The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-09-06

a call has been issued for Republican State
Convention in New York on the Goth of Sep
tenber. Rochester is the place of meeting.
The New Jersey Republican Convention will
inset at Trenton on Sept. Is.
The Iowa Democratic State Convention met
at Marshalltown on the Goth of August and
organized by the election of Daniel O. Fitch as
were represented by 1868 delegates. John P
Irish was nominated for Governor; G. @.
James, of Pottawattamie, for Lieutenant Gov
ernor; N. E. J. Boardman, of Marshall, for
Supreme Judge; and G. d. Culleson, of Wayne,
for Superintendent of Public instruction. All
the nominations were made by reclamation,
The platform as adopted by the convention is
as follows:
1. The Democracy of the State of Iowa, in con-
vention assembled, hereby declare in favor of
tariff for revenue only honest, economic home
rule the supremacy Of civil over military power;
the separation of church and state; equality Of all
citizens before the law; opposition to the granting
by the General Government of subsidies to any
porstion whatever and we believe,
2. The destruction of the industry of the coun-
Try and the pauperism of labor are the inevitable
fruits of vicious laws enacted by the Republican
party.
8. That, as means of relieving the distressed
portion of the community and removing the great
stringency complained of in business circles, we
dem and the immediate repeal of the Specie Resump-
ton act
4. That we denounce as outrage upon the
rights Of the people the enactment of the Repub-
Ican measure demonetzing silver, and demand the
passage Of law which shall restore to silver its
monetary power
s. That we favor the retention of greenback cur
rency, and declare against any further contraction,
and we are in favor of the substitution Of green
backs for national-bank bills. .-A
| 6. We congratulate the country upon the accept
ance by the present administration Of the constitu-
tional and pacific policy of local self-government in
| the States South so long advocated by the Demo-
cratic party and which has brought peace and har-
nony to that section, and in regard to the future
financial policy, in the language of our national
| platform adopted in the New York Convention in
1853 we urge,
| z. Payment of the public debt Of the United
States as rapidly as practicable, all money drawn
frosl the people by taxation, except much as is
! requisite Tor the necessities OF the Government
economically administered, being honestly applied
| to such payment when due.
8. Equal taxation Of every species Of property, &C
! cording TO its value.
| 9. One currency for the Government and the peo-
pie, the laborer and the oficeholder the pensioner
and the soldier, the producer and the bondhoder.
10. The right of the State to regulate railroad
corporations having been established by the higher
courts of the country, we now declare that this
right must be exercised with due regard to justice
AS there is no necessary antagonism between the
people and these corporations, the common inter-
! ests of both demand speedy restoration of the
former friendly relations through just legislation on
the one side and cheerful submission thereto on
! the other.
| IL. The rights of capital and labor are equally
sacred, and alike entitled to legal protection They
have no just cause Of quarrel, and their proper
relations to each other are adjustable by natural
laws and should not be hampered by Legislative in
| reference.
70. That we favor the repeal of the present Pro-
hibitory Liquor law of this State, and the enactment
of jud1cious snd well-regulated License law in
stead, al money derived from licenses to go to the
common-school fund of the State.
General elections are to be held in fourteen
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