Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-07-02
BOIES WILL AGAIN LEAD.
Unanimous Choice of Iowa Democrats AoA
Governor-Opening Great
Election in the Hawkeye State LIAoi'
to Foretell the Result of the Mex
Presidential struggle-Proceedings OF
the Ottunwa Convention.

OrTuMwA, Ia, June 24.-W hat IL
probably destined to be the most oe,
cisive campaign ever waged for pol'lcai
supremacy in the state OF Iowa was
opened at 10 o'clock to-day when Chalr-
man Fuller raped to order l,oOo OF
the most enthusiastic Democrats ever
assembled in convention in the Ha"k-
eye State. The campaign IS decisive
because it is conceded by both poilt-
ical parties that as Iowa goes
in the coming election so 1t VIII
probably 60 in the presidential cleo
tan of 1872. Should the Democrats
carry the state and re-elect GOV;
Boies, the claim CT Iowa as q pivotal
state in the great national campaign OF
next year will be too we'll established 10
be disputed, even by the Republcan!s7,
and the voice of the Hawkeye State VIII
consequently be power N the coming
national conventions. Both partles are
entering upOnthe present campaign Will
equal confidence. The Democrts nave, nave
one point of vantage, Gov. Boles VIII
be renominated by reclamation whlie
there is sharp rivalry for the Republl-
call SuD0IudlOIlal uOlllutttIOIi, -
bitterness may be engendered IN the
ranks of that party. Added to this
is the further advantage tna'
the Democrats, by declaring tor
the repeal Of the prohlblfory
liquor law, have attracted the almost
solid support of the enemies OF PROM
bition, while the prohibition vote IS OIL
vided between the Republican and Pro-
hibition parties, the latter having re-
Gently nominated full party ticket.
The Grand Opera House was beautl-
fully decorated for to-day's con-
vention, and to the right OF
the chairman, festooned in ey-
ergreens, hung tie motto, "Publlc
Office is Public Trust" while on the
other side hung the injunction, NO
Backward Step,' reference to the
free-silver plank of the Democrahc
platform of last year. The crack band
of the state discoursed a few airs just
before the opening of the convention,
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
f iic trust, Pu0 Was 0 cheereI BY p the
delegates. At the conclusion OF
the prayer, Mayor Burgess delivered
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. Butler,
congressman of the Fourth District, as
temporary chairman of the convention.
eve 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 fuilness of achieve
ment, to celebrate the day OF
success, and to name the leaders
who shall march at the head OF
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
influence of educational campaigns, the
support OF the masses will eventually
be found on the side of the people s
truest champions" Continuing he
said:
The Republican party compares our
country with the other nations OF the earth,
compete with other lands on equal terms
in the ordinary business Of life. 1t holds
the industrial centers of our land as parper
communities, only able to survive in the
struggle fol-, wealth by the as
sistance Of the tax ,gatherer, who col
homes of toll, to scatter fairness in the
larders of Its, masters. Applause TO
this end that party has increased taxation
which absOrbS the substance of the Deo-
pie. and has declared such taxation to be
the very essence or individual and nation
al wealth. The Republican party sees
danger in commercial intercourse with
highway of the seas menace to
our prosperity. 1t has been consistent
in the laws which haye driven OUT ships
from the commercial world and given over
all ocean carriage to be handled under for.
eign 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 inloui-
tous Mckinley bill cheers and to estab-
lish in its stead a law based upon the prin-
ciples that all taxation Of whatever nature
shall be for revenue alone Applause J..
The free coinage plank in the platform Of
1891 struck the Keynote to the financial
situation, and it will stllke it still.
LCheers.
The speaker eulogized Gov. Boies AZ
"that grand ola tribune of the peonIe
who, in the executive office of our preat
commonwealth, has demonstrated a
breadth of craftsmanship worthy of
presidential honors." Cheers. He