Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-09-04
Iowa Republicans.

Iowa Republicans.
Dies MONIES, Aug. 2.-The Republican
state convention reassembled at o'clock.
Hon. P. NJ. Sutton was elected permanent
chairman, who made o speech urging the
qualification of the party. In formal bal
lot for governor taken It resulted: Larsbee
7O6, Hull S74, necessary to choice 643.
Larabee was declared the nominee by &C.
clamation. The ballot for lieutenant gov
ernor resulted in o unanimous vote for
Hull. For supreme court judge, the pres
ent incumbent, Judge Deck, was renom-
mated.
The committee on resolutions then re-
ported the following platform.
The minority report on the temperance
question, favoring local option for counties
where prohibition was not enforced, called
out spirited discussions by representatives Of
river towns and interior counties. The roll
Of counties was called and the minority re-
port was lost by vote of S2l to $50. The
platform was then adopted.
Senator Larrrabe was then introduced to
the convention and he accepted the nomina-
ton in brief speech. Adjourned.
The platform adopted declares:
i First-That the issue growing out OF the
war tor the union can never be called settled
until they arc settled right by usurping and
absorbing the rights of DISTINGUISHED colored
men, the white men in 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 that
the union soldier in the north can WELD.
We protest against the union soldier having
one vote and the rebel soldier two.
The second resolution sets forth that the
blacks thus disffanchised are degraded at
will into form of cheap labor, thus men,
acing free labor in the north.
The third censures President Cleveland
for his selection as foreign representatives,
persons who during the rebellion fought for
its success or justified its principles, and still
continue to do so; declares his conduct is
made more offensive by the persistent re-
, moval of
u DISABLED UNION SOLDIERS
, from government employment, by means OF
disreputsble offensive partisan" schemes.
The fourth demands notifications of the
pension laws, so as to date all pensions from
disability, TO increase widows pensions from
} IS to Sl2 per month, and granting pensionl
to all soldiers disabled from securing sup
port by their own labor, and all soldiers o
the Mexican war; condemns the removal BY
Cleveland of
MEDIc AL PENSION EXAMINERS
. appointed BY Lincoln, Grant ard GARFIELD
: who have been steady friends of the unioI
3 soldiers, and their replacement by men who
3 generally opposed the passage of pension
} laws.
The fifth favors protection from foreign
! cheap labor and demands ample laws pro
tecting Ia Dor and capital; favoring n stat
: board of arbitration for the settlement o
: differences: opposes convict labor competi
f ton in the state.
. The sixth opposes the British policy ad
t vocsted by the Democratic party in thi
S country under the guise of tariff for rev
e enue only, and invites
ALL IRISH PEOPLE
10 join the Republican party in resisting tn
Introduction of that policy into America.
The seventh favors the enlargement Of
commerce, especially with South America
and American shipping.
The eighth endorses the civil service Law
pledges aid in any needed amendments; re
ton to promote such civil service reform
begun by the Republicans.
The ninth demands the restoration to tn
public domain Of forfeited and unearne.
railroad land grants; opposes the acquisition
of public lands by aliens.
The tenth opposes any changes in tn
laws that will increase the burdens Of
THE DEBTOR CLASS;
favors revision of the patent laws; improve
ment of water ways, and the suppression o
polygamy.
The eleventh is as follows: Eleventh
The Republican party of Iowa, while steady
upholders of the right and duty Of the statt
to regulate the traffic in liquor by sucl
methods as will suppress most Of its evils
! has never made the
SUPPORT OF PROHIBITION
test of party fealty. 1t pledged its homo
to enact and afterwards did enact, which tn,
people of Iowa at q non-partis2n election
fairly held endorsed, by an unquestionet
votes Of Republicans and Democrats
We declare now for fair and thorough
trial of that law. that it may have time t.
demonstrate its efficiency or prove ineff
cheney before repealed, to give way to some
other honest and earnest method of finding
the true and successful system Of dealing
/ WITH THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC.
We arraign and condemn the Democratic
parLy OF LOWE IOr lt8 8cLiOu IN ueClArlng tOl
$3.50 license, compulsory on every com.
munity, regardless Of local opinion, fol
Ilegalzing again in Iowa the sale of whisky
and all other alcoholic liquors, and for re-
moving all restrictions from saloons, giving
a freedom in the liquor traffic that has moi
exjstedin Iowa for thirty years.
The twelfth endorses the control ard regu.
lation of railroads by the people, as estab-
lished by the Republican law in Iowa, which
has greatly benefited the state; opposing un.
just and arbitrary discrimination and pool
ings and favoring their correction by legis-
lation; fsvors the
| CREATION BY CONGRESS
of national commission for regulating in
ter-state commerce.
The thirteenth calls for further state and
national legislation for the protection Of live
stock interests and control of the cattle
plague.
The fourteenth favoring legislation that
will keep litigation, with corporations doing
business here, within the state courts.
| The fifteenth favors the establishment of
Volunteer Soldiers homo in the state.
The sixteenth pays tribute TO Gen.Grant
and gives an expression to the universal sor-
row over his death.
Terrible Death.
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