Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-08-02
IOWA DEMOCRATS.
A Cleveland Gathering from
Start to Finish.
SOME POINTS FROM B0IEg SPEECH,

Republican Policies Charged with the
Present Depression-What He Had to
Say of Labor Troubles-A Plea for Law
and Order-Synopsis of the Platform
Adopted and a Plank That Was Rejected
The Ticket Chosen.
DIES MONIES, Aug. 1.-The Democratic
state convention was clear cut Cleveland
endorsement. Ex-Governor Boies upheld
the politics of the president, and those
passages of his speech in which he urged
upon congress the duty of getting together
were almost wildly applauded. The reso-
lutions also have strong Cleveland
flavor. The Democratic party of Iowa
stands on the Chicago platform. The
nominations were made in the afternoon
without any opposition, by reclamation.
The following is the ticket as completed:
Secretary of state, ii. f. Dale. OF Polk;
auditor, John Whitfield, of Guthrie; treas
urer, !. w. White, CT Wayne; supreme
judge, long term. John Cleggett, of Cerro
Gordo; supreme judge, short term, Ed
ward W. Mitchell, Of Fremont; attorney
general, j. ID. f. Smith, Of Cherokee; rail-
road commissioner, w. L. Parker, of o.
ceola; clerk of supreme court, T. r.. North,
Of Dallas; for supreme court reporter, J. j.
Shea, of Council Bluffs.
The Governors Sting of Regret.
In the course of his speech Governor
Boies said: II know it is true we have
not yet tasted the fruits of the victory
we won. | have heard rs you have done
the cibes of the men who SO loudly pirate
of protection to American labor and point
with assumed disdain to closed factories,
stagnant marts of trade and armies of
IDLE men As legitimate fruits of the struc-
gle we helped to win, and I have felt the
sting of regret that single man with in
teiliSeace sufficient to entitle him to the
franchise of American citizenship should
have been deceived by such reply" lie
then accounted for the hard times by a
'looted treasury.
A Question That VIII lie Asked.
Further along the governor said: II
know, too, that sometime in the future
when voluble politicians speak and write
OF the beneiicent effect of protective tariff
Co the laborinC men of the nation they.
too, Will stop to ask how it happened that
ALTER an experience of more than thirty
Years under the most rigid protective laws
a free people ever endured the first breath
OF misfortune THAT came could cover the
country with organized armies of desti-
tute men striving to reach the seat of gov
eminent and lay before congress their
helpless condition that they might beg of
1t for public assistance" He then arru.d
that the principal result of three decades
OF protection had been trusts and com b!nes.
As to Labor Troubles.
On the labor question he said: Il con-
cede to no man IA more earnest desire than
my own for every legitimate advancement
OF the real interests of the manual labor
ers of the land. know, however, that of
ali the classes that make up the aggregate
OF this nation they stand i'll greatest need
OF fair and faithfully executed laws: tnat
without these they would be the most
helpless victims of a condition if il ever
comes in which society learns to ignore
the law and defend its rights, real or
imaginary, with brute force. i 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 pos
sessed by the haughtiest millionaire that
ever cast "a vote, and believe as firmly
as believe i'll my existence that if their
organizations are to be preserved and con-
tinue to be of the least practical benefit
to their members they must see that they
neither violate the law themselves nor
lnstigate, aid or abet others to do so.