Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1888-09-01
Nez Forces.

| f. Z, Ensign, HALEY, Alturas.
j. II. Wickersham, Boise City, Ada
F, w. Beane, Blackfoot, Bingham,
| G. White, Boise City, Ada. n.
| D. w. Standrod, Malad City, Oneida
Chas. Cobb, Albion, Cassia.
/ Ben Wilson, Centeryille, Boise.
Took recess one hour
! Night session called to order at
$40, when the committee on resolu-
tions made the following report:
| WHEREAS. The National Demo
cratic party at its convention held in
ST. Louis, June 5th, re-nominated
Grover Cleveland for President and
nominated Allen G. Thurman for Vice
President upon platform favoring
the reduction of taxes, with proper
regard for the protection of American
interests and the maintenance of
American LABOR.
RESOLVED. That the Democracy of
Idaho most heartily endorse the NOM
ination of the st. Louis convention
and declares its unqualified approval
of its tariff reform platform, which
means cheaper food, cheaper clothing
and greater comforts for ALL
RESOLVED. That the administration
of the government by Grover Cleve-
land has been of such a character as
to commend itself to all the people of
the country, and tina. he has shown
such unseltish fidelity to the highest
interests of the country and has dis
played such wisdom, honesty and
economy in his administration dur
ing his term of office that he is en-
titled to a continuance of public con-
fidence.
RESOLVED. That the platform of
our party does not mean free trade;
it means tariff reform that will re-
duce the taxation upon the masses of
the people, thereby protecting labor
and reserving to it just share of its
products, and it means Furthermore a
check upon the accumulation of the
immense surplus in the treasury,
which is dangerous to the business
interests of the country and is temp
tation to unwise legislation.
RESOLVED, That the Republican
party has never been, and is not now
friend of labor. Its policy has been
to build up monopolies making the
rich richer, and the poor poorer; that
it has never taken any steps to pre-
vent the importation of pauper and
contract labor, and that it now has rs
its candidate for President one who.
when Senator of the United States.
advocated the importation and natural
ization of Chinese labor, the greatest
curse ever brought in competition
with our honest American labor.
RESOLVED, That we heartily favor
the filling of Territorial offices, as far
as practicable, by appointments from
the Territory, and we cite with pride
to its wisdom in the appointment Of
our own citizen Governor, who has
made US the best Governor ever APP
pointed for the Territory.
RESOLVED, That we favor liberal
appropriation by Congress for irrigat-
ing canals and artesian wells, by
which multiplied acres of our lands
may be reclaimed and opened for en-
try and settlement.
RESOLVED, That we reiterate our
opposition to any ACKNOWLEDGMENT of
the Territory by annexation of any
county or counties to any State or
Territory, and that we favor at the
earliest day practicable, the introduc-
ton of will in Congress for the adj
mission of Idaho with its present
lines and boundaries as a State of
the Union
RESOLVED, That we favor rigid
enforcement of all laws, National and
Territorial, against all violation of
the same, and we pledge ourselves,
whenever the power is vested in us,
that no guilty ones shall escape.
The convention regret the feeling
prevalent in some sections of North
Idaho, that there is an antagonism
between the different sections of the
! Territory, and pledge the Democratic