The record-union., 1893-08-24

Liquors Within tho State.
Special to the RECoRD-UNIoN.
DEs MONIES, Aug. 23.-The Democratic
convention to nominate a State ticket as
sembled in this city this forenoon.
Henry Vollmer of Davenport, in taking
the chair as temporary presiding Of
! ficer, said:
while the army of discontented un-
employed swarms over the land there
stalks up and down the highways in
their midst the Republican Pharisee,
with the assurance of inbred hypocrisy,
pointing his finger at us and our party
as authors of this widespread misery. 1t
Is high time we repudiate this foul
slander, stamp the life out of the crawling
serpent of Republican deception. We
live. it is true, under a Democratic Ad-
mlnistration, both State and national, but
both in the State and the Nation we are
cursed by Republican laws. Let us not
forget, nor permit the people to forget,
that we still have the blessed Mckinley
Dill, that latest but most developed off
shoot OF that poisonous plant, protection,
let us not forget, nor permit Congress to
forget, the unanswerable thesis of sound
political economy, that our industries can
never get on healthy, natural basis un-
til this noxious weed is destroyed, root
and branch.
"Panics are the necessary outgrowth
and the never-failing Accomplishments of
this artificial system, which stimulates
growth abnormally in certain directions
while 1t prevents expansion in others,
and finally compels pampered favorites
to shake their own slime in the ever
recurring spasms of over-production.
LET is not forget especially that that
cowardly make-shift 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 birthright
Tor mess OF pottage. when he left his
name to this unprincipled sell-out; when,
to serve the trucking demagogism of his
party, he threw to the winds the greatest
| financial reputation of the age in the last
| Intellectual attempt to capture votes for
the Republican ticket by saving Harrison
from the unpleasant necessity of vetoing
bill for the tree coinage of silver, His
name will go down to posterity linked
with law upheld by none and con-
demned by all, and the great and suffi-
cient 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 power leaving surplus revenues to
the amount, roundly stated, of SlOO, 900. :
600 In the Golfers of the National Treas
ury. 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 the Sherman
bills have got to go, and the people will
sustain us in the good work.
In the campaign before us, State is
sues 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 in our laws, is still
unrealized, and while the world admir-
lngly beheld triumphant election and
the reelection Of our grand old man.
Horace Boies, as the Governor of Iowa.
we are still blessed with 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 indecent
contortions of the Republican party of
Iowa In this great issue. executing a yeri-
table dd'lSe de centre on the slippery plat
form built in this city week ago. will
soon gain for Iowa the name of the Mid
way Plaisance of American politics."
Governor Boies was renominated by
| reclamation, amid tremendous applause.
Lieutenant-Governor Bestow also re-
ceived the denomination,
AT this point the report of the Commit
tee on Platform Was read and adopted.
The resolutions declared confidence in
the administration of Cleveland. The
present unfortunate financial stringency
is laid at the door of the Republican ad-
ministration, and Congress is urged to
give the country early relief. The Sher-
man Act is denounced as a cowsrdlv
make-shift, which has brought the pres
ent financial perils and troubles upon the
country. The immediate repeal of the
silver purchase clause is demanded. and
the use OF gold and silver as money of the
country on an equal basis favored. Also
| q demand that all paper money shall be
kept at par with and redeemable in such
coin. Just and liberal pensions to de-
serving veterans is favored. In the in
terest of true temperance. the passage is
favored OF a carefully guarded tax
law which shall provide for the
issuance of licenses by vote
of the people of the different divisions in
the State. As partial reparation for the
unjust confiscation of private property
caused by the prohibitory law such legis-
lation is favored as will permit the manu.
facture of spirituous, vinous and malt Ii
quors within the State, thereby giving to
the people of Iowa at least equal rights
in this respect with the manufacturers of
other States.
Nominating was then continued. John
Cleggett of Mason City was nominated
for Judge of the Supreme Court, ex-Con-
gresham Tom Brown of Council Bluffs
for Railroad Commissioners, and ]. b.
Knoepfier was renominsted for Superin-
tendent of State Instruction.
Adjournment was taken after speeches
by the nominees.
Before the adjournment of the conven-
ton John P. Irish, who had just returned
from Washington, made a vigorous
speech in favor of the repeal of the Sher-
man law. at is the duty Of every Demo-