The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1896-08-21
sTAFE 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 ma
tional convention as embodied in st. Louis,
July p, 1856.
We congratulate the people of the state of
Kansas that since the peoples party has baen a
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 ez-
empting the Grand Army property from taxa
ton,
! 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
judgments, the reduction of the legal rate of in
! terest and providing a penalty for usuTy, plac-
| ing credits upon an equality with other proper
ty for the purpose of taxation, the -Pinker-
ton law, the exemption Of the personal earnings
| of Wage-WOrkeTs and the maximum freight rate
/ law.
We condemn the present republican state adj
/ minlstratlOn for using public funds aud proper
/ ty as the private peTquisites of Cfiice-hOlders,
/ for permitting Its appOlnteeS to hold up their
clerks Tor percentage of their salaries; for its
conduct of the state institutions where brutality
/ and homicide have been permitted and for its
/ COWaTdly, yacllatIng and contradictory course
/ in attempting to enforce the laws at some times
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/ them at other times and places.
! While we expect and demand that our public
officials shall do as they have sworn 70 do in
carrying into effect the will of the people as eX-
pressed in legislation, we especially demand
that the attorney general of the state take meas
ures to secure the enforcement of section 115 of
/ the statutes of 1853, which prohibits corpora
! lions from engaging in any other lines of bust
| ness than those which are specified In their
charters and that railroad corporations be pre-
vented from engaging in any other business than
! that Of common carriers,
! We condemn the unWarTanted and unjust dis
/ elimination practiCed By Kansas railroads and
| enjoyed by favored shippers which are destroy,
! ing the business and prosperity of those less
/ fortunately situated and creating monopoly at
! the expense of the farmers and producers of the
/ state.
! s. 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, Hi
nOlS and other producing states, and to that
end we favor the enactment of a maximum
| freight rate law and the election of q board OF
railroad commissioners by the people with DOW
| CT to revise such maximum rates from time to
time in case of any inequality therein so as tC
make such charges fair and reasonable. and
whose duty it shall be to enforce such rates as
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 all public salaries shall be
reduced to correspond with the prices of labor
| and its products.
Wo demand that the supreme court clear it,
docket in justice to the people,
! Whereas, the Armour Packing company i;
now depressing many wOrkmen of Kansas City
Kan, members Of Anchor Federal Labor union
! and other unions, belt
| Resolved, That we extend to the members Of
! that and other unions who are being thus op
posed our hearty aHd sincere sympathy,