Year: 1873

The Independent voters of Placer County, re-
gardless of all past party affiliations and ties,
and seeking only the publicgood believing tn al
the old party machinery has been and is being
run in the interests Of monopolies and against
the interests of the people, hereby call them
eelves the peoples Independent party Of
Placer County, and for their own protection
declare and make known to the people Of the
county through their chosen delegates, in con-
vention here assembled to-day. their principles,
and pledge and bind every man becoming q
candidate upon their ticket faithfully, fully and
sacredly to carry them out.


FIRST, Economy in public offices and public
expenditures, and honesty and fairness in the
administration of all public affairs.


SECOND Corporations in this State are crea-
lures Of our laws, and should be made to obey
penalties the same as the humblest citizen OF
the land.


Fares and freights should be classified by law,
and positive prices fixed for each class at the
lowest possible rates commensurate with the
actual capital invested and labor performed in
such carrying trade. Precedence to freight and





cation and class, and the system of free passes
should be absolutely and forever abolished.


THIRD, Subsidies, special and class legisla-
ton, of whatever name or kind, are baneful
to the great mass of the people, and should be
prohibited now and provided against in the fu-
ture by the most positive provisions of law,
even to the amendment of the Constitution, if
necessary.


FOURTH, All property, whether in lands,
bonds, notes, mortgages, money, or of whatever
nature or kind, should bear its just proportion of
taxation taxes should become lien on all
property on the first Monday of March in each
year; and growing crops, having no ascertaina-
BILE value at that time. should be exempt from
assessment and taxation.


FIFTH, Resolved that our Legislative candi-
dates are hereby instructed and pledged 10 sup
port for the United States Senate none but a
known, reliable anti-monopoly, anti ti-subsidy,
trustworthy candidate, and are not to be bound
by the action of any caucus that may nominate
man of different character, even though they
have participated in the same


SIXTH, The mismanagement of our county af-
fairs calls for change of the officials that have
long controlled them, and we pledge our
hearty assistance in the election of a ticket to
correct these wrongs.


SEVENTH, Though the issues involved in this
contest are almost entirely State and local, we
can not let this opportunity pass without ex-
pressing our condemnation of the acts of Con-
gressmen who have reveled in Credit Mobilier
corruptions, back salary steals and other infa-
nous practices, all tending to rob the people
they were chosen to protect, and we do here,
and now, denounce all such as unfit for officers
and unworthy the confidence of the people now
and forever.


EIGHTH, The public lands belong to the peo-
pie, and Congress is the Trustee to dispose OF
them, and they should be given sold only to
those who desire to occupy, improve and make
homes of them


NINTH, We are opposed to the further influx
of the Mongolian race; to the further subsidiz-
ing of steam ship lines for the purpose of en-
abling them to bring in this degraded class at
mere nominal rates. and to this end we demand
that the treaty with China, known the Bur
lingame Treaty be abrogated, or modified to one
for commercial purposes only; and that the
whole moral and legal force of the State
should be b Mt to this purpose. rs the Chinese
are standing menace to the moral, physical
and pecuniary welfare of the people of this
State.