Omaha daily bee., 1889-08-30
A, C. MELLETrE NOMINATED.
In South DalSota's Campaign He
Will Be Standard Bearer.
THE PLATFORM HE STANDS on
Principles of the Chicago Convention
ndorsed-Corporation Encroaeh-
ments to Be Guarded
Against
The Prohibition Plank Adopted.

adopted without dissent. All or Jne ntty
counties were fully represented. Colonel
Starr mayor of Deadwood was elected per-
manent chairman, and Il. w. Caldwell, Sec
retary, with H. G. Robinson, of Brown, and
A. Sutherland, of Campbell, assistants.
Judge Moody presented to the convention
a solid gavel made entirely of tin mined by
the Harvey Peak Mining company, of the
Etna mines. 1t is inscribed: "To the first
republican state convention of South Da'
kota, by the Harvey Peak Tin Mining COM
pany, Etna mines, near Rapid City, the base
of the future tin supply of the world"
The chairman of the committee on resolu-
sions reported the following platform;
Resolved, That as republicans of the state
Of South Dakota, in our first convention as
sembled we reaffirm the principles enun.
ciated in the platform OF the national con-
vention assembled in Chicago, June, 1888,
and we most heartily indorse the administra-
ton of President Harrison and Governor
Mellette. We hail with unfeigned pleasure
the privileges of statehood soon TO be ours,
and we congratulate the republican party
that it holds those principles in which all i'll
dustries can find true protection aud in
which all citizens, without regard TO nation
ality, can harmonic, and we congratulate our
people that through the power of these
principles they now have the rights of home
stead pre- emption and timber claims in our
public lands restored to them.
We favor those laws which give full re-
Enumeration to labor and secures capital its
rights. We recognize agriculture, mining
and manufacturing as the paramount mate
rial interests of our state and we deprecate
any law which separates these from the com
mercal and industrial interests of our peo-
pie, as we are dependent upon the harmony
of all these great interests for our success.
We therefore declare it to be the duty, which
should be the pleasure, OF all men placed in
Office by the people, to oppose any unjust en-
croachment of corporations or trusts upon
the rights of any of our ciUizens and to SO
administer the government in all its branches
as will conduce to the welfare and advantage
Of all our people.
We view with pride our educational faclli-
ties, the hourishing condition of our public
schools, colleges and universities and we de-
mand that our school lands shall be jealously
guarded.
We honor our old soldiers and favor liberal
pensions to all those who hold an honorable
discharge. We also favor wise and liberal
provisions for the care and maintenance of
all who are needy and disabled.
We most heartily smpathize with the irish
people in their desire for home rule.
We heartily favor the American system of
protection by such properly regulated import
duties upon foreign products as will stimu-
late every industry and fully protect our vast
army of workers against the unfair competi-
tion of the criminal and pauper laborers of
the old world.
We most heartily welcome to our fellow
ship the people who have come to US from
foreign lands to find a home in this the
country of their adoption, intending to rem
der due respect to its law.
We favor the enactment of such laws as
will protect the citizen in the free exercise
of his right of suffrage and will insure fair
and honest elections and equal and just taxa
tiOn of property.
Recognizing the pernicious influences of
the tariff of Intoxicating liquors upon every
interest OF our commonwealth, we favor ma
tional and state prohibition Of such traffic
and the adoption of the article of our consti-
tuition relating thereto and the enactment
and enforcement of such laws as will make
the same effective.
Resolved, That the great agricultural in
terests of Dakota demand they should
be protected, fostered and guarded with
jealous care and such laws enacted as will
insure equitable rates of transportation, al
lowing no unjust discrimination against sec
tions or individuals.
We favor the Improvement of the great
waterways of the northwest so as to bring
close competition in the carrying trade
We favor warehouse law which will give
every farmer a free market for his produce
and which will not leave hum at the mercy of
any elevator or railroad combination.
We advise and urge prompt and liberal
action on the part of the state and nation
toward the establishment of comprehen-
sive system of irrigation for such portions of
our state as would be benefited thereby.
We favor the establishment of bure III of
labor and statistics
Resolved, That we have accurate informa-
tion in regard to the educational, moral and
financial condition and needs of the laboring
masses. We also favor the prohibition by
law of the employment of children under
sixteen years of age in mines shops and
factories
We favor the election of railroad commits
sloners and giving them ample authority by
statute for the protection of the people
against exorbitant rates and unjust discrim-
ination, and we favor such system Of rail
road inspection as will promote the con-
venience and safety of the people.
We view with alarm the dangerous en-
crOachments of the numerous trusts forming
all over our land, and demand the enact
ment Of stringent laws, state and national
declaring the formation of all trusts and
combinations for the purpose OF controlling
or enhancing the price of any Of the neces-
saries Of life unlawful and contrary to
public policy and providing for their sup
pression and the punishment OF all parties
implicated
Mr.. Carney and minority of the commit
tee moved the following substitute for the
prohibition plank in the majority report:
Your committee appointed on platform begs
leave to make the following minority report
to be adopted excepting the section relating
to constitutional prohibition and recommend
the following substitute:
The republican party has ever stood the
friend ana champion of morality aud temper
ance and renews it's pledges to secure the
people of South Dakota these blessings in tie
highest degree. To this end IL heartily in
dorses all wise efforts to mitigate and destroy
the evils growing out of the traffic in Intoxi-
cants, and pledges itself to the strict enforce
ment Of such laws as the wisdom of the peo-
pie may elect.
A Motion to lay the minority report on the
table was carried by 354 ayes To "a nays.
The majority report was then adopted by q
nearly unanimous vote, there being less than
twenty-five votes against it.
The following nominations were then
made
Congress, o. s. Clifford and ]. A. Pickler;
governor, A. @. Mellette: lieutenant gov
ernor, j, III. Fletcher, of Brown secretary
of state, o. A. RhPsrud, of Union; auditor,
l.. @. Taylor. of Alexandria; treasurer, W.
r. Smith, Of Lake; attorney general, Robert
Dollard, of Bonhomme; superintendent OF
land commissioner o. "A. Parker, of brook
renee; John II. Bennett, of Clark; A. q.
Kellam, of Brule.
Seven of these nominations were made by
acclamation and seven were endorsed by
the Farmers alliance, so the prohibitionist Is
are satisfied, the grangers are contented and
the straights got just about all they desired
under the circumstances
Tonight there is republican love feast at
the opera house, where all the candidates are
speaking
The Huron capital committee has with