Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-09-05
TOWNSHIP TICKETS.
PoPuLlsT STATE PLATFORM.

We, the representatives of the peoples party
OF Kansas. in convention assembled, do here
by reafirm 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 landess people of the country
Tho have been brought to their present con-
dition in a great measure through the vicious
un-American financial policy of this govern
ment; and we hold sacred the declaration of
independence 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-
Istlc Legislators for their efforts TO enact into
law every demand OF the state platform
adopted at Wichita I'm 1892
We demand the free coinage OF silver at the
ratio of IL to /, and denounce any party that
bugs that it dare not take stand for the
people on this all important question. which
means so much to the wage-earners and pro-
ducers of our country.
The comptrollers report for 1898 shows that
during the year l5s national banks suspended,
leaving financial rain IN their wake; we again
reiterate our condemnation of this. the so
called best banking system the world has ever
known, and demand in it's stead banks of de-
post under the control of the depositors and
the deposits guaranteed by this government.
That we are unalteraby opposed to issues of
government Understanding bonds. and de-
mand instead the issue of fun legal tender
treasury notes and the payment of the same,
together with silver money, 10 meet the needs
of the government.
We condemn the uuwise 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 toiers in their efforts 70 improve their
condition, and 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
tween the employers and employees; and we
further demand that where the property of a
corporation has been placed in the hands OF
areceiver, the wages OF the employees shall be
first lien on its earnings and effects; and We
denounce the appointment of officials or par
ties interested as receivers of any corporation
We demand service pension graduated sc
the man who carried the muskct shall be emit
tied to the same consideration as the man who
wore the epauette, aud said TO be SO framed
that Ii will place forever beyond the power OF
any official who is unfriendly toward the I'm
ion soldiers and sailors to change suspend, OF
in any way deprive the soldier OF his Just dues
which this government owes him for defend
sing with his life our country and flag.
We favor a state irrigation department t
investigate methods and water supplies anC
encourage more extended irrigation.
We demand II freight rate law based on tn,
line of the maximum freight rate bill passed
by the senate and afterwards defeated by tn,
republican house. and quote in proof of tn,
need ofsuch a law the plank of the republican
platform adopted at their state con IGNITION il
1892 which we adopt and mako a part of thi
demand. towit: I'VE iasist that the grea
transportation companies which derive thei
corporate existence from Kansas laws, an,
their financial existence from Kansas trad
and commerce, owe to the people of Kansa
far. equitable and honest treatment in tn
matter of freight rates, and VIC are opposed 4
the inequitable and oppressive Discrimination
in the adjustment OF such rates by said com
panies whereby the merchants, shippers an
consumers of other states are enriched at tn
expense and 70 the injury of tho people o
Kansas, and we demand of the next legislator
the utmost diligence in enacting appropriat
legislation providing therefor to the end tina
agricultural, mercantile and other interests o
Kansas shall be placed on a footing of eqality
far as freight rates are concerned, with tn
Ke interests In adjoining states.''
Believing all power is vested in the peopl
and that all laws of vital importance should b
inflated and approved or disapproved by them
Therefore we indorse the iniative and referer
dunn system.
whereas, The Peoples party came into ex
Istence and won it's glorious victories on tn
fundamental principles of equal rights to a
and special privileges TO none; therefore, be
Resolved, That we favor the pending cor
stitutionaI amendment.