The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1894-06-15
PoPuLIsT
Two Reports Submitted to the Convention
Minority Favor Woman Suffrage.

Two Reports Submitted to the Convention
Minority Favor Woman Suffrage.
n topeka, Kan, June 14.-Speaker
Dnnsmore OF the Populist house of
representatives and Ben :. Rich, chief
clerk of the same, were yesterday
afternoon chosen permanent chair
man and secretary of the Kansas Pop
ulist state convention.
On motion the following message
was transmitted to Mrs. Mary E.
Lease, who is ill at Osawatomie:
To Mrs Mary E Lease. Osawatomie. Kan
Convention Hall, Topeka, Kan, June 12-
Thu copies party state convention sends
greeting expressive of sympathy in your at
fiction and a unanimous wish for your speedy
recovery. j. M DUNsMo e, Chairman.
The committee on resolutions not
being ready to report, the convention
proceeded to raise money for the cam
paign fund. The roll was called by
counties and subscriptions and cash
were received to the amount of
81, 6S5. so.
The new state central committee
was then selected, two members from
each congressional district and one at
large, in part as follows: Second, ID.
c. Zercher and Ross Williams; Fourth,
Taylor Riddle and w. Il. Upton;
Fifth, C. L.. Baker and w. j. Dun
nucks; Sixth, O.. ID. Smith and j. f.
Hale; Seventh, II. Rupe and j. J..
Barnes.
At this iuncture the committee on
resolutions sent word to the conven-
ton that it would be unable to report
last night and an adjournment vas
taken at 10 O'Clock until s O'Clock
this morning.
FIGHT OVER THE RESOLUTIONS.
1t is understood that there was a
big fight at the meeting of the COM
mittee on resolutions over the suf-
frage question, but the majority final
ly agreed upon the following:
We, the representatives OF the People S par
ty OF kanaaS. in convention assembled do
hereby reafirm our allesiance to the principles
enumerated 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-
tons which see every prophecy then made
fulfilled, and every Indictment which was
made therein against the Republican and
Democratic parties proven.
Our sympathies 90 out to the unemployed
homeless and landleSs people of the country
who have been brou tht to their present con-
d1tlon in a great measure throu h the vicious,
un-American financial policy of this severn
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 adj
mlniStration of state affairs. that has saved to
the taxpayers thousands of dollars, and the
Populistic legislators for their efforts to enact
into law every demand of the state platform
adopted at Wichita in 1892
We demand the free coinage of silver at the
ratio of Is to /. and denounce any party that
1G so rnmn1ntp1V under the control nf the gold
bugs that it dare not take a stand for the peo-
pie on this all-important question, which
means so much to the wage earners and pro-
ducerS of our country
The comptroller's report for 1898 shows that
during the year l5S national banks suspended,
leavin financial ruin in their wake. we again
reiterate orr condemnation of this. the So
called best banking system the world has
ever known, and demand in its stead banks Of
deposit under the control OF the depositor5
and the deposits guaranteed by this govern
ment.
That we are unalterably opposed to issues
of government interest-bearin bonds, and de-
mand instead the issue of full legal tender
treasury notes and the payment OF the same,
together with silver money, to meet the needs
OF the government.
We condemn the uEw1se and cruel policy of
all the government parties in this nation
whose lie ,~islation has favored capital and OPP
pressed labor, and we hereby declare our
sympathy with all toilers in their efforts to
improve their condition, and demand such
legislation as will remove some of the burdens
of toll by shortenening the hours of labor
without lessenin g their daily wage.
We demand national and state boards of ar
bitration to settle and adjust differences be-
tween the employers and the employees and
We further demand that where the property
of Il corporation has been placed in the hands
of q receiver, the wages of the employees shall
be a first lein on its earnings and effects and
we denounce the appointment of officials or
parties interested as receivers of any corpora
ton.
We demand service pension graduated so
the man who carried the musket shall be en-.
titled to the same consideration as the mar
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 soldiers and sailors to change, sus-
pend. or in any wav deprive the soldier of his
just dues which this government owes him
for defending with his life our country and
fla.
We favor a state irrigation department
to investigate methods and water sup
plies and encour lge more extended irrigation.
We dem nd a frefaht rate bill based on the
line of the maximum freight rate bill pa ;sed
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 a part of this
demand, to-wit:
I'VE insist that the great Transportation
companies VIII ch derive their corporIte exist
en,e from Kansas laws. and their financial ex-
lstence from Kansas trade and owe
to the people of Kansas fair, equitable and
honest treatment in the matter of freight
rates, and we are opposed to the ineQuitable
anu oppressive discrimination IN the ADJUST
ment OF such rates by said companies whereby
the merchants shippers and consumers of other
states are enrichel at the expense and to
the injury of the people of Kansas, and We
demand of the neXt legislature the utmost
d~ili{ence in enacting appropriate legislation
providing therefor to the end that agricul-
tural mercantile, and other interests of Kan
sas shall be placed on q footing of equality,
so far as freight rates are concerned. with the
like interests IN adjoining states believing al
power is vested in the people and that all
laws OF vital Importance should be initiated
ana approved or disapproved by them There
fore, we endorse the initiative and referendum
system"
THE NINORITY REPORT
The minority report signed by eight
members is as follows:
We. the undersigned Members of your com
mittee on resolutions respectfully submit the
following minority report to be added to the
majority report and its full adop-
ton:
Whereas, The Peoples party came into ex-
istence and won its glorious victories on the
fundamental principles of equal rights TO all
and special privile .es to none therefore be it
Resolved, That we favor the pendin consti-
tutional amendment
FRANK HoFFM AN of Leavenworth
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