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THE
REFORMER
IVBttsifBD Evsby Friday Evemno at
FORT GAIN EH, GA.
WAS. (». MANRKVILLE, Editor.
FORT GAINES GA., NCV- 23 1894
Kaa*a*. Colorado ami Nebraska.
Piivately the Tribune all along
had great doubts of the populists
carrying Kansas; and wo rather c*x
pocted the defeat of Waite for gov¬
ernor in Colorado. Goading Kansas
populists had informed us that they
feared the mote v of the republicans
lined upon the most impoverished
class of voters.
Tho republicans in Kansas had
money in abundance, tho money
power of tho oast, being resolved to
crush out tho populist party in tnat
stnto at any cost, not only for the
purpose of wresting the state from
the peoples’ control, hut also in tho
hopo of discouraging tho financial re¬
form movement in other parts of the
country. Hence the tremendous ef¬
fort put torth, such as few state
elections in any part of tho country
has ovor exhibited.
In (’dorado Governor Waite’s ex¬
treme radicalism had alionaUuUtbo
conservative element of his party,
resulting in tho bolt led by tho load¬
ing party newspaper, tho Rocky
Mountain News, which continued to
fight him until within a few weeks
of the election. Waite himself eon
feased that ho had probably boon
too radical, in liis speech accepting
tho re-nomination. Tho thoughtful
populists felt that his ^'radicalism
would beat him, as it has, and it had
much to do in pulling the party in
Colorado down with him.
But, as regards both Colorado and
Kansas, tho republican party itself
has boon defeated in states which
were republican strongholds, and has
also won them back tho next year
time and again.
Take Maine, and Massachusetts,
and Illinois, and Iowa, for examples.
Such changes aro tho conuno.i lot of
all political parties. Next year Kan¬
sas and Colorado will bo all right
again.
1 „ F n|h K ansas and Oolarado the
(ho tactics
P ^W^rratic
press does not favor - fair elections, if
it did we 70uld have thorn.—Ex.
We have told the people ths.t thore
was not enough money iu tlm coun¬
try. The democrats say that such
is populist doctrine. The people will
toon find out who told them the
truth—Fanners’ Outlook.
An Open Letter.
To Tho Atlanta Constitution
As I am one of the forty-seven i
thousand democrats who voted with
tho .populists on the third of Octo
bor'and tho Gth of November, and
also one of the 15,000 or 20.000 ad¬
ditional members whose ballots were
thrown out and not counted by hon¬
est democratic managers, who are
so buck cordially invited by you to come
to tho democratic party, I wish
first to explain that I am 56 years of
age. The first vote I ever cast was
for Bell and Everett. Since tin t
tim^l i ever voted a tv ticket but
the democratic ticket, until 3rd of
October, 1891,
As you have so kindly asked us to
come back to the democratic party,
and given us such a good, kind,
fatherly November, lecture in your daily of 9th
of I wish to ask you a
few' plain questions to which I do
hope you will reply and not. dodge
any of them, if you answer satis¬
factorily to us, or even to yourself,
wo will come back and be good, loyal
and true democrats tho balance of
our lives,
First, tell what a democrat is; tell
us what are his principles; what set¬
tled po!i *y does a democrat advo
.. ■> Aro Grover Cleveland,
ham, I loke Smith, Olney, Tur
tier Duvyson, Black and John Sher
man democrats ? Thcss men all ad¬
vocate tho-samo measures. Thoso
men all vote solidly together. These
men and a majority of the democrats de¬
of tho present congress voted to
monetize silver ?
If thoso men arc < fi • its please
tell us to what party i t Toombs
Alex Stephens, General Colquitt,
Ben llill, and every othci prominent
man in Georgia for the past twi n
ty-ono If years belonged to ?
they are democrats pray tell u>.
to what party does the Atlanta Con
stitution belong ?
You ask us if we have accom¬
democratic plished anything by destroying tlm
Wo that party.
say wo have. Wo have
assisted in killing a treacherous
viper Ihat is driving tho country to
anarchy faster than railroad speed.
We have assisted in killing a party
which boasts that it will keep in
power at any cost.
Look at Richmond, Pike, Wilkes,
Oglethorpe, Putnam, Floyd and
many other counties where freemen
aro not allowed to vote as they wish.
How can you ask us to come back
to such a party ?
pires, Purge your party of these vam¬
then ask us -o come back.
How can you stay in such a party?
You daily toll them of violated
pledges, yet the same day you walk
up to tho poll and and vote for them
—endorse : :m. Is this tho way to
got reform; is this the way to rebuke
If our representatives for betraving us?
so, it w : i * uo a Aug Lino before
ill I
we get reform. !
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Kn i^rty re
.—Blakely (Ga.) j
ghter said ., the .
m y « au . j
her T he exclaimed , . !
, ately, a>vo “why, I could die tor passion-j her
.
For one soft glance from those sweet
eyes, 1 would hurl myself from yon
der cliff and pensh,a bleeding,bnused |
mass, upon the rocks 200 feet be
low.”
The old man shook his head.
“I am something ot a liar myself, for „
lie said, “and one is enough a
small family like mine,”
Now is tho timo to pay for your
sabsetiption.
The Contract# Must Be Kept.
It took hard work to elect the
* leodid do’e"alien which represents
t ie Peoples’ party in tho Georgia
legislature,
They were chosen because our
people knew them to be worthy of
confidence—true to their creed and
their constituents.
These gentlemen have a glorious
opportunity to prove that we mean
to keep faith with thoso who trust
us. (in all sides there is disgust
and discouragement among demo¬
crats and republicans because their
chosen representatives violate party
pledge and party platforms. disaffected
Thousands of the from
the two old parties have joined our
ranks because they believe we are
honest. They think we are sincere.
They look upon us to re-erect the
old standards of loyalty, purity and
patriotism,
If we fail. our people will lose
heart, and tho great reform move¬
ment will die. They will not contin¬
ue to have faith in us if we preach
one thing and practice another.
Each member of our delegation in
the legislature did his duty manfully
in tho last campaign. lie denounced
both tho old parties for hetrayii g
the people. promising He scored the demo
•crats for economy and
giving us extravagance. lie scored
them for promising free silver, and
giving us the gold standard. He
Legged the people to turn out the
democrats, who wore not to be
trusted, and to put in populists who
would keep their contracts.
We assured the people, in the
most positive terms, that if they
trusted us with office, wo would fur
Mi an encouraging example of
l• .ity to campaign pledges.
\ fid we are doing so.
Democrats that are when hugging the agree¬
able belief tho battle of
1896 begins, they will be able to use
against us the deadly weapon of
broken promises.
They boast tnat they will be able
to show to tho people that our men
aro nc moie to bo trusted than theirs
are.
If they can do so, they ;;] • i ..i -
us. and hurt us fatally.
But our enemies will not Uv
to wield any such weapon against
us.
Eaeli one of o r legislators knows
what what is the the people expect and knows
real danger of our situa¬
tion.
No populist member of tho legis¬
lature will play into tho hands of
our enemies. Each one of them will
guard his own honor and that of the
party which honored him.
Tho greatest peril which confronts
the peoples’ party is that we may
fall into the habit of disregarding
our platform pledges just as the
members ot the two old parties , do.
If our part : is to live, our Con
tracts with the .A people 1 must be kept. 1
ben the platform, ; sav Mint , a cer
tain . thing is wrong, wo must not us© i
what the platform condemn. i
We must .}, practice what we preach
clse , ' ve wl11 . bo J . ustl . y scorned and ,
—
condemned as liars, hypocrites and
imposters.— Daily Press.
Let Olney Go.
The report that Attorney-General
is to retire from the cabinet
to proye true. It would indi
Mte that somebody in Washington
heard from the elections and in
understands their mean
l ^ted. Olney should never have been
The World said so with
at tho time. A corpora
Buey, ^^^nd a trust organizer and
especially one who
Killing to give up his pri
®?ost of whom were cor- ,
■kcombines " was a bad !
■ V fcj-d mder of the democratic depart
« a
ddged by its the party
rto enforce laws
Btie conspiracies.
Fi’ld urged day after
k .ew attorney-general
|e Ibve unlawful and de
were asked to
him get warm
^Kiid. ■district “lie can
Bjim.” attor
jgp%'_ ■reason A a ole
ISl&fc year
.. Mid noth
§M • ■! report
■leitinent
■law was
Wl m, ? V Bn com be ,
re comet.
too soon |
pa tic party j
;nistration, i
the presi
Prthe ■T l r Ya£ei' ''vuu’M
country or j
„ _or public fearless, opinion
1^^,,, ■FT... “’ J," ,.-.1 ! . ; f.• AT
v u.V
Hnc justice as well.
reorganizatn anti re-1
form must begin at he top, and ;
there is no place the substitution so su A > tor a i
beginning as in ot a
Wilson for an Olnev iu the cabinet.
_ New York World.
Our popular vot-. in 1892 was such
a paralyzer to tho politicians that |
^ on iy comfort they could extract
from the situation was the dolorous
, iioak t .you can’t do that again.”
Uavi held our million votes in the
rocont National elections, and having
^oqq besiaes, we can listen
it ; Qnt j aud bm ii ing iy while the
j >oliticiaus croa k, “Bet you it can’t
be done any more.”
LOST!
A promissory note given by R. dated G.
Morris in favor of L. J. Day,
about the last of November, 1893. Note
calls for the amount of gl,750. All per
sons arc warned against trading DAY, for
same, L. J.
Road Notice. £
GEORGIA— Clay County:
Whereas certain petitioners have
made tbeir application to this court,
praying an order granting tho establish¬
ment of a new road commencing at a
land line near Harrison's Mill, and run¬
ning the land line directly north, be¬
tween.!. M. Harrison and H. IT. Harri¬
son and S. 1). Coleman, Airs. Alilliuer,
\Y. H. Jackson and W. T. Green, Robt.
Brooks and W. T. Green to a Brooks. point
about 400 yards north of Robt.
Thence leaving said land line following
the old road bed fir front of \V. T.
Green's dwelling, continuing said road¬
bed until striking original laud line be¬
tween H. M. Green aud Aless Horton
A Fuller’s, thence on said fine between
Mrs. Anna AIcKimmie’s and Wlire AIc
Kimuiie, intersecting the Coleman and
Foil Games road at a point near W illie
AIcKimmie’s house, and whereas Com¬
missioners appointed for that
have reviewed and marked out said
templatod road and r ported of to much me
ihat said load would be one
public utility and convenience—Now
tiiis is to cite and and admonish all per¬
sons that on and after the 5th day of
Novembe r 1803, raid new road will be
granted if no good cause is shown to the
contrary. Given under my hand and
seal this October the 3rd., 1894.
J. W. SUTLIVE,
Clerk Clay County Com. Court.
SHERIFF SALE.
GE< >RGI A —Clay County:
Will be soM before the court house door
iti said county within the legal hours of sale
—on the First Tuesday in December next.
1894, to the highest bidder for cash the fol¬
lowing property to wit: Lot of land No.
207. '1 he north half of lot of land No. 208.
The east half of lot of land No 234, and
the north half of lot of land No. 333, con
taming less, in the aggregate in 506 the 1-2 7th acres, district more of
or and all being
Clay county, Ga. Levied on as the prop
orty of Harriet Goodman as administratrix
of Samuel Goodman deceased, by virtue of
an execution from Clay superior court in
tavor of “The American Freehold Land
Mortgage Couquny, of London. (Limited,) ’
vs Harriet Goodman, as administratrix of
Samuel Goodman, deceased. Tenants in
possession notified according to law. This
October 27th, 1894.
j as. t. McAllister, sheriff.
SHERIFF SALE.
GEORGIA—Olay Will sold the County: First Tuesday- in De¬
be on
cember, 1894. before the court house door in
s-iid county, within the legal horn's of sale,
i to the highest bidder, for cash, the follow
j j big £ property, j\ii to wit: luch said The Alims house resides, and lot lo- of
ms on w
■ cated in the town of Fort Gaines, of said
j county of Clay; bounded on the north by
the Haskins lot, on the east by an alloy, on
the south by a public street, on the .west by
Depot lot street. The same Wells being formerly the resided. house
and where J. 0.
Said property levied On as the property of
E. R, Alims, to satisfy a mortgage fi fa is¬
sued from the superior court of said county,
in favor of S. Seisel & Co., against E. K.
Alins. This 23rd day of October 1984.
JAS. T. McALLJLBTEK. Sheriff,
SHERIFF SALE.
GEORGIA—Clay Will County: Tuesday
be sold on the First in De¬
cember, 1894. at the court house in said
county, the highest within bidder, the for legal cash, hours of following sale, to
the
property to wit: The house and lot of N, J.
Lewis where said N. J. Lewis resides, in the
town of Foit Gaines of said county of Clay
—bounded on the north by T. ,J. Sanders
on aml the » a south ali ?V bv ,a the lot on M v. 'Jefferson Inch John street Nat
SAn r «.„: ------ : i;r ^ha w.
street. •Vita e. ... ,.;.v plOp
erty of N. J. Lewis, t satisfy a mortgage
i{ fa from the superior court of said
county, Lewis. m favor of 8. heisel cc Co., against
N . j. This 23rd day of October. 1894.
JAB. T. AlcALLISTEK, Sheriff,
CITATION.
GEORGIA—Clay County:
To all whom it may concern:
Airs Rachel A Lindsay having in due
form ianship applied of the to the undersigned and for guard Lena
person property of
Lindsay, minor of the late John Lindsay,
diseased.—Notice is heaeby given that her
application Monday will in December be heard at 1894. my office This on Nov. the
1 st
5th, ” R. T. FOOTE, Ordinary.
1894.
NOTICE !
Tc Air 2 Ia:;y Fi;iH:rr>s andC r stomubs:
I am still on hand at my Old Stand, '
ffidy to serve you to the Best Grades of j
liiskies. To those w hom I have car
, , T 1 .
r aUiIU K sr ’ ,mer ™nst
say that my obligations need are now due,
and must Oe met. I what you owe
me and am compelled to have it. Ho,
please call and settle, as the demands
on me forces me to make this request of
you without delay. Respectfully, S.
aug 24 L. Cohex.
CITATION.
GEORGIA— Clay County:
A. C. Chapman has applied for exemption
of personalty and setting apart and valua¬
tion of Homestead, and I will pass upon
same at Ten o'clock a. m., on Wednesday, office,.
12th day of December, 1894, at my
R. T. FOOTE. Ordinary.
Your Subscription is
due! Come pay it!
Notice. Notice !
The month of October, a time and
season of the year when effort everybody is
expected to make an to settle, is
upon ns. I have been very lenient to
my debtors aud have asked them for
money as little as necessity would per
rj 3 it me, and now that I have outstand
ing obligations that must be met, 1 re
spectfnlly urge «il who are due me any
thing to call and settle. I need the
moi.'-y—inn-t lav. ;t. and I u-k my
friend- t.. e.-m. - tile v.ith me.
Very Respectfully, J. L. HURST.
—*
W. L. Douglas
SHOE NO IS SQUEAKING. THE BEST.
And other specialties for
Gentlemen, Ladles, Boys
and Misses ere the
Best in the World.
( See descriptive advertise¬
ment which appears in this
■ £ paper.
Take bo Snbrtitnte.
Bi&ist on having W. L.
^ DOUGLAS* SHOES,
with name and price
' itamped on bottom. Sold by
A. M. WALLERSTEIN.
Now is theltiiao to pay your sub
scription.
STATE PLATFORM
Of the Peoples’ Party-*-Read and
Reflect.
\Yo hereby renew our unqualified
endorsement of the national platform
of the Peoples’ party, and we favor
in the State of Georgia the following
reform:
1. The abolition of the present
convict lease system which prosti¬
tutes to the greed of private avarice
the State’s sovereign right to punish
her citizens for violation of law. We
believe the State herself should keep
possession of her prisoners and should
employ them upon the public roads
and not allow them brought in coin
petition with honest free labor,
2. Wo favor the furnishing of pri
mary school books by the State to
avoid the burdens put upon our peo¬
ple by tho frequent changes of text¬
books. We also favor the payment
of the teachers monthly.
3. We favor the enactment of an
unperverted Australian ballot law to
be so framed as to allow illiterate or
blind voters to receive aid in the
preparation they of their ballots, when
election. so desire, from the managers of
4. We emphatically condemn tho
practice, of late becoming so preva¬
lent, of public officers accepting free
passes from railroad corporations.
We intend this condemnation to ap¬
ply to the executive, legislative and
judicial branches of our national and
state government.
5. Be ieving, as we do, that ‘hese
eternal principles aro necessary to
good government and to the preser¬
vation of our republican institutions:
and, believing that a, supreme neces¬
sity now exists for a determined and
organized struggle against the cor¬
rupt hereby despotism of centralized wealth,
this we pledge ourselver anew to
sacred task, and wo invite the
earnest irrespective co-operation of all good citi¬
zens, of party; and upon
these united efforts in behalf of the
cause of constitutional liberty we
reverently Almighty invoke the blessings of
God.
C. H. Ellington,
Chairman P.atform Committee.
IPK'S-SJCI-A.lNrS
F. GUNN,
PRACTICING PHYSICIAN,
_#43*'Offlce next to Wallersteiu’s.
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J. L. HURST,
Hancock St., FORT GAINES, GA.
Encouraged by the prospects of good
crops, the Proprietor of this well
known and populai estab¬
lishment, has ordered,
and has on hand,
a large stock of
■
WILD-CAT CORN,
CHAAIPAGNE RYE,
WINES OF ALL KINDS,
ICE-COLD BEER,
TOBACCO & CIGARS.
His friends and patrons are requested
to call. aug 3
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ADOPTED BY THE OMAHA CONFERENCE OF LABORING
PEOPLE, JI LY S, 1802.
A "2 r*j r a once, upon tho the one Peoples’ hundred party and of sixteenth America, anniversary in their iirst of national the declaration conven¬
tion, invoking upon their action the blessing of Almighty God, puts forth in
the name and behalf of the people of this country, the following preamble and decla¬
ration of principles:
The conditions which surround us best justify our cc-operation. Wo meet in the
midst of a nation brought to tho verge of roorv 1. political and material ruin. Cor¬
ruption dominates tho ballot box, the legislatures, tho congress, and touehos even
the ('inline of the bench. The people are demoralized. Most of the Stntcs have
boon contpelh d to isolate tho vpters at the polling places to prevent universal intim¬
idation or bribery. The newspapers uiv> largely subsidized or muzsiled, public opinion
silenced, business prostrated, our homes covered with mortgages, labor impover¬
ished, and tho lands concentrating in the hands of the capitalists. Tho urban work¬
men arc denied the right of oi'ganirati'cn for soil protection; imported pauperized
labor beats down their wages: a hireling standing aimv, unrecognized by our laws,
is established to shoot them down, and they are rapidly degenerating into European
conditions. The fruits of tho toil of millions are boldly stolon to build up colossal
fortunes for a few. unprecedented in tho history of mankind, and the possessors of
these, in turn, despise the republic and endanger liberty. From the same prolific
mode of governmental injustice wo breed tho two great classes—-tramps and million*
aires.
The national power to create money is appropriated to enrich bondholders. A
vast public debt payable in legal tender currency has been funded into gold-bearing
bonds, thereby adding millions to the burdens of the people
THE OLD PARTIES ARRAIGNED.—Bilver, which has been accepted as. anin
since the dawn of history, has been demonetized to add to the purchasing power of
gold by decreasing the value of all forms of property, as well os human labor, and
the supply of currency ispurposcdly abridged to fatten usurers, bankrupt enterprises
and enslave industry. A vast conspiracy against mankind has been organized o i two
continents and is rapidly taking possession of the world. If mu met and overthrown
at once it forebodes terrible social convulsions, tho destruction civilization, or the
Establishment of an absolute despotism.
We have witnessed for more than a century tho struggle.- of the two great polit¬
the ical parties for power and plunder, while grievous wrongs have been inflicted upon
people. We charge that tho controlling influences dominating both these par¬
ties have permitted the existing dreadful conditions to develop without serious effort
to prevent or restrain them. Neither do they now promise us any substantial ro
form. They have agreed together to ignore in the coming campaign every issuo but
one. They propose to drown tho outcries of plundered people with the uproar of a
sham battle over the tariff, so that capitalists, corporations, national banks, rings,
mists, watered stock, the demonetization of silver and the oppressions of tho usurers
may bo all bo lost sight of. They proposo to sacrifice our homes, wives and children
on the altar of Mammon; to destroy tho multitude in order to secure corruption funds
from the millionaires.
Assembled on the anniversary of the birthday of the nation, and filled with tlm
spirit of the grand generation who established our independence, we sock to restore
the government of the republic to the hands of “the plain people,” with which c’aes
it originated.
TIIE WAR IS OVER.—Wo 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 bur posterity.” Wo declare
that this republic can only endure as a free government while built upon tho love
the whole people for each other and for the nation; that it. cannot bo pinned together
by bayonets; that the civil 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, orio
united brotherhood of freemen.
Our country finds itself confronted by conditions for which there is no precedent in
the history of the world—our annual agricultural productions amount to billions of
dollars in value, which must within a few weeks or months bo exchanged for billions
of dollars of commodities comsumed in their production; the existing currency sup¬
ply is wholly inadequate to make this exchange; tho results the are falling prices, the for¬ We
mation of combines and rings and the impoverishment of producing classes.
pledge ourselves that if given power we will labor to correct these evils by wise ami
reasonable legislation in accordance with the terms of our platform.
Wo believe that the powers of the government—in other words, of tho pcople-r
should be expanded (as in the case 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 tho end that oppression, injustice and poverty shall eventually cease in the land,
THREEFOLD DECLARATION.—While our sympathies as a party of reform
are naturally upon tho side of every proposition which will tend to make men intelli¬
gent, virtuous and temperate, we nevertheless regard these questions, important aS
they are, as secondary to the great issues now piessing for solution, and upon which
not only our individual prosperity but tho very existence of free institutions depend;
and we ask all men iirst help us to determine whether we aro to have a republic to
administer before wo differ as to tho conditions upon which it is to bo administered,
believing that the forces of reform this day organized will never cease to move for¬
ward until every wrong is remedied and equal rights and We equal declare privileges securely
established for all the men and women of tho country. therefore:
1. That tho union of tho labor forces of the United States this day consumated,
shall be permanent and perpetual. May its spirit enter into all hearts for the salva¬
tion of the republic and the uplifting of mankind. AcJvir
2. Wealth belongs to him Vito elates it, and every dollar
without an equivolent is vlbbery. “If any will not work, neither shall ho e;“
.intoynsts of rural alia'uVlC labor are the same; their enemies aro identical.
3. We believe that tho time has come when the railroad corporations . . ■ i.er
own the people or t.ho people must own them, and should the government entc. upon
tho work of owning and contioiling any or all railroads we should favor an amend¬
ment to the constitution by which all persons engaged in tho government service
shall be placed under a civil service regulation of the most rigid character, so as to
prevent the increase of the power of national administration by tlio use of such addi¬
tional government employes.
The Planks of the Platform.
1. Wo demand a national currency, safe, sound, and flexible, issued by the gen¬
eral government only, a full legal tender for all debts, public and piivate, and that
without the use of banking corporations; a just, equitable and efficient means of dis¬
tribution, direct to tho people, at a tax not exceeding 2 percent., bo provided, as set
forth in thejsubtreasury plan of the Farmers’ Alliance, or some better system; also by
payments in discharge of its obligations for public improvements. ratio
a. We demand free and unlimited coinage of silver and gold at the present
of 16 to 1.
b. We demand that tho amount of circulating medium be speedily increased to
not less than .$50 capita.
c. We demand a graduated income ta.'r.
. d. Wo believe the money of the country should bo kept as much as possible in
the hands of the people, and hence wo demand that all State and national revenue'
shall bo limited to the necessary expenses of the government, economically and
honestly administered.
c. We demand that postal savings banks bo established by the government for
safe deposit of the earnings of tho 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 tho interest of tho people.
а. The telegraph and telephone, like the postoffice system, being a necessity for
tho transportation of news should be owned and operated by the government in tho
interest of the people. wealth, is the heritage of all
3. The land, including all the national resources of
the people, and should not be monopolized for speculative purposes, and alien own¬
ership of land should bo prohibited. All 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 and held for actual settlers only.
SUPPLEMENT TO THE PLATFORM.—Whereas 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 intervention
through the adoption by the States of the unperverted Australian or secret ballot
system. derived graduated tax should bo
2. Resolved, That the revenue from a income
applied to a reduction of the burden of taxation now resting upon the domestic indue,
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 the
world, arid crowds out our wage earners; and we denounce the present ineffeetiwa
laws against contract labor, and demand the further restriction of undesirable immi¬
gration. of organized working¬
5. Resolved, That we cordially sympathize with the efforts
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.
б. Resolved, That we regard tho maintenance of a largo standing army of merce¬
naries. known as tho Pinkerton system ms a menace to our liberties, and we demand
its abolition; and we c< ndemn the recent invasion of the territory of Wyoming
the hiered assassins of plutocracy, assisted by Federal officials.
7. Resolved, That we commend to the favorable consideration of the people and
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 United States bv a direct vote of the people.
9. Resolved, That we oppose any sudsidy or national aid to any private corpora-,
tion for any purpose.
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