The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-08-02
BOIES'S PLAIN TALK
RAKED THE STRIKERS OVER THE
COALs At DIES III YESTERDAY.
Democratic state Ticket Chosen by
Acclamation Because None sought
the Offices This Year.

no Democrats looking Tor ONCE wnen the
Iowa State Democratic convention con-
vened here to-day. There were four hun
dred delegates present, and they named the
following ticket by reclamation:
Secretary of State-H. III. Dale. of Polk.
Auditor-JOhn Whitfield, of Guthrie.
Treasurer. ". White. of Wayne.
gett. Of Cerro Cords; snort term. Ed
ward w. Mitchell. of Fremont.
Attorney-general-J. ID. +. Smith, OF
Railroad Commissioner-w. l.. Parker,
Clerk of Supreme Court-T. r. North. of
Dallas.
For Supreme Court Reporter. j. Shea,
of Council Bluffs
The convention assembled at Calvary
Tabernacle. J.. NJ. Parsons. temporary
chairman. delivered an address, saying that
Coxeyism was McKinleyism carried to a
logical conclusion. After dinner Governor
Boies was chosen permanent chairman of
the convention and made a hot speech.
After reviewing the conditions leading up
to the Demo ratio victory Of 1892 and ar
~raigning the Republican party for the pol
icy it pursued while in power, Ex-Governor
Boies continued:
That victory was not won without def
mite and oft-repeated promises by those who
Claimed 10 speak for the party as TO what
would be done if the party success crowned
our efforts. There is now no middle ground
on which 1t can cast an anchor. Protection,
II right in one instance, is right in all. He
who is willing that his party. as such, shall
assumed in 1892, who would surrender an
iota of the principle for which he then
fought and won. is not a Democrat We
are standing at the end of more than three
decades Of a most intense protective pol
icy on the part of the government. And
on every, hand; the fruits of labor taken
from the many and given to a few: mil
iionaires counted by the thousands; home
less men by millions; rumblings of discon-
tent from every quarter, but loudest and
longest in the very centers of the most
strikes and lockouts everywhere; armies or
idle men gathered in our cities are march
ing over the country, vauntinS. their desti-
tuition in the face of the world, with here
| and there the howl of the Anarchist. the
knife of the assassin and brand of the in
cendiary emphasizing with fire and blood
a 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 been a public necessity.
1T would be cowardly evasion of truth
to attempt to conceal the fact that the
Democratic party has reached a crisis in
it's history that threatens its welfare. if not
its life. Within the party councils l want
the voice of elimination and recrimination
very best measure of tariff reform 1t is
possible to pass, and make it the law of the
come up to the requirements of that pledge
as | readNit. | will not lay down my arms;
/ will help to keep the wheels of reform in
motion until all that has been promised is
faithfully performed. This is my view or
the duty of Democrats in this crisis, both
olution in its last national platform the
Democratic party is committed 10 the use
of both gold and silver as the standard
money of the country, and 10 the coinage
of both without discrimination against
either but it is expressly declared that
the dollar unit of both metals must be of
| pulal intrinsic? and eXchHnQeahl6 value. or
be adjusted through international agree
ment, or by such safeguards of legSlation
as will insure the parity of the two met
ais To my own mind the unqualified Ian
guage of that plank requires affirmative ac-
ton on the part of the representatives OF
the party by which it was adopted.
SYMPATHY STRIKE MUST GO.
There is another subject which 1 am
glad TO say is not a political Issue he
tween any of the great parties or the
! country of great Importance to the well
| fare of the Nation. l refer, as you will
surmise. to the unprecedented troubles in
labor circles during the last few months.
l know, too, that every one of these men
who is an adult citizen of the United
States is clothed with precisely the same
power under the constitutions of the States
and the Nation to help mold, and cause
to be executed, the laws of the land that
is possessed by the haughtiest millionaire
lndL ever cast Il vote, anu i UtlltNt do
firmly. as | believe in my existence th9t
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, them
selves nor instigate, aid or abet others TO
do so. With every loyal citizen or the land
who is a loyal fiiend of it's lab orers | have
been shocked by the fragrant breaches of
law that have characterized so many of
the recent labor strikes of the country.
am stu more amazed to Know that
- q mo pVhn Nnt nnnnnnn tho 0nthnrifinc
both State and national, for interposing
the military arm of each to put an end
TO conditions that had reached a complete
stage of anarchy and overthrown i'm some
localities every semblance of law and or
der.
IF these men are not bereft of reason
they must realize by this time that the
strike as conducted in many places in
the recent past is revolution, is anarchy,
is the %incipient stage of civil war. 1t is
vain to assert that the scenes of riots.
| incendiarism and bloodshed we have wit
messed are not the work of members of
any of the unions, but instead that of the
lawlesS elements of the cities in which
they have occurred. If this is literally
true it cannot relieve the question of re
sponsibility for conditions that their own
acts made possible, and which without
such acts would never have existed. There
is another phase of this question of i'm
measurable Importance to individuals. 1t
is the question of the inherent right or
wrong of what some labor leaders term
a sympathetic strike and was forcibly
presented in the ullman strike. The sym
pathetic strike must go or the unions that
engage in it will be destroyed, and with
it must go forever the scenes Of riot and
carnage that have characterized so many
recent strikes, or the organizations re-
sponsible for them will be ground into
dust under the iron heel of an awakened
public sentiment"
The speaker then devoted his attention
to State issues, charging the Republican
party with misrule and extravaganza, and
particularly c~ondemning it for its liquor
legislation, which he denounced as dis
graceful and ridiculous. He advocated the
establishment of county insane asylums
after the plan adopted in Wisconsin, and
declared that the Republican methods OF
handling State institutions were wildly ex-
traVagant. In conclusion the speaker said
1T is at least the duty of the Democratic
party to continue TO labor for bstter gov
ernrICn. Ia State and Nation alike, to be
true to itself, true to its principles and
loyal always to the best interests, the
higt est possible good of the people of
when il forms so conspicuous a part"
The resolutions adopted reafirm the
platform of the rational Democratic con-
vention of 1882, and demand of Demo-
cratic representatives in Congress to re-
deem the pledges made to the people, and
for all time make an end Of Daternal and
financial stringency and its disastrous eff
feet upon labor is credited as the direct
legacy of a Republican administration. and
attempts TO shift the responsibility upon
the democratic administration is denounced
as futile and absurd. The financial plank
is as follows:
with the national Democratic conven-
ton of 1892, we hold to the use of both
gold and silver as the standard money OF
the country, and the coinage of both gold
and silver, without discriminating against
either metal or charge for mintage. but the
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