Connecticut western news., 1896-07-30

We demand such legislation as will pre- vent the demonstration of the lawful money of the United States by private contract.
 We dem<nd that the government in payment of its obligations, shall use its option as to the kind of lawful money in which they are to be paid, and we de- nounoe the present and preceding admin istrations for surrendering this option to the holders of government obligations
 We demand Q graduated income tax, to the end that aggregated wealth shall bear its just proportion of taxation, and we de- nounoe the recent decision of the supreme court in regard to the income tax law as a misinterpretation of the constitution and an invasion of the rightful powers of con gress over the subject of taxation.
 We demand that postal savings banks be established by the government for the safe deposit of the savings of the people and to facilitate exchange.
 A true policy demands that the nation al and state legislation shall be such as will ultimately enable every private and industrious man to own a home, and therefore the land should not be monopo- lized for speculative purposes. All agricul- tural and grazing lands now held by rail- road corporations In excess of their actual need should by lawful means be reclaimed by the government and held for actual settlers only, and private land monopoly should be prevented by appropriate state and national legislation.
 We condemn the frauds. The land grant of the Pacific Railroad company through the oonnivanoe of the interior department robbed multitudes of actual and bona fide settlers of their homes and miners of their claims, and we demand legislation by con- f.k xx-4l ar.fo haa of mineral land from such grants after as well as before patent.
 Direct Legislation.-ws hold that all governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, and in order that the consent of the governed may be clearly asoertained we favor direct legisla- tion under proper constitutional safe guards, so that a percentage of the oiti- zens shall have the right of initiating, framing and preparing laws and of oom- polling the submission thereof and of all important laws, whether proposed by na- tional, state or local legislatures, to direct vote of the people for their approval or re- jeotion.
 change and a public necessity, the govern ment should own and operate railroads in the interest of the people, to the end that all men may be accorded the same treat ment in transportation and that the tyran- ny and political power now exercised by the great corporations, which result in the impairment if not the destruction of the political right and personal liberty of the citizen, may be destroyed. Such owner ship is to be accomplished gradually, in a manner consistent with sound public pol icy.
 The interest of the United States In the public highways built with public moneys and the proceeds of extensive grants of land, known as the Pacific railroads, should never be alienated. mortgaged or sold, but guarded and protected for the general welfare as provided by the laws organizing said Pacific railroads The foreclosure of the subsisting lions of the United States on these roads should a, once follow default in the payment there of by the debtor companies, and that at the foreclosure of said roads the govern ment shall purchase the same. If 1t be- comes necessary to protect its interests therein or if the same can be purchased at a reasonable price, and the government shall operate said railroads as public highways for the benefit of the people and not in the interest of the few. under suitable provisions for protection of life and property, giving to all transportation interests equal privileges and equal rates for fares and freights-
 We denounce the present Infamous schemes for refunding these debts and de- mand that the laws now applicable there to be executed and administered accord ing to their true intent and spirit.
 The telegraph, like the postoffioe system, being necessity for the transmission of news, should be owned and operated by the government in the interest of the peo- pie
 Republican Headquarters In New York.
 NEW YORK, July a9.-Mark Hanna, chairman of the Republican national oom- mittee, is in the oity for the purpose of opening the campaign in the east
 Mir. Hanna stamped the campaign as a business movement by not losing any time in selecting quarters Hotels and private houses were ignored, and suit of offices in the Metropolitan Life Insurance build Ing were selected as the working head quarters of the national committee, or at least that part of it that will take charge of the campaign In this section. There are i've commodious adjoining offices in all and MT. Hanna thinks that they will make good working rooms. By tonight they will be furnished, and then, Mir Han na says, We will be prepared to convert the few unbelievers in the east. "
 Watson VIII Stay In the Race.
 NEW YORK, July 27.-The World pub. lished a dispatch from Thomson, Ga, giv- ing the replies of Thomas E- Watson, the Populist nominee for vice president to questions sent to him by that paper: First.-I will run the race to the end Seoond.-I will make the fight even If Mir Sewall does not withdraw. Third.-My opinion of the Fifty-seoond congress which was arraigned in my book, has undergone no change.
 Fourth.-I am not political trader and will not resign in Sewalrs favor even if offered a cabinet position.
 Democratic Convention at BunAlo.
 NEW YORK, July 29.-The Democratic state committee met at the Hoffman House. The session lasted only five min utes- Buffalo was selected as the place and | Sept. 1o the time for the state convention. No reference was made at the meeting to the Chicago platform or ticket. sewan wm Not Resign BATH, Me, July 27.-In reply to a question regarding the report that he would withdraw from the Democratic
 ticket, MT. Sewall said: "RssignS
 never withdraw, and I never resign. was nominated by the Democratic convention,
 and am a Democrat Out of Sight.
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