The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-06-16
FREE SILVER REPUBLICANS
Adopt Platform and Elect State
Central Committee.


The Kansas Free Silver Republicans
numbering 81 delegates either present
or represented by proxy after appoint
ing committee to confer with a like
committee from the PopuIist convention
and adopting resolutions, adjourned.
The following is the platform of the
Free Silver Republican party of Kan
SaS:
We, the Free Silver Republicans of
Kansas, declare:
First-That we believe the money of
the nation should be issued by the gov
eminent and that gold and silver should
be given equal privileges at the mint
and by the laws of this country at the
present legal ratio, L to IS. That the
coinage of the silver seigniOrage, reluc-
family agreed to by a Republican house
at the dictatiOn of a silver senate is a
good step in the right direction; and
we, the Silver Republicans of the state
of Kansas, still adhere to the declara-
ton of principles as enunciated by the
Republican party of Kansas in it's state
convention held on the 4th day of Sep
TENDER, which declaration is as follows:
The practical operation of the silver
act now in force. recently passed by a
Republican majority and opposed by a
Democratic minority, in both houses of
congress, is rapidly increasing the value
OF silver, is a good step in the right
direction but we, the Republicans of
Kansas demand free coinage of silver
measure strongly opposed and Wig
orously condemned by the late Demo-
cratic administration, led by express
ident Grover Cleveland"
Second-We believe this government
is capable of attending to its own af-
fairs without the aid of any other ma
ton on earth.
Third-That we believe entangline all
Hances with foreign nations to be inirn-
zeal to the best interests of this nation
and that the teachings of Washington
having proven so wise in the past
should be strictly observed in the fu-
ture, and for this reason we are opposed
to the suggested Anglo-alliance
Fourth-That the Republican party
having obtained an unnecessary bond
issue: in place of the bi-metalism it
promises to secure, we demand that the
administration now proceed to prose-
cute the present war. which it has too
reluctantly undertaken. The pace set
by Admiral Dewey suits US
Fifth-We believe that manhood not
money, should be the controlling factor
in the affairs of this nation and that all
corporate interests should be under
strict government control and to this
end we extend our cooperation to anv
party that honestly and fearlessly at
temptS to restore the affairs of govern
ment to the people,
Sixth-"The debt this nation can never
pay, IS to care for him who has borne
the battle, and for his widow and or
phans. Abraham Lincoln.
We believe the foregoing sentiment is
as important and binding today as
ever; and that it should equally apply
to the soldiers called into the field nv
the present war.
The Republican party having adopted
grover CIeVeland'S pension policy along
with his financial policy and Cuban
policy, we demand that laws intended
to favor ex-UniOn soldiers be enforced
in the spirit thereof, and that thew be
actually preferred for public employ
ment.
Seventh-We are most heartily in
sympathy with organized labor to the
end that it may be able to compete with
organized capital
Efghth-While we are not unmindfuI
of the shortcomings of the present ad-
miniStratiOn, we recognize that it has
done more to relieve the state from
corporate control in the enactment con-
Struction and enforcement of laws than
all previous administrations in the his
tory of the state. We especially COM
mend the law passed for the control of
the StockyardS and the school book law
as well as the active and able efforts
put forth to enforce them, together with
the laws effecting the rights and inter-
eSts of the coal miners of the state. We
also especially commend Webb Nc
NaHs administration of the insurance
department.
Ninth-We commend the system of
state insurance as recommended by our
superintendent of insurance
Tenth-We appreciate the discretion
as well as the wisdom, of the late gold
standard Republican convention at
Hutchinson in limiting their endorse
months, thereby attempting to avoid
responsibility for the scandals attach
ing to the last Republican state admin
iStration.
On motion of George H Evans, the
members of the existing state central