The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-06-25
1t Will Be in 1892 If Governor
Boies Is Reelected
This Fall.
Which Latter Event Is not by
any Manner OF Means
Improbable.
In Enthusiastic Convention tho Hawkeve
Chief Executive Is Put Up fora
Second Term.

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 elec-
tion SO it will probably 90 in the presi-
dental election in 1892 Should the demo
Gratis carry the state and re-elect Gov,
Boies the claim of Iowa as pivotal state
IN the great national campaign next year
will be too well established to be disputed
and the voice of the Hawkeye state will
consequently be power in the coming ma
tlonal conventions. Walter H. Butler, the
temporary chairman, made an eloquent ad-
dress, in which he eulogized Gov. Boies.
He said the work of the democratic
party in Iowa would not be fully done
until the prohibition farce should be
swept from the code. Members of the new
state central committee were then
announced, and the convention then took a
recess until 1:30 p. m.
Immediately after the meeting of the
convention in the afternoon w. Fl. Pussy,
OF Council Bluffs was selected rs perma-
nent chairman. After speech by the per-
manent chairman, formal reports of the
committees were read and adopted, and the
nomination of state officers was declared in
order.
Col. Clark, of Cedar Rapids, nominated
Gov. Boies for a second gubernatorial term.
His speech was an eloquent one, and was
loudly cheered throughout. The conven-
tion then, by acclamation, declared Boies
the nominee. There was the widest ex-
citement and enthusiasm for time. Other
nominations we're: For lieutenant governor,
Snpv NAL r
klnne; superintendent of public instruc
ton, j: b. knoepler; railroad commissioner,
Peter A. Dey.
The platform adopted contains the silver
clause of last year and was unanimously
adoptep without discussion. 1t demands
the repeal of the prohibitory liquor law
and in the interests of true temperance ia
vors carefully guarded license law. 1t
1t favors such changes in the laws as will
insure the full and equal taxation of every
species of property, after allowing present
exemptions; favors the Australian ballot
system. and denounces the republican
party "for the defeat of this salutary re-
form in the Twenty third general assem-
bly," 1t reatfirms adherence to tho doc
tr1ne OF the control and regulation of rail-
roads as now enacted into law, with such
changes as experience may show to be neces-
sary to protect the people from eyasions of
the law; calls for statutes which provide
all corporations, to protect the people from
fraudulent concerns, and when any such
creature of the law is found en-
gagged in harmful practices the law shall
promptly put an end to its existence. 1t
denounces all trusts, 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
spolation of the people, and also to insure
The punishment criminally of individuals
thus conspiring against public wealth.
The democratic party declares that in the |
division of the products of labor and CAPT
sal, labor does not receive a fair proportion,
On behalf of the laboring and producing
masses the platform "renews that devotion
10 their interests and rights which
always has been the fundamental doctrine
Of the democratic party" and favors all
fair and lawful methods by which labor
nay secure laws establishing free public |
employment agencies and adequate COM
undiminished by any device for |
'he enrichment of the few at the expense of
he many; condemns the practice of i'm
porting contract labor for work in mines
'r elsewhere; favors the election of United
states senators by direct vote of the people
ina holds in detestation the alarming cor
nptons SO widespread in senatorial cleo
ions by legislatures.
On the silver question the platform saws:
We reiterate our demand of year ago for
he free coinage of silver, and that it be
made full legal tender for all debts, public
nd private, and denounce as unjust and
dishonest the provision of the law recently
nacted allowing parties to Stipulate against
payment in silver and silver certificates,
hus setting up one standard for creditor
md another for debtor, one for the poor
nd another for the lioh man.
The platform favo liberal and equitable
'ensions, dsnounces the Mckinley bill, the
motives of its authors and defenders, and
he theory under which it is submitted for
he approval of the American people; in
lists at every oppressive feature of Tho
aritf be eliminated to the end that our
merchant marine may be restored to the sea
nd the markets of the world opened to the
classes. "The sugar bounty is
ot tariff, it is spoilation of the treasury
or special classes and interests which are
o more entitled to MD by the government
han farmers in their haydships and suffer
lgs as the vanguards of civilization"
he platform denounces tho wasteful and
wish appropriations of the last congress;
eclares unalterabe opposition to non I
esident alien ownership of lands and 1
,feign syndicate ownership of our indus-
les; demands that all unearned land :
rnnts be reclaimed and held for actual
'ttlers. Sympathy ia expressed with the
lsh in their struggle for home rule; abhor-
nee is expressed of Russian prosecutions
Jews and the belief that all civilized ma
ons should protest. A liberal appropria Z
on for an Iowa exhibit at the Worlds fair .
recommended.
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