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We condemn the present administration at Washington because it has repealed the prohibitory laws in Alaska, and has given over the partly civilized tribes there to be the prey of the American grog shop; and because it has entered upon a license policy in our new possessions by incorporating the same in therecent act of congress in the code of laws of the government of the Hawaiian islands.
We call general attention to the fearful fact that exportation of liquors from the United States to the Philippine islands increased from $337 in 1898, to $467, 198 in the first ten months of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1900; and that while our exportation of liquors to Cuba never reached $30, 000 a year previous to American occupation of that island, our exports of such liquors to Cuba during the fiscal year of 1899, reached the sum of $629, 855.
CALL TO MORAL AND CHRISTIAN CITIZENSHIP.
6. One great religious body (the Baptist) having truly declared of the liquor traffic "that it has no defensible right to exist, that it can never be reformed, and that it stands condemned by its unrighteous fruits as a thing un-Christian, un-American, and perilous utterly to every interest in life;" another great religious body (the Methodist) having as truly asserted and reiterated that "no political party has a right to expect, nor should receive, the votes of Christian men so long as it stands committed to the license system, or refuses to put itself on record in an attitude of open hostility to the saloon;" other great religion bodies having made similiar diliverances, in language plain and un-
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equivocal, as to the liquor traffic and the duty of Christian citizenship in opposition thereto; and the fact being plain and undenia':1 that the democratic party stands for license, the saloon and the canteen, while the republican party, in policy and administration, stands for the canteen, the saloon, and revenue therefrom,-we declare ourselves justified in expecting that Christian voters everywhere shall cease their complicity with the liquor curse by refusing to uphold a liquor party, and shall unite themselves with the only party which upholds the prohibition policy, and which for nearly thirty years has been the faithful defender of the church, the state, the home and the school, against the saloon, its expanders and perpetuators, their actual and persistent foes.
We insist that no differences of belief, as to any other question or concern of government, should stand in the way of such a union of moral and Christian citizenship as we hereby invite, for the speedy settlement of this paramount moral, industrial, financial and political issue, which our party presents ; and we refrain from declaring ourselves upon all minor matters, as to which differences of opinion may exist, that hereby we may offer to the American people a plat- form so broad that all can stand upon it who desire to see sober citizenship actually sovereign over the allied hosts of evil, sin and crime, in a government of the people, by the people and for the people.
We declare that there are but two parties, to-day, concerning the liquor traffic-perpetuationists and prohibitionists; and that patriotism, Christianity and every interest of genuine and of pure democracy, besides the loyal demands of our common humanity, require the speedy union in one solid phalanx at the ballot box, of all who oppose the liquor traffic's perpetuation, and who covet endurance for this republic.
MID-ROAD POPULIST OR PEOPLES PARTY, 1900. NATIONAL TICKET.
For President. WHARTON BARKER, of Pennsylvania.
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For Vice-President,- IGNATIUS DONNELLY, of Minnesota.
For Presidential Electors :
At Large .- A. W. C. Weeks, of Madison county. L. H. Weller, of Chickasaw county.
First District. - H. C. Horsey, of Washington county. Second District .- F. A. J. Gray, of Muscatine county.
Third District. - I. C. V. Wilson, of Black Hawk county. Fourth District. - C. A. Gaylord, of Floyd county. Fifth District .- L. S. Wood, of Linn county. Sixth District. - S. E. Tucker, of Monroe county. Seventh District. - R. M. Daniels, of Warren county.
Eighth District .- C. A. Wicks, of Decatur county. Ninth District. - J. W. Hartsook, of Adair county. Tenth District. - A. Norelius, of Crawford county. Eleventh District .- Fred Hunt, of Buena Vista county.
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National convention, Cincinnati, May 10, 1900. Temporary Chairman. - Hon. M. W. Howard, of Alabama. Permanent Chairman, -Col. W. L. Peek, of Georgia.
NATIONAL PLATFORM.
The people's party of the United States, assembled in national convention this 10th of May, 1900, affirming our unshaken belief in the cardinal tenets of the people's party as set forth in the Omaha platform, and pledging ourselves anew to continued advocacy of those grand principles of human liberty until right shall triumph over might and love over greed, do adopt and proclaim this declaration of faith:
1. We demand the initiative and referendum and the imperative mandate for such changes of existing fundamental and statute law as will enable the people in their sovereign capacity to propose and compel the enactment of such laws as they desire, to reject such as they deem injurious to their interests, and to recall unfaithful public servants.
2. We demand the public ownership and operation of those means of com- munication, transportation and production which the people may elect, such as railroads, telegraph and telephone lines, coal mines, etc.
3. + The land, including all natural sources of wealth, is a heritage of the people and should not be monopolized for speculative purposes, and alien owner- ship of land should be prohibited. All land 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.
4. A scientific and absolute paper money, based upon the entire wealth and population of the nation, not redeemable in any specific commodity, but made a full legal tender for all debts and receivable for all taxes and public dues, and issued by the government only, without the intervention of banks, and in sufficient quantity to meet the demands of commerce, is the best currency that can be devised, but until such a financial system is secured, which we shall press for adoption, we favor the free and unlimited coinage of both silver and gold at the legal ratio of 16 to 1.
5.' We demand the levy and collection of a graduated tax on incomes and Inheritances and a constitutional amendment to secure the same if necessary.
6. We demand the election of president, vice-president, federal judges and United States senators by direct vote of the people.
7. We are opposed to trusts, and declare the contention between the old parties on the monopoly question is a sham battle, and that no solution of this mighty problem is possible without the adoption of the principles of public ownership of public utilities.
SOCIALIST LABOR PARTY, 1900.
NATIONAL TICKET. } For President, JOSEPH F. MALLONEY, of Massachusetts.
For Vice-President, VALENTINE REMMEL, of Pennsylvania.
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Presidential Electors :
. At Large. - F. Traulson, of Pottawattamie county. B. Curland, of Polk county.
National convention, New York, June 2, 1900.
Temporary Chairman-HON. THOMAS CURRAN, of Rhode Island. Permanent Chairman-HON. DANIEL DELEON, of New York.
NATIONAL PLATFORM.
The socialist labor party of the United States, in convention assembled, reasserts the inalienable right of all men to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
With the founders of the American republic we hold that the purpose of government is to secure every citizen in the enjoyment of this right; but in the light of our social conditions we hold furthermore, that no such right can be exercised under a system of economic inequally, essentially destructive of life, of liberty and of happiness.
With the founders of this republic we hold that the true theory of politics is that the machinery of government must be owned and controlled by the whole people; but in the light of our industrial development we hold, furthermore, that the true theory of economics is that the machinery of production must likewise belong to the people in common.
To the [obvious fact that our despotic system of economics is the direct opposite of our democratic system of polities, can plainly be traced the exist- ence of a privileged class, the corruption of government by that class, the alienation of public property, public franchises and public functions to that class, and the abject dependence of the mightiest of nations upon that class. .
Again, through the perversion of democracy to the ends of plutocracy, labor is robbed of the wealth which it alone produces, is denied the means of self-em- ployment, and. by compulsory idleness in wage slavery, is even deprived of the necessaries of life.
Human power and natural forces are thus wasted, that the plutocracy may rule.
Ignorance and misery, with all their concomitant evils, are perpetuated, that the people may be kept in bondage.
Science and invention are diverted from their humane purpose to the enslavement of women and children. ;
Against such a system the socialist labor party once more enters its protest. Once more it reiterates its fundamental declaration that private property in the natural sources of production and in the instruments of labor is the obvious cause of all economic servitude and political dependence.
The time is fast coming when, in the natural course of social evolution, this system, through the destructive action of its failures and crises on the one hand, and the constructive tendencies of its trusts and other capitalistic combi- nations on the other hand, shall have worked out its own downfall.
A,We, therefore, call upon the wage workers of the United States, and upon all other honest citizens, to organize under the banner of the socialist labor party into a class-conscious body, aware of its rights and determined to conquer them by taking possession of the public powers ; so that held together by an indomitable spirit of solidarity under the most trying conditions of the present class struggle, we may put a summary end to that barbarous struggle by the abolition of classes, the restoration of the land and of all the means of produc.
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tion, transportation and distribution to the people as a collective body, and the substitution of the co-o erative commonwealth for the present state of planless production, industrial war and social disorder ; a commonwealth in which every worker shall have the free exercise and full benefit of his faculties, multiplied by all the modern factors of civilization.
UNITED CHRISTIAN PARTY, 1900.
NATIONAL TICKET.
For President. J. F. R. LEONARD, of Iowa.
For Vice-President. D. H. MARTIN, of Pennsylvania.
Presidential Electors.
At Large .- W. R. Benkert, of Scott county. A. J. Allen, of Scott county.
First District -E. W. Sage, of Washington county.
Second District .- G. Stacy, of Scott county. Fifth District. - R. Irving, of Benton county.
Seventh District .- C. M. Myers, of Polk county.
Tenth District. - J. W. Estabrook, of Humboldt county.
National convention, Rock Island. May 2, 1900.
Temporary and Permanent Chairman. - Hon. W. R. Benkert, of lowa.
NATIONAL PLATFORM.
We the united christian party, in national convention assembled in the city of Rock Island, Ill., May 1 and 2, 1900, acknowledging Almighty God as the source of all power and authority, the Lord Jesus Christ as the sovereign ruler of nations and the bible as the standard by which to decide moral issues in our political life, do make the following declaration.
We believe the time to have arrived when the eternal principles of justice, mercy and love, as exemplified in the life and teachings of Jesus Christ, should be embodied in the Constitution of our nation and applied in concrete form to every function of our government.
We maintain that this statement is in harmony with the fundamental prin ciples of our national common law, our christian usages and customs, the declaration of the supreme court of the United States that "This is a christian nation, " and the accepted principle in judicial decisions that no law should con- travene the divine law. 1
We deprecate certain immoral laws which have grown out of the failure of our nation to recognize these principles, notably such as require the desecration of the christian Sabbath, authorize unscriptual marriage and divorce, and Ucanse the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors as a beverage.
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The execution of these immoral laws above mentioned we hold to be neither loyalty to our country nor honoring to God, therefore, it shall be our purpose to administer the government, so far as it shall be entrusted to us by the suffrages of the people, in accordance with the principles herein set forth, and, until amended, our oath of office shall be to the Constitution and laws as herein ex- plained, and to no other, and we look to Him who has all power in heaven and in earth to vindicate our purpose in seeking His glory and the welfare of our beloved land.
As an expression of consent or allegience on the part of the goverened in harmony with the above statements, we declare for the adoption and use of the system of legisiation known as the "initiative and referendum, " together with "proportionate representation" and the "imperative mandate."
We hold that all men and women are created free and with equal rights, and declare for the establishment of such political, industrial and social con- ditions as shall guarantee to every person civic equality, the full fruits of his or her honest toil and opportunity for the righteous enjoyment of the same: and we especially condemn mob violence and outrages against any individual or class of individuals in our country .
We declare against war and for the arbitration of all national and inter- · national disputes.
We hold that the legalized liquor traffic is the crowning infamy of civiliza- tion, and we declare for the immediate abolition of the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors as a beverage.
We are gratified to note the wide spread agitation of the cigarette question, and declare ourselves in favor of the enactment of laws prohibiting the sale of cigarettes or tobacco in any form to minors.
We declare for the daily reading of the bible in the public schools and insti- tutions of learning under control of the state.
We declare for the government ownership of public utilities.
We declare for the election of the president and vice-president and United States senators by the direct vote of the people.
We declare fer such amendment of the United States Constitution as shall be necessary to give the principles herein set forth an undeniable legal basis in the fundamental law of our land.
We invite into the united christian party every honest man and woman who believe in Christ and His golden rule and standard of righteousness. We say . especially to the sons of toil; Jesus, the carpenter's son, is your true friend. In His name and through the practice of His principles you may obtain your rights, long withheld and long outraged. You have the votes necessary to enthrone Him. His love and principles politically applied, will lift you up and give you true civic liberty forever.
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SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY, 1900,
NATIONAL TICKET.
For President, EUGENE V. DEBS, of Indiana.
For Vice-President, JOB HARRIMAN, of California.
For Presidential Electors: At Large-John M. Work, of Polk county. Chas. A. Lloyd, of Muscatine county. First District-John N. Stanley, of Des Moines county. Second District William Spurrier, of Iowa county. Third District-Riley Haynes, of Delaware county. Fourth District-Ellis L. Fox, of Howard county. Fifth District-W. P. Mettlin, of Marshall county. Sixth District-James Baxter, of Monroe county. Seventh District-J. J. Jacobson, of Polk county. Eighth District-S. D. Mercer, of Taylor county. Ninth District-A. J. Bennett, of Adair county. Tenth District-T. M. Hughes, of Hamilton county. Eleventh District-A. G. Ensign, of Sioux county. National convention, Indianapolis March 9, 1900.
NATIONAL PLATFORM.
The social democratic party of America declares that life, liberty and hap- piness depend upon equal political and economic rights.
In onr economic development an industrial revolution has taken place, the individual tool of former years having become the social tool of the present. The individual tool was owned by the worker who employed himself and was master of his product. The social tool, the machine is owned by the capitalist and the worker is dependent upon him for employment. The capitalist thus becomes the master of the worker and is able to appropriate to himself a large share of the product of his labor.
Capitalism, the private ownership of the means of production, is responsible for the insecurity of subsistence, the poverty, misery and degradation of the evergrowing majority of our people; but the same economic forces which have produced and now intensify the capitalistic system will necessitate the adoption of socialism, the collective ownership of the means of production for the com- mon good and welfare.
The present system of social production and private ownership is rapidly rting society into two antagonistic classes-i. e., the capitalist class and vertyless class. The middle class, once the most powerful of this great 16 IOR
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nation, is disappearing in the mill of competition. The issue is now between the two classes first named. Our political liberty is now of little value to the masses unless used to acquire economic liberty.
Independent political action and the trade union movement are the chief emancipating factors of the working class, the one representing its political, the other its economic wing, and both must co-operate to abolish the capitalist system.
Therefore the social democratic party of America declares its object to be :
1. The organization of the working class into a political party to conquer the public powers now controlled by the capitalists.
2. The abolition of wage-slavery by the establishment of a national system of co-operative industry, based upon the social or common ownership of the means of production and distribution, to be administered by society in the com- mon interest of all its members, and the complete emancipation of the socially useful classes from the domination of capitalism.
The working class and all those in sympathy with their historic mission to realize a higher civilization should sever connection with all capitalist and reform parties and unite with the social democratic party of America.
The control of political power by the social democratic party will be tanta- mount to the abolition of all class rule.
The solidarity of labor connecting the millions of class-conscious fellow workers throughout the civilized world will lead to international socialism, the brotherhood of man.
As steps in that direction we make the following demands :
1. Revision of our federal Constitution, in order to remove the obstacles to complete control of government by the people, irrespective of sex.
2. The public ownership of all industries controlled by monopolies, trusts and combines.
3. The public ownership of all railroads, telegraphs and telephones; all means of transportation and communication; all waterworks, gas and electric plants, and other public utilities.
4. The public ownership of all gold, silver, copper, lead, iron, coal, and other mines, and all oil and gas wells.
5. The reduction of the hours of labor in proportion to the increasing facilities of production.
6. The inauguration of a system of public works and improvements for the employment of the unemployed, the public credit to be utilized for that purpose.
7. Useful inventions to be free, the inventor to be remunerated by the public.
8. Labor legislation to be national, instead of local, and international when possible.
9. National insurance of working people against accidents, lack of employ- ment and want in old age.
10. Equal civil and political rights, for men and women, and the abolition of all laws discriminating against women.
11. The adoption of the initiative and referendum, proportional repre- sentation, and the right of recall of representatives by the voters.
12. Abolition of war and the introduction of international arbitration.
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VOTE FOR PRESIDENT BY COUNTIES, 1900.
PRESIDENT.
COUNTIES.
McKinley,
Rep.
Bryan, Dem.
Woolley, Pro.
Barker, Pev.
Malloney,S.L.
Leonard, U.C.
Debs, S. D,
Adair
2,327
1,618
60
9
Adams
1,873
1, 428
82
2
5
2
Allamakee
2,659
1,850
30
4
2
2
3
Appanoose
3, 538
2,690
33
5
4
1
102
Audubon.
1 821
1,301
23
1
1
Benton
3,609
2, 575
101
1
1
57
Black Hawk
5,010
2, 512
237
5
4
13
Boone
4, 151
2,264
205
3
4
2
112
Bremer.
2,178
1,929
40
3
Buchanan
2,958
2,053
171
5
3
1
8
Buena Vista
2, 632
936
98
22
1
5
Butler
2,902
1,167
70
3
8
Calhoun
2,973
1,224
67
1
Carroll.
2,224
2,434
29
2
1
8
Cass
3, 128
2,010
40
16
1
4
4
Cedar
2,740
2,131
88
1
1
4
Cerro Gordo.
3, 345
1,320
132
1
1
1
11
Cherokee.
2, 432
1, 253
156
10
1
2
Clarke
1,800
1,322
47
4
2
Olay ..
2,292
781
64
10
..
2
17
Clinton
5, 344
4,758
63
3
47
6
218
Crawford
2,268
2, 578
107
5
1
2
Dallas
3, 601
1, 940
172
6
1
4
51
Davis.
1, 656
2,155
41
19
2
Decatur
2, 415
2, 058
42
16
2
6
Delaware
2,805
1, 570
54
2
2
1
17
Des Moines.
4, 315
3, 909
73
10
11
2
188
Dickinson
1, 352
445
43
2
Dubuque
4, 752
6, 655
56
1
17
8
75
Emmet
1,618
595
71
2
1
1
4
Fayette
3, 984
2,708
117
8
3
3
1
Franklin
2, 537
748
32
1
1
1
2
Fremont
2,170
2,399
73
9
1
3
3
Greene.
2,777
1,360
72
1
1
1
3
Grundy
2, 025
1,203
43
2
4
Guthrie
2,806
1,824
74
5
6
1
1
10
Hancock
2,186
82
50
1
Hardin.
3,741
1,268
125
4
2
3
8
Harrison
3, 303
2,837
106
8
Henry
2,794
1,907
125
6
3
2
10
Howard
1,944
1,420
85
1 3
2
Ida
1,599
1, 304
40
2
Iowa.
2,336
1,983
92
9
1
12
Jackson
2,964
2, 854
30
2
· ..
.
Jasper
3,894
3, 163
98
15
1
2
20
Jefferson
2,482
1,612
118
3
1
1
9
..
Chickasaw
2, 085
2, 063
37
3
2
1
8
Clayton
3, 366
2, 884
68
3
2
6
Floyd.
2, 843
1,295
57
12
5
Hamilton
3,259
1,134
44
Humboldt
2,214
595
29
1
37
3
4
1
...
7
2
6
3
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VOTE FOR PRESIDENT BY COUNTIES-1900-CONTINUED.
PRESIDENT.
COUNTIES.
McKinley,
Rep.
Bryan, Dem.
Woolley, Pro.
Barker, Peo.
Malloney,S.L.
Leonard, U. C.
Debs, S. D.
Johnson
3,010
3,182
46
3
1
1
15
Jones
3, 021
2,052
72
Keokuk
3,339
2,669
120
4
3
1
11
Kossuth
3,122
1,777
46
3
3
3
19
Linn
7,745
5,019
236
6
7
6
87
Louisa
2, 185
1,172
82
1
1
11
Lucas
2,225
~ 1,488
127
1
1
1
21
Lyon.
1,666
1,289
50
69
1.
1
9
Mahaska
4,480
3,596
201
5
2
5
23
Marion
2,950
2,950
153
16
1
2
7
Marshall
4,878
2, 329
257
3
2
27
Mills ..
2, 212
1, 733
67
4
3
3
Mitchell
2,450
981
47
1
1
Monona
2,161
1,934
79
12
2
2
4
Monroe.
2,233
1,705
148
14
8
218
Montgomery
2,927
1 467
83
3
1
1
4
Muscatine.
3,905
3,021
68
3
1
4
108
O'Brien.
2, 386
1,461
45
2
7
Osceola
1,106
799
28
1
3
1
6
Page
3, 424
1,889
313
5
2
2
8
Palo Alto
1,908
1,477
50
3
2
Plymouth
2, 712
2, 307
85
2
3
5 1
Polk
12,628
6,180
460
25
7
13
198
Pottawattamie.
6, 525
5,373
101
15
5
8
25
Poweshiek
3,199
1,765
88
8
1
1
12
Ringgold
2,319
1,311
79
10
1
2
7
Sac ..
2,786
1,214
124
3
8
Scott
6,327
5,157
66
10
43
12
540
Shelby
2,182
2,010
32
6
1
8
Sioux
3,025
1,809
52
5
5
7
Story
4, 032
1,343
222
2
1
2
7
Taylor
2,792
1,984
92
2
1
1
5
Union
2, 462
2,218
148
8
1
1
3
Van Buren
2,547
1,893
65
2
3
1
5
Wapello
4,742
3,902
85
24
13
4
142
Warren
2,966
1,876
157
10
2
3
Washington.
2, 844
2, 234
153
4
3
3
Wayne
2,294
2, 001
132
3
8
3
29
Winnebago.
2,052
474
41
3
2
5
Winneshiek
3 486
1,835
59
1
1
1
3
Woodbury.
7,045
4,796
357
14
2
3
26
Worth
1,730
475
28
4
1
Wright
2,990
891
93
1
1
7
Total
307,808
209,265
9,502
613
259
166
2,742
Pocahontas.
2,176
1,287
53
1
1
2
8
Tama
3,290
2,736
117
Webster
4,221
2,266
133
7
3
21
Madison
2, 590
1,907
75
Lee
4,486
5,182
77
8
3
The above table is the official canvass of votes made by the state canvassing board.
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POPULAR VOTE FOR PRESIDENT IN 1900 BY STATES.
States.
McKinley.
Rep.
Bryan, Dem.
Woolley,
Pro.
Debs, S. D.
Maloney,
Soc. L.
Barker, Peo.
Ellis, U. R.
Leonard,U.C
Scattering.
Alabama
55, 512
97,131
2,762
4,178
Arkansas
44,800
81, 142
584
972
341
California.
164,755
124,985
5,024
7,572
605
Colorado
93, 072
123, 309
3,790
654
714
389
Connecticut
102,572
74,014
1,617
1,029
908
55
Delaware
22, 529
18, 858
538
57
Florida
7,299
28,007
839
701
613
Georgia.
35, 035
81,700
1,396
2
213
232
8
Illinois
597,985
503, 061
17,623
9,687
1, 373
1,141
672 352
Indiana
336,063
309, 479
13,718
2,374
663
1, 438
254
Iowa
307,808
209,265
9,502
2,742
259
613
166
Kansas
185, 955
162,601
3,605
1,605
Kentucky.
226,801
234, 899
2,814
760
289
2,017
Louisiana.
14,233
53,671
Maine.
65, 412
36,822
2,585
875
391
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