The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1894-09-22

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and hereby Create perpetu n ool
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to corporations amonopol4o{ the Qeoplsh
money BY which4hsS Rk6pety q IL ~
dnstrial glasses 10 being rapidly Absorbed
BY the usurers. We favor such an extension
of the exemption law Of tho state - will
saye the homes of the people and assure
to our wives and children Z reasQnsble
provision against poverty. We pledge
our legislators to revise the homestead
Law 20 that all actual homestesds will he
exempt from forced sale on execution
without the necessity Of : declaration.
Twelfth-W We favor tho submisslon to
the people Of . constitutional amendment
comforting upon the legislature the power
to. fix the salaries Of county OMcers at any
figure between the maximum and mini
mum now established by the constitution,
and demand that, when It can be done,
the legislature shall reduce such salaries
to figure commensurate With the pow
erty Of the people. We also recommend
state legislation which shall require, m
der such regulations - may be fixed by
law, that all fees and commissions shall
be paid to the county treasurer only and
prohibited to be paid to Or received BY
any other county officer.
Thirteenth-We reiterate tho demands
of the Peoples party representatives In
our last state legislature for the elimina-
ton from our constitution of what is
known Is the test oath and pledge our
party to place before the voters OF the
state at the earliest opportunity consti-
tutional amendment to this effect.
Fourteenth We demand that an amend.
ment to the constitution providing for
eqnal suffrage be submitted by the legfs.
lature to the legal voters of the state.
Fifteenth We demand the passage of
a new and just superintendent bill giving
free representation to all parts Of the state.
Sixteenth-We endorse the reform
known as the initiative and referendum.
The Office Of governor Of
state comforting, q it does, upon the
incumbent many facilities for gratifyi
an Unsuitable ambition, this convention,
therefore,
Resolced, That the nominee to that office
shall be Ineligible to the Office of United
States Senator and, if elected, shall not
be eligible for any other Office during
his term.
Eighteenth-From the very nature Of
their constitutions, popular governments
must necessarily be carried on through
the agency Of political parties. Psrty
platforms thus become the basis Ofsall
legislative and administrative measures,
and their willful violation lsciyil treason
against republican institutions. The
faithful keeping of party. pledges BY those
entrusted with power is the highest po-
litical and moral duty due from q public
officer to the people. We believe the time
has come when it should also be made a
legal duty. We, therefore, favor state
legislation which, while guarding the
public officers in the state against false
accusations and malicious prosecutions,
will yet provide legal method through
the courts by which the gross violation by
any officer of the pledges made by him
through the party platform upon which
he was elected. may be punished By bis
prompt dismissal from Office. We also
favor the passage Of q state law which
shall disqualify any person holding an
Office from being delegate in any party
convention.
Nineteenth We denounce the profuse
expenditure of money heretofore prac
tlced by both of the old parties in this
state in the conduct of political CAM
paigns. Such practice is corrupt within
itself, debauches the political conscience
of the voters. gives to wealth an undue
influence in elections and transforms the
highest and most responsible duty of cit
izensbip into q frantic scramble for the
floating or venal vote. We, therefore,
favor the passage of Corrupt Practices
Act by the legislature which shall
/. Specify the items for which money
may be spent BY candidate for Office or
his party committee in connection with
elections.
2. Fix the amount which any candi
date or committee shall be permitted to
spend.
8. Require each candidate and com.
mittee when the election is over to make
out and file in the public Office designated
hy law, q statement verified under oath
specifying the several amoants 90 spent
and the items Of such expenditure.
4. Award the Office to the minority
candidate where he and his party COM
mittee have kept the law as against the
majority candidate where such candidate
or his party committee has broken the
Law.
Twentieth-The Peoples party vel
comes into its ranks all members of either
of the old parties who sincerely accept
the prjnoiplessof the party platform; but
We announce It as our anal dissemination
that we will not, now or at any future
time, form any fusion OF coalition With
any party whatever, in state, county or
municipality.
u0TIuE HERCULES