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Show KTATK COXt EXTIOMI. Oruioeral and B-ntal!n!an!ata In Sraalon al Hlchlta. lias, Wichita, Kan., Sept 9. Tho democratic and resubmission State conventions met today. The resub-mbolonlit resub-mbolonlit party consist! of a faction of the republican party wblch opposes op-poses prohibition, ft vorablgb licence and Is striving to obtain, through the I-egisIaturr, a resubmission of the prohibitory ameudment to a rote of the people. To attain thee ends they firmed a separate patty and fd-ctl witli (he democrats, llotu conventions met at the same hourin dUTercatiialis. The democratic convention declares de-clares opposition to patrrnalitm In Govi-rumint, State and National affairs; deplores the tendency manifested mani-fested by the preacher-politicians hu pose as leaden of the republi-nan republi-nan party In tlie State- to make re. iiglous belief a test of ellglblllly fur political preferment; declares the Federal election bill the legitimate legiti-mate cfl-priug of the party which filched the Presidency; favors a tarifl based ujon the public necessities; free coinage of silver; liberal pension lawt-j cx-presus cx-presus sympathy with labor in its etru-rgle with the money power, whether In the factory or on tho farm; opposes sumptuary legislation nud demands tho early resubmission of the prohibitory amendment, believing be-lieving p'rohlbltlnn has brought upon up-on the people of tlie State Incalculable Incalcul-able evil-, and declares empltatl-cally empltatl-cally in favor of 'high license and local optloni ANOTHER PLANK asks the icople of Kansas to repudiate repudi-ate Senator Ingalls, "the roan n bo denounced reform in politics as a dream, declared that the decalogue had no place In politic aad ex-prc-"es n belief that the use of money and the employment of hired Hessians In campaigns Is Justifiable." THE UliUUUIsaONISTS. At the republican resubmission convention tho resolutions committee commit-tee reported a platform, pledging loyalty to the principles l tbe national republican patty, favoiing reciprocity; demanding the free coinage of sliver; eadi modification ofthetarifTas will give equal protection protec-tion to fanners and manufacturers; equal bankrupt laws and liberal iKUsIen laws. On tho quetlon ef prohibition, the platform sajs: "We arraign the party managers In this State as disloyal dis-loyal to tho principals and unfaithful unfaith-ful to tlie interests of the republican parly We charge that they have put the party In Kansas out of harmony har-mony with the National republican party, and thereby absolved us from all obligations to longer acknowledge acknowl-edge their Itflierihlpi Iitiied by reductivo wiles Of impractical visionaries, they hxvrr committeJ the party to extravagance aud follies fol-lies which, unless promjtly checked, will bankrupt and depot -ulate tiieState, These things impel us to adopt the only method which promises success, to ignore party lines as to Slate politics for the time, and to unite with such of our fellow citizens of the State as chare our conviction?, without re&ard to party, for the purpcft; of correcting the follies into Which we have been betrayed, be-trayed, and thus preserve the good name and insure the future prosperity pros-perity of the Slate. "We are opposed to prohibition. Ten years' trial has demonstrated ITS TOTAI. INErFICIEStCr as a temperance measure. It Is a revival of an ob-okte form of paternal pater-nal government, nud entirely op-losvd op-losvd to the genius and spirit of the age. It Is at enmity with the fundamental fun-damental principles of our civilization civiliza-tion and destroys that inalienable right of tho cltizea to determine for himself what method will preserve his own happiness without interference interfer-ence with the rights of others,which principle Is tho basis of our liberties and Uie liofe of our institution.. It Is un-American and un-demc-cratic, anJ not In harmony with the purposes and spirit of our institutions, insti-tutions, nud tlie existence of the prohibitory law Is a perpitual men ace to the material internls of the State. It burdens us with taxation and dei-rlvea us of all control of the liquor ttafflc and revenue, drives, away population, prelects immigration, immigra-tion, makes the building of large cities within tho State impossible, enconrages ptrjuryj does not lessen crime or iaupcrism, dots not x licet the jails, penitentiarieri, lunatic asylums asy-lums or almshouses, and, believing that any public measu re I n fh cjtands of an enlightentd people Is alsc-lu alsc-lu ely safe, we demand that the quration of a prohibition amendment amend-ment to tho Constitution be submitted submit-ted to the people at as early a date as possible. |