Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-08-15


". Gleason, of Greenwood. nominated
George NJ. Munger; A. E. Helm, of
.Sedgwick, presented the name of Lo-
trenzo d. Lewelling.
The fourth ballot resulted in the
nomination of Leedy, the vote for him
being too big to add up. At the con-
clusion of roll call Mr.. Helm moved to
make the nomination unanimous The
motion prevailed. Then followed a
great demonstration. Mr.. Leedy's
friends carried him; big as he is, on
their shoulders to the platform. He
thanked the convention briefly for the
honor conferred upon him.
Following is the platform as re-
ported to the convention by the com
1nittee:
We, the delegates representatives of the
people party, in state convention assembled.
hereby affirm our allegiance to the principles
enumerated in the platform adopted by the ma
aional convention assembled in St Louis,
July -. 1895
We congratulate the people of the state of
Kansas that since the peoples party has been
a factor in state legislation have procured
the enactment of a REDEEM ption law. the valued
poncy law, the Australian ballot, the law pro-
hibiting the making CT gold contracts, the law
reducing the interest tax sale certificates
and abrogating the March penalty delin-
SQuent taxes; the law requiring the weekly
payment OF wages and the miners screen law:
also the laws establishing a Grand Army
eZemDriQC
erty from taxation
We condemn the republican house of repre-
sentatives for failing and refusing to pass the
bills sent to them from the populist senate.
which provided for the taxation for foreign
Iudsments. the reduction OF the legal rate of
Interest and providing a penalty for uSury,
placing credits upon an equality with other
property for the purposes of taxation, the anti
Pinherton law. the exemption of the personal
earnings of wage-workerS and the maximum
freight rate law.
Ne tho
administration for using public funds and
property the private perCuiSiteS of office
holders for permitting its appointees to hold
up their clerks for percentage of their SAL
aries, for its conduct of the state institutions
where brutality and homicide have been per-
mitted and for its cowardly. vacillating 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 pub
lie officials shall do they have sworn to do
IN carrying into effect the will of the people as
expressed in legislation, especially demand
that the attorney general of the state take
measures to secure the enforcement of section
Iia2 of the statutes of 1895. which prohibits
business .haa those which are specified in
their charters and that railroad corporations
be prevented from engaging in any other bust
ness than that of common carriers
We condemn the unwarranted and unjust
discrimination practiced by Kansas railroads
and enjoyed by favored shippers which are de-
those
less fortunately situated and creating monop-
oil at the expense of the farmers and produc-
ers of the state.
We are in favor of such legislation j. Aan-
sas as win secure to the people of this state
such reduction in charges by the transporta-
ton COMPANIES will r,a5e them on
an equality with siEaiiar 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 commissioners by the reopIe with
power to revise such maximum rates from time
TO time in case OF any inequality therein, so as
10 make such charges fair and reasonable. and
whose duty il shall be TO enforce such rates as
The actual charges by the transportation CON-
panies-
We de-nand laws which shall prevent the
products OF convict labor coming into com petit
FtIon with the products of free labor and reduc-
ling its rewards
We demand that all public salaries shall be
reduced to correspond with the prices of labor
and its products
We 1emand that the supreme court ciea- its
apot kss In justice TO the people