The representative., 1899-08-03
GET OVER ON
YOUR OWN SIDE
THE LATE CONVENTION SHOWS HOW
KENTUCKY pOPULIsTs FEEL
TOWARDS BRYAN.
A FULL MID-ROAD TICKET AND A
PLATFORM THAT CAN'T BE
STRADDLED, evl

PLATFORM THAT CAN'T BE
STRADDLED. eoU,
For Governor-John G. Blair. of
Nicholas county.
For Lieutenant Governor-W. R.
Browder, of Logan county.
For Auditor-Samuel Graham, of Mar
shall county. .-.=
For Treasurer-A. H. Cardin, of Crit
tenden county.
For Attorney -General-Jo T. 3a-
shaw, Of Louisville.
For Commissioner of Agricul.u- -e-W.
j. Hanna, of Mercer county.
For Superintendent of Public Ins!ruc-
tion-John c. Sutherland, of Anderson
county.
For United States Senator-Geo. w.
Reeves, of Ballard county.
For Railroad Commissioners-Firs
district, R. H. McMullin, of Dreckin-
ridge county; Second district, John II.
Read, of Spencer county; Third district,
FRANKFORT, KY, July 23.--The
Populist state convention, which ad-
journed here last night at midnight,
after nominating the foregoing ticket
FOR state offices, was more successfa!
from every point of view than any ever
heid in this state. Although not the
lal gest in attendance, TIE representa-
tion was better. Many counties only sent
che delegate to cast the vote for the en-
tire county. 10 A. Parker was chosen
ten porary chairman Of the convention.
and A. H. Cardin permanent chairman.
In point OF enthusiasm, the convention
was fairly bubbling over; everything
went through by acclamation, even the
platform, which was reported to the
house signed by every member of the
committee. The platform was as fol-
lows:
PLATFORM
The Peoples party Of Kentucky, in con-
vention assembled at Frankfort, July the
21th, 1899. hereby reaffirm the funda-
mental principles of our former national
fortunes and our sacred honor to the great
cause of human freedom. We point to the
prophetic utterances of these Omaha plat
forms as the best guarantee of the justice
of our position. The evils of which we then
complained have been intensif1ed-not one
of them has been remedied, though both old
parties have since then held the reins of
government in both state and nation, and
have had ample power to right the wrongs
that beset the people. We charged that the
controlling influences dominating both old
parties had permitted these conditions to
develop without serious effort to prevent or
restrain them. We now charge that since
then the acts Of both parties in the affairs
of state and nation have been alike in the
interest of the selfish few and against the
many. The corruption in politics of which
we complained has been made more marked
by Hannaism on the one side and Goebelism
on the other: seats in the United States
senate have been bought and sold by repre-
sentatives of either party like simple com
modities in the market. The suffrages of
the American people have been contemptu-
ously trifed with; efforts have been made
In many states to abridge the suffrage and
to prevent it's free exercise, while in our own
commonwealth of Kentucky, the most flag
rant assaults upon the purity of the ballot
and popular government have been commit
ted In the sacred name of Democracy.
We declare that this republic can only
endure as free government while built
upon the love Of the whole people for each
other and for the nation; that it cannot be
pinned together by bayonets. We, there
fore. view with apprehension the growth of
the spirit of militarism in the nation, and
declare that it is incompatible with the
spirit of free institutions and menace to
our liberty. The evil of militarism is ex-
pressed in the use of the United States army
for the complete and instant overthrow of
civil government in Idaho, and for the es-
oh n Of
ism, and in the corporate and private use
of military forces to destroy and terrorize
organized labor in the exercise of its sacred
rights Of association.
nation cannot deny the capacity and
violate the rights of another nation to lib
erty and self fgOvernment without losing
faith in the capacity of its own people for
selfgovernment and in the rights of it's own
people to liberty. There never existed a
nation that could be trusted with the lib
erty of another nation, or a man that could
be trusted with the liberty of another man.
The nation that strikes at the liberties of
another nation commits national suicide
No people can be free save by standing for
the freedom of all peoples. The liberty of
no citizen can be secure so long as there re-
mains single oppressed or enslaved citi-
zen in any nation Militarism and conquest
can not co-exist With liberty and self-gov-
ernment. II we suffer our American gov
eminent to destroy In other and struggling
peoples that sacredest right that comes from
God to the common life, namely. the right
OF men to create their own institutions.
and choose and organize their own national
and individual lives, then we place in the
hands OF our rulers the power and weapons
with which to destroy our liberties our
self governing functions and our right to
free lives of noble and aspiring citizenship.
We would urgently emphasize our belief
that the militarism that menaces us as a
people is but the offspring and incident of
the greater menace of plutocracy which has
established monopoly government in the
place of government by the people. Monop-
oily rule is intrenched in every branch Of
national, state and municipal government.
By economic force based upon special priv
ileges in law and natural resources, mon
opoly is centralizing the wealth of the nation
in the hands of enormous trusts which are
becoming irresponsible economic despot-
isms; which are using legislation, the ju-
dietary and all the functions of government,
as the mere instruments of private profit,
which are reducing the entire people to
serfdom or enforced wage slavery.
Political liberty is a mockery without
economic liberty; no man is in any SENSE
Tree as long as he is in enforced dependence
upon some other man for the opportunity
70 earn his livelihood. No individual or DO
Atical rights are secured without security