The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1893-02-03

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ID. f. ,Il :" Judge JohR. Ilal AIT H
On last Wednesday the joint session
of the house and senate. oflthe Kansas
legislature elected Judge John Martin,
to- the United States, senate. He -re5
ceiYed eighty six votes Ssh iethlee noEB
than IL majority, sa.l,'ssst.sr 80 tss& fBf
He left on. Sunday.a..,offs .{1fffs week for
Washington, D.. C.,atos present his crto
dentials. and demand his seat, @'''74'''F'
-. Judge John. Martin is on of The
foremost lawyers of the state Of KAN "a i,
sas, and his ability. is .evere %Aere,Fe2
cognized. Heis. classed las a demo-
crat OF. the fusion sort, and he toga tther
with ex-GoYernor CLICK did more ito
secure the endorsement of the peoples
party state and electoral ticket than
any other nIGn in the party in Kansas.
He fought the thing through to sue
cessful termination and the reinforce
ment thus brought to the peoples
party ticket resulted in victory for the
fusion ticket mt the polls on November
8. Without this assistance and COM
bination the peoples ticket would
have been defeated The populists
could not elect senator without the
democratic vote in the house and SEN
ate, and it was the proper thing TO do
TO elect fusion democrat. 1t was
business. as we'll as good policy and
good politics. 1t was deserved recog-
milton of worthy man, and one who
will well represent Kansas. and its
constituency.
That Judge John Martin stands for
peoples party principles can be seen
by his remarks at the populist caucus
on last Thursday morning, as reported
in the Wichita Eagle.
MARTINS PLATFORM.
TOPEKA, Kas., Jan. 26.-Following
is an abstract of Judge Martins speech
before the populist caucus yesterday
morning defining his position upon
current political questions:
Il will state for your benefit my
opinion concerning current politics
and other political issues which are
likely to devIde the people of the
country. 1 am Internationally in
favor of tariff reform; not only in the
ordinary sense, but in tariff reductions
of the most radical character. 1 am
in favor of placing on the free list all
raw material used by the people in
building and in daily consumption of
foods. am in favor of the least pos
sible tariff rates that can be laid ON
the large class of products that are
used in the ordinary comforts of home
and placing higher rates of duty upon
larger articles of luxury used by the
few.
Secondly, am IN favor of the I'M
conditional and unlimited free coinage
of silver as money and without limita
tions as to its debt paying power
Third, I am opposed on principle tc
national banks or any other financial
system that compels or induces part
nership relation between the govern.
ment and private individuals. I be-
lieve that all national bank currenci es
should be retired and the deticiencie.
supplied by adding issues of treasury
notes substantially like our present
greenback currency and in quality
and volume to supply the business de-
mands of the country. Fifth, am in
favor of an income tax in order thai
the wealth of the country may BE com
PEELED to pay its just share OF. the pub
lie burden. What may even be bet
ter system is a graded properly tax
as suggested by jefferson ina. letter
to Hamilton in 1892. ;ess
''You ask if I am in favor of:t6e sub
treasury schemeP I answer that an
not. because in the language of oul
own platform L think there isa.bettel
plan, and that plan IS the one already
suggested of gold. silver and Treasury
notes or greenback currency based or
the whole property of the country"
Judge Martin further declared,him
self opposed to- government ownership
of railways. and stated that be be
lieved a better plan to be radical con
troll of them. He had grave fears a,
to the practicability of government
control as to make it effective and II
the interest of the people. Like al
other material enterprises, he said
eve must first experiment in order e
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