The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1900-08-30
PLATFORM
Adopted by the Joint Demo.
cratic and POpuliSt
Convention.


by the joint Democratic ard Populist
parties at Oklahoma City:
We, the representatives Of the Demo
cratic and Populist parties of the ter
ri.ory of Oklahoma, in joint conven
ton assembled, do reafirm our faith
in the immortal proclamation of the
inalienable rights OF man, the Declara-
ton of Independence and our slleg.
lance to the constitution framed in
harmony therewith by the fathers of
the republic.
We hold that the perpetuity of this
republic is dependent upon the
triumph of those principles, their APP
plication in the creation OF laws, the
administration of justice, and the eX~
ercise Of executive function; that ma
tional politics should be measured by
them and local affairs kept scrupul-
ously within their dominions; that
without them the liberty of a free
people has no support, and with their
overthrow free government is inevit-
ably destined to decay.
We denounce as un-American, un-
Democratic and un-Republican the
policy Of the present dministration
in it's efforts to establish colonies un~
der the American flag by force and
bloodshed; and we believe that the
people of the Philippine islands have
the same right to be free that the
American colonies had when they
published the Declaration of Inde-
pendence, and that the action of the
Republican administration in attempt
ing TO subjugate them by force of
arms is an act of tyranny even less ex-
cusable than the attempt of Great
Britain to coerce her own subjects in
the war of the rebellion,
We denounce the policy Of the Han
naized Mckinley administration in
countenancing the plunder of the reve-
nues of Cubs by carpetbaggers, and it's
utter failure to fulfill it's pledges to
the Cuban people.
We favor municipal ownership OF
municipal utilities.
We condemn the policy of the Nc
Kinley-H Hanna administration which
has legalized slavery and recognized
polygamy in the Sulu Islands.
Our most earnest sympathies are ex-
tended to the free men of the South
African republic in their effort to
maintain against overwhelming pow
er and oppression the governments
which are dear to them on account of
the struggles endured to create them,
and because of their inherited love OF
home and liberty.
Private monopolies are indefensible
and intolerable. They destroy com.
petition, control the price OF all ma
terial and of the finished product, thus
robbing both producer and consumer.
They lessen the employment Of labor
and arbitrarily fix terms and condi-
tions thereof, deprive individual ener-
gy and capital of their opportunity for
betterment. They are the most effic-
lent means yet devised for appropriat
ing the fruits of industry to the bene-
fit of the few at the expense of the
many, and unless their insatiate-
greed is checked all wealth will be
aggregated in a few hands and the re-
public destroyed. Tne dishonest pal
tering with the trust evil by the Re-
publican party in state and national
platforms is conclusive proof of the
truth of the charge that trusts are the
legitimate products of Republican
Republican laws and that they are
tration in return for campaign sub
scriptions and political support.
We demand for the Filipinos the
same treatment promised to Cubans.
We favor the rehabilitation of silver
at the ratio Of 16 to and the issuance
of all paper money by the government.
We demand a constitutional amend
ment to enable congress TO enact an
effective income tax.
We condemn the Flynn statehood
bill for it's manifest unfairness to the
school land lessees of the territory,
who are entitled TO preference right
when it comes to the sale of the land
of said territory.
We demand that we be accorded such
rights in the organization of state as
shall leave us to regulate our own
school system; that we shall not be
forced to surrender our love of race
nor bring ourselves to recognition of
racial equality; and while we believe
in equal educational rights for the me-
gro, we oppose mixed schools for its
accomplishment.
We extend our gratitude to the con-
gress OF the United States for the pas-
sage of a nou-partisan free homes law,
which has given to the settlers of the
states and territories their jlst COM
pensation for the hard toll and endur-
ance incumbent upon the opening of a
new country and we particularly
point with pride to the adherence Of
the Democratic and Populist mem bers
of congress who supported the measure
on each and every occasion when 1t
was presented tc them,
The reform forces of the territory