The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1877-09-06

The Iowa State Democratic Ccnven'
tion met at Marshsliewn last week
"Wednesday. and without circnniio-
cusiou or pretense. developed the old
line bourbon features Of twenty years
aSu. As the Register says, the Cop
perheasa element had fall control o.
The body and shaped its policy, di-
rec,eSi its course, and governed the
nominations. The entire proceedings
and results were simply . series OF de-
seu.s and rehukss 10 the younger DEM
rsts. the men of modern ideas, who
i've in the present and know that
General Jackson il dead. The Con-
vention seems to have been run on
The impulse and heat of its free whis-
Sey plank, and everything was put
through nj eresk-aeck speed, Accord
ing 10 the out-and-iried plan OF the
Bourbon leaders.
The nomination OF John T. Irish,
the bitter implscable of the Iowa City
Press, for Governor. WAS in keeping
with the contradictions Of the day.
rhe nsn who, when the party in
Iowa was Autobiography pro-
nouasess the funeral Grafton over what
as termed the dead and buried De
Docracy, now heads the ticket Of the
rssarrscsed bnt still patrid corpse. Al
WAYS = resumptionist, and the hard
ess of hard money men, he l. nomi-
mated on an anfi-nsamption, seIni-re-
eudlation platform. In fact, the strong
.icense plank i about the only one in
The platform TO which the Democratic
candidate for Governor can cling with
any show OF consistency.
Judge James, of Council Bluffs, was
nominated for Lieu, Governor. He Is
reputed q fair SORT ofman in everything
ave politics. For Judge of the su-
creme Court the nomination was
awarded 10 III. T.. ]. Boardman, OF
Marshalltown- = lawyer quite noted
Tor success in his profession and mon
led nan TO whom the term Shyloek
.las sometimes been applied. MIR. q.
D. Cullison. the nominee for State SUI
,erintendent, is TO all appearances en-
.irely an unknown quantity.
The platform is an anomaly. and
would cause profound surprise II ev-
cry one had not long ago ceased to be
surprised NJ any resoiationot antic the |
iowa Democracy Sc, 3 lit 10 cut. A Wig |
,rous effort is made TO straddle the IL |
lancial fence, and while making u |
.trong bid to the Greenhack party, ev- |
.ry effort Is made to hang on to the
many who do not subscribe to the Wis |
onary theories of that iik. All that |
] said in the platform on this subject |
) plainly insincere and hypocritical.
la regard TO the demonstration of
liver. says the Registcr, "the plat
orm, in the following plank, commits
t.elf 10 deliberate, conscious and in
faisenood
That We d-nounce ~ an outrage upon |
he rights of the people the enactment |
i the II publican measure demonetiz- |
ny silver. and demand the passage oil |
law which snail restore silver TO its |
power.
This unblushing declaration is made
n the face of the fact that, on the vote
silver, larger proper
ion of tue Democratic members than
# the Republicans voted for il In
,utting this in the platform th. Con-
-ention must have hsen trying to
make their platform as cheeky a. their
There is nothing in the rest of the |
,la.form that has any special mean
ng or intention further than to sound |
veil. except the license plank-a dec
aration for free whisky and plenty |
# il.