The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1894-10-05

unlimited coinage of gold and silver at
the present ratio of 16 to /, not waiting
for the aid or consent of any other ma
ton on earth:
We regard the right to issue money
as an attribute of sovereignty and be-
lieve that all money needed to supple
ment the gold and silver coinage of the
constitution, and to make the dollar so
stable in its purchasing power that it
will defraud neither debtor nor credi-
tor, should be issued by the general
government as the greenbacks were
Issued; that such money should be re-
deemable in coin, the government to
gold or silver, whichever is most con
venient for the government. We be-
lieve that all money issued by the gov
eminent, whether gold, silver or paper,
should be made a full legal tender for
all debts, public and private, and that
no citizen should be permitted to de-
monetize by contract thai which the
government makes money by law.
We are in favor of the election of
United States senators by direct vote
of the people, and in case the senate
refuses to allow an amendment which
will C the direct election of n
tor, we are in favor of calling a con-
veDtion or states to submit such an
amendment for ratification by the
states.
We are in favor of a constitutional
amendment making the president incl
igible for reelection.
We are in favor of the operation of
the telegraph in connection with the
postal system.
We are in favor of a liberal pension
policy.
We are in favor of the arbitration of
differences between large corporate
employers and their numerous en-
ployers.
We are in favor of the foreclosure, as
soon as due, of the liens of the govern
ment against the Union Pacific and
other Pacific railroads.
Believing that the duty of the repre-
sentative is to represent the will and in
terests of his constituents, we condemn
as undemocratic any attempt by eau
Gus dictation to prevent the representa-
tive from voicing the sentiments of his
SfoA
We believe in the right of every indi-
vidual to worship God according to the
dictates of his OWE conscience, and we
condemn as ZIMMERMAN and contrary
to the spirit of our institutions any at
tempt to apply a religious test to the
citizen or to the official. We appeal to
all democrats who may have beer led
into political hostility to the members
of any church to remember the prin-
ciples of religious liberty promulgated
by Thomas jefferson and defended by
the party which he organized.
We approve of the maximum rate bill
passed by the last legislature, and ia
vor its re-enactment if it is declared
larities which can be remembered.
At the conclusion of the reading of
the platform George P. Marvin of Gage
county and editor of the Beatrice Dem
ocrat, presented a minority report upon
the money plank. 1t was a follows:
We hold to the use of both gold and
silver, without discrimination against
either metal or charge for mintage, but
the following unit of coinage of both
must be of equal intrinsic and exchange
able value OF be adjusted through in
ternational agreement, or by such safe
guards of legislation as shall insure the
maintenance of the parity of the two
metals and the equal power of every
dollar at times in the markets and in
the payment of debts.
The resolution was tabled and the
platform as before given adopted.