The record-union., 1894-07-26
sneciaI to the REcoRp-UsIos.

o'clock. j uIeS IL. Mann, temporary
Chairman, made strong address, hold
Ing the Democratic party responsible for
the prevailing distress.
After adopting a resolution declaring
the members of the convention would do
their utmost to secure the acceptance by
the State of the monument to Lincoln,
with view to its preservation, the con-
vention took recess.
The Committee on Permanent Organ
ization selected Ex-Governor Fifer as
permanent Chairman.
The following dispatch from Senator
Cullom was received:
WASHINGTON, July 25th.
To the President Of the Contention,
.Spqin1feld. Itt.: | sincerely regret that
/ cannot be present at the convention to-
day. My duty in the present struggle is
here. We may yet defeat the pernicious
Wilson tariff bill. The death of the bill
would mean life to the industries and
labor of the country, employment to Ia
Dor and the end Of lockouts. 1t would
mean that no tariff legislation would be
enacted until after the people have a
hearing at the polls in November. / trust
the convention may be characterized with
q spirit OF harmony. / am sure its work
S. NJ. CULLoM.
After an hours discussion and extreme
confusion the convention at 400 voted to
lay the question OF the nomination of a
United States Senator on the table by a
vote of / ,0l9 to 3l5.
At 400 Alderman Madden began read
ing the resolutions.
1.-The Republican party of the State of
Illinois reaffirms its belief in the great
Of civ irrirT hnrfxy
upon which this Government was
founded and under which the people
have enjoyed uneXampled prosperity
and happiness, and believing that the
restoration OF the Republican party to
power in the Government would pro-
mote the general welfare of the people
and its chief condition of renewed pros
perity. this convention most respectfully
and cordially invites all good citizens,
irrespective OF political antecedents. TO
unite in supporting the Republican can
didates in the next election.
I'VE earnestly maintain the right and
justice OF the American doctrine of pro-
lection to American Industries TO raise
the necessary revenue to maintain the
Government. We are in favor of such
duties on competing imports as will best
tend to the development of the resources
OF our own country, of the labor of our
own people, performed at wages which
put the comforts of life within easy
reach and secure good prices for the pro-
ducts alike of our farms, our mines and
our workshops, and we believe that arti-
cleS that cannot pe successfully produced
in this country, except luxuries, should
be placed upon the free list.
'We further believe that without labor
there is no such thing as raw material of
any practical or marketable value, and no
tangible thing OF value that it does not
require labor to produce or utilize, and
hence the importation of so-called raw
material free of duty is an interference
with the system OF protection to American
labor, and should only be permitted
when the raw material is unobtainable in
our own country.
1--WE denounce as unwise and un-
American the provisions of the so-called
Wilson tariff bill, modified in the Senate
by the injection of weak and inconsistent
attempts to protect special interests, as
now pending in Congress- and we charge
the Democratic party with the sole re-
sponsibllity for the effort to destroy our
tariff system. which has proven the great
est boon 10 the great mass OF American
citizens, and we further declare that the
unusual and unnatural conditions now
existing in this nation between labor and
capital, which have led to lawlessness
and bloodshed. the interruption of busi-
-
the natural results of the false economic
theories, vaciilating policy and hopeless
incompetency of the Democratic party,
and to remove the evil thus created re-
store prosperity and bring health TO the
body of the people the Republican party
should be restored to power.
I'VE favor bimetallism, and believe in
the use of gold and silver as money met
els upon parity of values, with COM
plete incontrovertibility, under such leg
islative provisions as shall make the pur-
chasing or debt-paying power of any
dollar of coin, or issued by the United
States, absolutely equivalent to that of
any other dollar SO coined or issued.
I'VE believe in the purity of the ballot
and freedom of elections, and we hold
that the true freedom of elections is OBJ
tanned and secured only by and under
the law.
1.-The Republicans of Illinois are in
favor of the largest personal liberty con-
sistent with law and order.
I'VE favor the payment of liberal PEN
sions to the soldiers and sailors of the
Union, and to their surviving de-
pendents, as a sacred obligation due
from the entire people, and we insist
that in the allotment and distribution of
pension funds technical and burdensome
restrictions should not be imposed.
I'VE condemn in emphatic terms the
course pursued by the present National
administration toward the people of
friendly Government, re-establish a cor
rupt monarchy aud force upon them
barbarous Queen.
I'VE arraign the present Democratic
Governor of Illinois as the most con-
spicuous case of mistit in official posi-
ton. From the day he began to debase
and turn reformatory charitable institu-
q RI ~ nd
asylums for the politicians he has shown
such wonderful aptitude Tor doing the
wrong thing at all times that the people
of the State, irrespective of party, await
with undisguised impatience the expira-
tion OF his term of office.
This convention approves with all
cordiaIity the unswerving fidelity of the
entire Republican delegation in Congress
from Illinois in the maintenance of Re-
publicanism in the House of Representa-
lives, and it also returns thanks to Sena-
tor Cullom for his able, patriotic and
vigilant opposition to that monstrosity of
trust legislation. the Senate tariff bill.''
IOWA REPUBLICANS.
Dies MONIES, July 25.-The largest and
most enthusiastic Republican State Con-
vention held in Iowa met to-day at the
Calvary Tabernacle. John y. Baldwin,
temporary Chairman, in speech said
Federal muskets had driven the Demo
cratic doctrines Of States rights and trea-
son into their loathsome homes.
The prayer by the Rev. j. l.. Weaver
was sensational He prayed that the
rountry's enemy. the Democratic party,
would be as merciful as possible, and APP
pealed to the Omnipotent to assist IL ex
pediting the .'infamous Democratic
party. from power; lay the hand of di-
vine displeasure on them and restrain
them forever from the exercise Of govern
mental authority.
The following platform was adopted:
1.-THE Republican party comes again be-
E. Il wit