Year: 1873

oacrahento. lt has the right ring.
We commend it to the people Of
Oregon, and recommend them to
follow the example of the good people
of their sister State, organize en- inde-
pendent part5and adopt like platform.


PLATFORM.


This Convention, representing what it
believes to be the honest sentiment of
the people Of the State of California
and encouraged by the splendid success
achieved in, the recent State election,
wherein the people almost without
organization, met and overthrow the
combined power ofincorporated monop-
olists and corrupt political and finan>
cialrlngs, doth hereby resolve to organ
ize into party all good citizens who
desire to join in the work of reform and
political regeneration throughout the
State, the better to enable them to
move forward upon the enemy, to rout
such corporations from their stronghold
as rulers and practically as law makers,
and finally to rescue the Government
from the clutches of the corruptionists
who have so long held it in subsection.
Therefore, be it


ResoIoed, That opponents of incor-
porated greed and organized corruption
90 form themselves into political body,
to be known as the Peoples Indepcn-
dent Party


Resolyed, That one of the most
serious obstacles in the way of political
and governmental reform lies in the
doctrine of SO called party fealty
tyrannical rule which degrades the
citizen and sinks him in the servIle
partisan, rendering him the helpless
tool Of selfish wire pullers aud caucus
manipulators. In view of this long
standing evil, the Peoples Independent
party, now in its very inception, once
for all lays down its fundamen tai
principle that parties are the mere
insrrumentalities to be employed IN the
furtherance of good government, and
they should be followed no further than
while they act in the interest of the
entire people, of which fact each indi,
vidual must judge for himself, and thai
it is the duty of citizens to abandon
instantly any party which swerves from
the path Of right or passes into th'
hands Of unscrupulous leaders; and
finally, it utterly spurns and repudiatei
tn doctrine that any citizen owe
allegiance to any political organization
or that pure and upright man il
public life can or ought to be uEde
special obligation to any source short o
the people for Office or position.


Resolved, That one Of the great evil
which earnestly demands correction
the tyranny of party discipline which
: as maintained through the system c
primaries and caucuses by professional
politicians, aided by Governmen
= patronage and moneyed power, ha
D become despotic rule of the few owe
, many, aud we affirm that any citize
has the right to take a part, in goo
I faith, in the actions and deliberations {
any political organization, caucus {
convention, without being boun
thereby except so far as his ow
judgement and conscience may approx
g and that the obligations of the citize
and patriot are paramount to those
the partisan before and after part
nominations are made.


Resolued, That we are determined


use all lawful efforts to drive ou Il
corrupt political rings that control tt
actions Of Government, welding
power and dispensing its patrona


with the sole end of benefttil
themselves and their hangers or, and


perp etuating their vicious rule, and


that end, we hereby and for all tin


instruct all representa- tives of t


people, elected under the auspices


the Peoples Independent party,
NJ urge and enforce strict examinati


into the affairs and management of
- the railroad companies of the COUNT


as w"'' of their auxllaries, Cree