The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-06-25
IOWA DEMOCRATS
Governor BOies is Ren0minated
by AcclamatiOn.
IMPORTANCE OF THE CAMPAIGN
II the State Goes Democratic 1t Makes Ii
Pivotal In '92-Demands Of
the Platform.

OTrUMwA, Iowa, June 24.-The Demo
cratic state convention assembled here this
morning at 10 o'clock. Chairman Fuller
called the convention to order. The com
ing campaign will be decisive, because it is
conceded by both political parties that as
Iowa goes in the next election, so it viii
probably go in the presidential election OF
1892. Should the Democrats carry the
state and re-elect Governor 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 conse
quently be power in coming national
conventions.
Walter H. Butler, temporary chairman,
made an eloquent address, in which ne
eulogized Governor Boies. He said the
work of the Democratic party in Iowa
would not be fully done until the prohibit
ton 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 30 p. IN.
Immediately after adjournment, the COM
mittee on resolutions met TO prepare a
platform. Great progress was made, and
the platform was substantially agreed upon
before the afternoon meeting.
Immediately after the meeting OF the
convention in the afternoon, w. II. Pusey,
OF Council Bluffs, was selected as per-
maneDt chairman. After speech by the
permanent chairman formal reports of the
committees were received and adopted and
| the nomination of state officers declared in
order. Colonel Clark, of Cedar Rapids,
nominated Boies for a second gubernatorial
term. His speech was an eloquent one and
was loudly cheered throughout. The con-
vention then, by reclamation, declared
Boies the nominee. There was the widest
excitement and enthusiasm for a time.
Governor Horace Boies was renomI-
were made: For ieutenantgovernor,
Samuel L. Bestow: supreme judge, L. G..
Kline; superintendent OF public instruc-
! ton, j. b. knoepler; railroad commissioner,
Peter A. Dey.
The platform, as formally presented,
contained the silver clause Of last year and
was unanimously adopted without discus
sion. The platform demands the repeal of
the prohibitory liquor law and in the in
terests of true temperance favors a care
fully guarded license law; favors such
changes in the law as will insure the full
and equal taxation Of every species
OF property after allowing for present
exemptions; favors the Australian ballot
system and denounces the Republican
party for the defeat Of this Statutory re-
form in the Twenty third general assem-
bly,
1t reaffirms adherance to the doctrine Of
the control and regulation OF railroads as
now enacted into law, with such changes
as experience may show to be necessary
to protect the people from invasion Of the
law; calls for statutes which will provide
g.
all corporations, to protect the people from
fraudulent concerns, and when any such
artificial creature of the law is found en-
gagged in harmful practice, the law shall
promptly put an end 20 its existence. The
platform 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,
manufactures, trades or commerce to the
injury and spoilation of the people, and
also to insure the punishment of criminal
ity Of individuals thus conspiring against
the public wealth.
The Democratic party declares that in
the division of the products of labor and
capitol labor does not receive its fair pro-
portion. On behalf of the laboring and
producing masses the platform renews that
devotion TO their interests and rights which
always has been fundamental doctrine Of
the Democratic party, and favors all fair
and lawful methods by which labor may
secure laws establishing free pubic en-
ployment agencies, adequate compensation
undiminished by any device for the enrich
ment of the few at the expense of the
many: condemns the practice CT importing
contract LABOR for work in mines or else
where. 1t favors the election of United
States Senators by direct vote Of the peo-
pic and holds In detestation the alarming
corruption so widespread in senatorial
elections by legislatures.
On the silver question the platform says:
1--WE reiterate our demands of a year ago
for the free coinage of silver, and that it
be made full legal tender for ali debts,
public and private, and denounce as unjust
and dishonest the provisions OF the law re-
Gently enacted allowing parties TO stipu-
late against payments In silver and silver
certificates. thus setting up one standard
for the creditor and another for the debtor;
one for the poor and another for the rich
man,
\ The platform favors liberal and equit-
able pensions; denounces the Mckinley
bill, the motives of its authors and defend
ers and the theory under which il is sub
mitted for the approval OF the American
people; insists that every oppressive fea-
lure of the tariff be eliminated TO the end
that our merchant marine may be restored
10 Lue sea anu TIC u1dkhCtS VI luc WOElQ
opened to the producing classes. The
sugar bounty is not tariff; it is spoliation
of the treasury for special classes and in
terests which are no more entitled to be
aided by the government thai the farmer
in their hardships and sufferings as the
vanguard of civilization"
The platform denounces the wastful and
lavish appropriation of the last Congress;
declares its unalterable opposition to non-
resident alien ownership of lands, and of
foreign syndicate ownership of cur indus
tries; demands that all uDearned land
grants be reclaimed and held for actual
settlers.
sympathy is expressed with the Irish in
their struggle for home rule. Adherence
is expressed Of the Russian prosecutions of
the Jews, and the belief that all civilized
nations should protest. A liberal appro-
priation for Iowa's exhibit at the Worlds
lair is recommended.
North Dakota Alliance Convention
GRAND FORKS, N. D., June 24-The
Alliance state convention assembled here