Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-07-02
IOWA DEMOCRATS.
Exciting Scene Ia the State COnyen'
dion Yesterday.
[By telegraph to the Dispatch.l


[By telegraph TO the Dispatoh.l
DEs MONIES, Iowa, July 1.-The
Democratic State Convention met here
to-day. Various committees were then
appointed, and, while waiting for them
10 report, a resolution expressing the
goodwill Of the Convention toward
Gladstone and Parnell and hoping for
their success was passed.
The platform adopted endorses
President Cleveland and his admins
tration; favors honest pension bills, but
opposes special laws; calls on Con-
gress to revise the tariff laws so as
10 meet the needs Of revenue only; de-
clares in favor Of the payment Of the
public debt and in favor Of legislative
adjustment Of the labor question ; de.
nounces the new congressional district
law; demands the investigation and
conviction Of all malefeasance in public
office; favors the repeal of the prohibi'
tory law and the enactment OF local
option law, extending to counties and
cities-the license, if adopted, to be not
less than $500. The report Of the ma
jority on the liquor question was
adopted-yeas 3S7, nays 2l3.
After the adoption Of the platform a
resolution was sent to the platform con-
demning as an outrage and travesty
on Justice the action Of the State sena-
tors who took s2l6 pay for the recess
before the impeachment trial began.
An attempt to lay the resolution on the
table failed by piUa.coce vote. Sens-
tor Knight, of Dubuque, one Of the
senator's who had taken the pay, rose
to defend himself and his colleagues.
lie branded the resolution as a lie
and the man who wrote it as
a liar. He said it was not
true that senators had not earned
their pay. Proceeding in his defence,
he was Kissed all over the house, and
an angry scene followed. 81 defy the
Convention" said he, "and the man
who wrote this resolution to injure me
So long as have the confidence of my
constituents of Dubuque" He asked
the Convention if it wanted to denounce
abuses why it did not denounce the
President Of the United States for going
down on his knees to a corporate mo.
nopoly and vetoing the Des-Moines
river land bill at the demand of a
powerful land ring. ltiisses aud cries OF
@ You must not attack the Democratic
President ~ Senator Knight continued
in an impressive way, "Why didn'i
you denounce the judicial Department
of this Government, loaded down with
Pan-Electric stock and corruption "
Great excitement and yells Of "Put
him out ~ 81 will be heard" said
knight, "and I defy you to cone to
Dubuque and the counties where | AIN
known and hiss me down."
At the close Of his speech, while the
resolution was pending, the Convention
adjourned for dinner in great confusion.
The Convention re-assembled at 3
O'Clock and an angry debate ensued on
the pending resolution.
Judge Cook offered a resolution hold.
ing the Republican party responsible
for passing the law under which the
back pay was taken and eXcusing indi.
vidual senator's who took it.
The Convention, after an excited de-
bate, voted down the substitute ant
adopted the original motion.
Cato Sells, Of Black Hawk county
was then nominated by reclamation fol
Secretary of State, and Paul Guelick
of Burlington, for Auditor.
The State Greenback Convention il
in session here to-day, and has decided
In favor Of fusion with the Democrats