The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-08-28
iowa LONG EARS!
Here's a Screed as is a SCreed
And Don't You Forget
II, Either.
Iowa "Rad's" waive the bloody
shirt Howl About the Hal
lot BOx Frauds.
Berate Cleveland and all Other
Good Things, and Raise
sheOi Generally.
POLITICAL POINTERS.


lifS mtlNfI1t AhhEuNb h' "
publican state convention reasscinbicd
at o'clock this forenoon. Hon. II
NJ. Sutton was elected permanent
chairman and made speech urging the
solidiiication of the party. An inior-
NAL ballot for governor WAS taken re-
sulting rs follows: Larrabce, 7OS;
Hull, 374. Necessary TO choice, 5i3.
Larrabee was declared the nominee by
ncclamation. The ballot for lieuten-
ant-govcrnor resulted In II unanimous
vote for Hull. For supreme court
Judge the incumbent, Judge Beck was
rcnominated.
The committee on resolutions then
reported the following platform. a
minority report OH the temperance
question favoring local option for
counties where prohibition was not
enforced, called out n spirited discus
sion by representatives of river towus
aud intcri r counties. The roll of
counties was called, and the minority
report was lost by vote of S2l TO 500.
Senator Larrabee was then intro
duced to the convention and accepted
the nomination in brief speech.
The platform, rs adopted, reads ms
follows: "Thc republicans of Iowa
in convention assembled, declare:
/. The issues growing out of the war
for the union can never be called
settled until they are settled right.
BY usurping and absorbing the rights
OF DISTINGUISHED colored men, white
men in the southern states are exert.
ing II double political power.
81 a,l.Itnr In, thn CAntt1 IL
thus enabled TO WELD twice the in
ilucncc in the nation that the union
soldier in the north can yield. We
protest against union soldiers having
one vote and rebel soldiers two.
2. The menace of this crime agains;
the ballot in the sou h is also II men
ace TO free labor In the north. With
the black men robbed of the elective
franchise, their power TO protect
themselves is gone and the southern
white men can degrade them at will
into form of cheap labor. Labor in
the south cannot he pauper.
lied without the wages OF labor
in the north being necessarily
affected. This is already driving
southern blacks to the north to find
both liberty and employment and
Iowa has received thousands of such
men who here have sought and found
n chance TO live rs ireeInen and work
ut good wages. The republican party
declares, in the interest of honest and
safe government, that there can be nj
political inequality maintained among
citizens of free republic aud that
there cannot be minority of whit,
mcfi in the south ruling majority Of
white men In the north.
8. That the ascension of the demo
cratic party to power (violatcsO stat
rights is cvinced by the character %
diplomatic appointments made By
Cleveland. We censure his selection
of persons to represent this govern
mcnt at the courts of foreign countries
who deny the indissoluble unity o
this nation and who, during the re
bellion fought for its success or justi
lied the principle on which il wa
based, and still continue so to do, al,
we declare his conduct in this rcgar,
is made all the more offensive by hi
persistent removal of disa
bled union soldiers frUl
government employment by mean
of the disreputable "oileusiv
partisan" scheme in the form starte
by the postmaster-gcneral and pra'
ticed by other heads of department
and by the president himself.
A. Time does not blur the claim
of soldiers who fought down the r,
bellion, or the gratitude and justiC
OF the country, and, therefore, we dc
mand such notifications of the pei
sion laws rs shall secure equal trea
ment to such soldiers entitled to pei
sions under said laws, by commencin
payment from the date of inabilit
increase widows pension from SIS I
Sl2 per month, and the granting
, pensions to all such soldiers us are
disabled rs to prevent them from IS
curing support by their own labC
aud to those who served in the WI
, with Mexico. We condemn the T
moval by Cleveland of the medic
pension examiners appointed by Ii
coin, Grant aud Garfield, who ha
been steady friends of the soldic
J.. and their replacement by men wi
= generally opposed the passage of t
I. pension laws.
, 3, The American laborer as n III
, is the basis of the prosperity and 81
bility of republics. The Old WoI
theory Of classes is abhorrent
the American mind. No peass
\ class can ever be created
;r America The republican party
a protected aud fostered labor in /
M country so that its compensation
N larger than is realized in any oil
9. nation. 1t has guarded aud sayeC
from the degraded competition
contract labor from China, aud il
r. pledged TO protect it from the pau
re labor of Europe. We demand I
ed ample provision shall be made by
In for the protection of labor and q
Sc tai, and their varied interests,
re. such laws should provide for 81
Ia board of arbitration, for the adjustu
and sAftlemanf nt ntttianItfaE Aas a.