, 1885-08-28
THEY WANT THE EARTH
And Cast a Wistful Eye on the
Solar System.
Iowa Republicans Swing Out
the Ruddy Rag Some More.
They Straighten Out all Mum
dane Affairs in Their Mind.

Republican Nominations in Iowa
DIES MONIES, Aug. 27.-The Repub
lican state convention to-day nominated
State Senator VIM. W. Larabee for gov
ernor on the first ballot, and j. A. j.
Hull, his opponent, for lieutenant gov
ernor. Judge Beck was renominated fol
supreme court judge.
The committee on resolutions her re
ported the following platform. The min.
ority report on the Temperance
question. favoring local options for eoun-
ties where prohibition was not enforced,
called out a spirited discussion, and was
lost By a vote of sol to $50. The plat
form was then adopted. Senator Larabee
was then introduced and accepted the
nomination in a short speech. The con-
vention then adjourned. The platform
reads as follows; The Republicans of
Iowa in state convention assembled de-
clare:
Erst-The issues growing out Of the
war can never be called settled until they
are settled right. By usurping and alb
sorbing the rights of DISTINGUISHED colored
men. the white men Of the Southern
States are exerting double the political
power of white men in the Northern
States. The rebel soldier in the South is
thus enabled TO WELD twice the influence
in the nation hat the union soldiers in the
North can WELD. We protest against the
union soldier having one vote and the
rebel soldier having two.
Second-The menace of this crime
against the ballot in the South is also a
menace to free labor in the North. With
the black man robbed of the elective fran
chise, their power to protect themselves is
gone and the Southern white men can
degrade them into a form Of cheap labor.
Labor in the South cannot be pauperized
without the wages of labor in the North
necessarily effected. 1t is already
drawing the Southern blacks to the North
to find both liberty and employment; and
Iowa has received thousands OF such men
VINO here have sought and found a han
TO i've as Tree men ana TO work at good
wages. The Republican party declares in
the interest of honest and safe govern
ment' that there ann be political me
quality maintained aiming at citizens OF a
free republic, and there cannot be a min
orlty oil white men IN the south ruling a
majority u white men IN the North
1hird-Ihe adhesion OF the Democrat
party TO the doctrine OF state rights IS
evidenced by the character OF diplomatic
appointments mad by President Cleve-
land- we eensure ms selection oil per
sons to represent this government at the
oil foreign countries, who deny the
lndissoiubie unity oil tins nation; VINO
during the repellon e'ther fought LOT It's
success or Justified the principle on winch
1t wa based, and still contrive SO to re-
gard 1t; made all the more offensive by
his persistent removal Of disabled union
soldiers from government employment by
means oil disreputaole devices oil offensive
partisan schemes formulated by ms post
master general ana prae'iced by other
heads OF departments ana the president
himself
fourth-llme docs not Dar the claims
oil soldiers VINO iought oWnth rebellion
VI 'he si"'''"uo u Ju'''e VI .o'''
we deinand snch modlnca''ons
OF the pension laws as as nan secure
equal treatment toah such soldiers en-