gold standard, whereas the interests of the people require the complete remonetization of silver and its restoration to perfect equality with gold in our coinage. We demand the free and unrestricted coinage of silver upon the basis existing prior to 1873.

PENSIONS.

We are in favor. as we always have been. of a just and liberal pension system. We denounce the Republican party for making pledges to the veterans in 1888 which have not been redeemed, and even not intended to be redeemed, and we warn them against further attempts at deception from the same quarter.

MISCELLANEOUS.

We condemn the Republican party for the deliberate theft of two seats in the Senate of the United States from the people of Montana; and for reckless prodigality in appro priations, which has converted the surplus accumulated under the wise, frugal and statesmanlike administration of Grover Cleveland into a ceficit of alarming dimensions, involving, in the near future, a further heavy increase of the people's burdens.

We are rejoiced at the evidences of an awakening of the farmers of the country to the necessity for organized efforts to better their own condition and protect themselves against unjust legislation and oppressive administration. We invite attention to the fact that the farmers are demanding in substance the sam measures of relief which the Democratic party has been advocating for years but has not had the power to enact, and that the surest and speediest way of obtaining this rdief is to restore the Democ racy to power in every department of the Government.

We demand legislation prohibiting aliens from acquiring lands in America, and for the forfeiture of title to the 20,742,000 acres of our public lands now held by them. We favor the election of United States Senators by the people.

IOWA REPUBLICAN, June 25.

THE ADMINISTRATION.

We heartily indorse the able, prudent and patriotic Administration of President Harrison, with special commendation of the movement for closer and better relations, both business and political, among all American governments and peoples.

THE TARIFF.

We do specifically declare our adherence to the principle of protection to American industry, applied wisely in view of the interest of all conditions of our people and administered in view of the equal interest of all our industries. We agree that discrim inations may be wisely made, but never in behalf of the strong against the weak and never against the masses. In this spirit we hold all legislation should be had, whether it concern the raising of the revenue or the disbursement of the same by the General Government, by the State, or by the subdivision of the local government, whether it concern the domestic aggression or be in definition of the limitation upon foreign aggres sion.

THE CURRENCY QUESTION.

We are in favor of such an expansion of the currency as will meet the growing demands of the increase in pepulation and trade, and offset the contraction resulting from the continual withdrawal of the National bank circulation. That to this end we favor such legislation as will utilize as money the entire silver product of our mines, and we favor such laws as will aid in the ultimate, unrestricted use of both the precious metals as money.

INDUSTRIAL AND BUSINESS INTERESTS.

The Republican party of this State is in favor of promoting in every fair and honorable way the industrial interests of the people of this State. We believe the business interests of the people are interchangeable and mutual, and that injustice toward one class must sooner or later work to the injury of all classes. Particularly do we be lieve that the great industry represented by the farnis stands at the head of Iowa industry, and that a faithful guardianship of that interest is a prime obligation upon those who make and administer our laws.

We congratulate the people of this State, irrespective of party relationship, upon the measure of success attained in the contest in this State in behalf of just legal control of the railway corporations doing business in this State, and we appeal to the people to see to it that there is no recession in the just policy of the State in this regard. We believe that an effort to nulify the Interstate Commerce law should be resisted, to the end that National protection and State protection may alike be equal to all communities and among all classes.

The Republicans of Iowa offer their sympathy to the producers of the South who seek now for disenthralment from the industrial bondage of the grinding monopolies of the States of that section, protected and promoted by all the power of the organized Democratic party of those States. We believe that in the breaking up of these systems under which industrial freedom is impossible, and which rob and persecute the poor, lies one great hope of freedom of elections and popular government, social peace, and general prosperity in the Southern States. Recognizing that the revolt in the South is in behalf of liberty and justice, popular government and popular rights, it is a matter of minor concern in what name the battles are fought and won. We welcome first the growth and spread and power of Republican principles.

THE PENSION QUESTION.

We cordially approve the purpose of Republicans in Congress to so amend and improve the pension laws as to make further and more generous provision for the Union soldiers, their widows, parents and children; and we gladly believe the day is not distant when a general service pension should and will be passed.

TRUSTS.

We express our abhorrence of all trust and trade conspiracies of every kind intended to destroy competition and create and perpetuate monopolies, and we call for the enactcent and enforcement of both Federal and State laws to completely exterminate such iniqu tious and dangrous combinations and to prevent their further organization.

THE ALCOHOLIC LIQUOR QUESTION.

We declare against a compromise with the saloon, and stand by the people of this State in their hostility to its existence, spread and power.

We favor such legislation on the part of Congress as shall protect the police powers of the States in their efforts to regulate, confine or prohibit the public bar, and for approval of the work and record of the Republican party of this State in this great cause of temperance, involving the public peace and the safety of good government, we appeal confidently to the electors of Iowa.

IOWA DEMOCRATIC, August 6.

RULES OF THE HOUSE.

We denounee the Republicans in Congress for their submission to and support of Speaker Reed in his arbitrary suppression of free speech and absolute control of the course of legislation.

THE PENSION QUESTION.

We again acknowledge the great debt of gratitude the Nation owes to the soldiers and sailors of the Union, and we declare in favor of just, liberal and equitable pension laws for all invalid and dependent soldiers and sailors.

THE TARIFF QUESTION.

We are in favor of a tariff for revenue only-a tariff reduced to the lowest rate consistent with the needs of an economical administration of government. Liquors, tobacco and all luxuries should be made to bear, as far as possible, the burdens of taxation, and the necessaries of life should, so far as possible, be relieved. We oppose the McKinley bill as an abuse of the taxing power in favor of the wealthy corporations, pcels and trusts, by which our manufacturing interests ar so largely controlled. It especially discriminates against the agricultural interests of the country by compelling the farmer to buy what he needs and sell what he produces in a monopolized market. We are in favor of reciprocity, not alone with the Spanish States of South America, but as well with all other countries whose markets are open to our products.

THE SILVER QUESTION.

We demand the free coinage of silver, and that it may be made a legal tender for all debts, public and private, and denounce as unjust and dishonest the provision of the law recently enacted allowing parties to stipulate against payment in silver and silver certificates, thus setting up one standard of value for the creditor and another for the debtor, and for the poor man and the other for the rich man.

THE ELECTIONS BILL.

The Election bill passed by the lower house of Congress is a menace to the freedom and purity of our election; it places the Treasury of the United States at the disposal of the party in power; it enables the managers of that party to employ as lange a force as it deems necessary to carry on the work of its campaign and to do this under the pretence of supervising elections. It destroys all respons bility of the Government to the people by investing its enormous powers in the officers holding by appointment and for life. We believe that the people of the various localities can be safely trusted to conduct their own actions, and that the power of Congress to determine the qualifi cation, election and returns of its members is sufficient for protection against local abuses.

THE ALCOHOLIC LIQUOR QUESTION.

We reaffirm the policy respecting the control of the traffic in intoxicating liquors set forth in the Democratic platform of 1889, and approved by the people at the election of that year, and we are in favor of such legislation, State and National, as may be necessary to carry that policy into effect,

MISCELLANEOUS.

We declare our continued adherence to the principle of railroad control as expressed in the laws of the State and the General Government, and we favor such changes as experience finds may be necessary to maintain just and equitable relations between the carriers and the shippers.

KANSAS REPUBLICAN, September 4.

TARIFF AND RECIPROCITY.

We are in favor of the principle of protection as expounded by that great leader of Republican thought and policy, the Hon. James G. Blaine, and its enforcement to the extent of giving the American citizen an advantage over the foreign producer, thus enabling him to maintain his industry and to make such a fair profit as will induce others to embark in the same business, believing such a policy increases the wages of labor, creates a good home market, and results to the benefit of all classes.

We want the same degree of protection to be given agricultural products that is extended to all other interests. The commercial and industrial interests of the country demand a tariff whose maximum will not retard the growth of foreign trade or unnatu rally stimulate prices at home and whose minimum will afford apple protection to every legitimate industry. A tariff beyond such a maximum is legislation in the interest of a favored few, while a tariff below such minimum is legislation against labor.

We believe it to be the highest dictate of the commercial policy of this country to cultivate the most intimate as well as the most extended commercial relations with our sister Republics of the two American continents, and that it would be wise and expedient so to adjust our tariff laws as to promote this end, and at the same time adopt such a legislative policy as will compel all countries that have exercised a determined discrimi nation against American products to cease such hostility. The State of Kansas by reason of its geographical position and the characterof its products, is most favorably situated for the establishment of a large and remunerative trade with the neighboring Republic of Mexico, and we favor the enactment of laws for foster-ng and encouraging the interchange of the products of the two countries.

INTOXICATING LIQUORS.

Ten years' exemption from the evil effects of the traffic in intoxicating liquors secured by a faithful observance of the constitutional amendment and the statute sup. plemental thereto by which vice has been lessened and crime decreased, leads us to express a determined opposition to any changes in the prohibitory legislation of our State, except such as will make the laws stronger and more efficient, and increase the good order, sobriety, and welfare of the people. We are in favor of electing the Railroad Commissioners by a vote of the people, and we demand of the next Legislature to confer upon the Board of Railroad Commissioners ample power to regulate the passenger and freight rates.

THE RAILROAD QUESTION.

We are in favor of more stringent legislation to compel the various corporations organized and transacting business by the authorities of this State to keep their general offices and all the books, records, and papers pertaining to all their transactions within the limits of the State of Kansas. We are opposed to the system of free passes on railroads now in vogue in this State, by reason of which every railroad company is expected, as a matter of courtesy, to compliment all, State officers, members of the Legislature, Judges, and other public officers with free transportation over their spetive lines, and we favor the suppression of this practice by proper legislation.

KANSAS DEMOCRATIC, September 9.

THE ELECTIONS BILL.

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We declare the Federal Elections bill a legitimate offspring of the party which filched a Presidency. THE TARIFF.

We favor a tariff law based upon public necessities, and not the greed of capital.

We arraign the Republican members of the National House of Representatives from Kansas for their unanimous vote for the McKinley bill.

We favor free coinage of silver.

THE CURRENCY.

We favor the leaving of the circulating medium wholly in the hands of the Government.

We favor liberal pension laws.

PENSIONS.

ALCOHOLIC LIQUOR QUESTION.

We oppose all sumptuary legislation, and demand the earliest resubmission of the so-called prohibitory amendment to a vote of the people and an immediate repeal of those laws passed in the interest of prohibition, which tax a large portion of our people to pay for their deprivation of the privilege and inalienable right of local government, and declare unequivocally for high license and local option.

We believe that prohibition has brought upon the people of this State incalculable evils; has produced as its legitimate result perjury and bribery; has corrupted the very foundations of justice, and made even our courts a disgrace in the administration of justice.

We declare emphatically in favor of high license and local option, and recommend a law providing that for each license issued for the sale of liquor, $500 shall be

given the County Treasury for the purpose of making and improving county roads, and the municipality may, in addition, "fix" such other sum as the Mayor and Council may decide.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Continued opposition to all paternalism in Government, State and National affairs, in consonance with personal and political freedom.

We deplore the tendency manifested by the preacher politicians who

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leaders of the Republican party in this State to make religious belief the test of eligi bility for political preferment.

We express sympathy with labor in its struggle with the insatiate money power, whether in factory or farm.

KANSAS REPUBLICAN RESUBMISSIONIST, September 9.

The platform renews the pledges of unwavering loyalty to the principles of the National Republican party; favors reciprocity; demands free coinage of silver; such modification of the tariff laws as will give equal protection to agriculture and manufactures; an equitable bankrupt law; liberal appropriation for a deep-water harbor on the Gulf of Mexico, and liberal pension laws.

On the question of Prohibition the platform says:

We arraign the party managers in this State as disloyal to the principles and unfaithful to the interests of the Republican party. We charge that they have put the party in Kansas out of harmony with the National Republican party, and thereby absolved us all from all obligations to longer acknowledge their leadership; lured by the seductive wiles of impractical visionaries, they have committed the party to extravagances and follies which, unless promptly checked, will bankrupt and depopulate the State. These things impel us, as the only method which promises success, to sink party preferences in State politics for the time and unite with such of our fellow-citizens of the State as share our convictions, without regard to party, for the purpose of correcting the follies into which we have been betrayed, and thus preserve the good name and insure the future prosperity of the State.

We are opposed to Prohibition: ten years' trial has demonstrated its total inefficiency as a temperance measure; it is a revival of the obsolete form of paternal government and entirely opposed to the genius and spirit of the age; that it is at enmity with the fundamental principles of our civilization and destroys that inalienable right of the citizen to determine for himself by what method he will preserve his own happiness without interference with the rights of others, which principle is the basis of our liberties and the hope of our institutions; that it is un-American, un-Republican and un-Democratic, and not in harmony with the purposes and spirit of our Institutions and laws; that the existence of the prohibitory law is a perpetual menace to the material interests of the State; that it burdens us with taxation; that it deprives us of all control of the liquor traffic and revenue therefrom; that it drives away population; that it prevents immigration; that it makes the building of large cities within the State impossible that it encourages perjury; that it makes more hypocrites than all other agencies combined; that it does not lessen crime or pauperism; that it does not empty jails, penitentiaries, lunatic asylums, or alinshouses, and, believing that any public measure in the hands of an enlightened people is absolutely safe, we demand that the question of the repeal of the prohibitory amendment to the Constitution be submitted to the people at as early a date as possible.

The platform further declares in favor of high license and strict laws for the regula tion of the liquor traffic. They agreed to support the Democratic State ticket if they would be allowed to name the candidate for Lieutenant-Governor. This was granted, and Hon, D. A. Banta, of Great Bend, was nominated.

KANSAS FARMERS' ALLIANCE.
CURRENCY.

We demand the abolition of national banks and the substitution of legal-tender Treasury notes in lieu of national bank notes, issued in sufficient volume to do the business of the country on a cash system, regulating the amount needed on a per capita basis as the business interests of the country expand; and that all money issued by the Gov ernment shall be legal-tender in payment of all debts, both public and private. We demand the free and unlimited coinage of silver.

We demand that Congress provide for the issue of a sufficient amount of fractional paper currency to facilitate exchange through the medium of the United States mail.

COMMERCIAL INTERESTS.

We demand that Congress shall pass such laws as shall effectually prevent the dealing in futures in all agricultural and mechanical productions, preserving such a stringent system of procedure in trials as shall secure prompt conviction and imposing such penalties as shall secure the most perfect compliance with the law.

We demand that the means of communication and transportation shall be owned by and operated in the interests of the people, as is the United States postal system.

THE LAND QUESTION.

We demand the passage of laws prohibiting allen ownership of land, and that Congress take early steps to devise some plan to obtain all lauds now owned by aliens and

fereign syndicatos; and that all lands now held by railroads and other corporations in excess of such as are actually used and needed by them be reclaimed by the Government and held for actual settlers only.

TAXATION.

Believing in the doctrine of "equal rights to all and special privileges to none." we demand that taxation, National or State, shall not be used to build up one interest or class at the expense of another. We believe that the money of the country should be kept as much as possible in the hands of the people, and hence we demand that all revenues, National, State or county, shall be limited to the necessary expenses of the government economically and honestly administered.

TRUSTS.

We demand such legislation as will effectually prevent the organization or mainte. nance of trusts and combines for purposes of speculation in any of the products of labor or necessaries of life, or the transportation of the same.

BALLOT REFORM.

We demand the adoption of the Australian system of voting and the Crawford system of primaries.

MISCELLANEOUS.

We demand such legislation as shall effectually prevent the extortion of usurious interest by any form of evasion of statutory provisions.

We demand such legislation as will provide for a reasonable stay of execution in all cases of foreclosure of mortgages on real estate, and a reasonable extension of time before the confirmation of Sheriff's sales.

We demand the adjustment of salaries of public officials to correspond with existing financial conditions, the wages paid to other forms of labor, and the prevailing prices of the products of labor.

MAINE REPUBLICAN, June 12.

THE LABOR QUESTION.

It favors the enactment of such laws as may be necessary for the protection of labor. It regards the improvement of the "commercial-industrial" education and sanitary condition of the laboring people as a matter of the highest consideration, and in the fut ure, as in the past, it will favor the adoption of just and equitable legislation calculated to advance the interest and perpetuate the prosperity of labor and laboring men.

THE ALCOHOLIC LIQUOR QUESTION.

It recognizes the evils of intemperance and sympathizes with all honest and well directed efforts to eradicate them. It unreservedly renews its adhesion to the principle of the prohibition of the liquor traffic, and insists upon the thorough and effective enforcement of the prohibitory law. It demands of Congress the enactment of such legislation as shall enable each State to exercise full control within its borders of the traffic in all liquors, whether imported in original packages or otherwise.

BALLOT REFORM.

It favors an elective system, free from corruption and fraud, and it approves of legislation that may be required to secure that end.

THE TARIFF.

It favors the policy which protects American labor against foreign competition, aids agriculture, builds up American industry, and creates an adequate home market for domestic production.

THE PENSION QUESTION.

It favors liberal pensions for service rendered in the War of the Rebellion.

FAIR AND FREE ELECTIONS.

It favors a free ballot and a fair count in National elections in all the States.

THE ADMINISTRATION.

It unreservedly commends the Administration of President Harrison as wise, firm and upright. Every department has been conducted with a careful regard to the rights and interests of the people. The public service has been exceptionally pure and free from dishonesty and scandal. No combinations nor "rings" have controlled the policy or the patronage of the Government. The Republicans of Maine pledge to the Administration their earnest and faithful support.

RULES OF THE HOUSE.

It recognizes the magnificent and successful contest made by the Republicans in the House of Representatives for the rights of the majority to transact the business of the country, under the leadership of Speaker Reed, who has by the courageous dis charge of his duty done honor to the State and a great public service to the country.