The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-08-06
PoPUL1sT PLATFORM.
Adopted at Abilene by the State Con-
vention.

Abilene, Kan, Aug 6.-The following
is the platform adopted by the Popu-
list convention:
we, the delegates. representativ of
the Peoples Party, in state convention
assembled, hereby affirm our allegiance
to the candidates and the principles
enunciated in the platform adopted by
the national convention assembled in
St Louis, July %, 1896
We congratulate the people of the
state of Kansas that since the People, S
Party has been factor in state legis-
IatiOn we have procured the enactment
of redemption law, the valued policy
law, the Australian ballot, the law pro
hlb1tIng the making of gold contracts,
the law reducing the interest on tax
sale certificates and abrOgatfng the
March penalty on delinquent taxes: the
law requiring the weekly payment of
wages and the miners screen law: also
the laws establishing a Grand Army
museum and eXempting the Grand
Army property from taxation
we condemn the Republican house
of representatives for failing and refus-
ing to pass the bills sent to them from
the POpulist senate, which provided for
the taxation of foreign Judgments the
reduction of the legal rate of interest
and providing a penalty for usurv.
placing credits upon an equality wit h
other property for the purposes of tax
alton, the anti-Pinl1erton law, the ex-
emptiOn of the personal earnings of
wage workers and the maximum
freight rate law.
I'VE condemn the present Republican
state administration for using public
funds and property as the private Dar-
quisites of OfficehoIders, for permitting
its appOintees to hold up their clerks
for percentage of their salaries for
its conduct of the state Institutions
where brutality and homicide have been
permitted and for its cowardly vacil-
lating and contradictory course in at
tempting to enforce the laws at some
times and places and failing to attempt
to enforce them at other times and
places.
while we expect and demand that
our public officials shall do as they have
sworn to do in carrying into effect the
VIII OF the people as expressed in legiS-
IatiOn. we especially demand that the
attorney general of the state2 take meas
ures to secure the enforcement of sec
ton 1852 of the statutes of 1895, which
prohibits corporations from engaging in
other lines of business than those which
are specified in their charters. and that
railroad corporations be prevented from
engaging in any other business than
that of common carriers.
we condemn the unwarranted and
unjust discrimination practfced by
Kansas railroads and enjoyed by ia
vOred shippers which are destroying the
business and prosperity of those less
fortunately situated and creating
monopoly at the expense of the farmers
and producers of the state.
we are in favor of such IegislatiOu
in Kansas as will secure to the people
of this state such reduction in charges
by the transportation companies as will
place them on aSn-equality with similar
charges paid by the people of Iowa
Illinois and other producing states, and
to that end we favor the enactment of
a maximum freight rate law and the
election of a board of railroad commits
sioners by the people, with power to
revise such maximum rates from time
TO time in case of any Inequality there
in, so as to make such charges fair and
reasonable, and whose duty it shall be
to enforce such rates as the actual