The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1892-07-12

was had till p. m. On reassembli ng
a--telegram was read announcing that
the Republican delegation from Well
lington county, Kansas, had gone to
the congressional convention with a
certain candidate who was defeated.
and that on their return the delega-
ton put on badges of the Peoples
party candidate. The announcement
was greeted with loud cheers.
The platform committee then re-
ported the platform. 1t is as follows
The Platform.
The platform is as follows:
Assembled upon the one hundred and
sixteenth anniversary of the Declaration
of Independence, the Peoples party Of
America, In their first national convention,
jpvoking upon their action the blessing Of
Almighty God, puts forth, in the name and
on behalf Of the people Of this country, the
following preamble and declaration OF
principles:
The conditions which surround Us best
Justify our cooperation, We meet in the
midst of nation brought to the verge Of
moral, political and material ruin. Cor
ruption dominates the ballot box, the legis-
latures, the congress, and touches even the
ermine of the bench. The people are de-
moralized; most of the states have been
compelled t. isolate naoes the to voters Srs
vent universal intimidation or
bribery. The newspapers are largely sub
sidized or muzzled; public opinion silenced !;
business prostrated; our homes covered
with mortgages; labor impoverished, and
the land concentrating in the hands Of the
capitalists. The urban workmen are
1f 60 self
protection; imported pauperized labor
by our laws. is established
to shoot them down and they are RAPIDLY
degenerating into European conditions.
The fruits Of the toll of millions are boldly
stolen to build up colossal fortunes for
few, unprecedented in the history Of man
kind and the pos SCISSORS of these. in turn,
despise the republic and endanger liberty.
From the same prolific womb Of govern
mental injustice We breed the two great
classes--iramps and millionaires.
The national power to create money IS
appropriated to enrich bondhoiders: vast
public debt, payable in legal tender cur
rency has been funded into gold bearing
bonds, thereby adding millions to the bur-
dens Of the people.
Silver, VIII ich has been accepted as coin
since the dawn of history, has been de-
monetized to add to the purchasing power
Of gold, by decreasing the value Of al
forms Of property as well as human labor,
and the supply of currency is purposely
abridged to fatten usprers, bankrupt enter
prise and enslave industry. a vast conspir-
acy against mankind has been organ.
lied on two continents. and
is rapidly taking possession OF
the world. If not met and overthrown at
once, it foreuodes terrible social convul-
sion, the es.ruction of capitalization. or
the establishment OF an absolute despot-
ism We have witnessed for more than a
quarter of century the struggles of the
two great political parties for power and
plumber, while grevious wrongs have been
inflicted upon the suffering people.
We charge that the controlling influences
dominating both these parties have per-
mitted the existing dreadful conditions 10
develop with out serious effort TO prevent
or restrain them. Neither do they now
promise Us any substantial reform. They
have agreed together to ignore in the COM
ing campaign overy ssue but one. They
propose 70 drown the outcries of a plum
dered people with the uproar of sham
battle over the tariff, SO that capital, cor.
porations. national banks. trusts. watered