Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-08-26
PoPULIsT STATE PLATFORM.

We. the delegates. representative of the
Peoples Party, in state convention assem-
didates and the principles enunciated in the
platform adopted by the national convention
as T1 in St Louis. July 22, 1896.
we congratulate the people of the state of
Kansas that since the Peoples Party has been
a factor In state legislation we have procured
the enactment of redemption law. the val
ued pollcy law, the Australian ballot, the law
prohibiting the making of gold contracts the
law reducing the interest on tax sale certii-
Gates and abrogatlng 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 rep.
resentatIves for failing and refusing TO pass
the bills sent to them from the Populist sem
ate which provided for the taxation of foreign
judgments, the reduction of the legal rate of
interest and providing penalty for usury.
placing credits upon an equality with other
property for the purposes or taxation the
anti-Pinkerton law, the exemption of the
personal ts earnings ernig OF wage workers and the
we condemn the present republican state
administration for using public funds and
holders for permitting its appointees to hold
up their clerks for percentage of their sala-
ries, for its conduct of the state institutions,
where brutality and homicide have been per-
| mtted and for its cowardly vacillatinp and
contradictory course IN attempting to enforce
the laws at some times and places and failing
and places
While we expect and demand that orr pub-
lie officials shall do they have sworn tn do
in carrying into effect the will of the people
as expressed in legislation, we especially de-
mand that The attorney general of the state
take measures to secure the emf orcement of
section ll52 OF the statutes of 1895, which pro-
hibits corporations from engaging I'm other
lines of business than those which are speci-
ned in their charters. and that railroad corpo-
rations be prevented from engaging in any
other business than that of common carriers.
We condemn the unwarranted and unjust
determinations practiced by Kansas railroads
and 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 In favor of such legislation I'm Kan
sas as will secure 10 the people of this state
such reduction III charges by the transporta-
ton companies az will place them on an eousJ-
| lty with similar charges pa id by the peOple of
Iowa, Illinois and other producing states and
10 tnaS END we favor the enactment of a maxi
mum freight rate law and the election of n
BOARD or railroad commissioners by the peo-
PIE, win power toreviSe such maximum rates
from time to time in case of any ineuualifv
tnereln- so as to make such charges fair and
reasonable, and whose duty it shall be TO on
force such rates as the actual charges by fine
transportation companies.
We demand laws which shall preyent tho
products of convict labor coming into CONNIE
tltion with the products of free labor and re-
ducing its rewards.
We demand that all pu bile salaries shall he
reduced TO correspond with the prices of labor
and its products.
We demand that the supreme court clear its
docket IN justice to the people.