Nevada County picayune., 1891-06-25
THE THIRD PARTY.

In May kind of conglomcratcd mass meeting, having no equal or fair representation, majority of whom hailed from the two States of Kansas and Ohio, met at Cincinnati, Ohio, and, after two or three days wrangling, formulated the bright @ platform which we publish on our lst page this week. We propose to dis cuss said platform in ! reasonable, fair way.
 Plank glvcs the movement q namc-the Peoples Party. Thus a rabble from two States, with a few stragglers from other States. under take to say "thc people, inaugura- ted and brought it into life. What lisco,
 Plank is divided into eight parts and Is fcarfuly and won dcrfulIy made. Starts out by "hcartily cndorsing' demands of platforms at St. Louis, Ocala and Omaha, yet in it's multiform sub-di- visions entirely ignores the high robber tariff system, which was so heartily condemned at Ocala. It is thus contradictory. Second and third parts of plank , fayors more money in Treasury notes, and free coinage, and the loaning of money by the sub-Treasury plan. Except ing latter 1t is very good Democratic doctrine, as also parts C. d. and C. As Democrat we can cudorsc bal aucc of this plank. For many years we have favored a graduated income tax, and the election of President, Nice-President and United States Senators, by a direct vote of the people. Democracy also fayors the proper regulation of railroads.
 As blanks ,, i, ] and refer en- trcly to organization, there are but two blanks to the platform, and we have discussed them. But there are several resolutions winch might he termed a part of the platform.
 First resolution recommends and favors universal suffrage, that is that women as well as men may vote. We certainly can never want such thing q, this. God forbid that our innocent daughters and wives should ever be drawn into the dirty cess pool and quagmirc of politics.
 Second resolution fayors more back pay to those drawing pensions and "such other legislation as shall do equal and exact justice to the Union soldiers" In other words, larger pensions and more of them. If this resolution should be complied with every grccnback dollar that was paid soldiers, then worth but jOc., would have to be made to come to gold value, and would cost the gov ernmcut hundreds of millions of dol lars. 1t would also increase the pay and number of pensioners, although the country is now groaning beneath the heavy load of over sl35 ,0O0 ,000 annually, We favor cutting down the pension rolls, and that rapidly.
 Resolution 8 i- ridiculous. The idea of farmers wanting eight hours made a day, work
 There is absolutely nothing in the two other resolutions.
 And now we have dissectcd this great third party platform, which really contains little. It failed to speak out on some of the most vital, important questions, such as the tar fir, the large trusts and combines, and foreign immigration. Demo crats and the South want low tar if, la" to prevent trusts ard com pines, and q new immigration law to stop the rapid influx of paupcr labor and criminals from Europe, as well as from China. But it seems this new third party wants none of these things.
 We think the people of Nevada county and Arkansas have enough of these new-fangled, so-callcd re- form(D movements There has been three or four of them, and neither ever aecomplishnd any thing. The only way 10 get relief is to stay in tb good old Democratic party. I and fight for what we want there.
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