The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1892-05-28
THREE CONVENTIONS.
Democrats, People and Prohibition.
lists Elect Delegates to Their Ma.
tiOnal Conventions.

man Ainslie, of the state committee,
and Hon. A. E. Mayhem, Of Sho-
shone, was elected temporary chair
man. Majority and minority re-
ports on the silver question were
submitted and the convention final
ly adopted the one appearing in
the resolutions below as a compro-
mise.
The following delegates to the
Chicago convention were then
elected:
Jas. H. Hawley, Boise.
R. z. Johnson, Boise.
Col. Bryan. Haley.
J. w. Reid, Lewiston.
John Burke, Wallace.
J. NJ. Bennett, Pocatello.
The delegates were not instructed
as to choice for president.
Following are the resolutions:
First-We, the democracy of
Idaho, in delegate convention as
sembled, avow our devotion to JEFF
fersonian principles first declared
by men who founded our free insti-
tutions and established our party
with sacred trusts to preserve and
maintain them.
Second-Ths national demo-
cratic platforms of 1884 and 1888,
endorsed by the vote in those years
and so heartily sustained by the
popular vote in the congressional
elections of 1890, have our hearty
approval.
Third-That the delegates to the
democratic convention in Chicago
be instructed to demand of that
body, as a matter of right and JUS
tice, the adoption of a plank advo-
eating the free and unlimited coin
age of both gold and silver as full
legal tender money at the present
ratio and the full and unqualified
recognition of this idea as a car
dinal principle of democracy.
Fourth-We commend the or
ganization of the industrial classes
for self protection against trusts,
combines and monopolies and re-
call the attention of farmers and
laborers to the fact that everything
they complain of is the result of
thirty-h years of republican leg
islation in the interests of corpora
ted wealth. Capitalization, class
legislation, wanton squandering of
the public domain, ultra protection,
silver decentralization and unre-
stricted immigration of pauper la
Dor are all republican iniquities.
Fifth The democratic party
pledges itself to remedy as far as
possible the evils growing out of
such class legislation by admins
tering the government upon the
democratic principles of exact and
equal justice to all and special
privileges to none.
The convention expresses it's ap-
probation of those who fought for
the preservation of the union and
we favor just and liberal pensions
for all disabled soldiers, their wild
ows and dependents, but we de
nounce the inauguration of spec
ial pension system for partizan pur-
poses and the squandering of pub
lie funds under the pretext of boun-
ties to veterans. We also favor
prompt settlement of the long de-
ferred claims of that other large
and patriotic body of veteran pion-
GERS who, in making homes il the
far west, have suffered property
losses from Indian depredations
and spoilations.
Sixth-We demand a constitu-
tional amendment making United
States senators elective by direct
vote of the people.
We demand the strictest enforce
ment of the laws excluding Chinese
from and prohibiting the importa-
ton of foreign contract labor into
the United States.
The mineral and all other public
lands of the United States are the
poor mans heritage, and we pledge
the democratic party to preserve
them from the aggressions of
greedy land grant corporations
which fraudIilentlv in uinlation of