The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-04


monished that there should be a radical
change in the election laws of this
| state, giving the majority the right to
rule, and withdrawing from the attor-
| ney general, the secretary of state and
| the auditor the power to use their po-
| sitions of confidence and trust to fur
thera their shameless devices to assist
| themselves and their friends, and de-
fraud the people; and we pledge the
Democratic party to use all honorable
| means to secure the passage of such
laws as Will prevent repetition of the
| d1Sgraceful scenes and acts which
| characterized the Republican state con-
vention at Wichita and in the First and
Second congressional districts of this
state.
1--WE favor home rule in the govern
ment of cities and counties, believing
| that the people of their respective com
munities are intelligent and capable
enough to manage their own affairs
without outside aid or interference
I'VE further declare in favor of pro-
| tectfng labor as We'll DIS capital. Each
| has rights the other must respect and
before the law the rights of one must
! not be greater than the rights of the
other. We favor the enactment of such
| laws as will tend to lessen and settle
all disagreement between labor and
capital upon a just and equitable basis
to each and both, to the end that peace
and prosperity may prevail.
The State Treasurer.
I'VE pledge the Democratic party and
every candidate nominated to secure
the enactment and enforcement of
law that will render it impossible for
the state treasurer, the custodian of
the public funds, to use such funds for
private speculation and gain, and we
ask the attorney general nominated by
the state convention to see to it that
the law now upon the statute books
making it a felony to deposit such funds
in the interest of the custodian shall be
enforced and its requirements strictly
observed.
LAS the last legislature repealed the
laws relating to public utilities for
cities of the first class, we are in favor
of the re-enactment of all necessary
and proper legislation respecting pub
lie utilities.
1--WE are in favor of the constitutional
amendment giving the state the same
rights respecting the change of venue
in criminal cases that the defendant
now has.
''As some Ubiquitous appropriations
are usually inserted in general appro-
priation bills, thereby defrauding the
people, we are in favor of the consti-
tutional amendment to be substituted
at the coming election authorizing the
governor to approve certain parts and
veto others in all such bills.
I'VE are in favor of dividing the state
into eight congressional districts.
I'VE favor the enactment of a good
roads law distributing the costs of
roadmaking among property owners
most benefited.
1--WE are opposed to the free and in
discriminate use of the pardon and pa
role authority vested in the governor,
who is so frequently imposed upon.
I'VE are in favor of the union of all
forces opposed to the principles, meth
DDS and tactics employed by the pres
the Republican party of the state of
Kansas.
1--WE are in favor of cutting down
the exoTbitant fees allowed the state
of that office to a reasonable compen-
sation for the material and labor fur
nished.
Protect Oil Interests.
I'VE favor such state and national
legislation as will protect the oil and
and invoke the aid, financially as well
as in a legislative of the national
and state government, to the end that
the oil and gas interests and product
tected against the encroachments and
injustiees of all persons, corporations
and combinations.
I'VE extend to the Democrats of the
state of Missouri our congratulations
upon the stand it has taken against
'boodlers' and 'boodling.' We deplore
the fact that the Republican state CEN
trail committee of Kansas, for fear it
might wound the feelings of convicted
'boodler,' has seen fit to insult our hon
ored and respected and only United
States senator by refusing to invite him
to attend a political conference, and we
heartily extend an invitation to our
only senator to join us in our crusade
against senatorial -boodling,' and the
friends and allies of the boodlers who
are now in control of the Republican
party of the state.
Republican Reform.
I'VE denounce the recent so-called re-
form movement in the Republican
party as sham and false pretense, de-
liberately designed to entrap the voters
of the state into further support of Sen
ator Burton and his followers, and as
an effort to p1acate and compensate
an active member of that faction of the
party for the loss of the state printer
graft.
And we pledge the nominees of this
if elected to their respec-
tive offices, to put into execution and
effect the principles here declared, and
we ask all good citizens of the state of
Kansas, without reference to party
affiliation to join us in carrying into
effect these reforms by the election of
our ticket
Low Rates to Northern Resorts.
Excursion tickets at unusually low
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