The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1898-11-10

ith day OF MY. la. hereby anirms
iis unqusiified silsgabcs TO the principles
OF toe party, and hereby approves the
platform OF the Peoples Party adopted a, II.
National convention held IL the efsy OF 8,
Louis. July 70. 1895.
TIN ELECTION LAW
We hereby reatarm our hxec determine
ton TO support and maintain a free baI!o,
and fair count in all elections held In
North Carolina. To this end We contend
that II ~ of vital i'm portance for each posit.
icai party to have on ali election boar. g
representatives, of their OWE selection. We
condemn the Republican party aud those
Who Joined with II 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 10 re-enact this provision into
law.
LOCAL SELF oovEgsxEET.
We are in favor of guaranteeing In the
respective counties the right of local self
government by the election OF their county
com missioners and justices of the peace by
the vote OF the people, under proper safe
guards TO guarantee the 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 mem
bers OF the General Assembly hostile theie-
to.
GOLD NOTES AND MoRTGA6Es.
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 a law to pronibit the
| taking or giving of gold notes bonds and
mortgages In this State, and to make all the
| money demands solvable in any kind OF
lawful money of the United States.
DESOUNCE 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 INTYRKsT-BEARINa
BONDS.
| We condemn the present national admin.
| lstratlOn for its efforts to fasten upon the
people and future generations the burden of
interest bearing bonds and for endorsing
and carrying out the infamous bond and
monopoly policy of the preceding admins
trathIn 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.
enue bill and to substitute therefor an issue
OF greenbacks and the coinage of the silver
selnOrage 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 Assem- blies 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 school
system as NJ ay increase the efficiency of eur
| public schools and insure the most conn
tent and effective supervision.
NON-PARTIZAN 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 a State in.
stitutlon 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 favOrltisms and discrlmina-
| tons are among the most poisonous and eff
! Iectlve weapons to corrupt politics and de-
feat the will + the people in legislative
halls. Therefore we favor a law not only
| fron -
other favOrltlsms ana DETERMINATIONS but
also forbiddiDg anyone except the actual
| employees of said corporations from re-
| ceiving the same.
| ELECTION OF RAILROAD COMMISSIONERS
BY THE People.
No State has better rall Dad COM, son
| law than North Carolina; h It the pub. as
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 PAssENG}..
RATES.
we favor reduction of freight, expr,a,,
and passenger rates, telegraph and tel.
phone tariffs to the same level to which the
general range of prices of products has fau
en- under the gold standard. If the RAJ;
way Comm ission continues to refuse to O..
Its duty in this respect, we are in favor e-
such reduction being made directly by ths
next Legislature.
NORTH CAROLINA RAILROAD LEASE.
We condemn the lease of the North CARO-
INA Railroad to the Southern Railw..
Company for ninety-nine years, not only
Dad business transaction in which the
interest OF the State amounting to the large
sum OF 81 600, 900 invested in good paving
Pl perty yielding an income were sacrificed:
put we also, IN most emphatic terms con.
aemn the nasty and secret manner in which
u 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-
lous power OF strong railroad lobby pre-
vented the last legislature from enactiny
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 classes of citi
zens, when it first became known. We
therefore demand that the next Gen
sra ayd fully nvestgate this
interest of the State may be fully protected
as far as it can be done, such legislative
actlOn shall be taken as to cOunteract. as far
as possible, this unwise and secret trans
action. - ''''
REMOVAL OF CASES.
The removal of cases from the State conrts
70 the Federal courts for trial ana especially
wherein the plaintiffs are poor persons and
tne oe1endants are rich foreign corporations,
on application of defendants, is a GROWING
evil in North Carolina, AID in its PRACTICAL
operation frequently amounts to denial of
justice to poor suit0rs, and therefore should
oI
the next General Assembly shall pass such a
general statute on this subject including an
alien Law similar to the Wisconsin statute.
80 as 70 take from such corporations doing
business in this State the privileges of carry.
ing on business in North Carolina and with
Drawing the protection of the State extended
70 their business, if they persist in escaping
the jurisdiction of our courts when actions
are brought against them. We also recon-
mend constitutional prohibition of the
purchase, lease or rental of parallel or com
petlng railway lines.