The morning call., 1893-08-24
HIS THIRD TRIAL.
Boies to Lead the Iowa
Democracy.
ON A SILVER PLATFORM.
Cleveland's Administration Is Tn-
dorsed, but Will Not Be Followed
Into the Gold Camp.

DEs MONIES, Aug. 23.-Henry Vollmer
of Davenport in taking the chair as tempo
rary presiding officer of the Democratic
State convention which assembled here to-
day, said: "While the army of discon-
tented unemployed swarms over the land
there stalks up and down the highways in
their midst the Republican Pharisee, with
the assurance Of inbred hypocrisy. point
ing his finger at u and our party as au-
thors OF this widespread misery 1t is high
time we repudiate this foul slander and
stamp the life out of this crawling serpent
OF Republican deception. We live,
1t Is true, under a Democratic
administration. both State and ma
tional. but both in the State and
the nation we are cursed by Republican
laws. Let US not fnrger, nor permit the
people to forget, that we still have the
blessed Mckinley bilI.' that latest but
most developed offshoot of that poisonous
plant protection. Let US not forget, nor
permit Congress to forget, the unanswer-
able thesis of sound political economy
that our industries can never get on a
healthy, natural basis until this noxious
weed is destroyed root and branch. Pam
les are the necessary Outgrowth and the
neVer-failing accomplishments of this arti-
helal system, which stimulates growth
abnormally in certain directions while it
prevents expansion in others and finally
compels pampered favorltes TO shake
their own slime in the ever-recurring
spasms of over-production.
LET Us not forget especially that that
cowardly makeshift denounced by the
national platform last year. the Sherman
bill, discredited now by its own author,
still stands upon the statute-bookS. Like
Esau, John Sherman sold his birthrlght
for mess of p0ttage. when he lent his
name to this unprincipled sell-out; when,
TO serve the tuckling demagogism of mis-
party, he threw to the winds the gre atest
flnaDcial reputation of the age in the last
Inetfectual attempt to capture votes for
the Republican ticket by saving Harrison
from the unpleasant necessity of vetoing
bill for the free coinage OF silver His
name will go down to posterity linked with
law upheld by none and condemned by
all, and The great and sufficient cause of
our present lin ancial distress.
"Our party is even held responsible for
the condition of the treasury of the
United States; yet four years ago it went
out OF power leaving surplus revenues to
the amount r0undly stated of S1O0, 600. .OOO
in the Golfers of the national treasury.
Wnen Secretary Carlisle, nearly five
months ago, cast his eagle eye into the
strong box at Washington he found therein
only the marks where calico Charley had
been scraping at hte bottom of the bin.'
Both the Mckinley and the Sherman
bills have got to go, and the people will
sustain US in the good work.
In the campaign before US, State issues
only can be settled. But in the State, as
in the nation. we find that the will of the
people, repeatedly expressed in favor of a
change in our laws. is still unrealized, and
while the world admiringly beheld tri-
umphant election ard the reelection of
our grand old man, Horace Boies, as the
Governor of Iowa, we are still blessed with
a set of blue laws that suggest the ignorant
intolerance of the dark ages rather than
the brOad-minded liberalism of these latter
days of the nineteenth century. The in
decent contOrtions of the Republican party
of Iowa in this great issue, executing a
verltable 'danse de ventre' on the slippery
platform built in this city week ago, will
soon gain for Iowa the name of the Mid
way Plaisance of American politics"
As a partial reparation for the unjust
confiscatlon of private property caused by
the prohibitory law we favor such legisla-
ton as will permit the manufacture of
splrituous, vinous and malt liquors within
the State. thereby giving to our own
people at least equal rights in this respect
with the manufacturers OF other States.
After the appoin tment of the usual COM
mittees recess was taken until P NJ,