The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-08-14

Protests Against Removal OF
Gases to Federal Courts.
DENOUNCEs MGR. r. LEASE
Declares for Reduction in Sal
aries of All Officials.

Adopted at St. Louis Endorsed.
The following is the full text of the
platform adopted yesterday by the
Populist State Conventions:
The Peoples party of North Carolina,
in convention assembled at Raleigh on
the 18th day of August, 1896, hereby
re-afTirms its unqualified allegiance
to the principles of the party, and
hereby approves the platform of the
Peoples party adopted at its National
convention held in the city of St.
Louis, 22nd. 1896.
THE ELECTION LAW.
We hereby re-allirm our fixed deter
minatiou TO support and maintain
free ballot and fair count in all eiec-
tons held in North Carolina; and the
election law passed by the General As
sembly of 1895 meets our hearty en-
dorsement and approval; and we here
bv pledge the Peoples party to the
policy of upholding the principle of
free and honest elections provided for
in said election law, and warn the vot-
ers of the State against the threats
which have been made to repeal the
same.
COUNTY GOVERNMENT.
The act of the last General Assembly
restoring to the people the right of
local self government by the election
of their county commissioners and JUS
tices of peace by the vote of the peo-
pie in the respective counties, and the
safe guards therein provided, meets
with our hearty approval, and we
pledge the Peoples party to the con-
tinued support and maintenance of
that legislation. and warn the voters
of the necessity Of preventing injurious
changes in that act, and of the danger
of electing members OF the General
Assembly hostile thereto.
LEGAL TENDER MONEY.
We favor the exercise by the State
of North Carolina of the reserved con-
stitutional power to make all gold and
silver coins of the United States tim
Guiding the trade dollar) a legal ten
der for the payment of debts, and that
this right be enforced by the passage
of an appropriate act by the General
Assembly.
GOLD NOTES AND MORTGAGES.
We believe that all money demands
should be payable in the lawful mon
ey of the United States without pre-
ference or discrimination, and there
fore favor the passage by the General
Assembly of a law to prohibit the taxi
ing or giving of gold notes, bonds and
mortgages in this State, and the maxi
ing Of all money demands solvable in
any kind of lawful money of the Uni
ted States.
INTEREST.
We pledge ourselves to maintain the
six per cent interest law enacted by
the last General Assembly.
PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
The action OF the Peoples party
members of the last General Assembly
has demons trated. beyond question,
that the Peoples party has been true
to its antecedent platform declara-
tions in favor of public education. We
favor still further improving and
broadening the public school system Of
the State as rapidly as a proper regard
Tor the interests of the tax payers and
the resources of the State will permit
We also favor such revision of our pre-
sent school system as may increase the
efficiency of our public schools and
insure the most competent and effect
i've supervision. We think that the
committee ON Education Of the next
General Assembly should invite and
secure, as FAR as possible, the co-opera-
ton Of the leading teachers and edu-
Gators Of the State in framing and per-
fecting the school law.
JUDICIARY.
Our judiciary should be lifted above
the plane of partisan politics
REFORAfATORY FOR YOUNG GRIM
MAILS.
We favor the establishment of q State
institution for the reformation of
young criminals.
DEMOCRATIC ADMINISTRATORS
CONDEMNED.
We condemn the Democratic admin
istration in North Carolina for its fail
ure to execute the antitrust laws of
the State now on our statute books, and
cal! the attention Of the people to the
fact that official action in this regard
is not in harmony with the ultra anti
trust sentiment heretofore and now
being expressed by the leaders of the
Democratic party.
RAILROADS.
We favor the establishment of such
equitable and low freight rates and
charges for products shipped from
North Carolina as will enable shippers
ana producers 10 ISdIiZc at least q
fair remuneration after costs of
such shipments have been deducted
We call especial attention TO the pos
sibnities of the trucking industry
in Eastern North Carolina, an
industry which, but for the
extortonate tariffs of the COM
mon carrier, would increase an hun-
dred fold, carrying with it the greatest
prosperity to that highly favored sec
ton it has ever known.
We earnestly recommend to our State
Railroad Commission that they use all
the powers they have to bring about
such reductions; and especially that
they urge before the Interstate Com
merce Commission all complaints of
extortion and discrimination with such
vigor and continuity that should they
fail to secure remedial action by the
Interstate Commerce Commission, all
the people would know where to place
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