The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-04-13
The National Delegates.

The delegates by districts are as fol-
H. B. Smarter. E. c. Fowler. George Wag,
Chase Cha John s5owei A. NJ Ha P%eges HaF
second-N. W. Wells, E. w. Ramsey. A.
s, Allen, J. W; DingIs. J. p Hindman,
]. T. Little. James T. Beck.
rI Thirds. J, E. Beech Beech = N Allen. W s.
J. H Ellis. Henry Young, J. V. Johnson,
Ed Green, E G. Hitchcock, E. r. Ridgley,
FourthGEd S Waterbury, chas. Moss.
william Benson, Green sallyards: Dallas
Wharton, F. B. townsend. S Johnson.
Fifth. n. L4imbocker, William CORN
cent, N. R. Wanamaker, A Wagrin, F. c.
Johnson, H. NJ. Spaulding, Mr. Truman,
Sixth-Wilson Heninger, c. E. Darcy.
Jos. Wright. Jos. Shelton, z. NJ. Coulton,
kiss. W. a Hunter J. q Runenthai' w.
e; Cochran W; ] {;,s Robinson g c.-,n y
Bottorff, Isaac Cosley, Frank Neiswan-
ger, 8. A. Miller, E. P Hodgins, S. P,
Gebhart, D, T; Armstrong. Harvey Hew-
lit, Henry Tutschy, Z. H EpperSon-
The Resolutions.
The resolutions adopted by the
Pcpulist convention were as follows:
We, the Peoples party of the state
of Kansas in convention assembled,
our allegiance to the principles of the
Peoples party as set forth in its ma
tional platforms and pledge ourselves
anew to the advocacy of those prin-
ctples until they are finally crystalized
into law
Resolved, That the Peoples party
of Kansas, in state convention assem-
bled, promise railroad legislation in
line with the bill prepared by the
Kansas Federation of Commercial In
terests. as a measure of the greatest
Importance and necessary for the ma
teriaI advancement of the state and
the welfare of its people We de-
mand the repeal of the act of 1901
and favor the enactment into law of
a bill suggested by the federation, and
we therefore recommend that all PeO-
pies party candidates for state, sena-
torial and legislative honors be
pledged and instructed to procure rail-
way legislation along the line laid
down by the Federation of CONNER
cial Interests as of vital Importance to
the material prosperity of the Kansas
we are in favor of just and
equitable tax law, that will tax wealth
instead of Indebtedness, and demand
that our tax laws be so amended as
to provide an adequate penalty for
false and fraudulent listing of prop
Resolved, That we are in favor of
a free ballot and a fair count and
condemn the Republican party in
Kansas for it's clandestine efforts to
disfranchise a large class of the best
citizens of Kansas or compel them to
vote under party titles of partisan
choosing, thereby seeking to sUbvert
the principles of majority governm ent
and enthrone plurality rule instead by
its anti-fusion law which United States
Senator Burton devised and supported
on the ground that fusion was i'm
moral We demand the uncondi-
tional repeal of this Ubiquitous law.
We point with pride to some OF the
many laws passed by the Populfsts,
some of which are:
The school text book law.
The Bush corporation law.
The Breidenthal banking law.
Contempt of court law.
Alien land law.
Antitrust law.
Stock yards law.
Vestibule street car law.
Public utilities law.
Insurance taxation law.
Railroad law.
we condemn the Republicans for
their extravaganza expenditure of the
states money, which compelled the
collection from the people of over five
hundred thousand dollars of taxation
above that of former years.
We also condemn them for lowering
the taxes of the railroads and raising
those of the other tax payers
That for a more perfect and better
organization of the Peoples. party we
convention method of making nom1-
nations for national, state, congress
sional and county Offices, and the
adoption of the primary system under
such rules and details as may be rec
commended by our state executive
Resolved, That it is the sense of