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Resolved, That we request our delegation in Con- 

 gress to secure such an amendment to the revenue 

 laws as will prevent the issuing of receipts or stamps 

 to sell intoxicating liquors to any persons other than 

 those authorized so to do under State laws. 



Resolved, That we ask of the Eepublican majority 

 of the Congress of the United States to pass such laws 

 as will compel the railways of this State to take 

 patents for the lands granted them from the public 

 domain, to the end that all property in this State 

 shall pay its just proportion of the taxes levied to sup- 

 port the government. 



Resolved, That the Republicans of Kansas heartily 

 indorse President Arthur's veto of the extravagant 

 River and Harbor Bill, and the action of the united 

 Kansas delegation in sustaining that veto. 



By other conventions the following nomina- 

 tions were made for Representatives in Con- 

 gress: First District, John A. Anderson; 

 Second District, D. 0. Haskell ; Third District, 

 Thomas Eyan ; at large, S. R. Peters ; at 

 large, E. 1ST. Morrill; at large, Louis Han- 

 back ; at large, B. W. Perkins. 



The Greenback State Convention met in 

 Topeka, on the 22d of August, and made the 

 following nominations : For Governor, Charles 

 Robinson; Lieutenant-Governor, J. G. Bayne; 

 Secretary of State, A. P. Elder ; Auditor, W. 

 A. Garretson; Treasurer, J. H. Ludlow; At- 

 torney-General, J. D. McBryan ; Superintend- 

 ent of Public Instruction, J. S. Whitman; 

 Associate Justice of Supreme Court, L. 0. 

 Uhl ; Congressmen-at-large, H. L. Phillips, 

 S. N. Wood, John Davis, and Allen Williams 

 (colored). 



The Democratic State Convention met in 

 Emporia, on the 30th of August, and nomi- 

 nated the following ticket : Governor, George 

 W. Glick, of Atchison ; Lieutenant-Governor, 

 Frank Bacon, of Neosho County : State Treas- 

 urer, Charles E. Gifford, of Clay Center ; Au- 

 ditor of State, W. E. Brown, of Rice County ; 

 Attorney-General, Moore ; State Superin- 

 tendent, D. E. Lantz, of Riley County. 



The following were nominated for Congress- 

 men-at-large: 0. A. Leland, of El Dorado; John 

 C. O'Flanagan, of Pottaw attain ie. 



The platform adopted is substantially as 

 follows: 



The Democratic party of the State of Kansas, in 

 convention assembled, recognizinw the people as the 

 source of all political power, and the Constitutions of 

 the United States and the State of Kansas as the fun- 

 damental laws of the land, and that the chief object 

 and end. of government is to protect and defend its 

 citizens in the enjoyment of life, liberty, and property, 

 does declare its political faith and purposes. . . . 



2. We will defend and ever maintain the doctrine 

 of equal rights to all and special privileges to none, 

 the protection of the weak against the strong, equal 

 and just taxation, free speech, free press, free schools, 

 and a free, uninterrupted ballot fairly given and hon- 

 estly counted, freedom for all men and women of 

 every race, creed, and color, and a perpetual and ab- 

 solute separation of Church and State. 



3. We demand a revision of the present unjust tariff 

 laws of the United States : no kind of industry should 

 be fostered by the Government to the injury of an- 

 other ; no class of men should be taxed directly or in- 

 directly for the comfort, convenience, or interest of 

 another; that every description of industry should 

 stand or fall upon its own merits, and we especially 



demand that agricultural pursuits and productions be 

 encouraged and made free from all unjust discrimina- 

 tion in favor of gluttonous and selfish corporations. 



4. We maintain that the State has and must retain 

 the power to control and regulate the right and duties 

 of all corporations created by it, and we demand that 

 the Legislature exercise this power so as to protect 

 the people against unjust discrimination and exorbi- 

 tant charges for the transportation of freight and pas- 

 sengers by railroad corporations, and we particularly 

 demand the enactment of such laws as will compel all 

 corporations existing by the favor of the laws of this 

 State to keep and maintain their general offices with- 

 in the State. . . . 



7. We demand that the relations between capital 

 and labor be so adjusted by wise and just legislation 

 as to secure to each its last rights, and at the same 

 tune to make it impossible for avarice and greed to 

 override and imperil the rights, interest, personal 

 freedom and independence of working-men ; and we 

 demand that every law, combination, and policy that 

 is unjust and too onerous upon those engaged in 

 manual labor be removed and utterly destroyed. . . . 



9. We demand an immediate reduction of taxes, 

 Federal, State, and municipal, to the lowest rate suffi- 

 cient to meet all public dues and obligations. So long 

 as the people are burdened with debt, the industries 

 of the country suspended by labor-strikes, and thou- 

 sands of men out of employment by reason of the tyr- 

 anny, avarice, and cupidity of exacting and oppressive 

 monopolies, it is neither right nor just to collect money 

 from the people to be squandered by an incompetent, 

 reckless, and corrupt Congress in the pretended im- 

 provement of stream-harbors and waterless rivers; 

 and we further demand that the surplus money in the 

 Treasury be applied in payment of our national debt. 



10. We demand that the Congress of the United 

 States propose and submit to the States for their action 

 such amendments to our Federal Constitution as will 

 accomplish the following objects : 1. The election of a 

 President and Vice-President by a direct vote of the 

 people. 2. The extension of the term of office of 

 President and Vice-President to six years, and making 

 the President ineligible for a second term. 3. The 

 election of United States Senators by a direct vote of 

 the people of the United States respectively. 4. Fix- 

 ing the term of offices of Senators the same as the pres- 

 idential term, and of Representatives in Congress at 

 four years. 5. The election of postmaster by a direct 

 vote of the people of the city, town, or district in 

 which the office is located. 6. Biennial sessions of 

 Congress. 7. The election for all Federal officers to 

 be under the control of the Federal Government, and 

 to be held at a time other than the time of holding 

 State elections. . . . 



12. We demand the enactment of additional and 

 more stringent laws, both Federal and State, for the 

 punishment of bribery and corruption in office, and to 

 secure the purity of elections, general, special, and 

 primary. 



13. That we are opposed to monopolies of all kinds, 

 believing them to be at war with the best interests of 

 the country, imperiling its power, prosperity, and se- 

 curity, and contrary to the genius and spirit of free 

 institutions. . . . 



15. We are opposed to national banks, and insist 

 that gold, silver, and a greenback currency shall be 

 the only money of the country. 



George W. Glick was born on the 4th of 

 July, 1827, at Greencastle, Fairfield County, 

 Ohio. The early years of his life were spent 

 on a farm. He acquired a fair English educa- 

 tion, and some knowledge of the higher mathe- 

 matics, and the languages. He read law in the 

 law-office of Messrs. Buckland & Hayes, the 

 latter being afterward the President of the 

 United States. Mr. Glick early took an active 

 part in politics. In 1858 he was nominated 



