People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1898-08-25
POPULlST CONVENTION.

The Populist convention met at the
court house yesterday at II o'clock.
The convention was called TO order by
Ivan D. Rogers, chairman of the coun.
ty central committee. The convention
organized by electing Prof. S. D.
Crane OF Conway Springs, chairman,
and j. Robert Gillian, Jr., secretary.
Various committees were appointed,
and Warden Case of the Hutchinson
reformatOry, who was present, was
Invited to speak. He addressed the
convention for an hour and a quarter
and swelled Brother Richards head
several inches by devoting good part
OF his speech tC refutation OF the
charge of cruelty made by Richards
against the refOrmatory offlcials.
The convention adjourned until
l:3O o'clock this afternoon.
At l:30 o'clock the convention was
called TO order. Serg. Wood of the
2lst Kans. Vols,, was present an6 in
vlted to address the convention. He
spoke for ten minutes, touching upon
military matters.
The various committees reported
and the temporary organization was
made permanent. Nominations were
declared to be In order.
]. NJ. Doubleday was renominated
by reclamation for probate Judge.
Prof. A. D. Noel OF Zyba, was NOM
mated by acclamatiOn for county
superintendent.
The following are the resolutions
submitted by the committee to the
convention and adopted.
We endorse Popullst principles as
heretofore enunciated at st. Louis in
1896, also the state platform adopted
by the Kansas state convention June
5,lS9S.
~ We congratulate the Ameri.
can people upon the speedy and glori-
Gus termination Of the war, and trust
an honorable adjustment of the terms
for peace may be secured. Our
thanks are due The sulGiers and sailors
as we'll as the commanding officers
for the grand achievements agained,
(3) This should be government OF
the people, by The people and for the
peOple;nence we favor the making of
all offices elective by the vote of the
people where practicable. And We
condemn the Republican party for
making it possible for the people to
elect but seven state officers while an
army Of 500 are appointed.
(4 Ten years experience has vim
dlcated the wlsdum of the Grange
railroad legislation Of Iowa, prevent.
lug discrimination, and which has re.
duced the freight rates nearly one.
hail while the increased traffic re.
sulting therefrOm has been more re.
numeratiye to the railroads than the
high rates and Determinations arbi.
trarily fixed by themselves, we there
fore favor similar railroad legislation.
We are opposed to the using Of rail.
road passes by public officials and ask
for a law prohibiting the same.
(o) We den0unce the present
Method Of Assessment whereby the
debtor is made 10 pay the full tax on
mortgaged property as an unjust dis
elimination against the debtor class,
and we demand revision of the tax
laws whereby the mortgagee shall
bear bi equitable amount of taxation
on mortgaged property as is the case
10 the states OF California and
Massachusetts,.
t6l We indOrse the fourth section
OF the Republican congressional plat
form Of 1890 as follows: "We favor
the issue OF full legal tender treasury
notes in such amounts as may be
necessary for the proper transaction
OF the business Of the country with
out reference to the whims or de.
mands OF those who desire to control
the financial affairs of the nation for
purely speculative purposes" And
In addition thereto we demand the
unlimited coinage Of silver as we have
OF gold at the ratio of 16 TO |.
~ We favor service pension for
al, nonorahly discharged soldiers and