St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-05-12
AHURRAH FOR HORACE
Iowa State Democratic Con-
Vention Instruets for
BoieS.
Grover CleVeland's Name Not
Even Mentioned in the
Gathering.
Friends of the Farmer-GoV-
ernor Adopt a Model
Platform.
A Hill Man Raises a Row in
New Hampshire--Other
Conventions.


CoUNCI. BLUFFS, To-, May 1.-THE
Democrats of Iowa today pronounced
their mistaken fealty to Horace Boles
for president of the United States by
unanimous vote and without dissent
ing voice, either in committee or i'll con-
ventiOn. Resolutions were adopted in
Structing the tWenty-siX delegates OF
the Hawkeye state to vote as unit for
Gov. Boies, and use every effort III their
power to secure his nomination for the
presidency.
AS the first state in the great West to
pronounce in unequivOcal terms for the
candidacy of a favorite son, Iowa must
occupy prominent position in the ma
tiOnal conuentiOn, and the friends OF
Gov. Boies are tonight rejoicing over
the impetus which tOday'S action must
give to the presidential boom OF the
farmer-gOvernOr
The fact that every gentleman select
ed as delegate at large is a recognized
personal friend and follower of BoieS,
and that.in every wrangle over the Sc
lection of delegates declarations of
loyalty to the governor and his candl-
dacy were required as primary evidence
of eligibility to place Onsthe state del
egatiOn, would indicate that the friends
of Boies are not far wrong in their as
SertiOns tonight that the twenty-SiX del
egates of the Hawkeye state will remain
Loyal 10 IOyVa's Candidate
until the national convention shall have
declared its choice. In another respect
is the action of to-day's convention
peculiar and original. 1t is the first
state convention for several years out
side the State of New York where the
name of Grover Cleveland has not been
mentioned in the platform. Further
than this. the omission to eXtOl the eX-
president was not the result OF error or
fOrgetfulneSS.
1t was due to the deliberate action of
the committee on resolutions, after calm
discussion of the question of policy, that
Grover Cleveland was ignored, and thus
action was taken in a very excess OF
caution, in order that Iowa might avoid
the error into which Illinois is popularity
regarded as having fallen in apparently
naming Grover Cleveland as the first
and John Nj. Palmer as the second
choice Of the Illinois Democracy. HOr-
ace BOies IS so emphatically and solely
the choice OF the Iowa Democrats for
president of the United States that
even the name of Grover Cleveland
was banished from the official declara-
ton of Democratic faith, and not SIN
gle man in the vast aSSemblage pro-
tested against this omission.
Immediately after the speech Of Chair
man Markley the convention proceeded
TO tie selection of four delegates at
large to the national convention, and j.
II. Shields. of Dubuque; l.. Nj. Martin,
of Polk; Edward Campbell Jr., OF JEFF
ferson, and J. F. Duncombe, of Fort
Dodge, were elected. The alternate
delegates at large selected are 5. l..
Marsh. of Polk, a cOlOred man; j. ID.
Yeoman, of Woodbury.; l.. S. Regina. of
Winneshiek, and S. l.. Gardiner, of
Clinton.
ROused by Resolutions.
Pending the ballots for delegates and
nlteTnates. the committee on resolutions
made its report. Hon. John Z. Kelly
presented the report. and again and
again he was interrupted in his reading
by the deafening cheers of the conven-
ton When the section endorsing the
candidacy of Coy. Boies and pledgiHg
the delegates TO his support was
reached, the enthusiasm attained its
height. The resolutions were as fol-
lows:
We reiterate our devotion 10 the principle
that all men are born free and eonal. We
assert that this does not mean necessarily
the physical, social and moral equality of all
IIen but il does mean equal rights for all
men before the law and special privileges
for none II means the right of every man
to put into his mouth the bread that he earns
with his own hands, and all OF it, with
out having it tolled or taxed for the
private benefit of any Of his fellow men,
And we denounce all such tolIing and
taxation as it exists today under the So
called protective tariff system. We declare
that the citizen is best protected when in
sured i'll the absolute control and disposition
of his own wages and substance: that he is
most certainly robbed when deprived of this
disposition and eOn:fol and when others eX-
erciSe it for him. not for his benefit, but for
their own selfish objects and ends
Limitations on Liberty.
All limitations upon the liberties of the
citizen not required in the interests of good
morals and good government are odious ana
tyrannical. We hold it TO be self-eyident
that limits imposed by law which compel
one citizen to his own certain loss to trade
with designated classes of citizens for the
certain gain of such elSsses is of this odious
our confidence that free people cannot be
permanently deluded into supporting such
legislation upon the pretense that
they are thus being protected while
having their rights invaded and denied for
the oenett OF mOnCpolieS, trusts and combi-
nations. The conditions which have been
brought about by this falsely-called proiec-
ton must be remedled or we must have in
stead of pure Democracy, where The voice
and liberties and interests of the people are
supreme a government Of the clssses in
which the masses will be servitorS and subor-
dinates equally trampled upon and despised
We declare that this is the paramount is
sue in the presidential campaign. The Re-
publican policy of spohatiOn of the treasury
90 pay bountieS 20 the favored few was repu-
dated by the people at the polls i'll 1Sy0, aud
will be rejected in 1852.
With free ships and the markets cfthe
world open 10 our farmers. our wage workers
aud our mechanics, we will have that larger
freedom of commerce and that genuine reci-
procity for which Democrats have always
contended. and our industrial and CONNER
eial supremacy is assured. Trusts and monop-
olies, with their imported foreign labor, are
Entitled to No Favors
over our mechanics. wage workers and farm
ers. We demand such free raw materi-
ais for our factories, shops and forgeS as
shall secure emancipation from industrial
bondage. We demand free list made up
of many articles of necessity and of comfort
TO the people and reduction of imposi
duties all along the line. fixing the limit at q
basis which shall give no greater revenue
than is requisite to the needs of the govern
ment, honestly and economically admins
tered,
The Democratic party of iowa, recognizing
the nation obligation to maintain q sound
and honest currency of equal value in all its
fOrmssand of sufficient volume to preserve q
just proportion between its purchasing
power and the cost of the products CT labor
at liberal wages, reafirms its adherence to
the financial system of the fathers of the
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