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THE REFORMER ITbuhhbd Every Friday Evening at FORT GAINES, GA. FORT GAINES, GA., AUGUST 24. 18944 POPULIST TICKET. For Governor; 4. K. III NFS. For Secretary of State: Dr. A. L. NANCE. For Treasurer: C. M. JONES. For Comi tr oiler,General: W. It. KEMP. For Attorney General: .T. A. B. M’flAFFY For Commissioner Agriculture: J. B. B Mi RETT. For Representative Clay County HON. 11. M. BROWN. The High Water Mark o* Endorsements. We clip tho following from tho Atlanta Constitution in order that tho facts may not bo disputed by our rock-ribbed democratic friends: DKMOCRATH ENDORSE WEAVER. The Omaha, Neb., Aug. B. —[Special.]— democratic congressional conven¬ tion of tho Ninth Imva district, met to¬ day at, Council Bluffs to nominate a can¬ didate. About two months ago Gen. James B. Weaver, Into populist candi¬ date for president, was nominated for T*>r,gresN convention by the populists. d today Tho demo¬ crat ie cub'd to make no nomination, but endorsed General Weaver l>y a vote of 72 to 20. Every county voted for Weaver except Ca s. Our esteemed rock-ribbed breth¬ ren will pleaso note this is tho prob nble high water in tho 1894 freshet of dorsement endorsements. Weaver, Beyond tho en¬ of the unspeak¬ able ntul unmitigated Wenver, it is hardly possible for even tho demo¬ crats to go. Up advanced, to this climax they have stead¬ ily reached ami now, from tho pin Hein by political climbing, they can take a calm survey of tho progress they have made sineo 1892. Thoy have endorsed everything in sight, from Lilioukalani, tho festive queen Breckinridge, of t ho tho dusky festive 11:\waians, king to of tho Warding schools* They have endorsed Gresham, tho republican, ami MoVeagh, tho mug¬ wump. They have cloaked tho crimo of Senator Roach, of North Dakota, who is shown by the official record to Washington have plundered a national bank in *58,000 to tho gentle melody of They have been sweet on Carne¬ gie when tho report of Comodoro Sampson proved turn to bo a whole¬ sale suinnlor of tho navy depart¬ ment. Sherman They have endorsed all that John ever did and have gone further than that astute hireling of foreign bondholders ever could go till ho got democratic help. and They have also endorsed Mr. Cleveland have endorsed those - who denounced him. They have endorsed Free Silver, ami also thoso who voted against it. and They have denounced them corporations have voted just what laws they wanted. They have endorsed those who de¬ manded more money, and also those who demand less. They have endorsed the policy of contraction as well as tho policy of inflation. They endorsed those who favor trade. high tariffs and thoso who favor free ferson They have those endorsed Thomas Jef¬ and who combat bis doctrines; have endorsed Andrew Jackson who shattered the national bank of 1832, and have endorsed na¬ tional bankers who are shattering tho democratic party of 1894: have endorsed thoso who denounce the Pons 1, for prouiisimr the necr oes a reo M and a fair count, am — on dorsed those who, on the behalf of the democrats, pretended to promise tho same thing. They toward have military endorsed the radical step rulo taken by the President when at the yelp of a postmaster he sent the Federal array to quell a loent riot which tho demo¬ cratic governor of Illinois said he COi'i.D quell, and which, as a matter of fact, did quell. democratic They endorsed platform, tho promises in t e endorsed the congressmen who broke them, en¬ dorsed the leadets who say the prem¬ isses are wrong and ought not to be carried out, and also endorse the men carried who say thoy aie right and must be out. But Weaver !! ? Wo did think the lino would be drawn somewhere. We did think that to ondorso the despised Weaver was something which even democratic cheek could not accomplish. it—the Think of man who was rotten approval egged in of Macon, democratic with the real every newspaper in Hoke Georgia; the man at whoso heels Smith sot Thnd Horton to bark and yelp, and to hold out affidavits of tho stealage of chickens, pigs, ham and eggs, by the % * i Weaver at Pulaski, Tennessee; ««<»« who could not address the citizens of Atlanta in the face of the riotous made preparations which had been by ward-heelers and political bosses to rotten egg him and other¬ wise subject him to personal outrage! This is the Weaver, the James B. Weaver, whom the democrats of Iowa have endorsed for congress. In 1892 he was a black-hearted in cendiary and the apostle of hate. In 1894 he is good enough to deserve democratic support for congress. lie is the same man now that he was then. His record was all made prior to 1892. He has added nothing to it siuce. By endorsing him for con¬ gress in 1894, tho democratic bosses do ono of two things: They either confess that thoy arc willing to put into congress a man whom they know to ho utterly unworthy of the place, or they confess that they villi tied and fully belied an honorable man to aid in the election of the bombastic humbug wjio now blights tho prosperity of this country with his autocratic sway.—Daily Press. A LETTER FROM TEXAS. ’ SillVE, T.-x., Aug. 1*5, Guay County Hkkormeu. Today is one of those measly,drizzly.moan feeling days, that naturally makes a fellow look back overt he past and harvard to the future, and of course ho feels bad, and is made to exclaim as the prophet of old, "Behold. I have no pleasure in them.” I looked through an unabridged Bible and two coneonlances to find that scripture, for I knew it ought to )u* there. nn<l so it was Well, we have had u fine rain ami it has been general ail over the state. Texas will rattle up with ovei two and a half mdlion l>al(‘S of cotton. Then* will bo an over sup ply but still not enough to make buckle and tongue meet. J have been studying about politics, good times, and democratic professions of faith, and it makes my head sore. My mind runs hack to a certain letter, that I received from a prominent banker of your town; it was in reply to one Iliad written him soon after i ................ t kunbasted the d-un-cratic purty-pre-ficted haul turns generally, ruin to the laboring CUSMS an. a nunm am ' 1!1 ‘ s ° anu (’lev.dan.l took tholndm"md silver wa” iT monetized, ‘ ’ and the tariff was reformed, that everything would ,,, be prosperous, and bus: n.'ss would be good again. ' ' ” 81 ‘ * ho c onocta i< pm i ias had supreme control of the government for seventeen months, and about eleven months they have been in session, and what has been done towards redeeming their profes sions of faith 1 Nothing! Sdver, (tho money that Abrauam pur chased the cave of Machpelah with, in winch to bury his wife, Sarah), has been destroyed as a money metal. $50,000,000 of interest bearing debt has been laid on the shoulders of a tax-ridden people during a time of peace. Now comes ihe time honored tariff bill, after months of d’senssion. with corruption written on its face in big letters. Specula tion in sugar stock by prominent senators through their maid servants a heavy duty put on sugar to advance the interest of the the sugar trust thiry or forty millins, at the e\p n* of the people, just to pay back that half million dollars that was reputed to have been given the democratic campaign fund, with which to debauch our republican form of government. Cleveland fighting for free coal, tooth and toe nail, when he is said to be the head of a coat trust, owning extensive mines in Nova Scotia. Cleveland berating the senators for not sticking to the platform in their tariff bill, when he bad vetoed the seignorage sil¬ ver bill, forced congress to kill silver, and openly opposed the issue of tho repeal of the tax on state banks. One year and a half gone, and the tariff still robbing the people, so they say, at the rate of thirteen millions a week. Eighteen months that they nave had a chance, and during that time, there has raged one of the greatest money panics of the Nineteenth Century. Strikes and riots have followed each other in quick succession; each one more severe than the former, until it seems as if revolu tion had actually begun, Coxey’s army en camped in the Shadow of the Capitol: * Ver ily the chickens have come home to roost.” The old democratic idea of State rights knocked into a cocked hat by a democratic president ordering Federal troops into a state, over the protest of her Governor. I believe it was Governor Brown, of Georgia, who refused to let President Davis have troops for the Confederate army unless or¬ dered through him. Wlmr© is southern democracy anyway 1 But ain’t we happy; contented and prosper¬ ous! I know the average cotton farmer must begin to feel like a bloated bond holder—with six-cent cotton in full view. Yours truly, Nick Coxxegy. FROM FLORIDA. Wewahitchka, Fla., Aug. 17. Editor Reformer: Dear Sir—Your worthy issue of the 3rd, »t., was handed me yesterday, and as poli tics are so mixed up here, it is puzzling to me to know who I am. There is one conclusion i have arrived at aml that is the farmer is the producer and the laborer is the consumer. Look—the far mer can produce, produce, and reproduce, then have the chance to see his production rot. if it wasn’t for the laborer consuming it. On the other hand, the laborer would got very hungry if it wasn’t for the farmer. ami the interest of the one should be the in tercet of the other. A little space in each Reform paper should be given for the definition of democrat and republican. By this means the plain people would see why the Populists are here, and the necessity of equal rights to all and special favors to none, Wliy f Because I asked a certain young man his politics, he said he was a democrat, I asked why he was a democrat. He said, "1 don’t know uuless it is because my father was one before me. ’’ See T Yours in the cause of right. Old Rube. NOTICE ! J. R. McLeudon desires to inform the public that he j8 prepared to furnish ™c^ E £ii tooeebim. im THE SO-CALLED DEMOCRATIC RALLY. Mr. EDITOR: On August I5th, after two weeks or more notice that two of the big guns of the party of “promises” would annihilate the Peoples’ party of Oiay, about two hundred of the voters of the county met to hear the distinguisned . , gentlemen, _ Maj. . O, - A. , Bacon aud Col. L. F. Garrard, both pie hunters in the dear old party. Major Bacon appeared on the stage about . . 10 o’clock , , , r The V \ a. m. first part of hs speech was simon pure Populism. lie showed how, after the war, the masses had emerg ed i into • a indifference • V( r so far n as nomic government was concerned. on account of sectional and social is sues, all of which were facts as have been claimed bv tho populists 1 1 as the bod rock of tho corruption of the two old parties. The cry of sectional hatred and social equality has been the veil in the hands of the politicians to blind the people as to government affairs. They have kept the South solid, and a few demagogues have fattened, while the people suffer, and the south mado i 4 tool i oi ,• •, by the ,i eastern , a V ft also* in a forenue manner iilus- ^ trated the evil effects of a contracted currency and while he did not *?o into f ul j detail as to the remedy, vet he [ proved conclusively that gold bug ism means robbery to too masses of the people, as claimed by the popu list. So far we agree with the maj or. But when bo says that there is r.o hope to remedy those evils through the I eoples paity, uouio toiced to kUkinn «itb Mntlpman m.l say that there is certainly no hope through his modern democracy. Why so ? Ho says when we lure a servant to do a thing and he fails. we should tain him off and tre oth r labor; ,, in ... this we agree. fr) I he l 1Vl itty . Second congress was largely demo cratic—148 majority ’ — under pledges 1 > 1 1 S / free silver. A republican aided by our two populist votes, passed a free coinage bill. These hired servants of democracy, ‘ ^ 1 ' lJ 3 , v : th 7 M r ' Crisp as Speaker, suffered the lull to a sleep of death. In 1892 the people hired Mr. Cleveland. The Senate •ltwl ,l IToutie all el-iimino-lo ‘ ” be demo erats promised to eive US free „ silver. inow, xr rt ... uj.ijoi, u.u iney (.uiiipiy o-;,h 11 their promises ? No; they ‘ have proven +t tnemsetves - i minors , to , me . i people, and you, major, nor no one else can deny the fact. Huve not your party been an unfaithful serv ant ? Then why not turn it off and employe party with principles. You say the Peoples’ party is hopeless; has it been proven ? But your case is hopeless, as the action of your party has demonstrated. You make a strong plea tor us to come back to the house of our fathers. Poor old house ! it has stood the tempest of many a Hamiltonian storm—but alas! the decaying influences of the money kings have penetrated the ,, . . me, an< , , ot , at ., it s . am i s a o i s me wreck, the result of traitors who dis regarded the principles of their fa¬ ther, Thomas Jefferson. The malaria of Wall street creeps ’ to of a scattering honest few, whom ere long will join the Peoples’party. Then major, you will realize that its the democratic party instead of the Peoples’ party that is the hopeless party. At two o’clock Col. L. F. Garrard was introduced by Col. J. D. JRambo, and for about two and a half hours he also attempted to defend the democratic party, after a little tirade on Major Bacon’s standing candi¬ dacy, and to sum up his talk as a whole, I was made to believe that he claims all the honor of • Ctii cago platform, especially flown the planks the which his party sat on hardest. But. of course the colonel is uot hunting office, be only came to tell the people that the momey we needed were lulls issued, redeemable in merchandise. But colonel, we can ^ p a y our debts with merchan Jj se . W e caret pay OUT taxes ill mer c handise either. These come first, colonel, and with the present prices ot cot t 0 n we will be more than for tunate if we can satisfy these claims, where is the ueefl of bill re-.Dem a ^i e j n merchandise ? You say in one breath, what the people want is good money; in the oext, you adyoeate wildcat money, R u t colonel, we are not surprised, You are about as consistent as your party. Your party has repudiated jfs pledges on silver, on repeal tax ou state banks, Oil economy, etc. But you say ’rah for tho tariff, that your party has saved Georgia alone $10,000,000 on the tariff. Please re fer to Mr. Carlisle’s statemeut and you will find that only about $11 000,000 have been saved the entire United States on imports, whi.e they have increased the inter¬ nal revenue tax $33,000,000. Is this the tariff reform your party has been praying for the past thirty years f Tm reform by exacting from the 5E le $40 000,000 more in taxes that much abused McKiulybiU. maybe reform, but it’s for combines, trusts, monopolies, such as the whisky, bankers’ sugar, etc., tt^te^f'aril | ]evied> according to Mr. Carlisle, j amounted to $434,000,000. From Mr. Carlisle under the Cleveland ; I W1! - «>,« ame “o™ S,?’ 000 ’' j 000. Here we have $42,000,000 more exacted in taxes from the people bv by the Cleveland-Wilson bill than J ! the MeKinle * bill. $48,000.0001 =They have squandered $o0, of tr^ reserved told, and issued 000.000 in interest bearing, non-tax ahle bonds Thpv have votP(3 them selves on extra pay of $100 per month, which amounts to $1.230,000.; * ' ilc v °tod for themselves mileage on , the extra session, (something the re | publicans , nave never clone), while , each of them were t iding on a free j pass, Here which amounted sample of to $141,325,- $73,000. J we have a | 1 000 omv, ;us while » sample Mr of Garrard democratic boasts econ- of their saving of $104,000 in pensions. This is economy with a rush, in fa vor of the different combines and | trusts, but in the language of Jay , Uould, the people be d—m. L oemed to have been the hobby of ] both speeches, we will say that we have no special complaint as to the ! lav.s. when but. positive the laok of enforsement, find ! evidence fails to true , . bills, u and . election , . , laws al . | our * ne > ’ asiilc. ihe penalty of law ; being set aside, tor the Spoils of of i fiv, as in the Atkinson outrage in Fannin county. With these facts we need reform as to tho tration of our state laws. C, j STATE PLATFORM j Of the Peoples* Party—Read and Reflect. We hereby renew our unqualified 1 | i„ tho Slate of Georgia the following reform: U I lie abolition of the present _ ^ hl f prosti ;' ,, " vu ; 1 lse 'Y I urns to the greed of pvivate avarice tho State’s sovereign right to punish her citizens for violation of law. We j believe the State herself should keep possession of her prisone-s and should 1 employ ^ them upon the public roads an<l n t .,l| ow them brought in corn < j p ( .Bpon with honest free labor, 2. We favor the furnishing of pri mary school books by the State to I avoid the burdens put upon our j j pie by the We frequent changes of text ^oks. also favor the payment of 1 he teachers monthly, 3. We favor the enactment of an un perverted Australian ballot law to b 0 o,. f.i a ... to 10 ilHtevitP or l I ", *’ 1 Min<1 . .. . t:K . VO P rs . 1,1 ‘ preparation their ballots, when , ; or thev so desire, from the managers ° oi | ■ • . I 4. ue emphatically eomiemn me j practice, of late becoming so preva j lent, of public officers accepting free 0 / from a: ilroad -‘ corporations. ‘ ‘' \ . O ■ ap¬ ply to the executive, legislative and judicial branches of our national and state ^o\ ei nm^ i. .. 5. Be do, that .lieso . levin g, as we eternal principles are necessary to good government and to the preser ration of our republican institutions: and, believing that a supreme neces sity now exists for a determined and , organized struggle against the cor j i nipt despotism of centralized we hereby pledge ourselver anew to ; sacred task, and \vo invite uu: 1 earnest co-operation ot all good citi j zens? irrespective of party; and upon ! these united efforts in behalf of the cause of constitutional liberty we i reverently invoke the blessings of i Almighty God. Ellington, C. II. Chairman P.atform Committee. Q .G x V -— J. L. HURST. Hancock St., FORT GAINES, GA. Encouraged by the prospects of good crops, the Proprietor of this well known and populai ordered, estab¬ lishment, has and has on hand, a large stock of 3YILD-CAT CORN, * CHA3IPAGNE RYE, 3VINES OF ALL KINDS ICE-COLD BEER. TOBACCO & CIGARS, His friends and patrons are to call. aug 3 JURY LIST List of Grand Jurors drawn to serve for Tc “^ ^^ A S Mills, JCNeayes, fvii P J Tinsley. T Jones, MSeville. J E Womack, jlh m l Burney. JfcuLn J S R Belcher, IJadford A J j^tchett */ G II Ouattlebaum. ^ »Y L Beard, wpWoHhv, M Speight. T C Sutton, w W F Davis. E N MeKeithau, J C McLendon, J£'™i"6 8 ' rorth ’ ^VortT' Morrii B F C V L J Dav. B F Grimslev. Traverse Jurors for first week: Griffith, J II Hamilton, ! t 1 ."rf’ J C T Humphries, } ^ ’ W Foster, >i Ju , Hurst, J ,T Johnson, 1 Flowers J A Shaw, * f P Garrett. J A Gasset t, Lewis Hartley, J Iv Askt*w, J H Harris, II \Y Moore, 'J ^‘“Lay, UP 1 ?#’. S J Sternberg, L Ward, y^M ’ A J Womack, Heitou J S Watson \ $ Brown, Jos Forrest, BF McKinnon, W II I’ate. l Creddelle, 11 31 Brown, rnwr’ E P La Prude, E L Ingram. Irank La n<lon. It L McLendon, Traverse Jurors for second week: H II Hart, J 31 Sanders, Amos .McLendon, N Q J GFlnllips, Lewis, A W W P Parker, Smith, q j Farmer, ir., 31 II Crawford. j> j Dawson. J F Creel, j j] Mitchell, J W Saveli, W J Perkins, J G Hartley, J A Harris, W E Lightfoot, G A Hancock, II A McKinnon, 31 It Watson; \\ F Morris, E E Boyal. J I Ingram, Jno McKinuon, W H Jackson, Bela Jenkins, D B Jernigan, E S Jones, Thad Fordham, A 31 Holmes, JJ Fulton, Jno Fain, Harrison, S P Creel. NOTICE! The delegates to the . nominating . nomhiate a camlidamlorlhe'Second Congressional District, will please remember that the convention meets in Albany on August 29th, and not tlie 2otL, as reported in The Daily Press bv n correspondent from Worth county. It Is important that we have a full delegation. Let each delegate be present, N. T. Crozier, Chr’m. I J . P. Com. 2nd, Con. District. A N N 0 U N C E M E N T 8. \\ 7E are authorized to announce J, B. >> gia B\:ssey’s as a candidate for the Geor¬ [Senate, subject to the action of the Democratic party, of Eleventh District. For Tax Collector. placing Thanking my friends for past support and myself before you with a guarantee 10 be as faithful in the fut ure as in the past, in the discharge of my duties of Tax Col lector, i again offer my service, and respeet fully ask the support of the HARRISON. voters of my county. W T . R. I hereby announce myself for Tax Col lector of Clay county. I inn physically un able to do manual labor, and should the good people of Clay county see fit to honor me 'be P - isition, 1 v. iil discharge the Un*;..* nf «f.;a c -in «}j e best of my ability, H I). IIAISTEN. For Tax Assessor I hereby annuonce myself for Tax Asses sor of clay county, and if re-elected, prom ise a faithful discharge of tho-duties of my their Thanking the voters of Clay for past support, I respectfully ask to be remembered again. T, R. DAVIS. MELON CARDS. — GEO. E, MARKS, JOS. RITTINER. MARKS & RITTIXEiJ, prNx (-AAliensiUx3 I YIT^QTOTsT . • • • MERCHANTS. Whosale Fruits & Produce, 53 Poydras Street, NE3V ORLEANS, LA. References: Whitney Nat’l Bank of New Orleans, La. Chas. Metropolitan J. Church Bank of New Orleans, La. & Co,. Bankers, Green¬ ville. 3Iich. N. 3V. Mather, Banker, Howard Citv, Mich. Bradstreet’s Mercantile Agency. — EDWARD UEILSTEIN, — (Successor to Beilstem & Spangler,) WHOLESALE PRODUCE Commission Merchant, 531 Liberty St. Pittsburg, Pa. PHYSICIA3MS D. F. GUNN PRACTICING PHYSICIAN, Office next to Wallenstein's. W. S3 L. Douglas SHOE NO IS SQUEAKING. THE BEST. And other specialties for Gentlemen, Ladies, Boys and Misses are the Best in the World. See descriptive advertise ment which appears in this paper. Take no Sntwtitute. A L. Insist on having W. L. t DOUGLAS’ SHOES, f with name and price v v stamped on bottom. Sold by A. M. WALLERSTEIN. SUBSCRIBE FOR THE REFORMER! PEOPLES’ PARTY PLATFORM. ADOPTED BV TIIE OMAHA C'OM’EKESCE OF LABORING PEOPLE, JULY +, IS93, A :: w o ~ one Peoples’ anniversary in their first of national the declaration conven invoking . ,. - . turn, upon their . action thi ' blessing of Almighty God, imts forth ill the name and behalf of tho people of this country, the following preamble and decla¬ ration of principles: The conditions which surround us best justify our e< -operation. Wo moot in tho midst of a nation brought to tho votgo of moral, political and material ruin. Cor iuption dominates the ballot box, the legislatures, tho congress, and touches even the ermine of the bench. The people are demoralized. Most of tho Slates have been compelled to isolate the voters at the polling places to prevent universal intim¬ idation or bribery. The newspapers are largely subsidized or muzzled, public opinion silenced, business prostrated, our homes covered with mortgages, labor impover¬ ished. and the lands concentrating in tho hands of the capitalists. The urban wotk nmn are denied the right of organization for self-protection; imported pauperized labor beats (.own their wages; a hireling standing army, unrecognized by our laws, is established to shoot them down, and they are rapidly degenerating into European conditions. The fruits of the toil of millions are boldly stolen to build up colossal Uu'so, roitulips turn, ioi a despiso it*\y, mipnx’odui tlu> tud in tho history of mankind, and iho possessors of mode of in republic and ondangor liberty. From tho san:e prolific governmental injustice we breed the two great classes—tramps and million¬ aires. 1 *io national power to create money is appropriated to enrich bondholders. A vas, 4 public debt payable in legal tender currency lias boon funded into gold-bearing bonds, thereby adding millions to the burdens of the people, iliL OLI) PAH 1ILS ARRAIGNED.—Silver, which has been accepted as coin binco tho dawn of history, has boon demonetized to add to the purchasing power of gold bj^decreasing the value of all forms of property, as well as human labor, and the supply of currency ispurposedly abridged to fatten usurers, bankrupt enterprise and enslave industry. A vast conspiracy against mankind has been organized o i two continents and is rapidly taking possession of the world. If not met and overthrown at onco.it forebodes terrible social convulsions, the destruction of civilization, or tho establishment of an absolute despotism. We have witnessed for more than a century the struggles of tho two great; polit¬ ical parties for power and plunder, while grievous wrongs have been inflicted upon the people. W o charge that the controlling influences dominating both three par¬ ties have permitted the existing dreadful conditions to develop without serious offort to prevent or restrain them. Neither do they now promise us any substantial re lonn. I hey have agreed togethoi to ignore in the comi tig campaign, every issue but one sham • They propose to drown tho outcries of plundered people with the uproar of a battle over the tariff, so that capitalists, corporations, national barks, rings, trusts, watered stock, the demonetization of silver and the oppressions of the usurers may be all be lost sight of. Thoy propose to sacrifice our home 3 wires and children the altai of Mammon; to destroy tho multitude , on in order to secure corruption funds from the millionaires. Assembled on the anniversary of the birthday of tho nation, and filled with tho spirit of the grand generation who established our independence, we seek to restore the government of the republic to the hands of "the plain people,” with which c’ass it originated. / THE W AR IS OVER.—We assert our purposes to be identical With the purposes of the national constitution—"To form a more perfect union, establish justice, in¬ sure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general wel¬ fare and secure the blessings of liberty for ourselves and our posteiity.” Wo declare that this republic cauamly endure as a free government while built upon tho love of the whole people for each other and for the nation; that it cannot bo pinned together by bayonets; that the c-ivil war is over, and that every passion and resentment which grew out of it must die with it, and that we must be in fact, as we are in name, ono united brotherhood of freemen. Our country finds itself confronted by conditions for which there is no precedent jn the history of the world—our annual agricultural productions amount to billions of dollars, in value, which must within a few weeks or months be exchanged for billions of dollars of commodities cotnsumod in their production; the existing currency sup¬ ply is wholly inadequate to make this exchange; the results are falling prices, tho for¬ mation of combines and rings and the impoverishment of tho producing classes. Wo pledge ourselves that if given power we will labor to correct these evils by wiso and reasonable legislation in accordance with the terms of our platform. 'Vo believe that the powers of tho government—in other words, of tho people should be expanded (us in the ease of the postal service) as rapidly and as far as the good sense of an intelligent people and tho teachings of experience shall justify, to the end that oppression, injustice and poverty shall eventually cease in the land, THREEFOLD DECLARATION.—W hile our sympathies as a party of reform are naturally upon the side of every proposition which will tend,to make men intelli¬ gent, virtuous and temperate, we nevertheless regard these questions, important ns they are, as secondary to the great issues now pressing for solution, and upon which not only our individual prosperity but the very existence of free institutions depend; and wo ask all men first help us to determine whether wo are to have a republic to adrninister before v»e differ as to the conditions upon which it is to bo administered, believing'that the iorecs of reform this day organized will never cease to move for ward until eveiy wrong is remedied and equal rights and equal privileges securely established for all the men and women of tho country. We declare therefore: 1. That the union of tho labor forces of the United States this day consumated, *haii be permanent and perpetual. May its spirit enter into all hearts for tho salva tion of the republic and the uplifting of mankind. Wealth belongs to him who creates it, and every dollar taken from industry without an cquivoicut is.robbery. "If any will not work, neither shall he oat.” The interests of rural and civic labor are the same; their enemies are identical, J- VVe believe that the time has come when tho railroad corporations will either own the people or the people must own them, and should the government outer upon the work of owning arid contioiling any or all railroads we should favor an amend meut to the constitution by which all persons engaged in the government service shall be placed under a civil service regulation of the most rigid character, so as to prevent tho increase of the power of national' administration by tho use of such addi¬ tional government employes. The Pianks of the Platform. 1. 33 o demand a national currency, safe, sound, and flexible, issued by tho gen¬ eral government only, a full legal tender for all debts, public and private, and that without the use of banking corporations; a just, equitable and efficient means of dis¬ tribution. direct to the people, at a tax not exceeding 2 percent., be provided, as set forth in thelsubtreasury plan of the Farmers’ Alliance, or some better system; also by payments in discharge of its obligations for public improvements, a. \Ve demand free and unlimited coinage of silver and gold at the present ratio of 10 to 1. b. 3Ve demand that the amount of circulating medium be speedily increased to not less than $o0 capita. e. \\’o demand a graduated income tax. . d. 3Yo believe the money, of the country should bo kept as much as possible in tho hands of the people, and hence we demand that all State and national revenue shall be limited to the necessary expenses of the government, economically and honestly administered. c. 3Ve demand that postal savings banks be established by the government for safe deposit of the earnings of the people and to facilitate exchange. - 2. Transportation being a means of change and a public necessity, tho govern¬ ment should own and operate the railroads in the interest of the people. a. The telegraph and telephone, like the postofficc* system, being a necessity for the transportation of news should bo owned aud operated by the government in tho interest of the people. 3. The land, including ail the national resources of wealth, is the heritage of all the people, and should not be monopolized for speculative purposes, and alien own¬ ership of land should be prohibited. Ail land now held by railroads and other cor¬ porations in excess of their actual needs, and all lands now owned by aliens, should be reclaimed by the government arid held for actual settlers only. SUPPLE3IENT TO THE PLATFORM.—3Vhereas other questions have been presented for our consideration, we hereby submit the following, not as a part of tho platform of the Peoples’ party, but as resolutions expressive ot the sentiment of this convention: 1. Resolved, That we demand a free ballot and a fair count in all elections and pledge ourselves to secure it to every legal voter without Federal Secret intervention through the adoption by the States of the unperverted Australian or ballot system. derived graduated income tax should bo 2. Resolved, That the revenue from a applied to a reduction of the burden of taxation now resting upon the domestic indus¬ tries of the country. 3. Resolved, That we pledge our support to fair and liberal pensions to ex-Union soldiers and sailors. 4. Resolved, That we condemn the fallacy of protecting American labor under the present system, which opens our ports to the pauper and criminal classes of tho world, and crowds out our wage earners; and we denounce the present ineffective laws against contract labor, and demand the further restriction of undesirable immi¬ gration. of organized 5. Resolved, That we cordially sympathize with the efforts working¬ men to shorten the hours of labor and demand a rigid enforcement of the existing eight-hour law on government work, and ask that a penalty clause be added to tho said law. 6. Resolved, That we regard the maintenance of a large standing army of merce¬ naries, known as the Pinkerton system as a menace to our liberties, and we demand its abolition; and we condemn the recent invasion of the territory of Wyoming by the hiered assassins of plutocracy, assisted by Federal officials. 7. Resolved, That we commend to the favorable consideration of the people aud the reform press the legislative system known as the initiative and referendum. 8. Resolved, That we favor a constitutional provision limiting the office of Pres¬ ident and Vice-President to one term, and providing for the election of Senators of the U nited States by a direct vote of the people. national aid 9. 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