OF
money aud the employment of hired Hes
slams in campaigns justiilable. The re-
publican resubmlsslon convention se-
lected l.. A. Bonita of Great Bend tenn.
porary chairman and the temporary
organization was soon after made perma-
nent. About 800 delegates were present.
| The committee on resolutions reported q
platform pledging loyalty 20 the princi-
Piles of the national republican party;
favoring reciprocity; demanding free
coinage Of siver: such modification Of
the tariff as will give equal protection to
agriculture and manufactures; an equit-
able bankrupt law and liberal pension
laws.
On the question of prohibition, the plat.
form says: 1--WE arraign the party mana.
gers in this state as dlsloyal TO the princi.
pies aud unfaithful 10 the interests Of the
republican party. We charge that they
have put the party in Kansas out OF har.
mony with the national republican party,
and have absolved US from all obligations
20 longer acknowledge their leadership
Lu ed by the seductive wiles of impracti.
cal visionaries, they have committed the
party TO extravagence ana follies which
unless promptly checked. will bankrupt
and depopulate the state. These things
inpel us, as the only method which prom
ises success, 10 sink party preference Il
state politics for the time, and unite will
such Of our fellow citizens of the
state as share our convictions
without regard 10 party, for the purpos,
of correcting the follies into which W,
, have been betrayed, and thus preserve th,
good name aud insure the future prosper
ity of the state. We are opposed 10 pro
, hbition. trial Of ten years has demon
strated its total ineiliciency as temper
ance measure. 1t is the revival Of an oh
solcte form Of paternal government ant
entirely opposed TO the genius and spiri
of the age. Ii is at enmity with the funda
| VI Nuf 'lNllIlupii, tils
destroys that inalicnablc right Of either
| to determine for himself bv what metho,
; hc will preserve his own happiness with
| out interference with the rights Of Others
which principle is the basis of our liber
ties and hope Of our institutions. II !
un-American, unrepublican and un
/, democratic, and not in harmony witt
S the purposes and spirit Of our institution
= and laws. The existence OF the prohib
: tory law is "a perpetual menace TO th
o material interests Of the state. Ii burden
us with taxation and deprives us Of al
control Of the liquor traffic and tb
! revenues therefrom. Ii drives away popu
lation, prevents immigration, makes th
building Of large cities within the stat
: impossible, encourages perjury, make
; more hypocrites than all other agencic
! combined, does not lessen crime q
! pauperism, does not empty jails, pen
= tentiaries, lunatic asylums aud aim
: houses, and. believing that any publ
money in the hands of enlightened peopl
is absolutely safe, we demand that th
question of the repeal of the prohibitor
amendment 10 the constitution be sui
= mitted TO the people ut as early date a
r pDssible.