New-York tribune., 1895-08-08
FREE SILVER MEN BEATEN.
IOWA DEMOCRATS DECLARE FOR SOUND
MONEY.
". F. BABB NOMINATED. FOR GOVERNOR
FINANCIAL. PLANK OF THE DEMOCRATIC
NATIONAL. PLATFORM REAFFIRMED-

NATIONAL PLATFORM REAFFiRMEp-
FREE COINAGE MAN FOR
LIEuTENANT-GovERNoR.
MarshaI,town. Iowa. Aug THE sense OF the
delegates to the Democratic State Convention ne'u
here to-day was twice taken on the siVer a"e'"o'
and the party In this State is squareiy on recoru
s onnosed to free coinage at the ratio OF Is to l.
The first test was Indirect the free-coinase men
and the opposition having Candidates io' pe..
nent chairman j. H. Shields, OF Dubuque onA.'
piop of sound money. was chosen oy 'o'e VI W.
TO AL Later when direct proposiuon was "'auo
TO substitute free-silver plank for the
of the National financial plank OF lS92 contained III
the platform 1t came from the .oh,n'es '
Resolutions the silver men again met defeat oy
vote OF 65l to 420.
Judge w. f. Babb OF Mount Pleasant sound
money man. was nominated for Governor py a'
clamation on motion OF ex-Congressman waiter
/ Hayes Of Clinton. In the same ''a" NV
nomination fer Lieutenant-Governor wen. u D. ~
pestow of Charlton, who has been Lieutenant
covernor and is an advocate OF free SILVER re
was the candidate OF the free-siNer men io' .'e
nermanent chairmanship. Ihe hoi''a"o" M
Rai,road Commissioner went TO Coiohei "eoiso ~.
Jenkins, OF Dubuque, and for state oupe''"'e"ue"'
toI r Parshall OF Maquoketa. There were TWO
enS,datas for Supreme Court Justice. and a
haIot was reouired G. Harper. ex-State senator
80 prr,ington was nominated, defeating T.. T..
Hasner OF Independence -
The convention was called to order by Chairma"
WILLIAM Howard at 1920 a. m. There were nearly
loo delegates present. The temporary chairman
was Nathaniel French, OF Davenport, and j. H.
Shields of Dubuque was permanent charma'' -ii'
Shields In his address, avoided reference 10 '"e
financial question. While waiting for the report oi
tho Committee on Resolutions Henry Noimer,
Novor of Davenport spoke for sound money ana
'wa hitter in his references to the 'free SILVER
orozs" cato Sells United States Dstrct-Attorhey,
made q conciliatory speech. and l.. r. Boiter OF
7 ar and 7 + Shea of Council Blufrs, spoke Tor
free silver. ., 81. j.
/ EE Marley of Mason CITY, presented 'he
,raiorItv repcrt OF the Committee on Resolutions
and s s. Evans Of Ottumwa presented minority
report. signed by himself and s. A. Brewster Oh
Crsston recommending the substitution OF hnah, i
IRE Iart declaring for the free coinage OF gold
and Silver at the ratio of l6 to b. NJ SarI, ,uS Ti
Wanchester: ex-Congressman White, OF heohuH
and q RI Macke. OF Sgourney, supported tne M
nority report The ballot resulted IN itS conserva
,iye address He declared himself a pimetais'' as
he thought most Democrats were
Judge w F. Babb was born in Des MONIES
County. Iowa, forty-fve years ago He entered
Iowa WESLEYAN University. at Mount Pleasant ana
IN 1869 entered and served two years In the Union
.rmv Returning he finished his university course
studied law and settled down to practise MS pro-
fession in Mount Pleasant. where ne mas 1' he q
twice been elected to the bench in district srohS,y
Republican because OF his personal popuiar'y'
| is widely known In Iowa through MS WORK III GUN
| nection with the Methodist Church.