The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1896-09-25
STATE PLATFORM.

We, the delegates, representatives OF the peo-
pies party, in state convention assembled,
hereby affirm our allegiance to the principles
enunciated in the platform adopted by the IA
tional convention as embodied in St. Louis,
July p, 896.
We congratulate the people of the state of
Kansas that since the peoples party has been
factor in state legislation we have procured the
enactment of redemption law, the valued
policy law, the Australian ballot, the law pro-
hibiting the making of gold contracts, the law
reducing the interest on tax sale certificates
and abrOgating the March penalty on delinquent
taxes, the law requiring the weekly payment of
wages and the miners screen law also the law
establishing a Grand Army museum and eX-
empting the Grand Army property from taxa
tion.
We condemn the republican house of repre-
sentstiYes for failing and refusing to pass the
bills sent to them from the pOpulist senate,
which provided for the taxation for foreign
judgments, the reduction of the legal rate of in
| terest and providing penalty for usGFy, plac-
ing credits upon an equality with other proper
ty for the purpose of taxation, the anti-Pinker-
! ton law, the exemption of the personal earnings
of wage-workers and the maximum freight rate
law.
! We condemn the present republican state ad-
ministTatiOn for using public funds and proper
ty as the private perquisites of ofice-hOlders,
| 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
| cOWaTdly, vacillatlng and contradictory course
| in attempting 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 dc as they have sworn to do in
carrying into effect the will of the people as OK.
! pressed in legislation, we especially demand
that the attorney general of the state take meas
uTes to secure the enforcement of section 115 of
| the statutes Of 1895, which prohibits corpora
| tons from engaging IN any other lines OF busi'
ness than those which are specified Ia their
charters and that railroad corporations be pre-
| vented from engaging In any other business than
| that Of common carriers.
We condemn the unWarranted and unjust dis
| elimination pFaeticed by Kansas railroads and
enjoyed by favored shippers which are destroy
ing the business ana prosperity OF those less
fortunately situated and creating a monopoly al
the expense of the farmers and producers Of the
state,
We are in favor of such legislation in Kansas
as will secure to the people Of this state such re
ductiOn in charges by the transportation com
panies as viii place them on an equality with
similar charges paid by the people Of Iowa. I'LL
nOis and other producing states, and to that
end we favor the enactment Of a maximum
freight rate law and the election of a board o.
railroad commissioners by the people with DOW
eF to revise such maximum rates from time K
time in case of any inequality therein, so Gs K
make such charges fair and reasonable, anC
whose duty it shall be to enforce such rates al
the actual charges by the transportation com
panies.
We demand laws which shall prevent the pro
ducts of convict labor coming iuto competition
with the products OF free labor and reducing it
rewards.
We demand that ell public salaries shall b
reduced to correspond with the prices Of labo
and its products,
We demand that the supreme court clear 1t
docket In justice to the people.
| Whereas, the Armour Packing company i
now depressing many WOrkmeD OF Kansas City
Kan, members Of Anchor Federal Labor uniOI
and other unions, be it
Resolved, That we extend to the members o
that and other unions who are being thus Op
posed our hearty and sincere sympathy.