Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-08-28
IOWA REPUBLICANS
In Convention Nominate Larabes
For Governor
AND MAKE A REGULATION PLATFORM
Raking Up all the Old Dead and
Buried Issues of the
Past.
A sKILLFUL CONCENTRATION OF LIES.

DEs MONIES, Iowa, Augest 27.-The Re-
publican State Convention resssembled at
9 o'clock this forenoon. Hon. P. N. Sutton
was elected permanent Chairman, who made
speech urging the solidi6cation Of the
party. An informal ballot for Governor
was taken, resulting: Larsbee, 7OS; Hull,
374; necessary to choice, 543. Larsbee
was declared elected the nominee by sccla-
nation. The ballot for lieutenant Cover
nor resulted in the unanimous vote for Hull.
For Supreme Court Judge, the incumbent,
Judge Beck was renominated.
The committee on resolutions then re-
ported the following platform: The minor.
ity report on the temperance question "a
voriDg local option for counties where pro-
hibiton was not enforced called out spir-
tied discussion by representatives of river
towns and interior counties.
Roll of counties was called and minori-
ty report was lost by vote of 82l to l5O.
The platform was then adopted.
Senator Lsrabee was then introduced to
the convention and he accepted the nomi-
nation in briet speech. Adjourned.
The Platform.
The platform reads as follows:
The Republicans of Iowa, in convention
assembled, declare:
First-Issues growing out Of the war for
the Union can never be called settled uutil
they are settled right. By usurping and
absorbing the rights of the distrsnchlsed
colored man, white men of the South 4rn
States are exertng double political power
White men in the Southern States rebel when
he soldier of 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 Union soldiers having
one vote and Rebel soldiers two.
Second-The menace of this crime
against the ballot in the South is also a
menace to free liberty in the North. With
lhe black man robbed of the election fran
chise, 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 be
psuparized without the wages of
labor in the North being necessarily
affected. II is already driving southern
blacks TO the north to find both liberty and
employment and Iowa has received thous-
ands Of such men who here have sought and
found chance 10 live treemen and work
at good wages. The Republican party de.
cls1es in the interest of honest and safe
5oyerumeot, that there can not be political
inequality maintained among citizens of
tree Republic and that there can not be
mir ority of white men in the south ruling a
msionty of white men in the north
Third-The adhesion of the Democratic
party to the doctrine Of State rights is
widened by the character of the diplomatic
appointments made by Cleveland and We
censure his selection of persons to represent
his Government at the courts OF foreign
countries who deny the iudssoluble unity
Of this nation, and who, during
the rebellion either fought for
it's success or juati6ed the
principle on which it was based and still
continue so TO do. and We declare his con-
duct in his regard ia made all the more
offensive by his persistent removal OF disa-
bled | Union soldiers from government em'
yloymeIt By means OF disreputsble (otfen
sive partisan) schemes formulated By his
Postmaster General aud prscticed by other
heads OF deparlue euts and by the President
himself
Fourth-Time does not oar the claims OF
soldiers who fought down tue rebellion, or
the gratitude aud Justice of the country,
srd, therefore, we demand such
modification of the pension laws as shall
secure equal treatment to all such sold ers
entitled 10 pensions under said laws.
Fifh-The American laborer is unit in
the stability and prosperity OF the republic,
The old world theory of classes is sbhorreut
70 the American mind. No peasant class
can ever be created in America.
Sixth-We are opposed to the British
policy advocated by the Democratic party
in this country under the guise of tariff
for revenue only.
Seventh-We favor closer commercial in
terests with all nations and the enlargement
sLd extension of American commerce in
al possible quarters, especially with SoU:h
America.
EigbtL-The Republican party inausu-
ra!ed evil service reform AID enacted the
present civil service law. II will faithfully
maintain it aad cheerfuIlv aid ia any needed
auerdmen's 10 glveit full force.
Ninth-We demand that the pablic do
main including forfeited and unesrDed
lands within The limits OF grants made to
railroads or oh-r corporations shall be
disposed OF only TO actual sett ers in limited
Quantities provided hV la=
Ten.h-We oppose any change in the
laws of currency and finance that Will iu-
crease the burdens Of debt or class We
favor a revision OF the patent lass tor bet
ter defence of the people sgaisnt frauds
now prscticed.
We favor the rigid enforcement Of ali
Laws in suppression of Polygsmy.
The Republican party in Iowa, the up
holder OF right and duty Of the State 10 reg
ulate the traffic In hquor By such methods
as will suppress most ofits evils, has never
| lost the support of the prohibition test OF
party feslty. 1t pledged its honor to enact
and afterwards did enact which the people
of Iowa at 8 non-psrtisan election faithfully
held, had ordered by an unquestioned ma
| iority that come alike from votes of Repub.
| hcans and Democrats We declare nov
for 8 fair and thorough trial of that law that
,g may have time to demonstrate its
efficiency or prove Its ineficiency
before repealed to give way to some other
honest and earnest method line in finding
the true and successful system of dealing
With the liquor traffic. We arraigu and
condemn the Democratic party Of Iowa for
ns action in declaring for $3.50 license,
compulsory on every community regardless
of local opinion; for legahzing again in
Iowa the sale OF whisky and all other alco-
holic LIQUORS, and for removing all restric-
tions from the sale and giving freedom in
the LIQUOR traffic thsS has not existed in
Iowa for thirty years.
Tweltth-Ws hold steadily to the doctrine