Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-08-13
LEEDx FOR eovERNoR.
Kansas Populists Nominate the Senator
from Coffey County-Other Proceed

| ABILENE, Kan, Aug. 6.-Just before
noon yesterday Chairman Breidenthal
called the peoples party state conven-
ton to order. Rev. DIR. Blayner offered
prayer, C. S. Crawford, populist law
! yer. delivered an address of welcome
which greatly pleased the delegates.
Judge A. w. Dennison was made
| temporary and permanent chairman.
A committee Of Il was appointed to
confer with the democratic committee
concerning fusion.
The following names were presented
for governor: w. A. Harris, L. D.
Lewel1ing, Z. P. King, George Camp
bell. John w. Leedy and George NJ.
Munger. Harris lead on the first and
second ballots, but on the third the
break to Leedy began and on the
fourth the senator from Coffey county
was nominated with whoop.
Following is the platform as re-
ported to the convention by the COM
mittee:
We, the delegates. representatives of the
peoples party, In state convention assembled.
hereby affirm our allegiance to the principles
enunciated in the platform adopted by the ma
tional convention assembled in St Louis,
July p. 1896.
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 2 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 delin-
Quent taxes: the law requiring the weekly
payment of wages and the miners screen law
also the laws establishing Grand Army
museum and exempting the Grand Army prop
erty from taxation.
We condemn the republican house of repre-
fliliurE To tha
bills sent to them from the populist senate.
which provided for the taxation for 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 of taxation, the anti
Pinkerton law the exemption of the personal
earnings of wage-wOrkerS and the maximum
freight rate law
We condemn the present republican state
administration for using public funds and
property as the private perquisites of office
holders, for permitting its appointees to hold
up their clerks for a 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 pub
lie officials shall do as they have sworn to do
in carrying into effect the will OF the people
expressed in legislation, we especially demand
that the attorney general of the state take
measures to secure the enforcement of section
1I52 of the statutes of 1895. which prohibits
corporations from engaging in other lines Of
business than those which specified in
their charters and that railroad corporations
be prevented from engaging in any other BUSH
ness than that of common carriers
We condemn the unwarranted and unjust
discrimination practiced by Kansas railroads
and enjoyed by favored shippers which de-
StrOying the business and prosperity of those
less fortunately situated and creating monop-
oily at the expense of the farmers and produc
erS of the state.
We are in favor of such legislation in Kan
Sas as will secure to the people of this state
such reduction in charges by the transporta-
ton companies as will place them on
an equality with similar charges paid
by the people of Iowa. Illinois and
| other producing states and to that end we
favor the enactment of maximum freight
rate law and the election of board OF
railroad commissioners by the people with
power to revise such maximum rates from time
to time in case of any inequality therein,
to make such charges fair and reasonable. and
whose duty it shall be to enforce such rates
the actual charges by the transportation COM
panies.
We demand laws which shall prevent the
products of convict labor coming into competi-
ton with the products of free labor and reduc-
We demand that all public salaries shall be
reduced to correspond with the prices Of labor
and its products.
We demand that the supreme court clear its
pocket in justice to the people.
When the convention met Thursday
this resolution was offered as addi.
tional:
Whereas The Armour Packing Co is now
depressing many worknen of kansas City,
Kan, members of Anchor Federal Labor
union and other unions. be it
Resolved. That we extend to the members OF
that and other unions who are being thus op-
pressed our hearty and sincere sympathy.
Harrison Kelley thought the resolu-
tions were not definite enough in re-
gard to indorsinr Watson and he in
troduced an amendment declaring for
the Endorsement of Bryan and Watson.
The amendment together with the res
olution regarding Armours was passed.
For justice of the supreme court,
George w. Clark M. b. Nicholson, Frank
Doster and ". C. Webb were placed in
nomination. Each candidate was
made to appear before the convention
and make a speech, pledging faith to
populist principles. Doster won easily.
From the outset county after county
went to him, and when Smith
county voted he was nominated
For congressman-at-large Rev. Jerry
Botlxin and Ed c. Little were nomi-
mated. Botkin was nominated, $50 to
237.
A. NJ. Harvey, of Topeka. was named
for acknowledgements on the first