Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1891-10-29
REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET.
THE PLATFORM.

THE PLATFORM.
/. The Republican party Of Iowa In conven-
ton assembled gives renewed expressions of
devotion 10 the principles OF the National Re-
publican party and declares the acceptance Of
those principles TO be the bond of union with
the Republican party of Iowa
2. We commend the patriotic, wise and
courageous administration of President Harri.
son.
8. We commend the Republican party In
the last congress f.. its redemption Of the
pledges made the people as to revision of the
tariff in the interest OF home industry and OF
its work in behalf of the liberal provision for
pensions for old soldiers in accordance with
the pledges of the nation.
4. We approve the coinage act by which the
great product of the silver mines Of the United
States is added TO the currency OF the people,
and out OF which experiment may come wise
adjustment of financial questions, liberal TO-
wards western interests.
5. We commend most heartily the policy
that has been inaugurated looking to recipro-
cal trade relations with Other people of the
American continent, and the administrative
efforts now making for the enlargement Of
foreign markets for American beef and
pork. -.
q. We assert that the Republican party
stands of record in every state of this Union
In favor of elections based upon the freedom
of individual conscience, and that the Repub-
lican party may be trusted in Iowa or In any
ian or other, calculated to extend and to furtn-
er protect the purity of the ballot.
z. While inviting to our shores the worthy
poor of all nations, we earnestly recommend
laws that VIII protect our country aud our peO-
pie against an influx of the vicious and crlmi
nal classes OF foreign nations and importation
OF laborers under contract TO compete with
our own citizens and earnestly approve the
rigid enforcement of these laws, and Of such
further legislation rs may be necessary.
= We favor such LEGISLATION g will innnnqa
upon all classes of property, corporate or indi-
Hdual, equally the burdens of taxation.
Q. We favor the passage Of the Conger lard
bill; state legislation tending to promote farm
ers' Institutes and charging the powers Of the
10 We regard the Worlds Columbian Ex-
position as an important event In the worlds
history, and VIC are in hearty sympathy with the
effort to make it success. In the friendly riv-
airy of states we shouldlmake creditable ex-
hibit Of Iowas products, and we favor q lib
eral appropriation by the next general assem-
bly, for this purpose, that our prosperity and
greatness may be fully exemplited.
II, We take pride In the record of this state,
and recognize that its growth and power, its
prosperity and its good ZANE are the fruits OF
its industrial people. and we believe in such
policy, state and national, as will promote JUS
tice and wider opportunity among these
classes, and we pledge our most intelligent
Judgment and most sincere endeavor to their
support IN the future as in the past.
IL. We point to the record Of the state un-
der Republican administration for justifca-
Hon In the declaration that we favor economy
and Justice IN the administration Of public af-
fairs. We point to that record also for justif-
cation of the statement that the party has
kept faith with the people in the past, and
upon that record we invite their continued
support and confidence.
10. We have no apologies to offer to tho
people nor to the Democratic party for the Re
publican record In the conspicuous issue In
the state campaign this year In the inter
ests Of true temperance and under the laws Of
Iowa enacted by the representatives OF its SOW
creign people, the saloon was made an outlaw
in this state We charge that the outlaw has
had the patronage. counsel and protection OF
the Democratic party; that the Democratic
party, as II has won power, has nulltfed the
law, defed the authority of the state and the
expressed will Of the people, and that now an
appeal is made to the electors of the whole
state for approval Of the lawless work We
recognize that 1t Is law against defiance Of
law, subordinatiou against INSTRUMENTATION,
the state Of Iowa against the Democratic
party. We recognize that the issueis between
true temperance and free and indiscriminate
traffic. We renew our pledge to the people
ana submit the issue to them. We recognize
the fact that the control Of the next legisla-
ture by the Democratic party means state wi e
license, and the control of the next legisl ture
by the Republicans means continued OF POSI-
ton to the behcsts of the saloon over
through the maintenance and enforcement Of
law.
IA. We denounce the Democratic party Of
Iowa as insincere in its dealings with the sa-
loon issue We charge that party with service
TO the saloon and with the purpose to strength
en- the saloon grasp upon the homes and poll
tics of the state We cite In proof OF this its
surrender this year Of the local option plank
Of 1889, under which last year the pretense Of
endorsement By the state was made and on
which petition for the legislature was made.
We charge that this abandonment of local op-
ton is the forerunner for further premedita-
ted betrayal, and that trust in the Democratic
party VIII end in the complete breaking down
Of the temperance legislation of the state and
the complete turning over of the state in every
township thereof TO the pollution and fester
Of the saloon against whatever portions may
now he free. ..a.
Is. We protest against the reelection Of
Boies to the gOvernorship Of Iowa. " e charge
that in his unwise and ambitious zeal to cultt
vate the friendship and support of the alleged
thew allies in the northwest" and on that
strength to commend himself to the fayoring
graces of Grover Cleveland, that he did most
outrageously misrepresent the most industri-
GUS, frugal and prosperous people of Iowa In
his efforts at a banquet speech in the city
Of New York on the 23d Of December last. We
deuounce as purposely misleading the alleged
statistics with which the governor assumed to
sustain the Indictment against the state which
had digufed his mama.
Is. We denounce the Ottumwa platform Of
this year as framed with the deliberate pur-
pose to mislead and deceive wherein sympathy
is expressed where none Is felt; wherein hope
is proposed where none will be rendered /;
wherein purposes are ayowed which are not
entertained In the support OF this indict-
incentive point to the pretended friendship for
the soldier aud arraignin at the same time
Of the Republican party for appropriations for
the payment of pensions; TO the free silver
plank intended to deceive tho supporters OF
free and unlimited coinage of silver; to the
plank assuming 10 reaftirm the doctrine OF
control and regulation OF railroads, policy
implanted upon this state under The admins
tration of the last Repub lean governor
against the opposition, secret and open, Of
the Democratic party, extending to an alliance
with corporate power in the first election OF
railroad commissioner under the law in 1886.
"a We denouuce the Democratic party for
misrepresentation Ia its platform aud before of
the Mckinley bill, charging that IL seeks to
mislead the people through the reiteration OF
uutruths as 10 the effect of chat bill, and in all
ways work. upon the preiudces OF the unin-
formed.
IS. We arraign the Democratic party for
opposition TO ballot reform in the south, while
vet making a prc.ense Of ballot reform in
Iowa where the undlsputod right to cast free
ballot and to have 1t honestly counted goes In
every precinct of the state uuchallenged.
TO- We ARA On the Democratic patty as the
enemy OF the labOrer, s,hemng to break down
the dcfcnses of protective laws, to clock the
wheels Of home industry, and TO degrade the
massts OF the people. As a party controlled
by the aristocratic and reactlonary tendency
o. the legacy of slavery.
% The Republican party of Iowa appeals
% the intelligence and to the integrity " the
people of this state, aud from all good citizens
We invite support
Not So Young rs They Used 90 BE.
VALPARAISO. Ind, Oct. 23.--Mrs.
Freeman Crosby of this city entertained
a party yesterday of twenty ladies, all
of this city excepting Mrs Phoebe Starr
of Chicago, whose combined ages
amounted to ! $40 years. The average
age was fraction over seventy-eight
years.
jackson in fsaIfour's shoes.
LONDON, Oct. 2s,--lt has been set