Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-10-12
PEOPLES STATE TICKET.


Seventh District. :. Jerry Simpson.
THE PLATFORM.
Adopted by the Peoples Party
State Convention at Topeka,
June 18th, 1898.
We hereby T, affirm our allegiance to
the Peoples party national platform
adopted at st. Louis in 1896.
We commend the State administra-
tion for its patriotic and vigorous de-
fense of the rights of the people and
its efficient and economic conduct of
State affairs. We commend the action
of the Populist members of the last
Legislature 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 Representatives in Congress for
their opposition to issuance of inter-
est bearing bonds and the encroach-
ments of corporate power upon the
rights of the people, and their vigllant
devotion to the interests or their con-
stituents.
We demand that the initiative and
referedum be embodied IN our State
constitution, and favor proportiona
representation.
We favor the public ownership of
all public utilities and demand the
public ownership and operation of all
monopolies.
The State Laws regulating stock
yards having been resisted, we demand
that the State Of Kansas shall provide
adequate market facilities by pure has
ing land and constructing necessary
buildings, yards and other conven-
fences to furnish the people an open
public market and under su ,h regula-
tions as will prevent a com ination 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 Kan
sas shall provide insurance protection
against fire, lightning and tornadoes
as q State function, at cost.
These being in opposition 10 the
existing constitution of the State, we
demand a constitutional convention to
the end that they may be made effect
ual and that other defects that now
exist in our State constitution may be
remedied.
We demand the enactment of q
freight rate law giving to court of
railway commissioners to be elected
by the people, the power to fix rates
and classification of railways and the
further power to compel the railways
to make full reports with reference to
their business.
Recognizing the great saving and
benefits to the people from the text
book law passed by PopuIist Legis-
lature and put into operation by Pop
ulist administration, we favor its ex
tension along the same general lines
to include all text books and school
supplies as far as possible.
We demand the enactment of the
following labor laws necessary for the
public veal: First-A law m9king
County Clerks offices free public en-
ployment agencies, the State Labor
Bureau to constitute general clear-
ing house for the surplus applications
of the counties. Second-A law
making the Bureau of Labor and In
dustrial Statistics an independent de-
partment of the State government.
Third-A law completely revising the
mining laws, to the end that 1t may
be safer for the miners to work and
more dangerous for the operators to
disobey. Fourth-A law taxing as
costs In actions for the recovery of
wages reasonable attorneys fee for
the collection OF the same and provid-
ing that In case Of an employers as
signment or insolvency wages shall be
a prior lien to all attachments 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 improvement on
the old contract law, we declare for a
law that will confne the output of the
penitentiary mine to the needs of ths
State institutions, to the end that
these institutions shall not in th,
future be placed at the mercy of &
combination of private corporations.
We demand the free and unlimited