St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-08-26
UNHAPPY HAWKEYES.
iowa Republicans Meet in Convention at
Des Moines and Adopt Plaintive
Platform.
is Usual, the Democrats Are "Arraigned"
for Various Imaginary Grimes and
Misdemeanors.
and Incidentally the Delegates Put
UP Ticket Composed of
Obscure Men.
4 Heavy Failure at Milwaulkee-A
Drowning Accident at Eau
Claire, Wis
Ea1ya Republicans.

legislation upon the surplus resolution
closed with the charge against the preSi-
dent of deliberately pocketing the resolu-
ton in violation of his constitutional duty
and in violation of his previous pledges to
the people and congress for the sole pur-
pose of depriying congress OF reviewing and
revising his action which it would have
done in five minutes. and he knew it. Hon.
W. p. Hepburn. congressman from the
Eighth district, was made permanent chair
man. The convention then proceeded to
the nomination of state officers. f. ID.
Jackson, secretary of state, and V. L.
TWOmby, treasurer, were renOMihatnd by
reclamation. Five nominations for auditor
were then made All the candidates were
supported by one or more speeches.
The state ticket was completed as fol-
lows: For auditor Capt Lyons; attorney
general. A. j. Baker; clerk of supreme
court, G. B. Pray; supreme court reporter,
Z. 9. EberSOle.
THE PLATFORM
was then presented and adopted unani-
nously, as follows:
The Republicans of Iowa, in state conven-
hon assembled, declare: FirSt-We renew
our adhesion to the principles of Republican,
Ism as enumerated in the Republican ma
tional platform Of 1884. Second-The eight
cen months just past have proven the unit
ness of the Democratic party for national
control. 1t promises to reduce the expenses
of the government, but it has increased, in
the session just ended, the appropriations by
S44, GEO 1t promised to advance civil
service reform. 1t undoes that promise by
Gripping the efficiency of the commissioner
having that reform in charge. 1t promised
that the expressed will of the people should
be obeyed. 1t presents record ef a larger
number of presidential vetoeS in eight months
of congressional session than has aggre-
gated under all preceding administra-
tons since our government was
instituted. 1t promised q reduction in the
number of governmental officials 1t pre-
SCENTS as the fuliilment of such promise an
increase in the number of governmental en-
plOyes al Washington. 1t promised tariff re-
form. Ii has proven its inability under the
pressure of presidential and cabinet lnfiu-
ence to agree upon such a measure, much
less to press it to enactment It presents the
spectacle of an administration which has ut
terly failed to redeem any of the numerous
pledges by which the people were deceived
into placing it into power. We declare the
ADMINISTRATION OF PRESIDENT CLEvE-
LAND
to have justly merited the censure which it
received at the hands of congress in the pas
sage by over two-thirds vote of each branch
of congress of the resolution compelling the
payment upon the Understanding debt of
the increasing surplus in the treasury. We
condemn the pocket veto by the president as
in violation of the expressed will of the peo-
pie and preventing its passage over an open
veto, and we commend the action OF
Republican administrations in applying
the surplus to Il rapid reduction of the
Indebtedness Of the government. We de-
mand that the public domain, including for
feited and unearned lands within the grants
made to railroads and other corporations
shall be disposed of only to actual settlers in
limited quantities provided by law. We con-
denim the veto of President Cleveland whereby
congressional aid was prevented for the relief
of the settlers on the lands known the Des
Moines river land grant. from the cruel and
oppressive. wrongs committed on those
settlers, for which aid the legislature of Iowa
had vigorously and repeatedly petitioned.
We sincerely deplore the failure of the DEM
Ocratic house of representatives to pass over
such veto this bill which the Republican sem
ate had already passed over such veto. We
condemn the neglect in action of the Demo-
cratic house of representatives on the bill
passed by Republican senate for the re-
dempton of unearned lands within the limits
Of the Sioux City St. Paul Railroad company
at the last session of congress. We are op-
posed to the acquisition Of public lands or
any part thereof by nonresident aliens.
Resolved, That we arraign the Democratic
majority i'll the national house of representa-
lives for its wanton desertion of the interests
Of the
PRODUCERS OF THE NORTHWEST
as illustrated in the refusal to aid them by
meeting the questions and controversies be-
tween the common carriers and the shippers
of the country by the prompt passage of the
bill passed by the senate known as the Gull
lon bill, the substantial declarations of
which we recognize as being in harmony
with the declarations of the Republican state
convention of Iowa at its last session. To
the people of our adjacent territory of Da-
kota extend the assurance OF our CO.
operation and support in their efforts for
SiSIerhOOQ
respectfully but earnestly urge orr senators
and representatives in congress to continue
to labor to the best of their ability and power
to secure for Dakota Territory the place to
which her population, industry and intelli-
gence entitle her as state in the American
Union. and we arraign the Democratic party
for its unjust and bitterly setional
hostility to the admission of the
territory of Dakota as sister state.
Time does not bar the claim of the soldiers
who subdued the rebellion nor the gratitude
and the justice Of the country toward them.
Therefore we demand such modification of
the pension laws and the passage of such
others as shall secure equal treatment to all
soldiers entitled to pensions by commencing
payment from date of disability, and the
granting of pensions to all soldiers as are
disabled from securing support by their own
labor without reference to the date when
such disability occurred, and we condemn
the present Democratic administration for
VETOING THE PENSION BILLS
passed by congress for the relief of such
soldiers, their widows and orphans, and for
the removal of Union soldiers from Office and
appointing rebel soldiers and sympathizers in
their stead. We are in favor Of the passage
of law granting pensions to all soldiers of
the Mexican war who are not
laboring under political disability.
We denounce the abuses of the
elective privilege which in the Southern sec
of our country and in many Northern cities
continues to make elections q mockcry and a
delusion and the fraud and suppression
which continually defeat the popular will
and prevent fair and proper representation
We insist upon the right Of every American
to freely cast his ballot and to have the same
honestly counted and truly declared. The
Republican party, standing for that principle
of equal citizenship to which is due the
superiority of this over all other nations and
recognizing the necessity of protecting it
against the aggression of capital, heartily in
dOrses every legitimate effort of organized
labor TO secure equal and exact justice be-
tween labor and capital. We demand pro-
lection for American labor against compe-
titton with pauper labor abroad and against
the product of convict and imported contract
labor at home. The Republican party of
Iowa, ever sympathetic with the just aspira-
tions of nation for freedom and gratefully
mindful of the faithful
eERvICEs OF IRTsHMEN
in this republic, heartily sympathizes with
the people of ireland in their efforts for the
recovery of a home legislature. We extend
to William E. Gladstone and Charles Stewart
Parnel congratulations on their grand
achievements of the recent past and hope
that the immediate future will crown their
efforts with success. The laws for the sup
preston of intemperance were enacted as
part of the general legislation of our state in
obedience to the will of the majority, and we
behold with alarm the continued efforts of
the Democratic party of Iowa to encourage
resistance to these laws, and to infame the
passion of the lawless classes in regard to
them, thereby menaoing social order and
leading to the preparation of murder and
other outrages. While fully recognizing the
right of the people to agitate for the repeal
of these or any other laws which time NAV
prove Intellectual for the beneficent purposes
of their enactment, we insist that these laws.
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