The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1892-05-18

ton le New Hampshire People
Have but One Choice-Mr. Hill
Makes a Break on the Apportion-
ment-RevivaI of the Rumor That
Cleveland Will Withdraw-Campbell
Denies That He Is to Be the Legatee
Other Political News.
Council BLUFFS, Ia, May 1.-THE
democrats OF Iowa today pronounced their
mistaken fealty to Horace Boies for presi-
dent Of the United States by unanimous
vote, and without a dissenting voice.
either in committee or in convention,
resolutions were adopted instructing the
twenty-six delegates OF the Hawkeye state
to vote as a unit for Governor Boies and
use every effort in their power to Sc
cure his nomination for the presidency.
AS the first state in the great West to pro-
nounce 10 uniquivocal terms for the can
didacy of favorise son, Iowa must occupy
a prominent position in the national con-
vention, and the friends OF Governor
Boies are tonight rejoicing over the i'm
petus which today's action must give to
the presidential boom of the farmer gov
ernor.
The fact that every gentleman selected
az delegate-at-large is recognized per-
sonal friend and follower of Boies, and
that in every wrangle over the selection of
delegates declarations OF loyalty to the
governor and his candidacy were required
az primary evidence of eligibility to a
place on the state delegation. would indi-
cate that the friends OF Boies are not far
wrong in their assertions tonight that the
twenty.six delegates OF the Hawkeye
state will remain loyal to the Iowa candi-
date until the national convention shall
have declared its choice.
In another respect is the action of to-
days convention peculiar and original.
1t is the first state convention for several
years outside the state of New York where
the name of Grover Cleveland has not
been mentioned inths platform. Further
than this, the omission to extol the ex-
president was not the result of error or
forgetfuiness. Ii was due TO the deliberate
action of the committee on resolutions,
after calm discussion of the questions OF
policy, that Grover Cleveland was ignored
and this action was taken in a very excess
of caution in order that Iowa might
avoid the error into which Illinois is popu-
larly regarded as having fallen, in appar-
emily naming Grover Cleveland as the
first choice and John NJ. Palmer as the
second choice of the Illinois democracy.
Horace Boies is so emphatically aud solely
the choice of the Iowa democrats for the
president Of the United States, that even
the name of Grover Cleveland was ban
ished from the official declaration of dem
ocra,ic faith and not a single man in this
vast assemblage protested against this
omission.
The Platform.
The resolutions were as follows:
ave reiterate our devotion to the prin-
ciple that all men are born free and equal
We assert that this does not mean neces-
sarily the physical. social or moral equality
of all men, but it does mean
equal rights for all men be-
fore the law and special privileges
for none. 1t means the right OF every man
to put into his mouth the bread that he
earns with his own hands, and all of il
without having il tolled or taxed for the
private benefit OF any of his fellow men.
And we denounce all such tolling and tax
alton as it exists today under the so called
protective tariff system.
1--WE declare that the citizen is the best
protected when insured in the absolute
control and disposition of his own wages,
and that he is most certainly robbed when
deprived of this disposition and control
and when Others exercise it for him not
for his benefit but for their own selfish
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the liberties of the citizen not required in
the interests of good morals and good gov
eminent are odious and tyrannical.
ave hold il self-eyident that limits Inn
posed by law which compel one citizen to
his own certain loss TO trade with desig-
mated classes of citizens for the certain
gain OF such classes, is OF this odious and
tyrannical character; and we assert 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
benefit of monopolies, trusts and combi-
nations.
"The conditions which have been
brought about by this falsely called pro-
lection muot be remedied or we must have
instead of pure democracy where voice
and liberties. and interests OF the people
are supreme government OF the classes
by classee and for the classes In which the
masses will be servitors and subordinstes,
equally trampled upon and despised.
1--WE declare that this is the paramount
issue in the presidential campaign, and
the republican policy OF spoliation OF the
treasury to pay bounties to the favored
few, repudiated by the people at the polls
ia 1890, will be rejected in 1892.
"With free ships and the markets Of the
world open to our farmers, our wage-work-
ers and our mechanics. we will have that
larger freedom of commerce and that gen.
uine reciprocity for which democrats have
always commended and our industrial and
commercial supremacy Is assured.
Trusts and monopolies with their inn
ported foreign labor are entitled TO no
iavors over our mechanics. wage. v orkers
and farmers.
ave demand such free raw materials
for o,,r faceories shops and forRee AZ ehsll