Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-06-21

GOipn, y; Cole, e. Inc NOMINATION or
Furbeck was made unanimous and the
convention took recess until so'cloclz.
Upon reassembling, A. C. Gallagher,
of Crawford, offered the following,
which was adopted:
Resolved, That the peoples party, in conven-
ton assem- led promise their support now and
in the future TO assist the miners Of Kansas in
their lawful undertakings and the enforcement
Of the law in which they are directly inter-
ested.
DIR. Dykes, of Smith county, nomi-
mated j. w. Amis, of that county, for
secretary of state and he was chosen
by reclamation.
For auditor Van 3. Prather (present
incumbent) and Henry T. Harbaugh,
of Sumner, We're placed before the con-
vention, but Harbaugh's name was
withdrawn and Prather nominated by
reclamation.
Then w. Fl. Biddle, for treasurer;
John T. Little, for attorney-general,
and Fl. n. Gaines, for superintendent
of public instruction (present incum-
bents) were successfully renominated
by reclamation.
T. J. Close rose as an ex-union SOL
der, and placed before the convention
the name of Col. w. A. Harris, an ex-
confederate, for denomination as con-
gressman-at-large. He closed by ask
ing the ex-union soldiers to stand up in
honor of the eX-confederate, which
they did, giving him three cheers. Col.
Harris was renominated by acc1ama-
ton.
This closed the work of the conven-
ton. kilograms were sent to the
South Dakota populist convention. the
railway men in session at Chicago and
after speeches by many persons the
convention about 10 o'clock adjourned.
The Platform.
The resolutions as finally adopted are
as follows:
We, the representatives OF the peoples par
ty of Kansas, in convention assembled, do
hereby 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 to that
platform. We meet at this time under condi-
lions which see every prophecy then made full
filled, and every Indictment which was made
therein against the republican and democratic
parties proven.
Our Sympathies go out to the unemployed
homeless and landless people of the country
who have been brought to their present condi-
ton in q 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 certain
inalienable rights, that among these are life,
liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
We most heartily commend our present state
officials for their wise and economic admins
tration of state affairs, that has saved to the
tax payers thousands of dollars. and the popu-
listc legislators for their efforts to enact into
law every demand of the state platform adopt
ed at Wichita in 1892.
We demand the free coinage of silver at the
ratio of 16 TO 1, and denounce any party that is
COP nT NIL fa1 nf Ia
bugs that it dare not take a stand for the peo-
pie this all-important question. which
means so much to the wage earners and pro-
ducers OF our country.
We reiterate our opposition to all banks of
issue, whether national or state, and demand
the establishment of postal savings banks by
the national government for the protection Of
small depoSitors, and call attention to the
widespread distress caused by the large num-
Der of bank failures during the past year,
whereby thousands of depositors suffered the
loss of all their savings as evidence of the
necessity of this demand.
We condemn the unwiSe and cruel policy of
all the government parties in tsis 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, and demand such legis-
lation as will remove some of the burdens of
toll by shortening the hours of labor without
lesSening their daily wage.
We demand national and state boards of arbi-
tration to settle and adjust differences between
the employers and the employees; and we
| further demand that where the property of a
corporation has been placed in the hands of a
receiver the wages of the employees shall be q
first lien it's earnings and effects; and we
denounce the appointment of officials or parties
interested as receivers of any corporation.
We demand service pension graduated so the
man who carried the muSket shall be entitled
to the same consideration S the man who wore
the epaulette, and said law to be so framed that
it will place forever beyond the power OF any
official who is unfriendly toward the union SOL
dlerS and sailors to change. suspend or In any
way deprive the soldier of his just dues which
this government owes him for defending with
his life our country and flag.
We favor state irrigation department to in
vestigate methods and water supplies and en-
courage more extended irrigation.
We demand freight rate law based on
the line of the maximum rate bill passed
by the senate and afterward defeated by the
republican house, and quote in proof of the
need of such law the plank of the republican
platform adopted at their state convention in
| 1892 which we adopt and make part of this
| demand to-wit:
| We insist that the great transportation con-
| panies, which derive their corporate existence
| from Kansas laws, and their financial exist
| ence from Kansas trade and commerce, owe to
| the people of Kansas fair. equitable and honest
| treatment in the matter of freight rates, and
| we are opposed to the inequitable and Cypress
| i've discrimination in the adjustment of such
| rates by said corporations whereby the
states enriched at the expense and to
the injury of the people of Kansas, and we de-
mand of the next legislature the utmost dill
gence in enacting appropriate legislation pro-
viding therefor to the end that agricultural
| mercantile and other interests OF Kansas shall
1 be placed on footing of equality, so far as
| freight rates concerned, with the like in
terests of adjoining states; believing all power
| is vested in the people and that all laws Of
vital importance should be initiated and ap-
proved or disapproved by them. Therefore, we
| indorSe the initiative and referendum system.
| Whereas, The peoples party came into ex-
/ istence and its glorious victories on the
fundamental principles of equal rights to al
and special privileges to none, therefore be il
| resolved that we favor the pending constitu-
tional amendment, but We do not regard it as g
test of party fSalty.
| Tobacco Crop Badly Damaged.
PRINCETON, KY, June 1.-THE long
drought, which has continued here fol-
| thirty-five days, has had very damag
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