The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-05-29

TO ignore third party or oAV1oS tEiS
| friends of reform
Mr.. Donnelly then gave way to Rob
ert Schilling, OF Wisconsin, secretary OF
the committee, who read the platform
as follows:
Your committee on resolutions begs 70
submit the following:
FIrst-That in view of the great social, In
dustriai and economical revolution now
dawning upon the civilized world and the
new and living issues confronting the Amer
lean people. we believe that the time has ar
rived for capitalization OF the political
reform forces of our country ana the fOruua-
ton of what should be known as the peoples
party OF the United States of America
SecOnd-That we most heartily indorse the
demands OF the platforms as adopted at St
Louis, No, in 1888, Ocala, Fla. in $780, and
Omaha, Eeb, in 1891. by the industrial organ
izations there represented, summarized as
follows:
A-The right to make ana Issue money as
a sovereign power to be maintained by the
people Tor the common dement, Hence We
demand the abolition OF national banks as
banks OF issue, and as q substitute for
national bank notes we demand that legal
tender treasury notes be Issued in sufficient
volume to transact the business OF the
country on a cash basis without damage or
especial advantage to any class or calling.
such notes to be legal tender in payment of
all debts, public and private, and such
notes, when demanded by the people. shall
be loaned to them at not more than per
cent. per annum upon month perishable
products as indicated in the sub treasury
plan. and also upon real estate with proper
Limitation upon the quantity OF land and
amount of money.
B-We demand the free and unlimited
C-We demand the passage of laws pro-
hibiting alien ownership of land and that
congress take prompt action to devise some
plan to obtain all lands now owned by alien
and foreign syndicates and that all land
held by railroads and other corporations In
excess OF such as IS actually used and needed
by them be reclaimed by the government
and held for actual settlers only.
D-Believing the doctrine OF equal rights
to all and sDgCial privileges de-
mand that mathematician. state or mum
icipal-shall not be used to build up one in
terest or class at the expense of another.
Eve demand that ali reven ues-national,
state or cOunty-shalI be limited to the
necessary expenses OF the government eco
nom1caily and honestly adm intstered.
Eve demand a just and equitable system
of graduated tax on income
GIVE demand the most rigid. honest and
just national control and supervision of the
means of public communication and trans
portation, and if this control and super
vision does not remove the abuses now ez-
listing we demand the government owner
ship of such means of communication and
transportation.
I've demand the election of president,
ee-president and United States senators
by direct vote of the people.
Third-ThRt we urge the united action of
all progressive organizations in attending
the conference called for February o. 1892
by six of the leading reform organizations
FOurth-That national central committee
be appointed by this conference, to be com
posed OF & chairman to be elected by this
BODY ana OF three nemD eES from each state
represented to be named by each state del
egatiOn.
Fifth-That this central committee shall
represent this body, attend the national
conference on February o. 1897, and, if pos
sibie, unite with that and all other reform
organizations there assembled. If no salts
factory arrangement can be effected this
committee shall call a national convention
not later than June 1, 1852, for the purpose
of nominating candidates for president and
vice pres ident
six'h-That the members of the central
committee for each state where there is no
independent political organization conduct
active system of political agitation in
their respective states.
Additional resolutions not parts of
the platform were presented. They
recommended favorable consideration
of universal suffrage, demanded treas
ury notes to pay soldiers equivalent to
coin, favOrs eight hours a day and con-
dennis the action of the worlds fair
commission with reference to wages
ADOPTED AMID CHEERS.
CINCINNATI, May 2I.-When the name
of the new party, the peoples party
of the United States" was read by the
committee on resolutions secretary
the words elected a magnificent out
burst of applause, and as each plank
was read the cheering was renewed so
frequently that the great hall seemed
to reverberate continuously.
A plank recommended universal SUI
frage to favorable consideration and
another demanded the payment OF pen
sions on a gold basis. The former met
with rather chilly reception, but the
latter was roundly cheered.
At this juncture delegate objected
that the platform was One-sided for the
Farmers Alliance, but he met with
little encouragement, and Schilling de-
clared that the convention was here for
harmony and the new declaration of in
dependence. Unanswered that the pen
sion plank was left to the soldier mem
Der on the committee with an inquiry
whether it was satisfactory. and on his
acquiescence it was adopted unani-
mOusiy.
Davis, of Texas, a lank six-footsr in
a light suit, who had electrified the con-
ventiOn after Donnelly's speech by a
long, weird whoOp OF exultation, was
conducted to the platform and to the
intense delight of the convention, re-
Peated the unearthly. Indian-liIze yell
Then he announced himself as an ex-
confederate and declared himself for
the p1atfOrm-every plank and every