The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-08-24
For the Third Time He Will Lead
Iowa Democrats.
THE PLATFORM ADOPTED.
President CIeveIand's Administration
Is Heartily Commended.
The Present Unfortunate Financial Strin.
gency Chargeable to Republican Adj
ministrahon-The Use OF Both Gold
and silver as Money Favored.

Dies MONIES, Ia, Aug. 23.-Henry
Vollmer OF Davenport, in taking the chair
as temporary presiding officer OF The DEM
ocratic state convention which assembled
here today, said: "While the army of dis
contented and unemployed swarms over
the land. there stalks up and down the
highways in their midst a Republican
Pharisee with the assurance of in bred hy-
pocrisy, pointing his finger at us and our
party as the authors of this widespread
misery. It is high time werepudate this
foul SANDER, and stamp the life out of
this crawling serpent, Republican decep-
ton. We live, it is true, under Demo-
cratic administration, both state and
national, but both in the state and the ma
ton we are cursed by Republican laws.
Let US not forget nor permit the people to
forget that we still have the "blessed
Mckinley bill, - that latest but most
developed offshoot of the poisonous
plant, protection. Let us not forget,
nor permit Congress to forget the unan-
swerable thesis OF sound political econ
omy, that our industries can never get on
healthy, natural basis until this noxious
weed is destroyed, root and branch.
PanIcs are the necessary outgrowtn and
never failing accomplishments of this ar
titicial system, which stimulates the
growth abnormaliy in certain directions,
while 1t prevents expansion in others,
and finally compels the pampered favor
ties to shake their own slimesin the ever
recurring spasms of over production.
Let US not forget especially that that
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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 blrthright
for mess of pottage, when he lent his
name to this unprincipled sell out; when
to serve the trucking demagogism OF his
party, he threw to the winds the great
financial reputation of the age in o last
Intellectual attempt to capture votes for
the Republican ticket by saving Harrison
from the unpleasant necessity of vetoing
q bill for the free coinage of silver. His
name will go down to posterity linked
with the law which, upheld by none but
condemned by all, is the great and suffi-
Gent cause Of our present financial dis
tress.
"Our party is even held responsible for
the condition of the treasury of the United
States. Yet four years ago it went out of
the amount, roundly stated, of SOD ,000,-
600 in the Golfers of the national treasury.
When Secretary Carlisle, barely 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 the bottom
OF the bin. Both the Mckinley and Sher-
man bills have got to go, and the people
will sustain us in the good work.
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issue 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 change of our laws is still I'M
realized; and while the world admiringly
beheld the triumphant election and re-
election of our grand, old man, Horace
Boies, as governor of Iowa, we are still
blessed with set of blue laws that sug-
gest the ignorant intolerance OF the dark
ages, rather than the broad minded liber-
alism of these latter days of the nine
tenth century. The indecent contor-
tons of the Republican party of Iowa on
this great issue, executing a veritable
danse duventre on the slippery platform
built in this city a week ago, will! soon
gain for Iowa the name of the Midway
Plaisance of American politics.
After the committees had been an
nounced the convention adjourned till
D. m. Governor Boies said this morning
that his letter declining to run a third
time was sincere, but he was willing to
subordinate his wishes to the wishes OF
the Democratic party.
Governor Boies was renominated by ac-
clamation amid tremendous applause.
Lieutenant Governor BestoW also re-
ceived denomination. At this point the
report of the committee on platform was
read and adopted.
The resolutions declare confidence IN
the administration of President Cleve-
land. The present unfortunate financial
stringency is laid at the door OF the Re
publican administration, and Congress is
urged to give the country early relief.
The Sherman act is denounced as cow
ardly makeshift which has brought the
present financial perils and troubles up
on the country. The immed-
late repeal of the silver pur-
chase clause thereof is denounced
and the use of gold and silver as money
of the country on an equal basis favored.
It also demands that all paper currency
shall be kept at par with and redeemable
with sucn coin. Just and liberal pensions
to deserving veterans are favored. In the
interest of true temperance the passage is
favored of carefully guarded license tax
law, which shall provide for the issuance
OF licenses by a vote OF the people of the
different districts in the state. As a
partial reparation for the unjust con-
fiscation of private property caused
by the prohibitary law, we favor such
legislation as will permit the manufacture
OF spirituous, vinous and malt liquors
within the state, thereby giving to our
own people at least equal rights in this
respect with manufacturers in other
states.
Nominating of candidates was then con-
tinued. John Claggett of Mason city was
nominated for Judge of the supreme court;
Congressman Tom Brown of Council
Bluffs for railroad commissioner and j.
B. Knoepfier was renominated for SUI
perintendent of public instruction.
Before the adjournment of the conven-
ton John P. Irish, who has just returned
from Washington, made a vigorous
speech in favor of the repeal of the Sher-
man law. 1t is the duty of every Demo :
crat. said he, TO sustain the present adj
ministratior. Democrats must sweep
from the statute books every line of legis-
lation passed by the Republican party for
expediency and self-power. An adjourn
ment was finally taken after speeches by
the nominees.
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