The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-07-19

State IreaSurer-F. BOrcherC. ri. '.. /
Attorney General. A. Keyes. n....,.
Clerk Of Supreme Court-C. II. John
BCn. 49, - . ~ w..
Chief Justice-Summer Ladd.
Associate Justice-John w. Willis.
Minneapolis, July 1.-THE above tick
ct was nominated by the Populist state
convention. which then adjourned sine |
die. .==..5-...55. .-'.
Following is the platform adopted:
We reaffirm the great principles set |
forth in the platform of the national |
Peoples party, adopted at Omaha, July |
4, 1892, to-wit: ......
We demand national currency, safe, |
sound and flexible, full legal tender
for all debts, public and private, not less
than $50 per capita, issued by the gen
eral government only, direct to the peo-
pie by payments in discharge of all its
Obligations and for public Improvements
We demand a free and unlimited COIN
oge of silver and gold, ct the present
ratio of 16 to l.
We demand the establishment of gov
eminent savings banks for the safe de-
posit of the savings of the people ana to
facilitate exchange. :"
We demand a graduated income and
! Inheritance tax.
! We demand the government owneer-
| shin and operation of railroads, tele-
graphs and telephones.
| LIND and all natural resources OF
| wealth are the heritage of all the people,
| and should not be monopoliZed for specu-
| latiye purposes nor owned by aliens,
| therefore, we demand that all land now
| held by railroads and other corporations
| in excess of their actual needs, and all
! lands held by aliens, be reclaimed by
the government and held for actual set
tiers only.
We demand the election of president
aid vice president and United States
senators by direct vote of the people.
We demand such legislation as will
break up the great combinations which
plundered the farmers for twenty-five
years past, and secure to the agricultural
population an absolutely free market for
their cattle, wheat, and other products.
While we are ready to defend the
general government in all it's legitimate
functions, nevertheless we regard its
| powers as limited by the terms of the
centralizing tendencies of the age, which
are destroying the just powers of the
several states.
We arraign the Republican party of
Minnesota for the immense frauds COM
mitted upon the school and other lands
Of the state, aggregating probably mil
lions of dollars, during the past thirty
years, and we demand that thorough in
yestigation shall be made, and that the
work already beun,g which has returned
$4,000 in three cases alone into the
treasury of the state, shall be continued
until the last dollar has been recovered
of the despoilcd atrimony of our chill
Gren. .
We dem; nd the taxsti Of the mia
inc lands situated in this state SO that
| they will contribute equally with other
property to the support of the state and
local govern ments.
| LEGISLATION has been attended with
| srch venality, in the interests of corpo
| rations. that we demand that the peO
3 ! pie. shall have the right to initiate need,
! | ed measures of legislative reform, and
that they shall have the right, by refer
endum, to veto, at the ballot box, any
, law inimical to their interests
That inasmuch as the extension of tho
!. ! right Of Suffrage to women in school,
| affairs has been productive of excellent
results, we demand that there &c ne
limitation upon suffrage dependent upo1
a sex, believing in the doctrines of 1776
! that representation should accompany
! taxa ton:
: We demand the naturalization of thu
$ liquor traffic and it's management by tn
state without profit.
We are opposed to the use of public
4 revenues or funds for sectarian purpose
e of any kind whatever.
~ .1z> Eli
4 resolution which the committee recon
t mended for the adoption of the conven
: ! ton:
r Resolved, That we recognize the injus
Il tice and wrong which monopoly has in
j. ficted upon the workingmen and wome]
II Of this country, and we extend on
e sympathy to all who are endeavorin
e to prevent oppression, and to check tn
e downward tendency of wages, alread
q too small to sustain life and honor. w
= extend our sympathy to organized labo
y in it's humane efforts to resist the as
~ gressions of organized monopoly; an
" while we condemn violence and lawles!
s ness, we believe that organized labor
y in no sense responsible for the acts {
i the mob element with which a hirelin
I. press has falsely sought to connect i
y We, therefore, recommend to our suffe
S. ing countrymen, especially those Of Il
&c labcring classes, that peaceful and effe
=. tive remedy for the wrongs which,
v this country, the ballot gives to FIR
i;ee men, and which destroys no property 6:
ID cept watered stock, and Injuries no walt
lg except those of fiction and fraud.
u Resolved, That in the United States
rs is not crime for the great mass of tt
he people to urite to improve their materi
y condition b. peaceful and lawful mean
Or and we cannot but regard the arrest
Ell Mr.. Debs and his associates as an u
ne wise and unjust step, and a dangero,
rs encroachment of the, federal judicial
OF Upon the rights and liberties Of the pc
~ pie
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ad Northern Pacific Bridge Burned.
10 El]ensburg, Wash, July 12.-One sps
to I Of the. Northern Pacific bridge aero
es the Yakima river seven miles north
S Se here was burned. No particulars are q
ut tainable. 3s.5