The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1898-09-22
PATTY STATE PLATINUM.

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PEOPLES PATTY STATE PLATINUM.
convention assembled >. Raleigh, on the
18th day OF May, lS9o, hereby atfirms
IS unqualified allegiance TO the principles
" the party, and hereby approves the
platform OF the Peoples Party adopted at its
National convention held 10 the city OF ST.
louis, July Y, 1886.
THE ELECTION Law
We hereby reattirm our fixed determine
ion to support and maintain q free ballot |
md a fair count in all elections held in /
North Carolina. To this end We contend |
hat it Is of vital importance for each poit-
cal party to have on all election boards
representa- YES of their own selection. We |
condemn the Republican party and those |
Who Joined with 1t in the last Legislature TO |
strike this just, essential and vital provision |
from the election law Of 1895; and we pledge |
ourselves to use our best efforts in the next |
legislature to re-enact this provision into
law.
LOCAL SELF GOVERNMENT
We are in faV = of guaranteeing in the !
respective cOunlI,> the right of local self |
by tue e.ection Of their county
C I'm missioners and justices If the peace by
the vote of the people, under proper safe
guards, to guarantee tine best possible gov.
eminent 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-.
GOLD NOTES AND MORTGAGES.
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 all the
money demands solvabe in any kind of
lawful money of the United States.
DENOUNCB SPANS POLICY,
To avenge the Maine, to advance replb-
ican institutions. and in the interests of hu-
manity, the brutal and treacherous Span
Iards should be driven from the western
hemisphere and Republican form of gov.
eminent established in the islands VIII Oh
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 sing
and carrying out the infamous bond and
trati''n OF Grover Cleveland.
We commend the &C ion of the Populists,
silver Republicans aid silver Democrats in
Congress for their wise, brave and 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.
No lodi 70
per cent. interest law enacted by the
General Assembly of 1895.
PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
The action of the Peoples Party members
of the last 2 General Assemblies 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 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 school
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
efforts to rake non partisan judiciary an
established and permanent feature of our
State government.
REFORMATORY 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
q 70 md al
es and other favoritisms and discrimina-
tons are among the most poisonous and eff
fective weapons to corrupt politics and de-
feat the will Of the people in legislative
halls. Therefore We favor q law not only
forbidding the giving of free passes and
other favOritisms anu Determinations, but
also forbidding anyone except the actual
employees of said corporations from re-
ceiving the same.
| ELECTION OF RAILROAD COMMISSIONERS
BY THE PEOPLE.
No State has a better railroad commission
law than North Carolina; but the public has
not received the benefit the law was design
ed to produce on account of the failure of
our railroad commissioners to do their duty
under the law. As one remedy for this evil
we are in favor Of the election of railroad
commissioners by direct vote of the PEG
pie.
REDUCTION OF FREIGHT AND PAssENGl--
RATES.
We favor reduction of freight, expr .,
and passenger rates, telegraph and tele
phone tariffs to the same level to which tn.
general range of prices of products has fan
en- under the gold standard. If the Rail
way COmu issiOn continues to refuse to IN
its duty in this respect, we are in favor -
such reduction being made directly by t.,
next Legislature.
NORTH CAROLINA RAILROAD LEASE.
We condemn the lease of the North Gao
lima Railroad to the Southern RAILWAY
Company for ninety-nine years, not only
IA bad business transaction in which the
interest OF the State amounting to the large
sum of 50 600 600 invested in good paving
pl perty yielding an income were sacrificed:
but we also. in most emphatic terms con-
denim the hasty and secret manner in which
it was done several years before the former
thirty years lease, by its terms would have
expired. We call the attention of the peo-
pie of the State to the fact that the myster.
ious power of strong railroad lobby pre-.
vented the last legislature from enactine
the necessary Legislation to enable the State
to make an investigation through the proper
legal channels, of the transaction, which
was 50 universally condemned by the press
of the State and all lclasses of citi-
therefore demand that the next Gem
eral Assembly fully investigate this
transaction, and to the end that the
interest of the State may be fully protected
as far As it can be done, such legislative
action shall be taken as to counteracf. a. far
as possible, this unwise and secret Trans
action.
REMOVAL OF CAsEs.
The removal of cases from the State courts
to the Federal courts for trial and especially
wherein the plaintiffs are poor persons and
the defendants are rich foreign corporations,
on application of defendants, il : growing
evil in North Carolina, and in its practical
operation frequently amounts to denial Of
justice to poor suitols, and therefore should
be condemned. We demand, therefore, that
the next General Assembly shall pass such
general statute on this subject including an
alien law similar to the Wisconsin statute,
80 Is to take from such oorporations doine
business In this State the privileges Of cary.
ing on busines In North Carolina and Viii.
drawing the protection. of the State extsndod