Los Angeles herald., 1891-06-25
The Iowa Democrats Enthuse
i'm Convention.
A Winning Ticket and an In
vincible Platform.
The Present Governor RenOminated
without Opposition.
Free silver Reaffirmed as a Principle of
the Hawkeye Democracy-Ihe Main
PIAnks of the Platform.
= Associated Press Dispatches.

cratic state COHNeuIlOu aenOhoiSU "SAo
this morning at 10 O'Clock. Chairman
Fuller called the convention to order.
The coming campaign, he said, will be
decisive, because it is conceded by both
political parties that as Iowa goes in the
next election, SO it will probably go in
the presidential election OF '92. Should
the Democrats carry the state and re-
elect Governor Boies, the claim OF Iowa
as a pivotal state in the great national
campaign of next year will be too well
established to be disputed, and the
voice of the Hawkeye state will conse-
quently be power in coming national
conventions.
Walter H. Butler, temporary chair
man, made an eloquent address, in
which he eulogized Governor Boies. He
said the work OF the Democratic party
in Iowa would not be fully done till pro-
hibition is swept from the code. The
members of the new state central COM
mittee were then announced, and the
convention took recess till 80 pm.
Immediately after adjournment the
committee on resolutions met to pre-
pare the platform. Great progress was
made, and except upon two or three
disputed questions the platform was
substantially agreed upon before the
afternoon meeting. The platform leads
off by endorsing Gov. Boies and his ad-
ministration. The anti Prohibition
plank of the platform of 'S9 was reaf-
firmed and the party is pledged to Its
legislative enactment The Australian
ballot was favored for ballot reform.
The Mckinley tariff law is denounced
and the principle OF tariff for revenue
only re-endorsed. State and national
control of railroads is recommended and
liberal pensions for disabled ex-
union soldiers favored. The worlds
fair of 1898 comes in for plank
and an ample and liberal appro-
priation is recommended. Upon the
silver question there was long dis
pute, but the committee finally decided
to recede from the platform of year
ago, and merely favors 'free coinage OF
silver upon just ratio" making it full
legal tender for all debts, public and
private.
Immediately after the meeting of the
convention in the afternoon, w. III. Nj.
Pusev of Council Bluffs was selected as
permanent chairman. After a speech
by the permanent chairman, formal re-
ports of committees were received and
adopted. and nomination of state officers
was declared in order. Colonel Clark OF
Cedar Rapids nominated Boies for sec
ond gubernatorial term. His speech
was an eloquent one, and was loudly
cheered throughout. The convention
then bv acclamation declared Boies the
nominee. There was the widest scene
of enthusiasm for time.
The other nominations were For
lieutenant-governor, Samuel l.. Bestow;
supreme Judge, l.. j. Kinney; superin-
tendent of public instruction, }. b.
Knoepler; railroad commissioner, Peter
A. Doyle.
The platform as finally presented con-
tanned the silver clause OF last year and
was unanimously adopted without dis
cussion. The platform demands the re-
peal of the prohibitory liquor law, and
in the interest OF true temperance tavors
a license law; favors such changes IN
the laws as will insure the full and equal
taxation of every species OF property al
ter allowing the present exemptions /;
favors the Australian ballot system, and
denounces the Republican party
'sfor the defeat OF this sal
utary reform in the twenty-third
general assembly," reaffirms ad herence
to the doctrine OF the control and regu-
lation of railroads as now enacted into
law, with such changes as experience
may show to be necessary to
vasions of the laws; calls for
statutes which provide stringent safe
guards in the organization of all corpo-
rations, to protect the people from
fraudulent concerns, and when any such
artificial creature OF the law
is found engaged in harmful
practices the law shall prompt
iv put an end to it's existence; denounces
all pools and combines, and favors such
action, state and national, as will forfeit
to the public all franchises and property
made use of by corporations or others to
form trusts in manufactures, trades or
commerce, to the injury and spoliatlon
of the people, and also to insure the pun
ishment criminally of individuals thus
conspiring against the public veal.
The platform. continues " The Dem
ocratic party declares that in the dlvl-
sion of the products of labor and capital,
labor does not receive it's fair proper
tion. On behalf of the laboring and
producing masses, the platform renews
that devotion to their interests and
rights which always has been the fun-
damental doctrine Of the Democratic
party. which favors all fair and lawful
methods by which labor may secure
laws establishing free public employment
agencies and adequate compensation
undiminished by any device for the en-.
richment of the few at the expense OF
the many" The platform condemns
the practice of importing contract labor
for work in mines or elsewhere; favors
the election OF United States senators
by the direct vote of the people, and
holds in detestation the alarming cor
ruptions SO widespread in senatorial
elections by the legislatures.
On the silver question the platform
saws: "We reiterate our demand OF a
wear ago for the free coinage OF silver,
and that it be made tull
legal tender for all debts, public
and private, and denounce as
unjust and dishonest the provision OF
the law recently enacted allowing par
ties to stipulate against payment In sill
yer and silver certificates: thus setting
np one standard for the creditor and
another for the debtor, one for the poor
and another for the rich man." The
platform denounces the wasteful and
iay;sb concentrations OF the last con-