Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-19
PEOPLES PARTY.
To Meet in Fort Worth the First
Tuesday in February.
THE RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED.
The Penal Code and the Code of Criminal
Procedure Found Fault With.
The Dallas News Branded AS a Sort of
Third Party Paper Anyhow-County
Organization Agreed Upon to
Keep Up the Agitation.
THE RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED.
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DALLAS, TEX, Aug 1S.-The third party
convention closed its session this morning.
AT the evening session j resolution WAS
adopted that when the convention adlOurns
i adjourn to meet in Fort Worth on the
first Tuesday in next February.
The committee on literature reported rec
pmmending the following publications
The Industrial Educator OF Fort WORTH the
Alliance Nindicat0r of Sulphur Springs,
the Texas independent. the Pioneer Expo
aent, the Cleburne Tribune, the Jacksboro
sentinel, the Alliance Courier, the BOgota
teformer and the Dallas Liberator.
Col Dohoney then addressed the meeting
IN favor Of the Sub-treasury and against
NATIONAL banks and monopoIies.
Mir. McAiinn of San Antonio fired in the
following:
We charge that that the Sixteenth legis-
Azure. aDemOCratic body. fecreaut to its
..uty and the trust contided by the people
q enact penal code and code OF criminal
procedure, did abdicate its high preroga-
i've and delegate that legislative function
) o an agent. That said agent without legal
authority, exercising the power placed i'll
ais hands by said legislature, did make and
.JdIfy, and Is the author of ~tle alleged
Jenal code and code of criminal procedure
now accepted dS authority and current i'll
the Revised Statutes Of Texas.
This charge the committee decided to
embrace III the charges preceding the plat
form.
The platform committee then reported,
lrraigning the Old parties, re-atfirming the
principles set forth in the platform adopted
: it Cincinnati. and recommending the adOp-
ption of the following:
Sec. l. All the public lands of Texas re
naming, and al that can be recovered,
should be reserved as homesteads for actual
Mt Fg,,,1 +,l =,
individuals or corporations, in which the
grantees have not complied with the condi-
Ions OF the grant, should he forfeited to the
1Dtate for homestead purposes: that no alien
ownership of land should be allowed in
Texas; that the present alien land law
should not be repealed: that domestic cor
poratiOns should not be allowed to own
more land than they actually use in the
prosecution of their business.
Sec. .. We demand and pledge ourselves
20 support a law requiring that wild or I'M
cultivated lands. belonging to private indl-
Vlduals or corporations, in large or small
bodies be rendered for taxation at the same
valuation per acre as improved lands of
he same quality il the same county or dis
riot
Sec. 3. We favor an effective system of
public free schools for six months in each
year in which the nature and effects of
taught.
Sec 4 We demand the adoption of
uniform series Of textbooks for the public
schools of this state, and that they be pub
iShed at the expense of the state, the use
of which shall be furnished to the children
'Sf'the state schools free
Sec. ). We favor an amendment to our
state constitution authorizing the loaning of
our permanent school fund not otherwise
invested upon lands of the people at low
rate of interest. with proper limitations
upon the quantity of land and the amount
Of money.
Sec. 6. That we favor eight hours as a
working day upon state and municipal
work, and demand of the legislative power
of this state the passage of law so declar-
ing; and that we pledge ourselves to do all
i'll our power to establish and perpetuate
the eight-hour system
Sec. :. We are III favor of more equit-
able and just lien law to protect laborers,
mechanics and material men
Sec. $. We demand reformation in the
punishment of conVictS; that convict labor
De taken out of competition with citizen
labor; that cOnvictS be given intellectual and
Iaoral instruction, and that the earnings of
sthe convict, above the expense of his keep
ing, shall 60 to his family
Sec. g. Believing Ill the rule of the ma
jOrity, we are in favor of a strict enforce
ment OF the local option law in all counties
whore the same is or may be legally
adopted
nrSec. 10. We demand that the railroads
De compelled to pay their employees monthly
in the lawful money of the country, ana in
case of discharge that they be paid at the
nearest station Immediately upon their dis
charge.
Sec. II. We demand fair elections and
an honest count of the votes, under either
the Australian or some similar system of
voting.