The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-05-23

DuVal, OF Reno He said Petition
record as a Democrat needed invesJiga-
ton.
This brought P. ]. Oiler, of Ford. to
his feet in defense Of Petition. August
Bondi, of Saline. was nominated, and
this was followed by a statement from
Oner that Petition authorized him to
say that under no circumstances would
he accept a nomination at the hands of
the convention. BOndis name was with
drawn, and Duval was nominated by ac-
clamatiOn.
Harry Mcmillan, of Ottawa county.
named J. NJ Lewis, of Kinsley Populist
for auditor. He was unanimously nomi-
mated Lewis was private secretary to
Governor Leedy.
J. N. Haymaker then offered a reso-
luton in favor of taxing municipal and
corporate franchises and moved that il
be added to the platform, which was
done This was in accordance with the
wishes of Mayor Craddock.
j. N. Haymaker named William
Lence, of Sedgwick county, for superin-
tendent of public instruction The nOmi-
nation was made unanimously, and the
convention adjourned to meet at To-
peka, June "A.
Wichita, Kan, May 23.-The ultra fu-
siOnists scored a decisive victory late
last evening just before the adjourn
ment of the Democratic state conVen-
tion. They were led by Congressman
JacksOn-and the issue was on his res
only a portion Of the ticket, leaving the
other places to be filled by the central
committee after the POpulist state con
vention. The resolution was adopted by
a vote of 593 to 126. 1t was as follOWs:
Resolved, That the rules and order Of
business of this convention, in and so
far as they provide for the nomination
of a full state ticket, be suspended. and
that this convention now proceed to the
nomination OF such offices as. IN the
judgment of this convention, will be the
fair and eQuitable proportion of the Of
fees to which the Democratic party
shall be entitled at the ensuing election.
And that the Democratic state commit
tee be and the same is hereby empower
ed to I'LL the vacancy Of any Office SO de-
clared by this convention, and that said
committee be instructed to meet at
Topeka on June q and confer with the
Populist convention and assure that
convention that il it viii nominate the
men FOR Office as made by this c0nVen-
tiOn that the committee will indOTse and
nominate the men for offices which the
Populists may suggest for the vacancies
SO left by this convention. and assure
the POpulists that the committee, under
the instruction of the Democratic con
vention, viii test the validity Of the So
called anti-fusion law"
David OVermyer was opposed to the
resolution and after the convention ad-
journed he announced that he would de-
cline the nomination for governor He
said:
Il cannot afford to make the sacrifice
after the miX-up we got intoIt is a tan
gle that is no credit to the Democratic
party. Our duty was to go ahead and
make & full ticket and go home. After
the repeated failures of the two COM
mittees to get together and agree on a
line of policy, our only way out of it
was to take a positive stand and go to
the people with it. It was our duty to
nominate a ticket partly Of Democrats
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but still Democratic ticket, nominated
by a Democratic convention. Yes, sir.
you may say that am out Of it. and
that settles it."
\ THE PLATFORM ADOPTED.
Following is the platform adopted by
the convention:
We hereby reaffirm the platform Of
the national Democratic convention
! held at Kansas City in 1900, and the
state platform of the Democratic party
of Kansas adopted at Fort Scott. Kan,
in 1900, and we declare our unfaltering
devotion to the great and abiding prin-
ciples of American Democracy, by
which alone popular rights can be de-
Tended and maintained.
We denounce the trusts, which, under
the protection Of the Republican party.
are continually growing stronger, n ore
insOlent and aggressive, and have with
in the last few years advanced the cost
of living at least 40 per cent and have
lately made such eN0runous exaetions in
arbitrarily fixing the price of food pro-
ducts al unnatural figures as to sorely
Oppress all persons not in affiuent cir
cumstanceS. We remind the voters that
we have for years pointed out these
/ dangers and have demanded the sup
preston of these artificial, unconseion-
able and monstrous combinations which
/ are not only oppressing the present
generation, but are threatening to en-
slave and disinherit posterity.
The perfdy of the Republican party
/ in declaring in its platform for an
! elective railway commission and then
passing a law establishing an appoint
/ i've commission is without a parallel in
! the history of the state and is such an
insult to the intelligence, integrity and
/ self-respect Of the people at large as
/ should be resented in no uncertain man
! ner by the voters of the state, and we
4 favor the election of railway commits
sioners by the people.
! We denounce the action of the last
/ Republican legislature in passing an
! election law by which one of the exist
! ing political parties Of this state mas
/ been wholly disfranchised and the right
/ OF the people to express themselves IN
an untrammeled manner at the ballot
/ box has been ruthlessly violated and
/ trodden under foot by a statute at once
unconstitutional revolutionary and in
/ famous.
The record of the Republican party OF
/ Kansas shows that they have always
stood for corporations and trusts, and
against the people. We pledged our
candidates, if elected, to protect the
material and political rights and lib
critics of people, whenever and wher-
ever unjustly assailed by corporate
/ power.
We favor reform in the tax laws oi
the state and such changes in the law
as win reach the trusts and mOnopolies
and give to municipalities the right te
| determine as to methods Of taxation re
specting local matters. provided that nc
law shall authorize any violation Of ths
! constitution.
We stand for the ownership and oper-
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