The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-08-01
A FORLORN HOPE.
Iowa Democrats Hold Their
State Convention.
Not a Single Candidate Opens
Headquarters.
Iowa Democracy Apparently
Think the jig is Up.
ONE PARTING SLAP
Given the Republicans Before
Death SuperveneS.
''COxeyism is Mckinleyism Car
ried to Logical Conclusion"
ROTFS CAPS TT ALL
BOIES CAPS 1T ALL
By Accusing the Labor Unions
of Anarchy.
Launching a Tirade of Abuse
Against Workingmen-

DEs MONIES, Iowa, August 1.-The
Democratic state convention assembled
at Calvary Tabernacle today at 1870.
About 400 delegates were in attendance.
Caucuses were held at 8 o'clock and the
usual committeeman selected. No can
didates opened headquarters and in this
case the office seeks the man. J. NJ.
Parsons, the temporary chairman, deliv-
cred an address, saying Coxeyism was
McKinleyism carried to a logical con-
clusion.
After the speech, committees were
chosen and the morning caucuses re
ported The convention then adjourned
for dinner On recoDvening, Governor
Boies was chosen permanent chairman
of the convention.
After reviewing the conditions leading
up to the Democratic victory of 1892 and
arraigning the Republican party for the
policy it pursued while in power, Ex-
Governor Boies continued:
THAT victory was not won without
definite and oft repeated promises by
those who claimed to speak for the party
as to what would be done if party sue
cess crowned our efforts.
"If Democracy would live: if it would
not now in the first flush of its victory so
galIantly won, lay down its arms, surren-
der so much for which it fought, and
prepare its winding sheet for the tomb,
it must not lower the standard of the
promise made.
There is now no middle ground in
which it can cast an anchor. If protection
is right in one instance, it is right in all.
~He who is willing that his party as
such shall retreat one step from the posi-
ton it assumed in 1892, who would sur
render an iota Of principle for which he
then fought and won is not Democrat
ave have too much faith in the intel
IfCenC0 Of the electors of this raDnbIic
in the sober second thought OF the plain
people of this nation, to believe they can
long be misled in placing the RESPONSE
bility for the disasters we are suffering
where it belongs. We are standing at
the end of more than three decades Of a
most intense protective policy on the part
of the government And what is the re-
suit?
TRUSTS and combines on every hand,
the fruits of labor taken fr ON the many
and given to a few, milli onaires counted
by the tn ousands, homeless men by mil =
lions, umblings of discomfort from every
quarter, but loudest and longest in the
very quarters of the highly protected in
dustries of the land, strikes and lockouts
everywhere, armies of idle men gathering
in our cities and marching over the coun-
try, vauntin & their destitution in the
/ face of the world, with here and there
the howl of the anarchist, the knife of
the assassin aud the brand of the incen-
I
/ discomfort that has become almost cpl
/ demic, and threatens the stability of the
! government itself until the last resort of
! a nation, an appeal to the military arm
/ for protection, has become a public
necessity.
truth to attempt to conceal the fact that
the Democratic party has reached the
crisis in its history that threatensdts vel
fare, if not its life.
There is a subject which, am glad to
say is not a political issue between any Of
the great parties of the country or grave
importance to the welfare Of the country.
/ refer, as you Will surTnise. to the un-
precedented troubles in labor circles
during the last few months.
81 know, too, that very one of these
| men who is an adult citizen of the Uni
ted States is clothed with precisely the
same power under the constitutions OF
| the states and nation to help mould and
cause to be executed the laws of the
land, that is possessed by the haughtiest
millionaire that ever cast vote, and
believe as firmly as I believe in my exis-
tence, that if their organizations are to be
preserved and continue to be Of the
least practical benefit to their members
they must see that they neither violate
| the law themselves nor instigate or abei
others to do SO. With every loyal citi-
zen who is loyal friend to its laborers
/ have been shocked by the fagranl
breaches Of law that have characterized
SO many of the recent labor strikes OF the
country.
81 am still more amazed to know thai
within the circles of some of these
unions are men who yet condemn the
authorities, both state and national, fol
interposing the military arm of eacl
to put an end to conditions tha
had reached completed stage
of anarchy and overthrow, in some local
tiles. every emblance of law and order
If these men are not bereft of reason
they must by this time realize that the
strike, as conducted in many places il
the past, is revolution. is anarchy, is the
incipient stage of civil war
4 1T is vain to assert that the scene o.