Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-07-25


of Kansas, in convention assembled, do here
10y reafllrm our allegiance to the principles
enunciated in the Omaha platform and point
10 the record of our representatives I'm con-
gress as an evidence of their loyalty in that
platform We meet this time under conditions
which see every prophecy then made fulfilled
and every indictment which was made therein
against republicans and democratic parties
proven.
Our sympathies go out to tho unemployed,
homeless and landless people of the country
svho have been brought to their present con-
diton in a great measure through the vicious
un-American financial policy of this govern
ment; and we hold sacred the declaration of
indepen ience that all men are created equal,
they are endowed by their Creator with GER
tain inalienable rights, that among these are
life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
We most heartily commend our present state
officers for their wise and economic admins
tration of state affairs, that has saved to the
tax payers thousands of dollars, and the popu-
listc Legislators for their efforts to enact into
law every demand OF the state platform
adopted at Wichita iu 1892.
We demand the free coinage Of silver at the
ratio of Ii to ], and denounce any party that
is so completely under the control of the gold
bugs that il dare not take a stand for the
people on this all important question. which
Ineana so much to the wage-earners and pro-
ducersof our country.
The comptrollers report for 1893 shows that
during the year i5S national banks suspended,
leaving financial ruin ia their wake; we again
reiterate our condemnation OF this. the So
called hest banking system the world has ever
known, end demand in it's stead banks of de-
post under the control of the depositors and
the deposits guaranteed by this government.
That we are unalterabiy opposed to issues of
government Understanding bonds, and de-
mnnd instead the issue of full legal tender
treasury notes and the payment of the same,
together with silver money. to meet the needs
of the government.
we condemn the unwse and cruel policy of
all the government parties in this nation whose
legislation has favored capital and oppressed
labor, and we hereby declare our sympathy
with all toilers in their efforts to improve their
condition, and demand such legislation as will
remove some of the burdens of toll by short
ening the hours OF labor without lessening
their daily wage.
We demand national and state boards of
arbitration to settle and adjust differences be-
tween the employers and employees; and we
IufIncf ludI WutIS lHt HTbpCINy VI Y
corporation has been placed in the hands of
a receiver, the wages Of the employees shall be
Al first lien on it's earnings and effects; and VIC
denounce the appointment of officials or par
ties interested as receivers of any corporation.
We demand service pension graduated so
the man who carried the musket shall be enti-
tied TO the same consideration as the man who
wore the epaulette, and said to be 80 framed
InVNIu
any Official who is unfriendy toward the I'm
ION soldiers and sailors to change, suspend or
I'm any way deprive the soldier OF his just dues,
which this government owes him for defend
ing with his life our country and flag.
We favor state irrigation department to
investignte methods and water supplies and
encourage more extended irrigation.
We demand freight rate law based on the
line of the maximum freight rate bill passed
by the senate and afterwards defeated by the
republican house, and quote in proof of the
need OF such lawthe plank OF the republican
platform adopted at their state con IGNITION in
1892, which We adopt and make part of this
demand, towits 1--WE Insist that the great
transportation companies which derive their
corporate existence from KRagGs laws, and
their financial existence from Kansas trade
and commerce, owe TO the people of Kansas
far equitable and honest treatment in the
matter of freight rates, and VIC are opposed &c
the inequitable and oppressive discrimination
In the adjustment of such rates by said COM
panies whereby the merchants, shippers and
consumers OF other states are enriched at the
expense and TO the injury OF the people OF
Kansas, and we demand of the ne KIT legislature
the utmost diligence in enacting appropriate
legislation providing therefor to the end that
agricultural, mercantile and other interests OF
Kansas shall be placed on footing of eqality,
% far as freight rates are concerned, with the
ke interests in adjoining states"
Believing all power is vested in the people
and that all isSs OF vital importance should be
iniated and approved or disapprOved by them
Therefore we indorse the iRiGtiye and referen-
dun system.
whereas, The Peoples party came into ca
istence and won its glorious victories on the
fundamental principles of equal rights to all
and special privileges 10 none; therefore, be ii
Resolved. That we favor the pending con-
stitutionai amendment.