The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-09-26
PEOPLES PARTY CITY PLATFORM,

The platform as adopted is as follows:
The Peoples Party in the city of Mime
apols in convention assembled believing
that the government of our great cities
present one of the great problems of our
civilization, and that municipal campaigns
should be based upon municipal issues
makes the following declarations as en-
bodying it's idea of the pressing demand of
municipal reform
First-The laws of the state and the or
dinances of the city should be rigidly and
impartially enforced
Second-The city should possess to the
fullest extent its autonomy, and its cleo
tons should be changed from autumn to
spring.
Third-That the people may be complete
ly represented proportional representation
should be adopted.
Fourth-Municipal ownership and opera
ton under the civil service of the city of
the railway, telephone, gas and electric
plants, is the only just method to all the
people.
Fifth-The employment of the best class
of men in all the departments of the citys
service should be demanded, and work of
| any kind should be rewarded according to
its value. irrespective of when it is per-
formed and by whom it is done; and that
eight hours should constitute days labor.
| SiXth-That the city business be admins
tered in a business like and economical
manner that the people may not be
| taxed, for the benefit of politicians and
middle men.
Seventh-That the salary of the city of
fcers be reduced to an equality with the
salaries paid for equal services in private
enterprises.
Eighth-That all municipal work be done
| by labor hired direct by the city without
the Intervention of contractors and middle
men, and that employees be paid each week.
Ninth-We advocate the system of local
option in the levy of taxes, and demand
| that taxes be paid semi-annually; and we
! demand more equitable assessment of the
| city property, and that the city assessor be
| elected by direct vote
Tenth-We declare against the proposed
| filter system, to cost over a million dollars,
| and recommended by City Engineer Cap
| peen, and believe that the city can be
amply provided with pure spring water
from a series of artesian wells, and believe
that no great Indebtedness for new water
system any other proposed improvement
should be saddled upon the city of Mime
apolis, until the people have had an OPP
portunity to vote upon the question.
Eleventh-We deprecate the influence of
the saloon in politics and condemn the at
tempt of the liquor interests to foist men
of their choosing into the city council.
Twelfth-We believe in the principle that
a man should be presumed innocent until
he is proven guilty, and that he should not
be required to incriminate himself and
therefore advise such revision of the
vagrancy laws as will make them CORE
spond with these principles.
To the Capitalization of these principles
and the adoption of these methods into the
customs laws, and the institutions of our
city, We, the delegates of this convention,
pledge ourselves unreservedly, and require
of every candidate who seeks our suffrage,
a public statement that he is in full SYM
pathy with these declarations. and will do
all he possibly for their popularization
and their enactment into law
The resolutions were adopted amid
thusiasm. At the conclusion Of the read
ing of the resolutions, Tom Lucas offered
the following:
Resolved That we exercise our united
efforts in influencing the next Legislature,
of the state of Minnesota, to pass a law
embodying the Australian system of prim-
airy elections.