, 1890-09-10
POLITICS IN KANSAS.
Democrats and Republican Re-
submissiOnists
Demand that the Prohibitory
Amendment
Shall Again Come Before the
People.

WICHITA, Kas., Sept. 9.-The Demo
Gratis and resubmisionists convention met
today. The resubmissionists compose a
faction of the Republican party which
opposes prohibition, favors high license
and Is striving to obtain through the leg
stature a resubmission of the %prohibitory
amendment to a vote of the people. To
attain these ends they formed a separate
party and fused with the Democrats.
Both conventions met at the same hour
in different halls, The Democratic con
%vention elected John Sheridan of Paolo
temporary chairman and a recess was
taken.
During the recess a sub committee con
terred with one from the resubmissionists
on resolutions and reported a platform to
the full committee.
On reassembling the Democratic con-
v%ention made the temporary organization
permanent and adopted the platform. It
declares opposition to %paternalism in gov
ernment, state and national affairs; de-
plores the tendency manifested by preach
er politicians who pose as leaders of the
Republican party in this state to make
religious belief a test of eligibility
Tor political preierment; declares the
federal election bill the legitimate off
spring OF the party which hlched the
presidency; favOrs a tariff based upon
public necessities; free coinage of silver
and . liberal pension law; expresses sym
patty with labor in the struggle with the
money power whether in factory or farm;
opposes sun ptuary legislation and de-
mands the early re submission OF the pro-
hibitory amendment, believing prohibit
ton has brought upon the people of this
state i%ncalculable evils, and declares en-
phatlcally in favor of high license and
local option. Another plank asks the
people of Kansas to repudiate Senator
Ingalls,, the man who denounced reform
in politics as a dream, y declared the de-
dialogue has no place in politics and ex-
presses the belief that the use of money
and the employment of hired Hessians in
campaigns Is justitiable.
The Republican resubmIssion c1nven
ton selected d. A. Banta Of Great Bend
temporary chairman and the organization
was soon after made permanent. About
OUp ucltEdlGS hGIG piCstnA- lud AG1oiu
ions committee reported a platform
p~ledging loyalty to the principles of the
national Republican party. tavoring re
ciprocity, demanding the Tree coinage OF
silver, such modification of the tariff as
will give equal protection to agriculture
and manufactures, an equitable bankrupt
law, liberal pension laws. On the ques-
ton of prohibition the platform says: We
arraign the party managers in this state
as disloyal to the principles and unfaith-
iul to the interests OF the Republican
party. We charge that they have put
the party in Kansas out of harmony with
the national Republican party and we are
thereby absolved from all Obligations to
longer acknowledge their leadership.
Lured by the seductive wiles of impracti-
cal visionarles they have committed the
party to extravagance and tolliss which,
unless promptly checked, will bankrupt
and depopulate the state. These
things impel us, as the only method
which promises success, to sink party
preferences as to state politics for the
tune, and unite with such of our fellow
citizens of the state as share our con-
~victions without regard to party, for the
purpose of correcting the tollieS into
which we have been betrayed, and thus
preserve the good name and insure the
future prosperity OF the state. We are
opposed to prohibition. Ten years trial
has demonstrated its total inefiicacy as a
temperance measure. 1t Is a revival of
an obsolete form OF p~aternal government,
and entirely opposed to the genius and
spirit of the age. 1t is at enmity with the
fundamental principles of our civilization,
and DESTROYS that inalienable right OF the
citizen to determine for himself what
method will preserve his own
happens without interference with the
rights of others, which principle is the
basis of our liberty and the hope Of our
institutions; it is un-American, un-Re'
publican and un Democratic and is not in
harmony with the purposes and spirit OF
our institutions and laws. The existence
of the prohibitory law is a rerpetus, N -.
ace to the material interests OF the state.
1t burdens US with taxation and deprives
us of all control of the liquor traffic and
the revenue therefrom; drives away
population; prevents immigration,
makes the building of urge
cities within the state impossible,
encourages perjury, makes more hypo-
critics than all other agencies combined,
does not lessen crime or paupoIism. docs
not empty iails, peritGntilrles, lUn7fic
asylums or almshouses, and believing rhu
any public measure in tie hands of en-
liRhtened people is absolutely s'Ea. we de-
mand the question of the repeal of the
prohibltory amendment to the coustitu-
ton be submitted to the people at rs
early a date as possible.
There were two candidates for governor,
-Gx Governor Cbas. Robinson, n re-
constructionist, and Ex-Governor Click.
the only Democratic governor ever elected
in the state. When the determination to
fuse with the rosnbmissionists became
evident Click withdrew and Robinson
was nominated by ac~clamation. He was
the first governor after the admission of
Kansas to the Union. In 1889 he ran
for governor on the g~reenback ticket,
and this year was one of the leaders In
forming the resubmission Republican
party.
Two Sons Killed and the Mother DYING
HowBERT, Colo, Sept. 9-Yesterday
VIM. Langley was shot through the body
and fatally injured by a cowboy. who
escaped. Geo. Langley, a well known
rsnchman and brother of William, came
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