Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-08-07

Jerry Botkin, and large majority of the votes
were cast for him. Before the result of the
ballot was announced, a crowd of Botkin's
friends lifted him from his seat and carried him
to the platform. Ed Little's name was called,
and he quickly responded, and i'll short adj
dress pledged his most earnest support to Mr..
Botkin and the whole ticket Ed Little will
not be forgotten by the Populists of Kansas.
His reward will come, sure and SOON
Owing to the fact that the AGITATOR is now
day late, we shall, not try to give all extended
report of the convention, but will merely give
the remainder of the ticket, in the order of
nominations.
For Lieutenant governor, A. M. Harvey, an
excellent young Topekan, caught the plum.
L. c. Boyle, prominent young attorney of
TT. Scott, was nominated for attorney general.
For secretary of state, w. E. Bush, of Jew
ell county, received the most votes.
d. H. Hef1ebower, of Miami county, was
nominated for the office of state treasurer
For auditor of state, w. H. Morris, of Cher
okee county, was the choice of the convention.
w. d. Stryker, of Great Bend, was nominal
ed for superintendent of public instruction.
This was the largest and most enthusiastic
convention ever held in the state. The dele
gates were good natured, but terribly in earnest,
Some travelled by team two hundred miles i'll
order to attend the convention.
We are now ready for the fray
Following is the platform adopted:
We, the delegates, representatives of the
Peoples party, in state convention assembled,
hereby affirm our allegiance to the principles
enumerated in the platform adopted by the ma
tional convention assembled in ST. Louis, July
ED, 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 a redemption law, the valued
policy law the Australian ballot the law
prohibiting the making OF gold contracts,
the law reducing the interest on tax sale
certificates and abrogating the March penalty
on delinquent taxes the miners screen law
also the laws establishing Grand Army mu-
scum and exenpting the Grand Amy property
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 OF foreign judg-
ments, the reduction Of the legal rate OF in
terest and providing penalty for usury, plac-
ing credits upon an equality with other proper
ty for the purpose OF taxation, the anti-Plnker-
ton law, the exemption Of the personal earnings
Of nd he me- X tTelpUt
law.
We condemn the present Republican state adj
mnistration for using public funds and proper
ty as the private perquistes Of office holders,
for permitting its appolntees to hold up their
clerks for percentage OF their salaries, tor Its
conduct of the state institutions where brutality
and homicide have been permitted and for its
cowardly facilitating 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 public
officials shall do as they have sworn to do III
CARRYING into effect the will of the people as eX
pressed in legislation, especially demand
that the attorney general of the state take mea-
ureS to secure the enforcement Oh SeCtloH llo%
of the statutes of 1895, which prohibits cor
porations from engaging in other lines OF bus
mess than those which specified in their
charters and that railroad corporations be pre-
vented from engaging i'll any other business
than that of common carriers.
We condemn the unwarranted and unjust dis
elimination practced by Kansas railroads and
enjoyed by favored shippers which are destroy