Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-09-03
Peoples Party Platform.

First-We reafiirm the principles OF the Peo-
Pies party as declared In our last national
Second-we demand the initiative and ref
erendum as necessary to secure needed legis-
lation in the Interests OF the laborer and pro-
Queer and to reform existing abuses.
Third-We demand the enactment OF pri-
presson 6y the vctsrs Of III posiscs partiss
in the selection Of candidates for county and
other Offices.
larations Of the democratic state platform up
on the subjects Of trusts. railway commission.
taxation Of corporations. ownership by the cit
les Of their public utilities. discriminating
freight rates and free transportation Of per-
sons. government Ownership OF railroads, d.
rect legislation. minority representation. Also
its declaration with respect TO Cuba and the
Philippine islands.
fifth-We rejoice over the practically unani.
nous adoption of the initiative and refsren.
dunn amendment to the constitution of the
state OF Oregon, which was endorsed by
oil parties, at the recent election there.
Sixth-We denounce the republican party
for its suDserviency to trusts and combines.
Its maintenance OF All unnecessary and bur-
densome tariff on trust-made goods and for its
refusal to afford promised relief to Cuba. by
the Chief prodnct of that isl S' on sugar
Seventh-We deuounce the election law en-
acted by the republicans as a masterpiece Of
purposes unparalleled in our history.
1t deprives any party of the right TO noml.
nate the candidates of its choice, where such
by any other party. 1t puts premium on ig.
norance and blind devotion to party, and in
every way hara sses the independent voter In
more difficult for the voter to express his pref
erence and seeks to disfranchise to as great
an extent as possible the opposition to the
party in power. 1t pervel Is the Australian
ballot law to an instrument of oppression and
puts countless obstacles in the way of an hon.
est ballot and a fair count.
The liberty of the people Is not only menac-
ed but overthrown by such perversion of
the election law; and until this Infamous law
can be wiped from our statutes we are depriv-
ed of our equal rights under the laws. in plain
Efghth-The failure OF the republican party
to fulfill it's pledge to give US q railroad COM
mission electedby people may explain the omis-
sion to make any allusion to state issues in its
latest platform.
Ninth-We denounce the extravaganza and
partisanship of the last republican legislature,
whose appropriations were hundreds Of thou.
sands OF dollars larger than ever before, and
which in all things made the interests of the
people subsequent to the interests of the re-
publican machine.
TenIh-It appears to US that the peoples
money has been sQuandered in providing for
a tax commission which has drawn up q bill
hands of officers elected by the people and
putting it into the hands Of a high-salaried set
of appointed officials.
Eleventh-We demand that railroad proper
ty shall be assessed at as high a rate as the
property of natural citizens. We call atten.
ton to an increase Of millions of dollars in
railroad charges since the railroad law enact
ed by the last populiet legislature was wiped
out by republican partisans on the bench.
state insurance and a reduction of the extrsv.
agant expenditures for state printing, by the
establishment of printing plant owned by
Thirteenth-We regard the continuous and
persistent effort of the American Book Com
pany, through the connivance and subservien-
nf r-fofFn fTSnfol la %h4
employees of that school book trust, to destroy
our text book law, as the most dangerous and
corrupting influence perYadng this state as 1t
attempts to destroy the usefulness of our ex.
cellent school system; and we demand Of the
next legislature rigid examination of it's
metn0ds and an exposure OF its acts and of the
officials 1t has corrupted and is using to &C
complish it's purpose.
Fourteenth-Realizfng that all political re-
and that all footing Of the public treasury and
official bOOdling are carried on by the parti.
| san, we denounce W. J. Bailey, the republican
statement that The indenenda s Vote
bushwhacker."
Fifteenth-we congratulate the people OF
Craddock, Of Kansas City, Kansas, in his ct.
forts to secure an equitable basis of taxation
tor the public corporation of his city.
Harris in our national legislature commands
the hearty approval of every honest and fair
minded citizen. regardless Of party afiiliation.
duu We y cuG0 OuTsolVco W 10 I'LL IN our power
| to secure his reelection to the position he
now adOrnS.
Observation-Disclosures. That we approve
the attitude Of the Farmers Advocate in ite
| fight for the interests OF the producing classes
and urge all Peoples party men to subscribe
| for it.
These seperate resolutions were also adopt.
! ed:
Resolved, too. That Wa sincerely mourn the
death of President Mckinley and denounoe
the assassination as one OF the most mon
strous crimes in history.
Resolved, That we demand the stamping
| out by wise legislation of the whole vigorous
brood Of murderous anarchists in the United
| States.