The Helena independent., 1893-08-24
The Democrats Of Iowa Will Have
No Other Leader But Uncle
Horace.
With Him In Command Victory at
the Polls Ia Won In Ad-
vance.
Gold aud silver and Paper Money, All
Equally Good, Dsmanded-A Rcd
Hot speech.

/ DEb HOINEHs iowa. aug. 25.-ln S00 ateS(
convention OF The demoora ATTIC party of low.
Gov Boiss was renominatsd by accama-
tion. amid Tremendous applause. Lieut.
Gov Bostow also received q denomination
The rssolutions declare confidence In the
administration Of President Cleveland; The
bprcsenA unfortunate financial stringeney !.
f'fsfd at the door Of tho republican admins
trhtion and congress 10 aFRed TO give
she country early relief. The She.
man not 10 denounced as cowardly
maksshift which has brought the present
financial perils and troubles apon the ooun-
Try. The immediate repeal Of the silvs,
purchase clause thereof 10 demanded and
! the use Of gold and silver as the money oi
the country on an equal basis favored. II
Is also demanded that all paper currency
shall bs kept st par with. and rsdesmabls
in. suoh coin. just and liberal pensions to
deserving veterans are favorsd.
In the interest Of true Temperance The
passage Of a carefully guarded license tax
law. which shall provide for the issuance Of
liosnses by vote of tho people of different
districts In the state. ia favored. "As par.
tai reparation for the unjust sonfscation
OF private property caused by the prohibi-
tory Law. We favor such legislation - w
PEI init the manufacture of spirituous. VIII.
ous and malt liquors within tho state.
thereby giving TO our own people al least
equal rights In this respect with the mama
facturers Of other states"
Nominating was then continued. John
CleRRett, Of Mason City. was nom mated
for judge of the supreme court; Ex-Con.
gresham Tom Brown, of Council Bluffs.
for railroad oommissioner and ]. B.
knospfsr was renominated for supsrinten-
dent of state instruction.
Henry Vollner, OF Davenport, In taking
| the chair as temporary presiding officer,
said: while the army Of the discontented
and unemployed swarms over the land.
there stalks up and down the highways in
their midst the republican pharisse. with
the assur anee Of inbred hypocrisy. pointing z
his finger At us and our party as the authors
of this widespread misery. II Ia high
time We repudiate this foul elandsr and
stamp the life out Of this o'awlinQ serpent
of republican deception. We live. il is
true, under q democratic admin istraton,
and nation We are cursed BY republican
laws. Let us not forget, nor permit
the people to forget that We still
have that blessed Mckinley bill.
that latest but most developed off
shoot of the poisonous plague, protection.
forget. the unRnswerable thesis of sound
political economy that our industries can
never get on . healthy, natural basis until
this noxious weed is destroyed. root and
branch.
Panics are tho necessary outqrowth and
never failing accom- paniment of this arti-
foial system, which stimulates growth ab-
M nal N wnlIo
p events expansion in others. and fually
oompels pampered facorites to shake thsil
own slime ia ever recurring spasms OF ove:-
production.
'Lct us not forget. especially. that that
cowardlv makeshift denounced by the ma
tional platform last year, tho Sherman bill,
dscredited now by its own autho, still
stnnds upon the statute books. Like Esau.
John Sherman sold his birthriRht for mess
of pottage when he lent his name to this
unprincipled sell -out. when to serve the
trucking domaRogism of his party he throw
to ths winds the greatest financial repusA-
| tlon of the age in last Intellectual attemp pit
| to capture votes for the republican ticket
By saving Harrison from the unpleasant
necessity of vetoing bill for the free coin
age OF silver. His name will 40 down to
osterity linked with q law upheld by none.
condemned by all, the great and sufficient
cause of our present financial disnsters.
the condition Of the treasury of the United
States. yet four years ago II went out OF
power lenying surplus revenues to an
amount roundly stated al one bundled
million dollars in the golfers of the z a.
tional treasury. When Secretary Ca Isle,
barely five months ago. cast his eagle eye
into the strong box at WASHINGTON. he found
therein only the marks whore Calico Charley
had been sorapng At tho bottom of the
bin. Both the Mckinley and Sherman bills
have got TO 90. and the people will sustain
MS in the good work.
I'm the campaign before rs state issues
only can be settled. but In the state as in
the nation We find that the will of the pso-
pie repeatedly expressed In favor OF q
change in our laws. 10 still unrealized
and while the world admirinRly bshsld
the trium hant election and reelection of
our grand old man, Horace Boies as gov
ernor OF Iowa, We are still blessed with a
set Of blue laws that suggest the ignorant.
intolerant dark ages. rather than the
broad minded liberalism of these latter
days of the nineteenth century. The in
decent sontortions of the republican party
Of Iowa on this great issue, executing q
dSnss du vsntre on tho slippery platform
built in this city week ago, will soon gain
for Iowa the name of the Midway Plaisaaoe
in Ame loan politics."
PUSHING THE TUNNEL.