The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-08-13
Gov. Boies' Acceptance.

ton discussed.
Gov. Boies' Acceptance.
DIES MoINEs, July 25.-Gov Boies'
letter Of acceptance was given to the
press to-day. It is ~ follows:
DIES MONIES, Iowa, July %, 81.
John d. NJ. Hamilton, Henry Stivers,
C. E. Whiting, Chas A. Clark,
Nath. French, James p. Dona.
hue, committee, etc.:
GENTLEMEN: Your formal notice
of my selection by the democratic
party OF Iowa as it's candidate for
the Office Of governor Of my state
has received the consideration due
so important a subject.
Grateful for the honor thus con-
ferred beg to now assure you and
through you the party you represent
of my acceptance Of the nomination
SO generously rendered.
In doing this am not unmindful
of the responsibility the decision nec-
essarily imposes. know that to as
sumo theoretically even, the leader
ship of a political party in contest
that involves to any extent the well
being Of q great commonwealth, Is a
matter of such grave Importance
that / arm sure l should hesitate to
accept it il did not believe the sue
cess of the principles it will be my
privilege to advocate, will promote
the best interests of the people OF our
state, rs as o whole.
The leading issues that will divide
the electors of Iowa in the coming
campaign are easily understood, and
SO far as the democratic party is con-
cerned, its position upon every iin-
portant question is expressed in its
platform in most comprehensive and
unequivocal terms.
Upon the absorbing subject OF the
PROHIBITION
or regulation of the manufacture and
sale Of intoxicating liquors that in
strument affirms the right of cities,
towns and townships to control the
same rs in the judgment Of their own
citizens guided by an intelligent
understanding Of their own wants,
they shall determine by a vote OF the
electors thereof.
1t justly demands that in cases
where sales are authorized the bust
ness shall be subjected to carefully
guarded regulations which shall
among others exact from those en-
gagged in such business aI annual
license fee Of $500 to be paid into the
county treasury, and such additional
sum as the municipality in which the
same is carried on may impose for its
own benefit.
This proposition lie met by our op-
ponents with the single demand that
the state shall retain and enforce
our present law; a requirement that
experience has demonstrated is in
conflict with the wishes of q large
majority of the citizens of many Of
the municipalities Of the state, and
that cannot possibly be carried into
effect, except through the instru-
mentality Of agencies that are foreign
to our system Of government and at
variance with the fundamental prin-
ciples on which it is founded.
LOCAL OPTION.
1t is now plain beyond controversy
that we must abandon prohibition as
a means of controlling the liquor
traffic in many localities in the state
or we must substitute fora govern
ment by the people" in q large num-
Der of our cities and towns some out
side force whose ministers are to be
selected by others than those they
are commissioned to govern.
Between the two it is the impera-
tive duty Of every citizen Of the state
to choose for himself. He is willfully
blind who has not already discover
ed that an honest demand for the en-
forcement of this law in localities
where public sentiment is strongly
opposed to to it; q demand that
means what is said, and that is not
designed to mislead any one, is q de-
mand for the suppression in part at
least, Of popular government in
every one of these localities, and for
the substitution in lieu thereof of a
system that has its principal If not
it's only counterparts in the admins
tration OF the affairs Of the most des-
potic governments on the face OF the
globe.
QUESTIONS OF TAXATION.
Upon the questions of fair and
equal taxation of the property Of the
state, OF the adoption of measures to
guard the elective franchise against
improper influences of the regula-
ton Of railroad and other corpora
tons and the suppression of pools
and trusts, of the protection OF labor
against the encroachments of capital
and the adoption of political meas.
ures for the benefit Of the laboring
classes, Of the obligations of the M.
ton to dependent soldiers OF the
union army, and selection by the
/ masses OF representatives of the states
n the most exalted branch of oul