Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-07-26


by the Standard Oil company until our
citizens cannot light a lamp or oil a
machine without the payment of Tribute.
This monopoly controls the trade in pc
troleum and in petroleum products in this
country, arbitrarily fixing the price which
it pays for crude oil and also the price
which it scharges for the finished pro-
duct. Its wealth is so staggering and its
power so invincible that we can have no
hope of relief from its greedy exactions
except such relief comes from the state,
and we, therefore, demand such legisla-
ton as VIII most surely relieve us from
the oppression of this monopoly.
We believe that the cattle industry of
the state should be encouraged and pro-
tected, and to that end we advocate the
continuance of the sanitary board, under
the direction of the actual cattlemen of
the state. The defeat of useful and
needed legislation and the passage of
clumsy and abortive laws which will not
stand in courts have been the work of
professional lobbyists. These malefactors
should be summarily dealt with, their
business should be defined and declared a
public offerse and as such punished by
law
Each day adds fresh proof of the wis
dom of the democratic position upon the
question of prohibition and renew our
oft-repeated demand that the question
be resubmitted to the people.
Believing that the public health and the
public convenience and interest would be
best conserved by the public control of
municipal utilities, we favor the public
ownership Of all such utilities as the best
means of such control.
AS our fathers SyrnpathiZed with Marco
Bozzaris and the Greek patriots, and with
Kossuth and his historic Hungarians,
with Garibaldi and his devoted Italians,
with Bolivar and all other apostles of
liberty, we, their descendants, keeping
alive upon our affairs the fires of liberty,
extend to all people who struggle for
liberty our sympathy. The brave Beers
of South Africa are making a fight for
nome and country, uneXampled in the
nails of time They deserve to be free,
and that they may be free is our earnest
hope.
Upon these principles we stand, and
with that unconquered hero, the lion of
the west, William J. Bryan, and his il
1ustriOus running mate, Adlai Stevenson,
we go to the people confident of such a
popular triumph as has never before oc-
CURED in our history.
Proceedings of the PopuIist Convention.
The populist convention got down
to business promptly and without
ceremony. The temporary organiza-
ton was made permanent. Jerry
Simpson presented the chairman with
a gavel made of wood taken from
log house at the old town of Salem,
Ill, where Abraham Lincoln used to
sell groceries. He said the gavel rep
resented the principles of Abraham
Lincoln and the two steel rims the
great democratic and peoples party
respectively. The odrepresented the
Lincoln republican party, cementing
the two great parties. The sixteen
wedges in the end of the gavel rep
resented the great financial plank of
the three parties and the hickory
handle the sturdy Andrew Jackson 4
sentiment of the American people.
The report of the conference COM
mittee was now called for and E. B.
Pfost, of Wyandotte county, read it.
The report was received with great
applause, especially the section which
gave to the populists the office of as
sociate justice
The PEOPLES Party Platform.
Briefly outlined, the platform adopt
ed by the populists is as follows:
First-Commends to the people a COM
parison between the last populist admin
istration with the present republican adj
ministratiOn.
second-The usual plank pointing out
the danger of the tendency of the repub-
lican party to imperialism and militarism.
This plank covers the entire ground of
expansion.
Third-Favors the election of United
States senators by direct vote of the
people
Fourth-Denounces the present admins
tration of the pension bureau.
Fifth-Demands the adoption of the
principle of the initiative and referen-
dunn as the only means Of correcting ex=
listing evils by legislation.
Sixth-Holds the republican party re-
sponsible for the abrogation of the pop
ulist railroad law, first by refusing to en-
force it, and next by wiping it from the |
statute book by a decision of a partisan
supreme court.
Seventh-Demands the withdrawal of all
special privileges now enjoyed by corpor- |
atoms and individuals and the applica- |
ton of the principle of government own
ership of all monopolies
Eighth-Congratula the people upon |
the growth of populist principles in the |
government of Kansas, citing the peni- |
Tertiary binding Irvine plant and the |
school book law as examples
Eighth-Favors state stock yards and |
state oil refinery, as means of protecting
the people from two great monopolies.
Ninth-Calls attention of the people to |
the stock yards law, the insurance law, |
the banking law. the corporation law. |
the fees and salaries law, the scrip and |
screen law, and other acts adopted by the |
influence of the peoples party.
Ninth-Calls attention of the farmers to /
the grain combine west of Chicago and |
pledges the nominees of this convention |
to fight it.
Tenth-Demands an amendment to the |
state banking law that will protect |
depositors as well as the note-holders:
acknowledgements Gov. Stanley for |
unlawfulIy removing the regents of the |
agricultural college and favors law that /
will put all state educational institutions |
under a civil service
Twelfth-Favors tax law that will reach /
wealthy corporations and individuals.
Thirteenth-Favors a graduated in /
come tax law.
observation-disclosures the arbitrary use
of power and the abuse of the writ of |
injunction by federal court.
observation-disclosures the Pool Grin
stead affair In Dominican county