The leader., 1895-08-06

currency by at least 80 per cent. per
capita through the unlimited coinage
of silver and the limited issue of full
legal tender notes based on taxes.
"a. For supply of money common
surate at all times with the demands
of exchange, taxation and debt.
"5. We declare for the payment of
the public debt, according to contract,
in either silver or gold, or both, as the
interests of the debtor classes and not
the interests of the creditor classes
alone may require.
sc. For the repeal of all laws con-
strued to authorize the issuance of in
erest-bearing bonds in times of peace.
az. For the supplying of all deficits
in the national treasury by the issue
of treasury warrants receivable for tax
es, instead of by the issue of long time
interest bearing bonds.
"8. For the decrease in all taxes,
both State and national, and CORES
ponding decrease in all public expend-
itures, especially fees, salaries and per-
quisites OF public officials, commensu-
rate with the low range of prices and
depression of the times.
80. For the enactment of laws by the
general government to prohibit deal
ing in futures or gambling in agricul-
tural products and the necessities of
life, and the enactment of more effec-
tive laws to prohibit trusts and monop-
olics.
40. For an amendment to the Fed
eral Constitution authorizing the levy
g fax nd
limiting the tenure of Federal judges
to term of years.
I'll. For an American government
for American citizens"
STATE PLATFORM.
Believing the ballot box to be the
palladium of liberty, we favor the en-
actment of laws to guarantee fairness
and honesty in elections. We arraign
the present and former Democrat
ic administrations for squander-
ing 100000 acres public school
lands, and we favor, first, the
abolition of the Office of land COM
missioner, and, second, the enactment
of laws to prohibit the acquisition of
land in this State by non resident al
lens and requiring the dispossession of
lands now held by such aliens within
a given time; we favor reduction of
at least 20 per cent. in the salaries and
fees of all public officials We arraign
the present and former Democratic
administrations for their weakness
and extravaganza and prodigality and
for the embezzlement of 1915, 612.19 by
Democratic official and we promise,
if successful, an administration char
acterized by the strictest honesty,
economy and frugality and devotion
to the policy of internal improvements
and industrial development.
[Signed. II. l.. BURKITT, Chairman.
w. P. RATLIFF, Secretary.
THE RESOLUTIONS.
The following resolutions from the
committee onresolutions was read by
Representative Buntyn, and unani-
mously adopted;
Whereas long terms of Office lead to
corruption, as is evidenced by the Hem
ingway and Ferguson defalcations, ag-
gregating something near a half mil
lion dollars, of which the already op-
pressed tax payers were plundered; and
whereas the cardinal principle of rOta-
ton in office is as old as Jefferson; and
whereas Mississippians are weary of
the oligarchy which has held them for
twenty years in its insatiate NAV;
whereas these greedy cormorants are
rallyipg for a charge for a new lease
of power; and whereas the constitu-
tional convention, fresh from the peo-
pie, viewing the situation with alarm,
made many Of them ineligible as their
own successors, and they are now COM
bined as candidates for the places of
each other; deputies aspiring to sue
coed their chiefs and clerks to succeed
deputies, some of these deputies hav-
ing held for ten years, some of these
clerks longer, while others still were
retained and brought forward from
the carpet bag regime; officers, in vio-
lation of law, in chase of other offices;
those engaged in land business making
the statehouse the place of meeting,
options and sales, thus subOrdinating
their official trusts to the transaction
of individual business, calling to mind
the conduct of the money changers
and those who sold doves in the tenn
pie of the most high God; deputies are
roaming the State in the interest of
their eaAyasses, and other officials, or
| would-b6 officials, pass free on the
railroads in the interest of themselves
or members Of their family; clerks are
taking more interest in the perpetua-
ton in Office of those under whom
they hold and expect to continue to
hold, than in their official duties. On
] top of all this, jackson is the voting
home Of candidate for Secretary of
State, Auditor and Attorney General.
These officials, under the new consti-
tuition, compose the board of public
contracts, and have the letting of all
contracts made with the State, includ-
ing public Printing, whereas there has
not been q thorough invesfikAtion of
the State offices other than the sue
cessfui Investigation of the defaqlting
treasurer in 1890 for twenty years, one
of the commissioners specially commits
stoned to make such Investigation hav-
ing died before the comnissjqr} bad
time to cross the hall from tie treas
ury; and whereas 9 Legislative commit
tee in 1892, composed of Hemocrats,
ordered by that body TO Investigate
the auditors Office repartad that il