Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-09-19
IOWA DEMOCRATS.
The State Convention Held at
Sioux City.
BoIEs NOMINATED FOR GOVERNOR.

Keynote OF the Cam aIeu Struck by Rich
ards, of Muscatine-Grover Cleveland
and Tariff Reform-High License as a
Solution of the Liquor ProbIem-CaIl
for Meeting OF Virginia CoIored Men
Anti-Prohibition Republicans.
Sioux CITY, Ia, Sept l9-The Demo
cratic state convention held here yesterday
nominated the following ticket: Governor,
Horace Boies of Blackhawk county; lieu
tenant governor, s. l.. Bestow; supreme
judge, William Brannan; superintendent of
public instruction, Thomas Irish; railway
commissioner, David Morgan
Democratic Keynote.
Previous to the nominations speeches were
made by MIR. Richman, a young orator of
Muscatine, and Judge Kline. The former
was warmly received when he arose and
said:
al desire to present to the convention this
sentiment: The national Democratic party,
triumphant in 1892 on a platform of tariff
re ,uction and under the leadership of Grover
Cleveland. The fact is becoming every day
clearer that upon this question of the tariff
the people of the United States are at last
awake. The presidential campaign just over
has been worth to the Democracy all it cost
Nominal defeat has been real victory We
have lost the present, but We have gained
the future in its stead On this question a
the tariff-this question of unnecessary tax
ation-the intelligence of the country is with
the Democratic party. We have recruit
ing station in every school in the land and
oh l.
or and writer. have need but to men
ton the name of James Russell Lowell, OF
Hugh McCulloch, of Garrison and o.
the son OF Lovejoy. Even now, before the
Harrison al ministration has held Office q
single year, the emptiness and utter falsity
of "protectonism" are being demonstra ted
Reckless as is the declaration oil the last ma
tional Republican platform concerning the
tariff that of the last Republican platform
o. this state is even more That declara
ton is that tariff protects the farmer
Why, every schoolboy knows that the
American farmer meets no foreign competi-
ton IN the American market, and that con
sequently to talk of protecting him against
foreign competition here is sheer absurdity.
Shall this insult to the common sense of the
farmers of Iowa go unrebuked at the poll S
l trust not
At the mention of Cleveland's name tn,
convention arose en- maSse and cheereC
enthusiastically.
The Declaration of Principles.
The report OF the committee on resolutions
was unanimously adopted 1t indorses tn,
platform of the St Louis national conven
ton; opposes high tariff taxation; favor,
the Australian ballot system; approves tn,
doctrine of state and national control OF
railroads; arraigns the Republican party
for changing the pharmacy laws of tn,
state, and, while demanding liberal pensions
for all infirm and houorably discharged
| soldiers, denounoes the decision that tn
dishonorable discharge of a soldier from the
service Of the United States is no bar to {
pension.
The Temperance Plank.
The temperance plank in the platform i
as follows: THAT in the interest of tru,
Temperance we demand the passage of ,
carefully guarded license tax law, which
shall provide for the issuance OF licenses il
towns, townships and municipalities of tn,
state by vote of the people Of such corpora
tons, and which shall provide that for eacl
license an annuaStax of 500 shall be pal,
into the county treasury; and such furthe
tax as the town, township or municipal cor
poratIon sndIl prescribe, Tue proceels there
of to go to the use of such municipalities
Resolutions on the death of 5. S Co,
were introduced and adopted by rising
vote, after which the convention ad journed
The Candidate for Governor.
Horace Boies, the nominee for governor,
is a native of New York state. He was borr
in Erie county, near Buffalo, sixty-one year,
ago In 1861 Mr.. Boics removed to Water
loo and has been engaged In the practice OF
law there ever since. He is senior member
Of the firm of Boies, Hustled a Boies, anc
stands very high among the attorneys
throughout the state He is also largely in
terested in agriculture, having nearly 4 .O0(
acres Of land in Grundy and Palo Alt.
counties
The Democratic state central COMMITTEES
last night organic "a by the election of j. J
Dunn, OF Dubuque, as chairman; Thoma
II. Lee, Of Red Oak, as secretary, and San
Cohn, Of Muscatine, as treasurer. A resolu
ton instructing the chairman to open head
quarters ut Des Moines was adopte,
unanimously.