The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-28
THE IOWA REPUBLICANS.
State Senator Larrabee Nominated for
Governor by AcclamatiOn.
Mr.. Hull for Lieutenant-GoyernOr. and
Judge Beck for the Supreme Court
Full Text of the Platform.

State convention reassembled at 8 o'clock this
morning. Hon. P. NJ. Sutton was elected per-
manent chairman, and made a speech urging the
qualification of the party. An informal ballot
for Governor was taken, resulting: Larrabee,
708; Hull, 374; necessary to a choice, 543. Lar
rabee was declared the nominee by reclamation.
The ballot for Lieutenant-g governor resulted
in a unanimous vote for Hull. For Supreme
Court Judge, the incumbent, Judge Beck, was
renominated.
The on resolutions then reported
the platform. A minority report on the temper
ance question, favoring local option for counties
where prohibition was not enforced, called out a
spirited discussion by representatives of the
river towns and interior counties. The roll of
counties was called, and the minority report was
lost by a vote of 821 to $50. The platform was
then adopted.
Senator Larrabee was then introduced to the
convention, and he accepted the nomination in a
brief speech, after which the convention ad-
journed.
The platform reads as follows:
The Republicans of Iowa, in convention assembled,
declare:
First-That the issues growing out of the war for
the Union can never be called settled until they are
settled right. By u~surping and absorbing the rights
of the disfranchised colored men the white men of the
Southern States are exerting double the political pow
er of white men in the Northern States. The rebel
soldier in the South is thus enabled to WELD twice the
influence lie the Nation that the Union soldier in the
der having one vote and the rebel soldier tive.
Second-The menace of this crime against the ballot
in the South is also a menace to free labor in the
North. With the blac: men robbed of the elective
franchise. their power to protect themselves is gone,
and Southern white men can degrade them at will into
the form of cheap labor; Labor in the South cannot
ha a11nariza1 n E lahnr in tho npt
being necessarily affected. Already this policy is
driving Southern blacks to the North to find both
liberty and employment, and Iowa has received thou
sands of such men. who here have sought and found
a chance to live as free men and work at good wages.
The Republican party declares, in the interest of hon
est and safe government, that there can be no polit-
ical inequality maintained among citizens of a free
Republic. and that there cannot be a minority of white
men IN the South ruling a majority of white men in
the North.
Third-Thea adhesion of the Democratic party to the
doctrine of State rights is evidenced by the character
OF the diplomatic appointments made by President
Cleveland, and we censure his selection of persons to
represent this government at the courts of foreign
countries who deny the indissoluble unity of this Ma
ton, and who, during the rebellion, either fought for
its success or justified the principle on which it was
based. and still continue so to do, and we declare that
his conduct in this regard is made all the more often
sive by his persistent removal of disabled Union sol
diers from government employment, By means of the
dIsreputable offensive partisan" scheme. formulated
10y his Postmaster general and practiced by other
heads of departments, and by the President himself.
Fourth-Time does not bar the claims of the soldier
who fought down the Rebellion, or the gratitude and
justice of the country; and therefore we demand such
notifications of the pension laws as shall secure equal
treatment to all such soldiers entitled to pensions IN
der said laws, by commencing payment from the date
of disability, the increase of widows pensions from
IS to $l2a month, and the granting of pensions to
all such soldiers as are disabled from securing support
by their own labor. and to those who served in the
war with Mexico. We condemn the removal by Pres
idert Cleveland of the pension examiners appointed
by Lincoln. Grant and Garfield, who have been steady
friends of Union soldiers, and their replacement bv
men who generally OpDOSed The MASSAGE of pepSiOp
laws.
Fifth-The American laborer is the unit of the
prosperity and stability of the Republic. The old
world theory of classes is abhorrent to the American
mind: no peasant class can ever be created in Amer
]ca. Inc republican party has protected and fostered
labor IN this country, so that its compensation is
larger than is realized in any other nation. 1t has
guarded and saved it from degraded contact with con-
tract labor from China; it is pledged to protect it from
the pauDer labor of Europe; we demand that ample
provision shall be made by law for the protection of
labor and capital and their varied interests, and such
law should provide for State boards of arbitration for
the adjustment and settlement of questions between
labor and capital, including the question of screening
coal and other peculiar mining interests of the State,
in order that miners may be assured pay for all work
done by them. Labor should have it's just proportion
of representation on such board, and we further
declare that provision should be made by law whereby
convict labor shall not be brought into competition
with other labor within the State.
Sixth-We are opposed to the British policy ad.
vanced hy the Democratic party in this country under
the guise of tariff for revenue only. The English
theory of free trade which has degraded its labor at
HoIiC oilu HdS bctH So successfully uSeQ as q means TO
destroy the industries and Cypress the people of Ire
land, cannot be imposed, for English interests, upon
the people of the United States. We invite all people
OF Irish blood who know TIE wrongs of their native
country under English rule, to join their fate with the
Republican party ard the great body of American
Worklnglnen II resisting the introduction of the free
trade policy in America.
Seventh-We favor closer commercial intercourse
with all nations, and the enlargement and extern
sion of Am erican commerce in all possible quarters.
We especially urge the establishment of better com
merclal relations and the enlargement of our trade
with South America. We favor an increase of Ameri-
can shipping by all practicable means.
Eighth-The Republican party inaugurated civil
service reform, and enacted the present civilservica
law. 1t will faithfully maintain it, and cheerfully aid
look with regret upon the failure of the present ad-
ministration to promote the reform of the civil service
so auspiclousiy begun under Republican administra-
ton.
Ninth-We demand that the public domain. inclua.
ing forfeited and unearned lands within limits of the
grants made to railroads or other corporations, shall
be disposed of only to actual settlers, in the Ii mited
quantities provided by law, and bona fde settlers on
unearned lands within the limits of the Sioux CITY g.
st. Paul Railroad Company should have their rights
amply and speedily provided for by the prompt enact
m9nt of laws to effect that result. We are opposed to
nonresident aliens.
Tenth-We oppose any change in the law of Gu
rency and finance that will increase the burdens Of
the debtor class. We favor the revision of the patent
laws for the better defense eff the people against the
frauds now practiced hereunder. We favor such
pract zeal improvements of the national WATERWAYS as
shall secure the element of competition in the trans
portation of the country. We favor all laws for the
suppression of po.ygamy.
Eleventh-The Republican party of Iowa. while
steadily unfolding the right and duty of the State to
regulate the traffic in liquor by such methods as will
suppress most of its evils, has never maize the sup
port Of prohibition a test of party fealty. 1t pledged
its honor to enact. end afterwards did enact, a law
which the people of Iowa, at a non-partisan election,
fairly held, had demanded by an unonestioned
majority, that came alike from the votes of Repub-
licans and Democrats. We declare now for a
fair and thorough trial of that law, that it
may have time to demonstrate its efficiency or prove
its ineficiency before it is repealed, to give way to
some other honest and earnest method in the line of