THE AMERICAN
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AN AMERICAN PARTY.
Patriotic Citizens of Chicago Form
The Independent American
Citizens' Party.
Declaration of I'dm Iles, l'latfurut and
Resolutions Adopted at a Mass Ion
Teution Held in Central
Music Hall.
We believe the time has come when
all who lore our nation and its institu
tions and are true to its fla, in order
to be faithful to their obligations as
citizens, must take concerted action as
a free and independent voting phalanx
in the arena of politics, with a view to
meet and defeat at the ballot box those
who, by the aid of partisan combina
tions, have corrupted our municipal,
state and national governments.
We believe that a crisis is upon us
which threatens the overthrow of popu
lar government; that a military ec
clesiasticism such as marked the
mediaeval ages, supported by the im
perialism of dishonestly acquired
wealth, has gained control of our politi
cal machinery and that it is being used
for the aggrandizement of un-American
institutions and to compel the recogni
tion of the right of a foreign power to
dictate our municipal, state and na
tlonal politics.
Our flag, too, is dishonored at home
and abroad and our institutions are at
tacked, our legislative bodies are cor
rupted, our courts of justice are in'
timidated and used to clear the guilty
and condemn the rlghtdoers, our sena
tors are made afraid, our representa
tives are coerced, our constitution un
dermined and might, not right, has be
come the predominating principle of
the old political parties while that dan
gerous trinity foreign to true American
citizenship, the arch enemy of freedom
and good government plunder, hypoc-
risy and sham hold high carnival
with public trusts and divert from con
stitutional channels an impoverished
people's money.
ONLY TRUE AMERICANS WANTED,
We believe the time has come when
In order to meet the danger that
threatens our institutions America
should be ruled by those who by birth
or honest adoption have become citi
zens and that none but those whose al
legiance and devotion to our institu
tions, constitution and flag are para
mount to all other human claims upon
them should be trusted on guard.
We recognize the fact that there is
an awakening abroad among honest
citizens born of the spirit of patriotism
which demands attention. Protection
for American institutions, for the na
tion's flag and honor and for its educa
tional system has become a living issue
during the last few years, and as a con
sequence a loud and significant call is
being made throughout the nation by
people who have heretofore affiliated
with the various political parties for a
purification of political methods, for
honest and wise legislation and for the
faithful execution of the same when it
has become law.
We believe the time has come when
the American citizen who is true to the
vital principles which underlie our sys
tem of government must break away
from the political bossism and corrupt
ing intrigue which control the two old
parties in national, state and municipal
politics. These parties, which in the
beginning of their careers served to a
certain extent the great mass of the
American people, because they were
controlled by honest and loyal men,
have today become the dens in which
congregate the political thieves and
robbers who infest our national, state
and municipal seats of government.
We believe that partisan politics is
undermining our institutions to such an
extent that the virtue and morality by
which only popular government can
subsist are no longer known quantities
among party leaders. This, the very
foundation of American liberty, is dis
appearing and the great governmental
machine destined by the patriot fathers
as a means by which our free and hu
mane institutions should be perpetuated
from generation to generation is being
turned Into an engine for their destruc
tion and final overthrow under the con
trol of unprincipled men whose ambi
tion is greater than their patriotism.
Nor is the condition less alarming when
we take into consideration the fact that
these men are backed by the criminal,
vicious and illiterate elements of so
ciety, mostly under foreign influence,
which form a voting contingent suffi
ciently strong to demand and receive
recognition.
HOODWINKED BY BAD PROMISES.
We believe that honest citizens, men
who desire to perpetuate a government
of the people, by the people and for the
people, have been grossly deceived and
hoodwinked from time to time by cun
nuningly designed platforms and fair
promises made by party leaders and
manipulators, which platforms and
promises have alike been ignored and
forgotten when they were no longer
needed as a vote-catching bait.
We believe that the time has come
when, in justice to ourselves as true
and independent American citizens and
out of regard to the fathers of our in
stitutions and with respect to the
graves of the heroes who laid down
their lives to protect them and preserve
us a nation and an unsuuteti nag, we
should arise in our might a one man
casting oT the chains of partianhip,
and rebuke and punUh the political
wire-pullers, the treacherous ring
bosses and professional boodle rs who
run the partisan machines of both the
democratic and republican parties for
their criminal dishonesty, in the con
ductingof public affairs. And, further.
that the parties which they have cor
rupted and demoralized should bo rele
gated back into that oblivion from
which thev have sprung at tne people s
command. They have become the tool
of a foreign and un-American balance
of power which ojeuly avows its pur
pose to be the overthrow of our liber
ties, and hence have ceased to be vir
tuous and moral channels through which
the true citizen can exercise his fran
chlse without the moral taint of treason
Furthermore, they have become instru
ments by which their respective bocses
have by corrupt means perpetuated
their power for official aggrandizement
and dishonest gain. In them the peo
ple have been blindly led to indorse ad
ministrations and leaders who have be
trayed the sacred trusts bestowed upon
them, and who have catered to a dan
gerous and unconstitutional controlling
power in whose interests legislation has
taken place, to the neglect and damage
of the true citizen.
EITHER PROTEST OR BECOME CRIMINAL
We believe that to longer suffer with
out organized protest political sycop
hants to reward themselves for their
treason to our institutions by the dis
honest spoils of office would be to en
danger our self-respect and destroy our
American manhood. Our knowledge
of partisan machine political malad
ministration compels us to either op
pose and stand on guard or become par
takers with the political criminals
whose business is treason against the
people's rights and liberties,
We believe the present to be the
right time and Cook county the right
place in which to raise a standard rep
resenting faith in American institu
tions, purity in municipal, state and
national government and proteotion to
the magna charta of American Inde
pendence among the people, that they
may gather about American principles
and help to bring success to honest is
sues by exercising their voting fran
chlses for the election of honest repre
sentative men, whose love of country is
greater than their partisanship, men
who are pledged to stand by our instl
tutions and the principles which they
involve, such men as would rat er suf
fer defeat than gain victory at the ex
pense of liberty and by conniving at
treason, men who are Americans by
birth or honest adoption and whose
franchise can neither be bought nor
sold, representatives who will repre
sent the American people and not a
foreign prince.
We believe no standard will be more
acceptable to the great mass of true
American citizens who have in response
to the call of patriotism thrown off par
tisan Bhackles and hoodwinks than that
which bears a name which expresses
the independence of the American
voter, and that is the
American citizen's party.
independent
Platform.
CIVIL SEHVICK.
Civil service reform should be extended to
all grades of public service town, city,
countv, state and nation. 1 uness ana not
partisan nor sectarian service should be the
essential tests, fide lty, efficiency and true
Americanism the only sure tenure of office.
The spoils system, by which lucrative offices
are doled out as a reward for un-American
and ecclesiastical support to political part
ies, is a dangerous enemy to our Institutions
and good government.
MONEY.
Money should consist of gold, silver and
greenbacks. All paper money should be
Issued by the government directly to the
people In the form of national greenbacks
and certificates of deposits Issued from a
system of postal savings banks, In sums of
810 and upward, thus giving the people the
same advantages now conferred by the gov
ernment upon national banks. All moneys
issued by the United States should be a full
legal tender for all debts, both public and
private. The purchasing or debt-paying
powers of any dollar coined or Issued by the
United States should be made and kept the
equivalent of that of any other dollar so
coined or Issued.
The Issuing of lnterestbearlng bonds
should be discontinued and bonds that are
now out should be paid as fast as possible,
and thus a system which Increases the bur
dens of the people in the Interests of the non
producing money owners be aoated In the
Interest of the Investors of capital In com
mercial emerprises and Industries.
IMMIGRATION.
Our immigration law should be so changed
and Immigration restricted that It will pro
tect our cltlien laborers from the evil Influ
ence and unequal competition of pauper and
criminal labor, which, through the instru
mentality of European propagandist societ
ies and the subtle assistance of their
ecclesiastical agents here, .are raplaly sup
plementing our free and enlightened Ameri
can citizens In every line of industry, and
by their illiteracy end the superstitious,
un-American Influence which control them
are becoming a menace to our liberal Institution.
TRCSTS AND MONOPOLIES.
l The concentration of wealth In the hands
of the few means the lmpoverlshmeni of the
many, and as a consequence their enslave
ment; therefore, the vigorous prosecution
and abolition of all trusts now existing in
violation of state and United States statutes
Is demanded, and the further suppression of
all trusts and combines, such as tha sugar
trust, the cordage trust, on trust, tne
whisky trust, etc., whclh are designed to
enrich the few at the expense of the many,
and which are In their nature and results
contrary to the spirit and genius of our
national Institutions, laws and government.
TAiurr.
A tariff for protection, honestly adminis
tered. Is necewsary for the encouragement of
our Infant Industries. That the calamitous
Btin.-t rvulL txy-nj-loni-d tiy th frequent
pNU.'in mriiatkin and clmosi-s In I lie tariff
ti.ny he avoided. I her khould 1 appointed
nn partisan cuuniiUMon on tariff nmixw
of rvuryst-iitatlvr from the dlffi-rvnt
tirani lui, of bur.tins and labor. whov duty
It shall be to regularly rtiiumtniti to rou
grv such cliangt-s In tariff law as will pre
serve and proteet the pnoiile In content u-ent
aud prooperlt j . and maintain the govern
oient. and thuii take out of partisan polltli
lhUtvoiiiiii.lt' question which has no prope
place there.
PfHI.lC ri'NIS.
Public funds secured from the taxes and
burdens bearing the heaviest upon the com
moil peoule, are In-lux diverted from the I
legitimate purposes aud UM-d for the corrup
tion of political partisan voters and political
machine organizations. Ily strong leglsla
tlve action we should demand of our public
officers, who are entrusted with the publi
funds, an honest and scrupulous care of the
people's money and compel them to pay Into
the public treasury every dollar of lutereht
earned on all such public funds. That all
religious and sectarian conllicut between our
citizens may be avoided and public funds be
properly applied there should tie no appro
priatlon whatsoever of any public funds to
any sectarian Institution of any kind whut-
oevnr. and all church property should bear
Its just proportions of taxation.
THE LABOR 1H8IK.
Labor existed prior to capital, and Is there
fore independent of capital. The conflict
between labor and capital will be closed only
when labor emancipates itself from the rule
of professional agitation and machine poll
ticlans. Capital and labor are absolutely
necessary to each other. The rights of each
will ultimately be best served by an honest
ballot, and not by the aid of the bayonet,
Capital Is the fruit of labor, and Its surest
safeguard Is In the loyalty of labor to Its
fruits. There should be a By stem of effect! ve
legislation which will Insure by arbitration
the rights of labor and capital alike and
secure Justice to employer and employe.
CN1TED STATES SENATORS.
In order to conserve the rights of the peo
ple and Insure a continuation of a govern
tuent based upon the "Vox oopull, vox Del"
sovereignty of the people and koep them in
direct touch with the legislative depart
ment of government. United States senators
should be elected by the direct vote of the
people.
PUBLIC EDUCATION.
As the quality of a republican form of gov
ernment is either good or bad according to
the Intelligence of Its people we demand that
all nations, state and municipal non-sectarian
public schools and Institutions of learn
ing shall be protected from all sectarian
Interfurence, and that no sectarian school
or institute of learning shall at any time nor
under any circumstances receive public
money for their support, nor shall any sec
tarlan school or Institution of education be
at any time declared a public school for the
purpose of drawing public moneys.
PUBLIC CHARITIES.
We demand that all institutions of charity
which receive public moneys must be non-
sectarian and under the complete control of
the nation or state, and that no sectarian
Institution of charity shall receive support
by grants of public money or land or their
equivalents.
CITIZENSHIP
No foreigner coming to this country should
become a citizen until he has had a continu
ous residence of not less than five years In
the country, and has foresworn his former
allegiance to prince or potentate who claim
temporal sovereignty, be he a civil or eccles
iastical sovereign, nor shall such naturalized
foreigner be permitted to exercise the vot
ing franchise until he can read In the legal
language of the country the Constitution of
the United States, the Declaration of Inde
pendence, and the Constitution of the state
In which he resides.
COUNTY AND CITY.
The Independent American citizen's party
pledges itself that If Its nominees are elected
the gambling dens and cesspools of vice
which have been permitted to run riot under
the reign of both parties when In power, in
defiance of law and subllc morality, will be
suppressed so far as It lies In the power of
the county officials so to do. We believe a
law should be passed which would compel
the recognition by the mayor and chief of
police of the complaint of any ton reputable
citizens who at any time may charge that
unlawful business of a criminal and de
moralizing character is being carried on
within the city limits, and which would, in
case the said officials refuse or neglect to
nvestigate according to law such charges
and If sustained shall take measures to
abate such unlawful and criminal business
be sufficient ground for an action In im
peachment of either or both of said city
officials.
Whereas, It is a fact that at several
of the state conventions of the demo
cratic party there have been resolutions
adopted denouncing all secret political
orders, and especially the American
Protective Association, and thereby in
fact declaring that they were opposed
to all patriotic orders: and,
Whereas, The populist party in con
vention assembled has also at different
times and places, by resolutions or
otherwise, declared itself opposed to
such organizations as above mentioned;
and,
Whereas, Several leaders of the re
publican party have by public utter
ances expressed themselves as opposed
to such organizations; and,
Wbersas, No political party, up to
date, has in any way shown a disposi
tion to defend such patriotic associat
ions by word or act; be it therefore,
Resolved, That we,the Independent
American citizens party in convention
assembled, hereby indorses any and all
patriotic associations, political or other
wise, which have any or all of the fol
lowing sentiments embodied in their
declaration of principles, to-wit:
Protection to our constitution and
laws.
Protection of the stars and stripes.
Protection to the free public school
system of our nation; radical revision of
the naturalization laws; restriction of
emigration; absolute separation of
church and state: no public funds for
sectarian purposes and be it further
Resolved, That a copy of these res
olutions be mailed by our secretary to
each of the patriotic newspapers
throughout the entire United States.
"No more cunning dlot was ever de-
Ised against the freedom, the happi
ness, ana tne virtue or mankind, than
Itomanlsm." Gladstone
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Front Walter Sim to the lleptililiean anil
Ht-mneratic iartie Fur a Joint IMiate.
Chicago, III., Sept. 12. Walter C.
Kellcy, Esq, Chairman Independent
American Citizens' Party: IVar SI
In pursuance of my offer made at the
convention held this evening at Central
Music flail, you are hereby authorized
to Uue, in my name, this challenge to
public dlscutntlou between rvpresenta
tlvesof the democratic and republican
parties and myself regarding their at
titude in the past and present towards
American institutions.
We charge that both parties have
been and still are controlled by foreign
eeclcshiBtlcism to tho damage of our
institutions.
That both parties have paid out pub
lic monies to this power as a reward
for Its iiolltical supitort. That both
parties are cognizant that an eecles
tlclsm is abroad In our country for the
subjection of our institutions to Its own
That both parties have gone beyond
the permit of the Constitution of the
United States in the recognition of
such un-American ard foreign power,
That neither party dare come out
and avow its Intentions to stand by the
Constitution and refuse to grant more
public monies for sectarian purposes.
That neithor party dare advocate the
taxation of church property, which is
constitutional.
That neither party dare demand the
opening to public official lnsj)ectlon of
all institutions in which people are
either confined or educated..'!
That neither party dare declare in
favor of so changing onr naturalization
laws as to compel all foreigners to for
swear their allegiance to any prince or
potenato, be he civil or ecclesiastical,
who claims temporal sovereignty, and
that every such foreigner shall be able
to read the Constitution before being
permitted to vote.
You will please extend, through the
proper committees oi tne respective
parties, an invitation to meet me and
dlscuBS those charges through their
representatives at Central Musio Hall.
The republicans on Saturday evening,
September 22, and the democrats on
Saturday evening, September 29. The
hall will be free to them, without cost,
and their representatives shall have
half the time on each evening. I will
open the discussion. I remain, yours
for Americanism, Walter Sims.
ROME'S SENTIMENTS.
'The state has no right to educate!
and when the state undertakes the
work of educating, it Is usurping the
power of the church."2iwiop McQuaid
Protestantism has not, and never can
have any rights where Catholicity is
triumphant. Catholic Jtevkw.
'We are purely and simply Catho
lics, and profess an unreserved allegi
ance to the church, which takes prece
dence of, and gives rule to, our allegi
ance to the state." Catholic World.
"Catholic votes Bhould be cast solidly
for the democracy at the next election.
It is the only possible hope to break
down the school system." lokdo Culh
olic Ileview.
'The Roman Catholics of the United
States owe no allegiance to any prin
ciple of the government, which is con
demned by the church or pope."
Tablet.
"I frankly confess that the Catholics
stand before this country as the ene
mies of the public schools." Father
Phelan of St. Louis.
Rev. J. Hogan, of Kansas City, Mo.,
says: "mat tne sacraments are to oe
refused to Catholics unworthy of the
name, who in the education of their
children patronize the public schools."
Judges of Faith, page 103.
'Let the public school system go to
where it came from the Devil.' Free
man's Journal. '
'It will be a glorious day for the
Catholics of this country when under
the blows of justice and morality our
school system will be shattered to
pieces. Until then modern paganism
will triumph." Cincinnati Cattuilic
Ttkqraph.
Pamphlet.
Extracts from United States Con
gressional Record, containing address
of Hon. W. S. Linton and discussion in
congress upon sectarian appropriations
of national money to Indian education,
and the vote thereon; also remarks
made respecting a requirement to teach
the English language in New Mexico
after admission to statehood, and two
separate votes rejecting such a require
ment.
Address, Gen. Green Clay Smith, '.
O. Iiox 333, Washington, D. C. Price,
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Change of Time.
On and after Sunday, April 29lh, the
Missouri Pacific trains for Kansas
City, St. Louis, etc., will leave depot
at 15th and Webster streets at 9:U0 a.
m. and 9:30 p. m. Trains will arrive
at 6:00 a. m. and 6:55 p. m. Nebraska
Local leaves daily, except Sunday, at
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J. O. I'HILLIPPI,
A. G. F. & P. A.
Thomas F. Godfrey,
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