The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1898-09-29

18th day OF May, 1895, hereby affrms |
III unqualified allegiance to the principles |
Of the party: and hereby ssPeoves the
National convention held 10 the city OF st. |
Louis, July ~. 1856.
THE ELKcTIoN LAW
We hereby resthIm our fixed determine |
ton to support and maintain q free ballot
and . fair count In all elections held in |
North Carolina. To this end We contend |
that 1t 70 of vital importance for each polit- |
ical party to have on all election boards, |
Of their own selection. We
condemn the Republican party and those |
Who Joined with it in the last legislature to |
strike this just. essential and vital provision
from the election law Of 1885; and We pledge
ourselves to use our best efforts in the next
legislature to reenact this provision into
law.
L1cAL SELF GOVERNMENT.
We are in favor of guarsnteeing in the
respective counties the sh, OF local self
government by the election v their county
commissioners and justices OF the peace BY
the vote of the people, under proper safe
guards, to guarantee the best possible gov.
ernment to each county: and we pledge the
Peoples party to the continued support and
maintenance of that principle, and warn
the voters of the danger of electing men,
bers of the General Assembly hostile there
TO.
0OAD NOlB 30 AND MOkT0A0E9.
We believe that all money demands should
be payable IN the lawful money Of the Uni
ted States without preference or discrimina-
ton, and therefore favor the passage by the
General Assembly of law to prohibit the
taking or giving of gold notes, bonds and
MORTGAGES IN this State, and to make oil the
money demands solvable in any kind of
lawful money of the United States.
DENOUNC1 SPANS POLICY,
To avenge the Maine, to advance repub-
lican institutions. and in the interests of hui
manity, the brutal and treacherous Span
lards should be driven from the western
hemisphere and Republican form of gov
eminent established in the islands which
she has misgoverned, robbed. prosecuted
and pillaged.
AGAINST ISSUING INTERKsT-BEARING
BONDS.
We condemn the present national admin.
istration for its efforts to fasten upon the
eople and future generations the burden of
interest bearing bonds and for endor&ing
and carrying out the infamous bond and
monopoly policy of the preceding admins
trati''n of Grover Cleveland.
We commend the acton of the Populists,
silver Republicans aid silver Democrats in
Congress for their wise, brave aud patriotic
course in solidly cooperating to strike out
the bond provision OF the pending war rev.
of greenbacks and the coinage of the silver
seinorage to carry on the war.
INTEREST.
We pledge ourselves to maintain the six
per cent. interest law enacted by the
General Assembly of 1895.
PUBLIC sCHOoLs.
The action of the Peoples Party members
of the last General Ascend lies has demon.
strated. beyond question, that the Peoples
Party has been true to its antecedent plat.
form declarations in favor of public educa.
| ton. We demand still further improving
and broadening the public school system of
the State as rapidly as a proper regard for
the interests of the tax payers and the re-
sources of the State will permit. We also
favor such revision of our present schvol
system as may increase the efficiency of cur
public schools and insure the most compe-
tent and effective supervision.
NON-PARrIZAN JUDICIARY.
Our Judiciary should be kept above the
plane of partisan politics. To this end we
appeal to all good citizens to join US in our
enorts to rake non partisan judiciary an
established and permanent feature of our
State government.
| EXPLORATORY FOR YOUNG CRIMINALS
We favor the establishment of State in.
stitution for the reformation of young
criminals
FREE PASSES.
We call attention to the interference of
| railroad corporations in our politics as one
Of the greatest sources of corruption in our
State and national governments. Free pass
es and other fav0ritisms and discrimina-
tons are among the most poisonous and ef-
fective weapons to corrupt politics and de-
feat the win If the people in legislative
halls. Therefore we favor . law not only
forbidding the giving of free passes and
other fav0ritlsms ana Determinations, bat
also forbidding anyone except the actual
employees of said corporations from re-
ceiving the same.