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MEDFORD, JACKSON COUTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 31, 1896.
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PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
W. A JENKINS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Medford, Oregon
CP-Office with W. H. Parker!
J. S. HOWARD,
" : SURVEYOR AND CIVIL ENGINEER.
u. S.' Deputy Mineral Surveyor for the State
.of Oregon. Fostomce address:
Medford, Oregon. .
M. S. CROWELL,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Jacksonville, Oregon.
"Y . H. PARKER,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
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J H. WHITMAN,
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AT LAW.
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THE POPULISTS.
BT. LOUIS CONVENTION THE LARGEST
EVER HELD.
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Bryan and Sawall Factions Fall to
Agree.
The People's Party Conrention was
called to order at noon on July 23d by
Chairman Tanbeneck of the National
Committee.
Senator Marion Butler of North Car
olina was chosen temporary chairman.
At permanent organization. Senator
Allen of Nebraska was chosen chair
man. The committee on credentials
was late with its report, which delayed
proceedings. By a bit of strategy,
the middle-of-the-roadsters reversed tha
order of business and nominated Vice-
President first. Thomas E. Watson of
Georgia was nominated for second
place. At this juncture Bryan declared
that he would not accept the nomina
tion with any other running mate than
Sewall of Maine,
On Saturday morning the convention
resumed business, and notwithstanding
the fact that Bryan declined to accept
a nomination without his Democratic
running mate, he was nominated on the
first ballot for President The Texas
delegation as a body and some other
scattering delegates 821 in all voted
for Norton, and 1042 votes were cast
for Bryan.
The following platform was adopted
The People's party, assembled in na
tional convention, reaffirms its allegi
ance to the principles declared by th
founders of the Republic, and also tc
the fundamental principles of just gov
ernment as enunciated in the platform
of the parly in 1892. We recognize
that, through the connivance of the
preceding administrations, the country
has reached a crisis in its national life
as predicted in our declaration four
years ago aud that prompt and patriotic
action is the supreme duty of the hour.
We realize that while we have political
independence, our financial and indus
trial independence is yet to be obtained
by restoring to our country the consti
tutional control and exercise of the
functions necessary to a people's govern
ment, which functions have been basely
surrendered by our public servants tc.
corporate monopolies. The influence of
European money changers has been
more potent in shaping legislation than
THOMAS K. WaTSOK.
the voice of the American people. Ex
ecutive power and patronage have been
used to corrupt our legislatures and de
feat the will of the people, and plutoc
racy has thereby been enthroned npon
the ruins of democracy. To restore the
government iutended by the fathers and
for the welfare and prosperity of this
and future generations, we demand , the
establishment of an economic and finan
cial sytein which shall make us wasters
of our own affairs and independent of
European control by the adoption of the
following declaration of principles:
FINANCE.
First We demand a nationaf money,
safe and sound, issued by the general
Government only, without the interven
tion of banks of issue, to be full legal ten
der for all debts, private and public, a
jnst, equitable aud efficient means of dis
tribution direct to the people and
throughout the lawful disbursements
of the Government.
Second We demand the free and un
restricted coinage of silver and gold at
the present legal ratio of 10 to 1, and
without waiting for the consent of for
eign nations.
Third We demand the volume of cir
culating medium to be speedily in
oreased to an amount sufficient to meet
the demands of the business and the
population of this country, and to
restore the just level of prices of labor
and production.
Fourth We denounce the sale of
bonds and the increase of public interest-bearing
debt made by the pres
ent Administration as unnecessary and
without authority of law. aud we de
mandHhat no more bonds be issued ex
cept by specific Act of Congress.
Fifth We demaud such legislation
as will prevent the demonetization of
the lawful money of the United States
by private contract.1
Sixth We demand that the Govern
ment, in the .PAymani of Ua pWiftgHfc;
shall use its" option as to the kind ot
lawful money in which they are to be
paid, and we denounce the present and
preceding Administrations for surren
dering this option to the holders of
Government obligation securities.
Seventh We demand a graduated
income tax, te the end'that, aggregated
wealth shall bear its just proportion of
taxation, and we regard the recent de
cision of the Supreme Court relative to
the income tax law as a misinterpreta
tion of the Constitution, an invasion of
the rightful powers of Congress over
the subject of taxation.
Eighth We demand that postal sav
ings banks be established by the Gov
ernment for the safe deposit of the
savings of the people and to facilitate
exchange.
TRANSPORTATION.
First Transportation being a means
of exohange and a public necessity, the
Government should own and operate
the railroads in the interest of the peo
ple on a non-partisan basis, to the end
that all may be accorded the same treat
ment in transportation, and that the
tyranny and political power now exer
cised by the great railroad corporations,
which result in the impairment, if not
the destruction of the political right
and personal liberty of the citizen, may
be destroyed. Such ownership is to be
accomplished gradually in a mannet
consistent with sound public policy.
Second The interest of the United
States in the public highways built witr.
public moneys and the proceeds of ex
tensive grants of land to the Pacific
railroads should never have been alien
ated, mortgaged or sold, but guardec
and protected for the general welfare a;
provided by the laws organizing suet
railroads. The foreclosure of existing
liens of the United States on these roads
should at once follow default in the pay
ment thereof by the debtor companies,
and at the foreclosure sales of saio
roads the Government 6 hall purchase
the same, if it becomes necessary tc
protect its interests or if they can tx
purchased at a reasonable price, and th
Government shall operate said railroaci
as public highways for the benefit ol
the whole people and not in the interest
of the few, under suitable provision:
for protection of life and property, giv
ing to all the transportation interest
equal privileges and equal rates for fare:
and freights.
Third We denounce the present in
famous schemes for refunding the saic
debts, and demand that the laws now
applicable thereto be executed and ad
ministered according to their true in
tent and spirit.
Fourth The telegraph, like the post
office 6ystem, being a necessity for th
transmission of news, should be ownec
and operated by the Government in tht
interest of the people.
LAND.
Firtt The true policy demands that
the national aud state legislation shal
be such as will ultimately enable ever;
prudent and industrious citizen to
secure a home and, therefore, the land
should not be monopolized for specula
tive purposes. All lands now held by
railways and otner corporations ic
excess of their actual needs should, by
lawful means, be reclaimed by the
Government and held for actual settlers
only; and private land monopoly, as
well as alien ownership, should be pro
hibited. Second We condemn the frauds by
which the land grants to the Pacific
railroad companies have, through the
connivance of the Interior Department,
robbed multitudes of bona fide settlers
of their homes and miners of theii
claims, and we demand legislation by
Congresi which- will enforce the ex
emption of mineral land from such
grants after as well as before patenting.
Third We demand that bona fide
settlers on all public lands ' be granted
free homes, as provided in the National
Homestead law, and that no exception
be made in the case of Indian reserva
tions when opened for settlement, and
that all lands not now patented come
tinder thisdemand.
DIRECT LEGISLATION.
We favor a system of direct legisla
tion through the initiative and referen
dum under proper constitutional safe
guards. GENERAL PROPOSITIONS.
First We demand the election ol
President, Vice-President and United
States Senators by direct vote of the
people.
Second We tender to the patriotic
people of Cuba our deepest sympathy
in their struggle for political freedom
and independence, and we believe the
time has come when the United States,
the great republic of the world, should
recognize that Cuba is, and of right
ought to be, a free aud independent
state.
Third We favor home rule in the
territories and the District of Colum
bia, aud the early admission of the ter
ritories as statos.
Fourth All public salaries should be
made to correspond to the price of labor
and its products.
Fifth In times of great industrial
depression, idle labor should bo em'
ployed on public works as far as prac
ticable.
Sixth The arbitrary course of the
courts in assuming to imprison citizens
for indirect contempt and ruling them
by injunction should be prevented by
proper legislation.
Seventh We favor just pensions foi
everv disabled Union soldier.
Eighth Believing that the elective
franchise and untrammeled ballot art
essential to a government of, for and
by the people, the People's party con
demns the wholesale system of disen
franchisement adopted in some of th
states as unrepublican and undemocratic
and we declare it to be the duty of tha
several State Legislatures to take such
action as will secure a full and free and
fair ballot and an honest count
Ninth While the foregoing proposi
tions constitute the platform which out
party stands upon, and for the vindica
tion of which its organization will bt
maintained, we recognize that the great
and pressing issue of the pending cam
paign upon which the Presidential elec
tion will turn is the financial question,
and npon this great and specifio Issue
between the parties we cordially invite
the aid and co-operation of all organiza
tions and citizens agreeing with us upon
this vital question.
SILVERITES.
First National CoareBtlon of White Met
all.tt. The Silver party met in national con
vention at St Louis aimdtaaeeaBly with
the Populists. CtmgxestnuB Newlaad
of Nevada was made Unperajry chair
man and William P. St Jfha ef New
York was permanent chairntaa. .
The Committee on Resolntlons pt tht
Silver party met at St Leuis em fhe 23d
and a sub-committee was appointed to
recommend the platform passed at the
Washington, D. C, Bimetallio Confer
ence in January last There was a hard
fight on the part of General Warner,
the Ohio member, for the indorsement
of the Democratic silver plank in tc-to;
but, by a vote of sixteen to five, the
the sub-committee was instructed to
report the following platform:
The National Silver parry, in conven
tion assembled, hereby adopts the fol
lowing declaration of principles:
First The paramount issue at this
time in the United States is indisputa
bly the money question. It is between .
the gold standard, gold bonds and bank
currency on one side, and the bimetallic
standard, no bonds and government cur
rency on the other.
On this issue we declare ourselves to
be in favor of a distinctively American
financial system. We are unalterably
opposed to the single gold standard, and
demand the immediate return to tht
constitutional standard of gold and sil
ver by the restoration by this govern
ment, independently of any foreign
power, of the unrestricted coinage oi
gold and silver as the standard money
at the ratio of 16 to 1, and npon terms
of exact equality as they existed prioi
to 1873; the silver coin to be a full legal
tender, equally with gold, for all debts
and uses, public and private! and w
favor such legislation as will prevent
for the future the demonetization of any .
kind of legal-tender money by privatt
contract.
We hold that the power to control
and regulate a paper currency is insep
arable from the power to coin money,
and hence that all currency intended tc
circulate as money should be issued and
its volume controlled by the general
government only, and should be legal
tender.
We are unalterably opposed to the
issue by the United States of interest
bearing bonds in time of peace, and we
denounce as a blonder worse than a
crime the present Treasury policy, in- -curred
' by a Republican House, ot
plunging into debt by hundreds of mil
lions in the vain attempt to maintain
the gold standard by borrowing gold;
and we demand the payment of all coin
obligations of the United States, as pro
vided by existing laws, in either gold or
silver coin, at the option of the govern
ment, and not at the option of the cred
itor. Second That over and above all
other questions of policy, we are in
favor of restoring to the people of the
United States the time-honored money
of the Constitution gold and silver;
not one, but both the money of Wash
ington, and Hamilton, and Jefferson,,
and Mouroe, and Jackson, and Lincoln,
to the. end that the American people
may receive houest pay for an honest
product; that the American debtor may
pay his just obligations in an honest
standard, and not in a standard that
has appreciated 100 per cent above all
the great staples of our country; and
to the end, further, that silver standard
countries may be deprived of the unjust
advantage they now enjoy in the differ
ence in exchange between gold and sil
ver an advantage which tariff legisla
tion cannot overcome.
We therefore confidently appeal to
the people of the United States to leave
in abeyance for the moment all other
questions, however important and even
momentous they may app?ar, to sunder
if need be all former pirty ties and affil
iations, aud unite in one supremeeffort
to free themselves and their children
from the domination of the money
power a power more destructive than
any which has ever been fastened upon
the civilized ineu of any race or in any
age. And upon the consummation of
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