Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-07-01
BOIES WILL AGAIN LEAD.
Unanimous Choice of Iowa Democrats for
Governor-Opening a Great Conflict
Election in the Hawkeye State Likely
to Forete1l the Result of the Next
Presidential Struggle-Proceedings of
the Ottunwa Convention.

probably destined to be the most de-
cisive campaign ever waged for political
supremacy in the state of Iowa was
opened at 10 o'clock to-day when Chair
man Fuller raped to order 1000 OF
the most enthusiastic Democrats ever
assembled in convention in the Hawk
eye State. The campaign is decisive
because it is conceded by both polit-
zeal parties that as Iowa goes
in the. coming election so it will
probably go in the presidential cleo
tan Of '92. Should the Democrats
carry the state and re-elect Gov.
state in the great national campaign of
next year will be too we'll established to
be disputed, even by the Republicans,
and the voice of the Hawkeye State will
consequently be a power in the coming
national conventions. Both parties are
entering upon the present campaign with
equal confidence. The Democrts have
one point of vantage, Gov. Boies will
be renominated by reclamation while
there is sharp rivalry for the Republi-
can gubernatorial nomination, and some
bitterness may be engendered IN the
ranks Of that party. Added to this
is the further advantage that
the Democrats, by declaring for
the repeal of the prohibitory
liquor law, have attracted the almost
solid support of the enemies of prohi-
bition, while the prohibition vote is di-
vided between the Republican and Pro-
hibtion parties, the latter having re.
Gently nominated full party ticket.
The Grand Opera House was beauti-
fu1lv dpporotn6 for tO-6ov'a nnn.
vention, and to the right of
the chairman, festooned in ev-
ergreens, hung tie motto, "Public
Office is Public Trust" while on the
other side hung the injunction, "No
Backward Step" a reference to the
free-silver plank of the Democratic
platform of last year. The crack band
of the state discoursed few airs just
before the opening of the conve ntion,
concluding with yankee Doodle"
which caused enthusiastic applause.
The convention was opened by prayer
by the Rev. j. H. Lloyd, of Wapello
County, whose invocation that the con
vention might be inspired by the senti.
ment of the men who declared
that "a public Office is pub.
delegates. At the conclusion OF
the address of welcome and extended
the freedom OF the city to the delegates.
The chairman of the State Central Com
mittee introduced Walter h. Butter,
congressman of the Fourth District, az
temporary chairman of the convention
I'VE meet to-day" said the temporary
chairman, amid applause, mot as in
years gone by, simply to plan for the
perpetuity of our organization, but
rather in the fu!lness of achieve
ment, to celebrate the day OF
success, and to name the leaders
who shall march at the head oil
our increasing columns at our certain
November triumph. The logic of our
recent success shows permanency OF
progress. Democratic advancement has
not been accidental, nor yet the result
of conditions not understood. 1t is
but the recurrence OF truth as old as
Jural society that principle is stronger
than plumber [applause], and that in
the nations onward march, under the
influence of educational campaigns, the
support Of the masses will eventually
be found on the side of the peoples
truest champions" Continuing he
said:
The Republican party compares our
country with the other nations or the earth,
ana for shame declares our inability to
compete with other lands ON equal terms
in the ordinary business of life. 1t holds
the industrial centers of our land as pauper
communities, only able to survlvp in the
sistance of the tax .gatherer, who col
lects the tithes from the many
homes of toll, to scatter fairness in the
larderS of Its masters. Applause To
this end that party has increased taxation
1so1o -lNr,fl l.
pie. and has declared such taxation to be
the very essence of individual and nation
al wealth. The Republican party sees
danger in commercial intercourse with
foreign nations, and counts the open
highway of the seas a menace to
our prosperity. 1t has been consistent
in the laws which haye driven our ships
from the commercial world and given over
all ocean carriage to be handled under for
clgn flags, but inconsistent now attempts
to build up by subsidies the very COM
merce it destroyed by tax [Great ap-
plause].
The Democratic party is more than
ever determined to overthrow the in1uui-
tous Mckinley bill cheers and to estab-
llSh in its stead a law based upon the prin-
cipieS that all taxation of whatever nature
shall be for revenue alone [applauseI.
The free coinage plank in the platform of
1891 struck the keynote to the financial
situation, and it will strike it still.
[CheerS.l
The speaker eulogized Gov. Boies as
"that grand ola tribune of the people
who, in the executive office of our great
commonwealth, has demonstrated a
breadth of craftsmanship worthy of
presidential honors." Cheers He
then said
Sumptuary legislation has placed upon
our statute books the laws which assume
to control the appetites and personal
habits of our people. While thus Interior
ing with mans inherent rights, it has SO
far failed that whereas there were in Iowa
in 1883, 1874 places where liquors
were sold, in the present year
OF grace there are 1858. Be
levers in the true and prac-
teal temperance can tolerate the farce
no longer. The work of the Democratic
party in Iowa will not be fully done until
this greatest of all farces is swept from
the pages of our code and law Shall be
enacted for the strict regulation and con-
troll OF the traffic in intoxicating liquors.
After the announcement of the vari-
GUS committees the conventian ad-
lourned to 30 P. NJ, amid great ap-
plause.
The platform Endorses Gov. Roies' ad-
reaffirms the Prohibition