The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-07-20
POLITICAL AFFAIRS.
Greenback and Republican Conven-
tons in Iowa and Penn
sylvania.
Gen. Weaver Named for Governor
The Resolutions.
Iowa Greenbackers.

The Iowa Greenback State Convention
met at Des Moines, and was called to order
by the Hon E. III. Gillette, and, after prayer
by Rev DR.. s. Hunting, of Des Moines, Mr..
Gillette delivered short speech, in which
he declared that the end and aim of the
Greenback party was the overthrow OF
every system which opposes the right of
every person TO do as he pleases; TO enforce
the doctrine of the Declaration of Independ-
ence, THAT all men are created free and
equal and further the Acknowledgement OF
women 1t is a hard task, he said, for OPP
posed TO the movement is every form of
monopoly-bankers, railroad corporations,
usurers, and everything representing capt.
tai He also declared that the party was
for prohibition.
as Kenwarthy, of Mahaska county, was
called as Temporary Chairman, and a Davis
county man was appointed Temporary Sec
rotary.
The Committee on Credentials reported
sixty-six counties represented, two-thirds of
the counties OF the State
The Committee on Permanent Organiza-
ton recommended the following:
Chairman-W. s. Kenworthy, of Mahask1.
Vice President-T. O. Lee of Hamilton.
Secretary. Burke, of Jasper
Assistant Secretary-W; II, Robb, of Union.
Reading Secretary-J. w. Muffiy, of Polk.
The report was adopted.
A motion was made to refer to the Com
mittee on Resolutions, without debate, all
resolutions offered in the convention, which,
after considerable discussion, prevailed:
The following Committee on RESOLUTIONS
was appointed:
First district, NJ L. Edwards: Second, l..
Hoops; Third, NJ. S. Hitchcock; Fourth, l.. H.
Weller; Fifth, George Carter; Sixth, Gen. j.
b. Weaver; Seventh, /. Brownell; Eighth, j. L..
Brown Ninth. Nv. Wollicker Tenth, +. II. Lee;
Eleventh, Daniel Campbell
Gen. Weaver, Chain man of the Committee e
on Resolutions presented the following re-
port which was adopted with but little op-
position:
The National Observation-Disclosures party of Iowa.
In convention assembled, declare:
l. The right to issue money and control the
volume thereof belongs to the people, therefore
we demand the abolition of all banks of issue
and the substitution of legal tender currency
In lieu OF bank currency, the volume to be
strictly regulated by Congress.
2. We favor the unrestricted coinage OF gold
and silver.
3. We are opposed to all refundng of the in
terest- bearing national debt which places IL be-
yond the power of the Government To pay at
will, and we demand that said debt be paid as
rapidly as possible
4. We demand a graduated income tax where
by capital shall bear its just share of the public
burden.
5. All men have a natural right to portion of
the soil, and as the use of the soil is indispen-
sable to life, the right of all TO the soil is
sacred as life itself; all public lands granted to
corporations and forfeited by reason of nom
performance of the conditions of said grants
ment, and all public lands should by held for
homes by actual settlers.
6. The Patent law should be so amended as to
protect inventors, give the people the benefits
to be derived, and prevent the formation of
monopolies which rob the inventor and the peo-
pie.
7. We favor civil-service reform, and to that
end hold that all public officials, az far a. prac
ticable, including the President and Vice Presi-
dent, shall be elected by direct vote Of thief
people.
&. We favor low tariff and a revision of the
present tariff laws, to be adjusted in the interest
of labor and not in the interest of monOpolies.
8. We demand the abolition of the Railroad
Commission and the passage of laws regulating
railroad and telegraph charges upon an equitable
basis and the establishment OF postal tele-
graph system.
TO- For the purpose OF protecting the people
from harassing and tedious litigation in courts
remote from their homes, all railroad companies
and other corporations doing business within
this State, should be required by law TO incor-
porate under the laws Of Iowa. That said cor
porations be required 90 litigate their causes in
the State courts in common with all other citi-
Zens.
IL. We demand that each party having
State organization shall have representative on
each election board.
II. We hold that the representatives of labor
have the right TO combine TO protect all their
constitutional rights and they should be pro-
tected by law in the exercise OF that right and
we demand legislative action whereby all differ
ences between mine owners and labOrers NAV
be equiiably adjusted.
IL. we demand equal political rights for all
men and women.
IA. The manufacture and ssle of intoxicating
liquors a. beverage should be prohibited, and
the will Of the people as expressed at the non
partisan election OF June ~, 1892, be respected
and carried out, and we arraign the present eX-
ecutive OF the State for permitting the will of
the people TO be overthrow.
Is. The claims OF the bondholders have been
regarded by the party in power as more sacred
than the claims of the soldiers of the Union.
We declare such distinctions TO be humiliating
Il Il a..
Immediately pass such laws as will place the
soldiers upon an equal footing with the bond
holders. We also favor the passage of a law by
the State Legislature exs mpting pension money
and the homesteads purchased Herewith from
execution and attachment.
16. We point to the acts of our last Congress
in renewing national-bank charters, in reducing
bank taxes Sl2, 100000 per annum, and TO their
failure TO reclaim forfeited land grants also, to
the escape of the star-route thieves, some of
whom confessed their guilt and to the develop
ment of fraud in the Treasury Department, as
exposed by the Hon. +. III. Murch, "a evidence
OF the Unprecedented corruption of the party i'm
power, and TO show that public moneys and
public interests cannot longer safely be in
trusted TO their hands.
The Hon. J. b. Weaver was nominated for
GOVERNOR Sanford Kirkpatrick, of Wapello,
for Lieutenant Governor; ID. w. Church. of
Adair, for Supreme Judge and Miss Abbie
o. Garfield, of Des Molnes county, for Super
intendent of Public Instruction
Gen Weaver thanked the convention in
neat speech.
Col Harper, of Illinois, made a short
speech, which was extremely moderate and
conciliatory in its tone. The following State
Central Committee was chosen: Fist dis
trict X c. Brown; Second, J. L. Enos;
Third NJ S. Hitchcock; Forth, /. H. Weller
Fifth, b. q. Henderson; Sixth, w. s Ken
worthy; Seventh, +. II Gillette; Eighth, w.
H. Rogg; Ninth, Thomas Benedict; Tenth,
not chosen; Eleventh, j. r. Somers
Pennsylvania Republicans.