The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-02-08

! Want 1T to be Known he was There
Laughed at.
Topeka, Kan, Feb. AFTER a hard
fight Wichita secured the next A. P. A.
state convention.
| About 100 delegates were present here
yesterday. The greatest secrecy pre-
vailed and very little was given out for
publication. Officers for the ensuing
year were elected as follows:
President, A D. Hubbard, Topeka
vice president, S. S. King, Kansas City,
Kan; secretary, G. W. H. Ross, Leav-
enworth; assistant secretary, F. H.
| Baker, Kansas City, Kan; treasurer,
George Pickard, Kansas City, Kan;
| chaplain, J. T. Culver, Emporia; SER
| geant at arms, A D. Moore, Garrett;
| guard, NJ. Cromwell, Kansas City, Kan;
sentinel, A B. Lind, Olathe.
The board Of trustees for the ensuing
year is made up Of n. Barnes. Kansas
| City, Kan, chairman; F. W. Bowman,
Garrett, and H. C. Long. Leavenworth.
c. W. Wolfe of Atchison was chosen
| to represent Kansas in the supreme
| counsel at Washington. D. c.
The delegates have good story on N
Barnes of Kansas City, Kan, who was
elected chairman of the board Of trus-
| tees. At the opening of the convention
Barnes made a speech, urging that the
press be furnished with the legitimate
news of the meeting. The convention
thought that was a good scheme, and
Barnes was placed at the head of a COM
mittee TO look after the reporters.
After the election Of officers, Barnes
prepared a list of all the names, omit
ting his own, and gave it out The
omission was discovered by a suspicious
brother, who figured that as Barnes
was a candidate for delegate to the Re-
publican national convention, he likely
would want to suppress the fact that he
had been chosen chairman of the board
of trustees of the A P. A.
The suspicious brother told the story
on Barnes in the convention, and the
latter was joked numerically.
The only state officer in the conVen-
ton was Labor Commissioner Bird.
The convention passed a resolution
denying that the order intended to in
terfere with anybody's religious opin-
ions. denouncing the present political
methods in Kansas and pledging the
order to the publication of politics.
The resolutions in full are as follows:
BE it resolved that we, the members
Of the American Protective associa ton
in state convention assembled, do here
by reaff1rm the principles adopted by
the supreme council at Des Moines, Ia,
in May, 1894, as follows:
'First-Loyalty to true Americanim
which knows neither birth place, race
creed or party, is the first requisite for
membership in the American PrOtec-
tive aSSicoation.
'Second-The American Protective
association does not control the political
affiliations of its members, but 1t
teaches them TO be active in the dis
charge Of their duties in or out of party
lines, because 1t believes that all prob
lens confronting our people viii be best
solved by conscientious discharge of
the duties of citizenship by every in
dividual.
- 'Third-While tolerant Of all creeds,
it holds that subsection 20 and supper:
of any ecclesiastical power, not cresa-
ted and controlled by American citizens,
and which claims equal if not greater
sovereignty than the United States, is
not consolable with American citizen
ship. 1T IS therefore, opposed to the
holding Of office in national, state or mu-
nicipal government by any subject or
supporter of such ecclesiastical power
'Fourth-We uphold the constitution
Of the United States of America and
no portion Of it more than it's guaranty
Of religious liberty, but we hold this
religious liberty to be guaranteed TO the
individual, and not to mean that under
its protection any un-American ecles-
tiastical power can claim absolute con-
troll over the education of children grow
7 CT
'Fifth-We consider the non-sectar-
ian free public schools the bUlwark OF
American institutions; the best place
for the education of American children
To keep them such we protest against
the employment of un-American eccles-
iastical power as officers or teachers of
our public schools.
'SiXth-We condemn the support by
direct appropriation from the public
treasury or by contract for any sectar-
ian school, reforInatory or other institu-
ton not owned and controlled by pub
lie authority.
Seventh-Beliveing that exemption
from taxation is equal 10 a grant OF
public funds. we demand that no real or
personal property be exempt from tax
alton, the title to which is rot vested
in the national or state governments,
or any of their subdivisions.
'Eighth-We protest against the en-
listment in the United States army or
navy, or the militia of any state, of any
person not an actual citizen Of the Unit |
ed States.
.Nintk-We demand for the protec- !
ton of our citizen laborers the prohibit |
ton Of the importation of pauper labor. !
and the restriction of all migration 10 !
persons who can show their ability and |
honest intentions TO become self-sUp- |
porting American citizens.
" 'Tenth-We demand the change Of |
the naturalization laws by a repeal OF |
the act authorizing the naturalization |
Of minors without a previous declara- |
ton of intention and by providing that |
no aliens shall be naturalized or per |
mitted 70 vote IN any state in the union !
who can not speak the language Of the 1
land and who can not prove seven 1
years continuous residence in this coun- /
try from the date OF his declaration OF /
intention.
" 'Eleventh-We protest against the /
gross negligence and laXity with which |
the judiciary Of our land administer |
the present naturalization laws and /
against the practice Of naturalizing /
aliens at the expense Of committees or |
candidates as the most prolific source /