selves had declared against the high protection policy represented
by the McKinley bill by an overwhelming majority in the election of
1890. The failure of the Republican National administration, and
the Republican Senate to bow to the verdict of the people at the
polls, is a denial of the right of the popular sovereignty, such as
was not contemplated by the founders of the republic and such as
would not be tolerated in any other civilized country of the globe.
4. We are in thorough sympathy with the multitude of honest
toilers throughout the land; and we observe with deep solicitude
the conflicts between capital and labor which manifest themselves
in the ever increasing number and scope of lockouts and strikes.
These conditions are chargeable to the policy of the Republican
party, which has for its object the disbursement of taxes among the
favored few and the maintenance of privileged classes at the ex-
pense of the masses.
The greed of the capitalists in monopolizing
the benefits granted by this policy will never deal justly with pro-
ducing labor; and while we insist that violence and disorder must
be restrained under all circumstances, and that the ballot-box is
the place for the determination of such vital questions, we declare
that the proper solution of the problems which now confront the
people of this country can be found only by returning to the simple,
original principles enunciated by the founders of the republic, the
sturdy advocates of the greatest possible personal, political and
commercial liberty consistent with the good order and supremacy

of law.

5. We reiterate the principles enunciated in the platform of the Democracy of Iowa in 1889 and since that time, touching the regulation of the liquor traffic, and commend the Democratic members of the last General Assembly for their honest efforts to secure a reform in legislation upon this question. The doctrine of license and local option, as declared by the Democratic party of this State, has in two successive State elections been approved by a majority of voters; and with the continued approval of the people, we pledge ourselves to the enactment of laws which shall give the people in their respective localities the management and control of this traffic.

6. The present system of managing our State institutions, through separate boards of trustees for each, has led to extravagance, both in their construction and their maintenance, until more than two-thirds of the revenues of the entire State are annually

absorbed by them. This system was the natural outgrowth of conditions which left the State in the exclusive control of one political party for more than a third of a century and required of such party that it furnish places for a worse than useless number of ambitious partisans. We demand the abolition of these separate boards of trustees and the substitution thereof of a single board of control, non-partisan in its character, impartial as between the several institutions, and thoughtful of their interests and those of the State alike.

7. We declare our purpose to nominate candidates for the United States Senate in general convention, and demand such a change in our National Constitution as will permit the election of the same by a direct vote of the people.

8. We insist on just and equal taxation for State and local purposes. And hence we hail with joy the efforts now being made to change our present cumbersome and incongruous system for raising the necessary revenue, to a general and harmonious plan that shall rest on proper and correct principles.

9. Recognizing their vast importance to all interests, we are heartily in favor of the movement for better roads, which has been successfully inaugurated in our State, and commend the same to the active support of the public.

10. We denounce as un-American any society or organization that is pledged to deprive any citizen of his right to vote or hold office on account of his religious beliefs or nationality.

11. To the support of these principles we invite the co-operation of all liberty-loving citizens, irrespective of former party affiliations.

PEOPLE'S PARTY.

NATIONAL TICKET, 1892.

For President.
JAMES B. WEAVER,
Of Iowa.

For Vice-President.
JAMES G. FIELD,

PLATFORM ADOPTED BY

Of Virginia.

THE NATIONAL CONVENTION HELD AT OMAHA, NEBRASKA, JULY 4, 1892.

We demand a national currency, safe, sound and flexible, issued by the general 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 distribution direct, to the people, at a tax not to exceed two per cent per annum, be provided as set forth in the sub-treasury plan of the Farmers' Alliance, or some better system; also by payments in discharge of its obligations for public improvements.

We demand the free and unlimited coinage of silver and gold at the present legal ratio of sixteen to one.

We demand that the amount of the circulating medium be speedily increased to not less than $50 per capita.

We demand a graduated income tax.

We believe that the moneys of the country should be kept as much as possible in the hands of the people, and hence we demand that all National and State revenues shall be limited to the necessary expenses of the government, economically and honestly administered.

We demand that postal savings banks be established by the government for the safe deposit of the earnings of the people and to facilitate exchange.

Transportation being a means of exchange and a public necessity,

the government should own and operate the railroads in the inter est of the people.

The telegraph and telephone, like the post-office system, being a necessity for the transmission of news, should be owned and operated by the government in the interest of the people.

The land, including all the natural sources of wealth, is the heritage of all the people and should not be monopolized for speculative purposes, and alien ownership of land should be probibited. All lands now held by railroads and other corporations 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.

After submitting the foregoing the committee on resolutions held another meeting and unanimously agreed to report the following to the convention at the night session:

WHEREAS, other questions have been presented for our consider ation, we hereby submit the following, not as a part of the platform of the People's Party, but as resolutions expressive of the sentiment of this convention.

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 of the States of the unperverted Australian or secret ballot system.

Resolved, That the revenue derived from a graduated income tax should be applied to the reduction of the burden of taxation now resting upon the domestic industries of this country.

Resolved, That we pledge support to fair and liberal pensions to ex-union soldiers and sailors.

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, and crowds out our wage earners; and we denounce the present ineffective laws against contract labor, and demand the further restriction of undesirable emigration.

Resolved, That we cordially sympathize with the efforts of organized workingmen 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 the said law.

Resolved, That we regard the maintenance of a large standing army of mercenaries 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 hired assassins of plutocracy, assisted by federal officials.

Resolved, That we commend to the favorable consideration of the people and the reform press the legislative system known as the initiative referendum.

Resolved, That we favor a constitutional provision limiting the office of president and vice-president to one term, and providing for the election of senators of the United States by a direct vote of

the people.

Resolved, That we oppose any subsidy or national aid to any private corporation for any purpose.

Resolved, That this convention sympathizes with the Knights of Labor in their righteous contest with tyrannical combine of clothing manufacturers of Rochester, and declares it to be the duty of all who hate tyranny and oppression to refuse to purchase the goods made by the said manufacturers or to patronize any merchants who sell such goods.

The Peoples' Party, at the outset to secure permanent control of the party organization to the people unaffected by the interests of those in public service, does hereby adopt, in National convention assembled at Omaha on the 4th day of July, 1892, this ordinance as fundamental law of party organization: "No person holding any position of office or trust or emolument under the Federal or any State or municipal government, including senators, congressmen, members of the legislatures (state and local) shall be eligible to sit or vote in any convention of this party, and a copy of this ordinance shall be annexed to every call for any future convention of the party."