The Advocate and news., 1898-06-22
POPULIST PRINCIPLES.
State Platform Declarations Strong,
Clear and Advanced.

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follows. Many papers got the resOlu
tions mixed up, but the following is alb
isolutely correct:
1--WE hereby reafirm our allegiance to
the Peoples party national platform
adopted at st. Louis in 1896.
We commend the State administration
for its patriotic and vigorous defense
of the rights of the people and its eff
cient and economic conduct of State af-
fairs. We commend the action Of the
Popullst members of the last Leglsla-
ture in passing laws that have saved
hundreds of thousands of dollars to the
people of Kansas. We also commend
the course of our Senator and Represen-
tatives in Congress for their opposition
to issuance of interest-bearing bonds
and the encrOachments Of corporate
power upon the rights of the people,
and their vigilant devotion to the in
terests of their constituents.
We demand that the initiative and
referendum be embodied in our State
constitution, and favor proportional rep
resentation.
We favor the public ownership of all
public utilities and demand the public
ownership and operation of all mOnOp-
Olies.
The State laws regulating stock yards
charges having been resisted, we de-
mand that the State of Kansas shall
provide adequate market facilities by
purchasing land and constructing nee
,essary buildings, yards and other con-
Neniences to furnish the people an open
public market and under such regula-
tiOns as will prevent combination of
buyers and commission men from con-
trolling or regulating prices. Charges
for such services to cover actual cost OF
operation and repairs only.
We demand that the State of Kansas
shall provide insurance protection
against fire, lightning and tOrnadOes as
a State function, at cost.
These being in opposition to the ex-
listing constitution of the State, we de-
mand a constitutional convention to
the end that they maybe made effectual
and that other defects that now exist in
our State constitution may be reme-
died.
We demand the enactment of freight
rate law giving to a court Of railway
commissioners, to be elected by the peo-
pie, the power to fix rates and Classif-
cation of railways and the further power
to compel the railways to make full re-
ports with reference to their business.
Recognizing the great saving and ben
efits to the people from the text book
law passed by a PopuIist Legislature
and put into operation by Populist ad-
ministration, we favor It's extension
along the same general lines to include
all text books and school supplies as far
as possible.
We demand the enactment of the la
Dor laws necessary for the public veal:
First-A law making County Clerks Of
fees free public employment agencies,
the State Labor Bureau to constitute a
general clearing house for the surplus
applications of the counties. Second
A law making the Bureau of Labor and
Industrial Statistics an independent de-
partment of the State government,
.Third-A law completely revising the
mining laws, to the end that it may be
safer for the miners to work and more
dangerous for the operators to disobey.
lFourth-A law taxing as costs In actions
for the recovery of wages a reasonable
attorneys fee for the collection of the
same and providing that in case Of an
employers assignment or insolvency
wages shall be prior lien to all at
tachments and mortgages. Fifth-While
the law Of 1897, under the operation Of
which all profits accrued to the State
rather than to the middleman under the
guise of a contractor, was an improve
ment on the old contract law, we
declare for law that will confine the
output of the penitentiary mine to the
needs of the State institutions, to the
end that these institutions shall not in
the future be placed at the mercy OF a
combination of private corporations.
We demand the free and unlimited
coinage Of gold and silver at the ratio OF
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