Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-10-28
PopULIsT STATE pLA7roam.

We. the delegates representative of the
Peoples Party. in state convention assem-
didates and the principles cpuncia ted in TIE
platform adopted by the national convention
assembled in ST. Louis, July ~. 1896.
we congratulate the people of the state of
Kansas that since the Peoples Party has been
factor ia state legislation we have procure d
the enactment of a redemption law. the val
ued policy law, the Australian ballot, the law
prohibiting the making of gold contracts the
law reducing the interest on tax sale certiti-
Gates and abrogatlng the March penalty on
delinquent taxes; the law requiring the
weekly payment of wages aud the miners
screen law; also the laws establishing a
Grand Army museum and exemptnx the
Grand Army property from taxation.
We condemn the republican house of rep
resentatlfes for failing and refusing 10 pass
the Dills sent to them from the POpuliSt SEN
ate, which provided for the taxation of foreign
judgments, the reduction of the legal rate of
interest anu providing penalty for usury.
Placing credits upon an equality with other
property for the purposes or taxation. the
antl-Pinkerton law. the exemption OF the
personal earnings of wage workers and the
maximum freight rate law.
we condemn the present republican state
admi listration for using public funds aud
property as the private perquisites of ofiic-
holders, for permitting its appoinsees to hold
up their clerks for a percentage of their sala-
ries, for it's conduct of the Stute institutions,
where brutality and homicide have been per-
init cd and for its cowardly vacillating ard
contradictory course IN attempting to enforce
the laws at som" times and places and failing
and places.
Whiic we expect and demand that our pub
liz officials shall do as they have sworn to dc
in carrying into effect the will of the peopie
as expressed in legislation, we especially de-
mand that he attorney general of the state
Take measures To secure the enforcement OF
section 1852 OF the statutes of 1895, which pro
hibits corporations from engaging I'm other
lines of business than those which are speci-
fled in their charters, aud that railroad corpo.
ratlOns be prevented from engaging in any
other business than that OF common carriers
We condemn the unwarranted and unjust
determinations practiced by Kansas railroads
aud enjoyed by favored shippers which are
destroying the business aud prosperity of
monopoly at the expense of the farmers and
producers of the state.
We are III favor of such legislation in X ar
SaS as will secure 10 the people of this state
| such reduction in charges by the Transports
| ton companies IL will place them on an eoua !.
| ity with similar charges pa id by the people of
| Iowa, Illinois and other producing states, and
| to that end we favor the enactment of a ma XII.
| mum freight rate law and the election of a
| board of railroad commissioners by the peo
! pie, with power to revise such maximum rates
| from time to time in case OF any inequality
| therein, so as to make such charges fair and
| reasonable, and whose duty it shall be to en-
| force such rates as the actual charges by the
| transportation companies.
We demand laws which shall prevent the
| products of convict labor coming into cOmpe.
| ducing its rewards.
We demand that all on bile salaries shall he
! reduced to correspond with the prices of labor
| and its products.
We demand that the supreme court clear it.
| docket IN justice to the people.