Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-10-10
POPULlST STATE PLATFORM.

We, the representatives of the peoples party
of Kansas, I'm convention assembled, do here
by rcailirm our allegiance to the principles
enunciated in the Omaha platform and point
TO the record of our representatives in 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 the unemployed
homeless and landless people of the country
hohave been brought to their present con-
dltion in great measure through the vicious
un-American financial policy OF this govern
ment; and we hold sacred the declaration of
indepen1en 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-
Ilstic Legislators for their efforts to enact into
law every demand of the state platform
adopted at Wichita in 1892
We demand the free coinage of silver at the
ratio of Is to l, and denounce any party that
Is 80 completely under the control of the gold
bugs that it dare not take stand for the
people on this all important question, which
means so much 10 the wageearncrs and pro-
.ducers of our country.
The comptrollers report for 1898 shows that
during the year ljs national banks suspended,
leaving financial ruin in their wake; we again
reiterate our condemnation of this. the So
called best banking system the world has ever
known, and demand III its stead banks of de-
post under the control of the depostors and
the deposits guaranteed by this government.
That we are unalterably opposed to issues of
government Understanding bonds, and de-
mand 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 uuwisc 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. aud 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-
further demand that where the property OF
corporation has been placed in the hands of
a receiver, the wages of the employees shall be
first lien on its earnings aud effects; and we
denounce the appointment of officials or par
ties interested as receivers OF any corporation.
We demand service pension graduated so
she man who carried the musket shall be enti-
tied to the same consideration as the man who
wore the epaulettc, and said TO be so framed
that il will place forever beyond the power of
any official who is unfriendly toward the I'm
son 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
lng with his life our country and flag.
We favor state Irrigation department to
investigate methods and water supplies and
encourage more extended irrigation.
We demand u 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 a law the plank of the republican
platform adopted at tneir state con IGNITION 10
1ss2. which we adopt and make part of this
demand. towit: 1--WE Insist that the great
transportation companies which derive theF
corporate existence from Kansas laws, and
their financial existence from Kansas trad
and commerce, owe TO the people OF hansas
far. equitable and honest treatment in the
matter of freight rates, and VIC are opposed 70
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
aAanaas, and we demand of the ne XII 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 a footing of eqality,
o far as freight rates are concerned. with the
SIe interests in adjoining states"
Believing all power is vested in the people
and that all laws of vital importance should be
iniated and approved or disapproved by them.
Therefore we indorse the iniative and referen-
dunn system.
whereas, The Peoples party came into ex-
Istence and won its glorious victories on the
fundamental principles of equal rights TO all
and special privileges to none; therefore, be it
Resolved, That we favor the pending con-
etitutional amendment.