Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1891-10-08
REPUBLICAN, STATE TICKET.
THE PLArFoRM.

THE PLATFORM.
1, The Republican party of Iowa in conven.
ton assembled gives renewed expressions of
devotion 10 the principles of the National Re-
publican party and declares the acceptance OF
those principles to be the bond of union with
the Republican party of Iowa.
g. We commend the patriotic, wise and
courageous administration Of President Harri-
son.
3. We commend the Republican party In
the last congress fc. its redemption Of the
pledges made the people as to revision Of the
tariff in the interest OF home industry and of
its work in behalf of the liberal provision for
pensions for old soldiers in accordance with
the pledges Of the nation.
A. We approve the coinage act by which the
great product of the silver mines of the United
States is added to the currency Of tine people,
and out of which experiment may come wise
adjustment of financial questions, liberal TO-
wards western interests.
5. We commend most heartily the policy
that has been inaugurated looking to recipro-
cal trade relations with other people of the
American continent, and the administrative
efforts now making for the enlargement of
foreign markets for American beef and
pork.
8. We assert that the Republican party
stands of record in every state of this Union
in favor of elections based upon the freedom
of individual conscience, and that the Repub-
lcan party may be trusted In Iowa or In any
state to promote any plan of reform, Austral-
ian or other calculated to extend and to furtn-
er protect the purity Of the ballot.
z. While inviting to our shores the worthy
poor of all nations, we earnestly recommend
laws that will protect our country and our peo-
pie against an influx Of the vicious and crml-
nal classes of foreign nations and importation
of laborers under contract to compete with
our own citizens and earnestly approve the
rigid enforcement Of these laws, and of such
further legislation as may be necessary.
s. We favor such legislation rs will impose
upon all classes OF property, corporate or indi-
vidual equally the burdens of taxation.
o. We favor the passage of the Conger lard
bill; state legislation tending to promote farm
ers' institutes and enlarging the powers Of the
dairy commissioner
10. We regard the Worlds Columbian Ex-
position as an important event In the worlds
history, and we are in hearty sympathy with the
effort to make it success. In the friendly riv-
airy CT states we shouldjmake a creditable ex-
hbt of Iowa's products, and We favor lib
eral appropriation by the next general assem-,
bly, for this purpose, that our prosperity and
greatness may be fully exemplihed.
IL. We take pride In the record of this state,
and recognize that its growth and power, Its
Prosperity and its good Fame are the fruits OF
its industrial people, and we believe In such
policy, state and national, as will promote JUS
tice and wider opportunity among these
classes, and We pledge our most intelligent
Judgment and most sincere endeavor to their
. support in the future as in the past
Il. We point to the record Of the state un-
der Republican administration for justifca-
ton In the declaration that We favor economy
and Justice In the administration of public at
fairs. We point to that record also for justif-
cation of the statement that the party has
kept faith With the people in the past, and
upon tnat record we invite tnc'r continued
support and confidence.
Is. We have no apologies TO offer to the
people nor to the Democratic party for the Re
publican record in the conspicuous Issue In
the state campaign this year. In the inter
csts Of true temperance and under the laws OF
Iowa enacted by the representatives of its SOW
ercgn people, the saloon was made an outlaw
in this state. We charge that the outlaw has
had the patronage. counsel and protection OF
the Democratic party; that the Democratic
party, us il has won power, has nulltfel the
law, defica the authority Of the state and the
expressed will OF the people, and that now an
appeal is made to the electors of the whole
state for approval of the lawless work. We
recognize that 1t is law against defiance OF
law, subordination against naturalization;
the state Of Iowa against the Democratic
party. We recognize that the issueis between
true temperance and free and indiscriminate
traffic. We renew our pledge to the people
and submit the issue to them. We recognize
the fact that the control of the next legsla-
ture by the Democratic party means statewide
license, and the control of the next legislature
by the Republicans means continued OF POSI-
tlon to the behests of the saloon power
through the maintenance and enforcement Of
Law.
IA. We denounce the Democratic party Of
Iowa as insncerc In its dealings with the sa-
loon issue. We charge that party with service
10 the saloon and with the purpose to strength
en- the saloon grasp upon the homes and poll
ties of the state. We cite I'm proof Of this its
surrender this year of the local option plank
III 1899, under which last year the pretense OF
endorsement by the state was made and on
which petition for the legislature was made.
We charge that this abandonment OF local op
ton is the forerunner for further premedita-
ted betrayal and that trust in the Democratic
party will end in the complete breaking down
of the temperance legislation Of the state and
the complete turning over of the state In every
township thereof to the pollution and tester
of the saloon against whatever portions may
now be free.
10 We protest against the reelection OF
Boics TO the governorship Of Iowa. We charge
that in his unwise and ambitious yea! to calti-
waite the friendship and support of the alleged
''new allies. In the northwest" and on that
strength TO commend himself to the favoring
graces OF Grover Cleveland, that he did most
outrageously misrepresent the most industri-
Gus, frugal and prosperous people OF Iowa in
his efforts at a banquet speech In the city
of New York on the 23d of December last. We
denounce as purposely misleading the alleged
statistics with which the governor assumed to
had dignifiei his name.
IL. We denounce the 0ttumwa platform of
this year as framed with the deliberate pur-
pose to mislcad and deceive, wherein sympathy
Is expressed where none is felt: wherein hope
Is proposed where none will be rendered ;
wherein purposes are ayowed which are not
entertained. In the support oi this indct.
mcntw we point TO the pretended friendship for
the soldier and arrdi2nment at the same time
of the Republican patty for appropriations for
flaF f.f ia fraan ell nH
plank intended to deceive the supporters OF
free and unlimited coinage of silver; to the
plank assuming to reaffirm the doctrine Of
control and regulation of railroads, policy
implanted upon this state under the admins
tration of the last Republican governor
against the opposition, secret and open, Of
the Democratic party, extending to an alliance
with corporate power in the first election OF
railroad commissioner under the law in 1856.
IL. We depounce the Democratic party for
Misrepresentation In its platform and before Of
the McXinley bill, charging that it seeks to
mslead the people through the reiteration Of
untluths as TO the effect OF chat bill, and in oil
ways york upon the prejudices OF the unin-
formed.
is. We arralgn the Democratic party for
Cpl ositon to ballot reform in the south, while
vet making a pre.euse of ballot reform 10
iowa where the undisputed right to cast free
ballot and TO have 1t honestly counted goes Ia
livery precinct of the stite unchallenged.
~. we ana Gn lhe DsinOcfatlc party as tnc
ereny of the laborer, $ heIning to break down
TIE defenses of protective laws, to clock the
wheels of home Industry, and TO degrade the
mlssts Of the people. Asa party controlled
hy the arstocratic and reactlonary tendency
.. / C legacy of slavery.
%. The Republican party of Iowa appeals
t the intelligence and TO the integrity Ut the
people OF this state, and from all good citizens
we invite support
r. G. Dun & Co. report that during
the quarter ending Sept, 80 there We're
.,754 failures in the United States, as
against 2,196 for the corresponding
quarter in 1890
At indianapolis 300 Indiana saloon
keepers met and organized the Saloon
keepers union.
Aquila b. Rich & Co., bicycle dealers
Of New York, made an assignment 10
Willard n. Baylis with preferences of
$4,000.
G. II. Venner & Co. brokers OF New
York, made an assignment.