The record-union., 1891-06-25
POLITICAL WORLD.
IOWA DEMOCRATS HOLD THEIR
STATE CONVENTION.
Governor Boies Renomfnated by Accla.
nation Amid Wild Excitement
and Enthusiasm,
Special to the REcopp-uN1or.

Special to the RECoRD-UNIoN.
OTTUMwA Gowa), June 24-The Dem
ocratic State Convention assembled here
this morning at 10 O'clock. Chairman
| Fuller called the convention to order
The coming campaign will be decisive,
because it is conceded by both political
| parties that as Iowa goes in the next cleo
ton SO it will probably go in the Presi-
Dental election of 1892. Should the DEM
Ocrats carry the State and re-elect Gov
ernor Boies, the claim of Iowa as a 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 national conventions.
Walter II. Butler, temporary Chairman,
made an eloquent address, in which he
eulogiZed Governor Boies. He said the
would not be fully done until the prohi-
bition farce should be swept from the
code.
The members of the new State Central
Committee were then announced, and the
convention took a recess until l:30 P. NJ
Immediately after the meeting of the
convention in the afternoon w. Fl. NJ.
Pusey of Council Bluffs was selected as
permanent Chairman.
After a speech by the permanent Chair
man, the formal reports of committees
were received and adopted, and the nomi-
nation of State officers were declared in
order.
Colonel Clark of Cedar Rapids nomi-
dated Boies for the second Gubernatorial
term. His speech was an eloquent one
and was loudly cheered throughout. The
convention then by acclamatiOn declared
Boies the nominee. There was wild ex-
| citement and enthusiasm for time.
The other nominations were: For
| Lieutenant-Go Samuel T.. BestOw;
Supreme Judge, l.. Kinnsey; Superin-
| tendent of Public instruction, J. B.
Knoehler; Railroad Commissioner, Peter
| A. Day.
The platform, as finally presented, con-
tanned the silver clause of last year, and
was unanimously adopted without dis
cussiOn. The platform further says: By
the demands of property, the liquor law,
and in the interests of true temperance,
we favor carefully guarded license law:
favor such changes of the laws as will in
sure full and equal taxation of every
| species of property, after allowing the
present exemption; favor the Australian
! ballot system, and denounce the Repub-
| lican party "for the defeat of this saluta-
| tory reform in the Twenty-third Cen
eral Assembly," Reaffirms our adherence
| to the doctrine ofcontrol and regulation of
railroads now enacted into law, with
! such changes as experience may show to
| be necessary to protect the people from
! invasions of laws; call for statutes which
/ provide stringent safeguards in the or
! ganiZation of all corporations to protect
| the people from fraudulent concerns, and
! when any such artificial creature of the
law is found engaged in harmful prac-
| tees the law shall promptly put an end to
| its existence; denounce all trusts, pools
! and combines, and favor 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 COM
merce to the injury of the people, and
| also to insure punishment criminally of
| individuals thus conspiring against the
public veal.
! On behalf of the laboring and produc-
| ing masses, the platform "renews that
| devotion to their interests and rights
which has always been the fundamental
| doctrine of the Democratic party" which
| favorS all fair and lawful methods by
which labor may secure laws establish
ing free public employment agencies and
adequate compensation, undiminished
| by any device for the enrichment of the
few at the expense of the many; con-
| dennis the practice of importing contract
] labor for work in mines or elsewhere;
favors the election of United States Sena-
| tors by a direct vote of the people, and
holds in detestation the alarming cor
ruptions so widespread in Senatorial
elections by Legislatures.
! The platform tavors liberal and equita-
| bic pensions; denounces the McKinIey
| bill, the motives of it's authors and de-
| tenders, and the theory under which it is
submitted for approval by the American
| people; insists that every oppressive
| feature of the tariff be eliminated to the
| end that our merchant marine may be
restored to the sea, and the markets Of the
world opened to the producing classes.
! The sugar bounty is not tariff, it is
| spoliation of the Treasury for special
| classes and interests, which are no more
entitled to be aided by the Government
| than the farmers of Iowa in raising hogs
and corn, or the pioneer settlers of the
! frontier in their hardships and sutferings
! as the vanguard of civilization.
| The platform denounces the wasteful
and lavish appropriations of the last Con-
/ gress; declares unalterable opposition to
nonresident alien ownership of lands,
and of foreign syndicate ownership of our
| industries, and demands that all un-
earned land grants be reclaimed and held
| for actual settlers.
! Sympathy is expressed with the Irish
in their struggle for home rule; abhor-
/ renee is expressed of Russian persecu-
| tions of the Jews, and the belief that all
civilized nations should protest.
! A liberal appropriation for the Iowa
exhibit at the Worlds Fair is recon-
mended.