Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-06-24
I'd EDITION.
POLITICS IN IOWA.
Meeting Of the Democratic Conven-
tion at 0ttumwa.
VARIOUS VIEWS OF PARTY LEADERS.
Columbia College Freshmen De-
feat Yale and Harvard.
COMMENCEMENTWEEK SCENES
IOWA DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION.
An Enthusiastic Gathering Called to Order
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES SCENES
IOWA DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION.
An Enthusiastic Gathering Called to Order
at Ottumwa.

An EntnuSfastic gathering Called 10 OrOer
at Ottumwa-
OTTUAwA. Iowa, June 24.-what is probably
destined TO be the most decisive campaign ever
waged for political supremacy in the state of
Iowa was opened at 10 O'Clock today, when
Chairman Fuller raped to order 1000 of the
| most enthusiastic democrats ever assembled
| in convention in the hawkeye state.
The campaign is decisive because it is
as Iowa goes in the coming election
SO it will probably go in the presidential cleo
| ton of '92. Should the democrats carry the
state and re-elect Gov. Boies. the claim of Iowa
as pivotal state in the great national campaign
Of next year will be too well established to be
disputed even by the republicans. and the voice
of the hawkeye state will consequently be a
power In the coming national convention.
BOTH PARTIES CONFIDENT.
Both parties are entering upon the present
campaign with equal confidence. The demo-
Gratis have one point of vantage, Gov. Boes
will be renominsted by reclamation, while
there is sharp rivalry for the republican guber-
Material 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 pro-
NulLe pTOnlQlIlDg vote Is divided
between the republican and prohibition par
ties the Inter have recently nominated full
party ticket
CONVENTION HALL DECORATIONS.
The Grand Opera House was beautifully dec
GRATED for today's convention and TO The right
Of the chairman, festooned in evergreens, hung
the motto, a public Office is pub
lie trust" while to the left was sus-
pended the injunction. ''No backward STEP
a reference. to the free silver plank of the
democratic state platform of last year. The
crack band of the state played few eElivening
airs just before the opening of the convention,
concluding with Yankee Doodle" which
caused enthusiastic applause.
CHEERING THE PRAYER.
The convention was opened with prayer by
Rev. J. III. Lloyd of Wapello county. whose in
vocation that the convention might be inspired
by the sentiment of tina. grand man who de-
clared that "a public Office il public trust
was cheereS by the delegates at the conclusion
of the PRAYER.
Mayor burgess delivered the address Of well
come and extended the freedom of the city to
the delegates.
The chairman of the state central committee
introduced the Hon. Walter III. Butler, Con-
gresham Of the fourth district, as temporary
chairman of the convention.
THE cRAIRMAN's REMARKS.
''We meet today" said the temporary chair
man amid applause. mot as in years gone by
simply to plan for the perpesuity of our organi-
zation but rather in the fullness of achieve
meut TO celebrate the day of success and to
name the leaders who shall march at the head
Of our ever-increasing columns ut our certain
November triumph.
1.-The logic Of our recent success shows per-
manency of progress. Democratic advance
ment 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 ia stronger than plumber
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. Jap
plause.] The republican party compares our
country with the other nations Of the earth and
Tor shame, delares our inability to compete
with other lands on equal terms iii the orii-
nary business of life. 1t holds the industrial
centers of our lands pauper communities
only able to survive in the struggle for wealth
by the assistance of The tax gatherer who col
lects the tithes from the homes of toll to scat
ter fairness in the larders of its masters. Zap
plause.
ITO this end that party has increased taxa
ton, which absorbs the substance of the peo-
pie, and has declared such taxation to
tional 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 have
driven our ships from the commercial world
died under foreign flags, but inconsistent now
attempts to build up by subsidies the very
commerce is destroyed by tax. [Great APP
plause.I
OPPOSED TO THE N KISLEY LAW.
''The democratic party is more than ever de-
termined to overthrow the ubiquitous McKin-
ley bill [cheersl, and to establish in its stead
law based upon the principles that all taxation
Of whatever nature shall be for revenue alone.
IApplause.I The free coinage plank in the
platform of 1850 struck the keynote to the
financial situation, and it will strike it still"
ICheers.l
The speaker eulogized Gov. Boies as shat
grand old tribune of the people, who, in the
executive office Of our great common wealth.
has demonstrated q breadth Of statesmanship
worthy of presidential honors. [CheersI
''Sumptuary legislation, said he. 'has placed
upon our statute books the laws which assume
TO control the appetite and personal habits Of
our people. While thus interfering with mans
inherent rights, it has so far failed, thus.
whereas there were in lows, in 1883,
S,s74 places where liquors were sold.
in the present year Of grace there are 5,S6S.
Believers in the true and practical temperance
can tolerate the farce no longer. The work Of
not be fully done until this greatest
of all farces is swept from the pages of our
code. and a law shah be enacted for the strict
regulation and control of the traffic in intoxi-
eating liquors"
RECESS UNTIL AFTERNOON.
After the announcement of the various COM
mittees the convention adjourned to 1870 y. M
amid great applause.
THE PLATFORM BLOCKED OUT.
Immediately after the adjournment the COM
mittee on resolutions went to work and soon
blocked out the platform, with the excep-
ton of two or three points. II indorses Gov.
Boics' administration; reaffrms the prohibition
plank of 1889; pledges the party to pass an
Australian or other ballot-reform measure; de-
Eounces the Mckinley tariff law: indorses the
l principle of u tariff for revenue only; recon-
mend: state and national control of railroads;
fayors liberal pensions for disabled Union
soldiers and recomme nds ample and liberal
| appropriation for the state exhibit at the
world s fair.
! Upon the silver question there was long
| dispute. but the committee finally decided to
merely favor the free coinage of silver upon a
/ debts. public and private.
THIS will probably be contested in the con-
vention, as the extreme free silver men will de-
4 tied coinage" plank OF two years ago.
PERMANENT CHAIRMAN cuosEx.
On reassembling the Hon. W. II. NJ. Pusey