Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1894-09-22
:. JOHN F. O'MALLEY,
State Senator

us against Romanism and against the
OF professional foreigners.
We will elect our candidate for Con-
gress, Mr.. McComas, In the Fifth Dis.
trict Leo Richardson, our candi.
date for the Legislature In the Fifth
District. 10 certain to win.
Wc'will probably elect several other
for the Legislature.
Favorable re:orts concei ming
Franklin Mac Vcagh's aggressive can.
vass for the United States Senator.
ship continue to pour into the Demo.
cratic State head quarters. The party
managers are highly rratitied with
the splendid work Mr.. MacVcagh Is
doing. They will shortly send ether
speakers into the Held. A list Of ap.
pointinents fer Colonel w. II. MOrri.
son Is being i.,ade up and will be an.
nOunccd In a few days Another list
for Vice President Stevenson will
soon be announced. Mr.. Orville Van
Thompson, the brilliant orator, will
also be heard from In Mr.. MacVcash's
interest.
".
Many reforms are advocated in the
platform OF the Independent Amcri.
can Citizens party, which was adopt.
ed ut their Central Music Hall meet.
Ing. One plank sets forth that money
should consist Of gold, silver and
greenbacks, and that all paper money
should be issued BY the Government
directly to the people 10 the form Of
national greenbacks. The party
advocates the discontinuance Of In.
terest.bearlng bonds, and that the
bonds now out should b. paid a. fast
as possible.
With regard to immigration the
platform favors o restriction to "pro.
tect our citizen labOrers from the evil
influence and unequal competition OF
cheap pauper and criminal labor.
The party considers u tariff for pro.
lection, honestly administered, ID
necessary for the encouragement Of
infant Industries. 1t advises the ap.
polntment Of o nOn.partlsan commits
sion on tariff to avoid calamitous
financial results from partisan agita'
ton and changes. The platform sets
forth that there should he q system
OF effective legislation which will In.
sure by arbitration the rights OF labor
and capital alike.
Tho Independents declare that
United States Senators should be
elected by direct vote OF the people.
They demand that all national, State
and municipal uonsectarian public
schools and institutions of learning
shall be protected from all sectariau
interference, and that no sectariau
school or institution Of learning shall
ut any time or under any circum
stances receive public money fol
their support. With regard to pub
lie charities, they demand that all In
situations OF charity which receive
public money must be nonsectarlau
and no sectarian institutions shall
receive support by grants OF public
money or land or their equivalents
They declare that no foreigner shall
be permitted to vote until he car
read the legal language of the coun
try. The party pledges itself, should
Its nominees be elected, that gam
bling dens and haunts OF vice shall
be suppressed, as far as lies In thu
power of the county officials to do so
The following resolutions were also
adopted by the party:
| WHEREAS, 1t is IL fact that a. several O
| tho state conventions Of the DemOcrati,
party there have been resolutions s.dopte'
Ing all secret political orders. ant
most especially that Of the American Pro
tective Association. and thereby, In fact
declaring that the Democrats were opposed
to all patriotic orders
WHEREAS, The Populist party In conven
ton assembled has also ut different time
and places by resolutions or otherwise de
ciared itself opposed to such organization
Us above men toned, and
WHEREAS. Several leaders Of the Repub
lican party have by public utterance OK
pressed themselves as opposed to such OF
ganizstions; and
WHEREAS. No pol teal party up to TIL