Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-07-01

ton w. II. NJ. Pusey, of Council Bluffs,
was made permanent chairman.
After speech by the chairman, Col.
G. A. Clark presented the name of
Horace Boise for denomination, and he
was chosen by reclamation with pro-
longed shouts and cheers.
w. H. Pusey, of Council Bluffs, was
made permanent chairman, and Col. C.
A. Clark then presented the name of
Coy. Boies for denomination.
The ticket was completed with Samuel
L. Bestow, of Charlton, for lieutenant
governor; L. G. Kline, of Tomah Coun-
y. for supreme Judge; j. b. KnHpler,
uperintendent of public instruction,
and Peter A. Dey for railroad commits
sloner. An attempt was made to ap-
point six state central committeeman at
large, but the resolution was laid on the
table. The greatest interest was mani
tested in the report of the committee
on resolutions. The platform, as
clause of last year and was unani-
mously adopted without discussion.
Following is the platform as adopted:
AS signal illustration of the public good to
be secured by letting the office seek the man,
we congratulate the people of Iowa upon the
pure, able and fearless administration of our
present distinguished chief executive, Horace
p. Boies.
Second-We demand the repeal of the prohibit
ton liquor law, and in the interests of true tenn
perance favor the passage of a careful Y
guarded license tax law, which shall provide
for the issuance of licenses in towns, townships
and municipal corporations, and which shall
prov1ue that for each license an annual tax Of
$500 be paid into the county treasury, and such
further tax as the town, township municipal
corporation shall provide, the proceeds thereof
to go to the use of such municipalities.
1hird-We favor such changes in our laws as
Will insure, under stringent enalties, full and
allowing the present exemptions as fixed by
law, and we demand strict economy and hon
esty i'll the expenditure of all public moneys
taken from the substance of the people under
any form guise of taxation.
Fourth-We favor the Australian system for
voting, to the end that we may have an honest
ballot no control by bribery employers. We
denounce the Republican party for the defeat of
this Salutary reform in he tWenty-third general
assembly, III defiance of popular vote i'll its
favor, and in the face of its adoption by SO
many of our sister states, with the undesirable
result of having secured pure and untram-
meled ballot
F1fth-We reaffirm our adherence to the doc
trine of the control and regulation of railroads
a enacted into a law, and we favor such
changes as experience may show to be neces-
sary TO protect the people from evasionS of law,
from Entertainments and eXtortions through
lmperfectiOnS of the law, and as will establish
just and equitable relations between the people
and railroad corporations in all travel and
trathc over railroad lines. We call for statutes
which provide stringent safeguards in the or
Ban1ZatlOp OF all Corporations. protect the peO
pie from fraudulent and bubble concerns, pro-
vide that wien any such artificial creature of
the law is found to be engaged in harmful
practices. the law shall promptly put all end to
its existence.
Sixlh-We denounce ell trusts, pools and COM
binations, and we favor such action, state and
national, will forfeit to the public all fran
ehlSes and property made use of by corpora
lions or others to form trusts in manufactu res,
trade or commerce to the injury and spoliatiol
of the people, and also to insure the punish
ment criminally of the individuals thus con-
spring against the public veal The Demo-
cratic party declares that in the division of the
product of abor and capital, la Dor does not re-
Celve its 1a1r proportion.
seventh-On behalf of our laboring and pro-
duclng masses, we renew that devotion to their
interests and rights which has always been a
fundamental doctrine and practice of the Dem.
ocratic party. We favor all other fair and law
full methods by which labor may secure laws es-
tablis hing free public employment agencies and
adequate compensation undiminished by any
device Tor the enrichment of the few at the ex-
pense of armies of toilers. And we condemn
the practice OF importing contract lubor for
work in mines elsewhere.
Eighth-We are i'll favor of the election of
United States senators by direct vote of the
people, and until an amendment to the national
constitution can be secured requiring their
election by such direct vote their nomination
by state conventions or individ ual preference.
We mold In deteStatlOn the alarming corrup
tions which SO widespread in senatorial
elections by state legislatures, and which have
defeated the VII of the people in the United
Ninth-We reiterate our demand of one yeaJ
for the &c coinage of silver, and that it be
made full Il gal tender for all debts, public and
private and denounce us unjust and dishonest
the provisions of the law recently enacted al
lowing parties to stipulate against payment in
silver and silver certificates thus setting I'D one
standard for the creditor and another tor tie
debtor. one tor the poor man and another for
the rich man.
Tenth-We declare in favor of Just. liberal
and equitable pension laws for all invalid and
dependent soldiers and Sailors their widows
and orphans
Eleventh-We denounce the Mckinley bill,
the motives of its authors and defenders, and
the theory under which it is submitted for the
approval of the American people. We demand
equal opportunities for every section of our
country and for every citizen, and we insist that
every oppressive feature of the tariff be elimi-
mated TO the end. that our merchant marine
may be restored to the sea, and the markets OF
the world opened to the producing classes. The
sugar bounty Is not tarln 1t is spoliation OF
the treasury for snecial classes and interests
which are nc more entitled to be aided by the
government than the farmers of Iowa in raising
hogs and corn. or the pioneer settlers of the
frontier in their hardships and sufferIngs as the
vanguard of civilization.
Tweltth--We denounce the was.eful and Law
ish appropriations of the last Congress- which
In time of profound peace expended an amount
equal to one-third the total public debt. in
CURED in four years of unparalleled war tor the
preservation of the Union.
1h1rteentnINe are unaHeraDly opposed TO
the nonresident alien ownership of lands and
of foreign syndicate ownership of indus
tries and we also demand that all unearned
railroad land grants be reclaimed by the gen.
eral government and held for actual settle
ment.
Fourteenth-We tender to the Irish PEOPLE our
profound sympathy in their struggle Tor home
rule, that safeguard of freedom which the i'll
famous force bill attempted to take from the
American people in congressional elections.
We abhor the prosecutions of Russia toward
the Jewish people, and we believe thst all civil
lied nations should protest against such bar
barlsm and 1nhumanity.
sympathy with the efforts being put forth to
make credita BILE exhibit of Iowa's resources
at the Worlds Columbian Exposition, and we ia
Assembly that her prosperity and greatness
may be fully exempltied at the great gathering
Of the nations of the world.
RUN OVER BY A BARGE.