The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-08-06

party adopted the following platform II
its first conventions:
We Independent American citizens rep
%resenting the Independence party In A
states and two territories have met IN ma.
tional convention to nominate. absolutely
Independent of all other POLITICAL parties
candidates for president and vice president
of the United States.
Our action is based upon q determination
to wrest the conduct.of public affairs from
the hands of selfish interests, politica.
trtcksters and corrupt bosses. and make
the government, as the founders intended,
an agency for the common good.
At a period of unexampled national pros
I perity and promise. a staggering blow was
Tested practice of stock watering and dis
honest financiering. Multitudes of defense
less investors. thousands of honest bust
ness men and an army of idle working
men are paying the penalty. Year by year,
fostered by wasteful and reckless govern
mental ext~rayagance by the manipuiation
If. the cost of living mounts higher and
higher. Day by day the control of the
government drifts further away from the
people and more firmly into the grip of
machine politicians and party bosses. The
republican and democratic parties are not
only responsible for these conditions, but
are committed to their indefinite continu-
ance. Prodigal Of promise they are SO
barren Of performance that to a new party
OF independent voters the country must
look for the establishment of a new pol
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eminent.
Our object is not to introduce violent in
novations or startling new theories. We,
Of the independence party. look back as
Lincoln did to the declaration of indie
pendence as the fountain head of all po-
litical inspiration. 1t is not our purpose to
attempt to revolutioniZe the American
system of government, but to restore the
action of the government to the principles
OF Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln. It
is not our purpose either to affect a radi-
cal change in the American system Of gov
eminent. but to conserve for the citizens
Of the United States their privileges and
this government and to p~erpetuate the
principles and policies upon which the ma
tons greatness has been built:
conservative force in American politics
devoted to the preservation of American
liberty and independence, to honesty in
equality before the law. Those who be-
lieve In the independence party and work
with 1t are convinced that a genuine de-
mocracy should exist; that a true repub-
ican form of government should continue;
that the power of government should be
conducted for the benefit of the whole
citizenship rather than for the benefit of
any particular class.
Labor.
We denounce the so-called labor planks
OF the republican and democratic plat
forms as political buncombe and con-
temptible clap trap unworthy OF national
RAA hASS 10 &c iouSw dliu Sill
cere. The republican declaration thai mo
Injunction or temporarily restraining or
der should be issued without notice ex-
cept where ir%reparable injury would re-
suit from delay is empty verbiage, for
a showing of ~irreparable injury can al
ways be made and is always made in ex-
The democratic declaration that "the in
functions should not be issued in any case
IN which injunctions should not issue II
no Industrial dispute Were involved is
meaningless and worthless
Such insincere and meaningless declara-
lions place a low m upon the in
ing man and xhibi either Ignorance OF or
indifference to the real interests of labor.
The independence party condemns the
arbitrary use Of the writ of Injunction
OF TIP fundamental American right of
trial by Jury.
Farmers and Laborsrs' Union.
From the foundation Of our government
down to 1872 the federal judiciary act pro-
hibited the issue of any injunction with
out reasonable notice until after a hear
ing. We assert that in all actions grow
ing out of a dispute between EMPLOYERS
dittons Of employment. no Injunction
should be issued until after a trial upon
its merits, that such trial should be had
before a jury and that in no case OF al
legged contempt should any person be de-
priyed Of liberty without a trial by jury.
distribution OF wealth. is as important as
the creation Of wealth and indorses those
organizations among farmers and work
tribution OF wealth through good wages
for workers and good prices for farmers
and which protect the employer and the
through equality of price for
islation as will remove. them from the cp-
erations OF the anti-trust law.
favor its application 70 all government en-.
ployes and demand the enactment of laws
requiring that all work done for the gov
ernmsnt whether federal or state. and
through contractors or subcontractors
shall be done on an eigkt-hour basis.
We favor the enactment of a law con-
conspiracy to blacklist employees.
We demand protection for workmen
through enforced use Of standard safety
appliances and provisions of hygienic
conditions in the operation of factories.
railways. mills mines and all Industrial
undertakings.
We advocate state and federal inspec-
tion OF railways to secure a greater safety
for railway employees and for the travel
ting public.
We call for the enactment Of strinpent
laws fixing employers liabilities and a
rigid prohibition of child labor through
corporation between the state govern.
ments and the national government.
We condemn the manufacture and sale
OF prison made goods in the open market
In competition with free labor manufac-
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shall be employed direct by the different
states in the manufacture Of products fnr
use in state Institutions and in making
good roads. and in no case shall conyicts
be hired out to contractors, or sub-con-
tractors.
We favor the creation OF a department.
of labor. including mines and mining. the
head of which shall be a member 81 the
presidents cabinet.
The great abuses OF grain Inspection Nv
which h producers are. ~plundered de-
mand immediate and vigorous correction.
To that end we favor federal inspection
under q strict civil service law.
Financial Policy.
The independence party declares that the
right to Issue money is Inherent in the
government and 1t favors the establish-
ment OF a. central governmental bank
through which the money SO issued shall
De put into general circulation.
The Railroads.
The railroad must be kept open to all on
exactly equal terms. Every form OF re-
bate and discrimination In railroad rates
- 2 crime against business and must Be
stamped out. We demand adequate rail-
road facilities and advocate bill em-
towering shippers In time OF need to com
pei railroads to provide sufficient cars for
freight and passenger traffic and other
railroad facilities thrntlgh liynnnarv mn.