People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1896 — COXEY’S NEW DOCTRINE. [ARTICLE]

COXEY’S NEW DOCTRINE.

He Devises a Platform and Calls a Convention For 1897. J. S. Coxey of commonweal fame is on the ground floor with a new doctrine for 1900. It is a platform which declares for the demonetization of gold as well as silver, state ownership of all railroads, highways, waterways and telegraph and telephone lines; municipal ownership of all street car lines, waterworks, market houses, electric light and gas plants; employment of surplus labor in publio work, woman’s suffrage, state control of liquor traffic and election of president by direct vote of peopla Coxey has called a conference of all friends of the initiative and referendum and advocates of the above principles of government He believes that national banks should loan money to the people at cost, and this principle, he says, will be incorporated in a platform to be adopted in the parlors of the Lindell hotel, St. Louis, Jan. 12, 1897. All who favor the principles above set forth are urged to attend the St. Louis convention.—Chicago Post