Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-02-28
GARNETT, KANSAS, FEBRUARY 2S, 1896.

the Omaha platform in opposition to corpor-
ations and trusts shall become null and void.
PARTY PLATFORM.
The Omaha platform enjoys the high dis
tinction of being the sole party platform III the
past twenty years that said what it meant, and
meant what it said. The Popuist party is the
only national party whose principles and record
have been unswervng for the free coinage OF
silver, and it is remarkable to say the least that
the party which makes the free coinage OF sill
yer the paramount issue should commence op-
erations by DESTROYING the only national party
that is in favor of silver.
SILVER BOTH A NATIONAL. AND LOCAL ISSUE.
The Omaha platform makes the free coinage
of silver national issue-and so it is; but IN
the silver states, silver is also a local issue, be-
cause the free coinage of silver will at once ap-
preciate silver bullion to its coin value,
which will be of vast, immediate and peculiar
local benefit to the silver producing states
The "bimetallists" have a scheme by which
their own delegates are to control the national
ticket on the sole question of silver, and they
propose to force that single issue.
GRAND BI-METALLIC "FREEzE- -OUT.'
To producers, robbed by the extortionate
rates and un lust determinations of the rail-
roads, this silver faction says: There can be
no relief for any of the evils of railway, trust
or telegraph monopoly; no relief for poorly
paid labor; no cooperation of working men
for aid or defense; no remedy for arrest with
out warrant, trial without jury or government
by Injunction; no remedy when corrupt Sill
preme court lifts burdens on the poor; no renl-
edy for land monopoly or for corporate extor-
tions in light, water or street transportation;
no remedy for fraud in the ballot-box and in
election returns; no prohibition or regulation
of the liquor traffic; no socialism or nationalism
except the postoffice; no good road or public,
improvements at national EXPENSE no relief
from mortgage foreclosures or tax con6scations;
no relief from the constant increase in the
purchasing power of money and cash securi-
ties, and the corresponding decrease in the
value of all other commodities so that, as
rule, their market value is less than the cost of
cy by reduction in interest charges low
greater in the aggregate than all earnings of
labor; no initiative and referendum or election
of United States senators by the people, no
foreclosure of the government lien on the Pa
cihc railway. Indeed all reforms, of every
name and nature, are "held up'' by the silver
party in the maine of the free coinage of silver.
FINANCE.
But, it is claimed the silver party proposes
complete and just settlement of the great
financial question: which includes in its proper
adjustment all other reforms. The silver party
intends no such adjustment. All the "3ilver''
talk about government issue of paper money
is "bosh" The object of the silver move
ment will be fully obtained if either of the
two old parties can be forced TO put in the ma
tional platform the free coinage of silver. The
difference in the ''bi-metallic" toward the two
old parties and toward the Populist is marked.
The old parties can adopt the silver plank and
retain every other principle of their platforms,
but the Peoples party must strike out from its
platform every other plank except the free
coinage of silver!
THE JONES SILVER PLATFORM
At the late silver convention at Washington,
Senator Jonas, of Nevada, read a carefully
prepared PLATFORM designed to be an epitome
of "bi-metallic" principles, to be endorsed by
and is to be the platform of the joint and sew