Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1891-10-01
REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET.
THE PLATFORM.

VI Jasper county
THE PLATFORM.
1. The Republican party of Iowa in conven.
ton assembled gives renewed expressions of
devotion to 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.
2. We commend the patriotic, wise and
courageous administration of President Harri-
son.
3. We commend the Republican party IN
the last congress fc. its re iemption 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.
4. 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.
s. We commend most heartily the policy
that has been inaugurated looking to r2cipro-
cal trade relations with other people of the
American continent. and the administrative
efforts now making fer the enlargement of
foreign markets for American beef and
g. We assert that the Republican party
stands of record in every state of this Union
In favor of elections basel upon the freedom
of individual conscience and that the Repub-
GNican party may be trusted in Iowa or in any
state to promote any plan of reform, Austrai-
ian or other, calculated to extend and to furtn-
er protect the purity Of the ballot.
T. While inviting to our shores the worthy
poor of all nations, We earnestly recommend
laws that will protect or country and our p2o.
pie against an influx of the vicious and or, M
nal classes Of foreign nations and mpOrtat.o on
of laborGrs 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.
g. We favor such legislation as will impose
upon all classes of property, corporate Or indi-
vidual, equally the burdens of taxation
9. We favor the passage of the Conger lard
bill; state legislation tenDipgto promote farm
ers' Institutes and charging 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 he ;Tty sympathy withthe
effort to make it a success. lin the friendlvrv-
airy Of states we shouldinake creditaAle eX-
hibit Of lowa's products, ana we favor a lib
eral appropriation by the next general assem-
bly, for this purpose, that our prosperity and
greatness may be fully eXemplihcd.
II. We take pride in the record of this state,
and recognize that its growth and power, its
prosperity and its good Eamc are the fruits Of
its industrial people, and we believe in such
policy, state and national, as viii promote JUS
tice and q wider opportunity among these
classes and We pledge our. most intelligent
Judgment and most sincere cndeaVOr 70 their
support in the future as in the past
II. We point to the record Of the state I'M
der Republican administration for justifca-
ton in the declaration thai we fayCr economy
and Justice IN the administration of public af-
fairs. We point to that record also for iuStif-
cation of the statement that the party has
kept faith with the people in the past, and
upon tnat record We invite their continued
support and confidence.
ID. 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
ests Gf-trle temperance and under the laws OF
Iowa enacted by the representatives OF its soy
ereign people, the saloon was made an outlaw
in this state. We charge that the outlaw has
had the patronage. counsel AMI protection OF
the Democratic party; that the Democratic
party, as it has won power, has mlltiic the
law, dcied 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 insuhordnation
the state of Iowa against the Democratic
party. We recognize that the issucis between
true TEMPERANCE and free and iudscriGlnate
traffic. We renew our pledge to the people
and submit the issue to them. We recognize
the fact that the control OF the next legisIa-
ture by the Democratic party means statc-wi e
license, and the control of the next legiSl, ture
10y the Republicans means continued OF posi-,
ton to the bahests of the saloon Lower
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law.
IA. We denouncc the Democratic party Of
Iowa as insincere in its dealings with the sa-
loon issue. We charge that party with service
TO the saloon and with the purpose to strength
en- the saloon grasp upon the homes and poll
ties of the state. We cite In proof of this its
surrender this year Of the local option plank
of 1889, under which last year the pretcnse of
endorsement by the state was made and on
which petition for the legislature was made.
We charge that this abandonment of local OPP
ton is the fOrerunuer for further premedita
ted betrayal, aud 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.
Is We protest against the reelection of
Boes to the gOvernorship of Iowa. We charge
that in his unwise and ambitious zeal TO clltl-
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 misTepresent the most industri-
ous frugal and prosperous people oflowa in
his efforts at n banquet speech In the city
of New York on the 23d of December last. We
denounce as purposely unloading the alleged
statistics with which the governor assumed to
sustain the indictment against the state which
had dignilied his name.
16. We denounce the Ottumwa platform of
this year as framed with the deliberate pur-
pose to mislead and deceive, wherein sympathy
Is expressed where none is felt; wherein hope
is proposed where none Will be rendered;
wherein purposes are avowed which are not
entertained. In the support oi this indict-
incentive point to the pretended friendship Tor
the soldier and arrai9nment at the same time
of the Republican party for appropriations for
the payment of PENSIONS; to the free silver
plank intended to deceive the supporters of
free and unlimited coinage of silver: to the
plank assuming to reafiirm 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 1886.
II. We denounce the Democratic party for
Misrepresentation in its platform and before of
the Mckinley bill, charging that 1t seeks to
mslead the people through the reiteration of
uDtruths as to the effect of chat bill, and in all
ways york upon the prejudlces of the unin-
formed.
IS. We arraign the Democratic party for
opposition to ballot reform in the south, while
vet making a pretense of ballot reform in
Iowa where the undIsputed right TO cast free
ballot and to have 1t honestly counted goes in
every precinct of the stlte unchallenged
49, We ARA I'm the Democratic party as the
enemy of the laborer, scheming to break down
the defenses OF protective laws, to block the
wheels of home industry, and to degrade the
MASSES of the people. As party controlled
by the aristocratc and reactionary tendency
% the legacy Of slavery.
%. The Republican party OF Iowa appeals
TO the intelligence aud 10 the Integrity of the
people Of this state, and from all good citizens
we invite support
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