The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-07-11
GENERAL DRAKE NOMINATED.
He Succeeded in Winning Out on the Sixth
Ballot.


the purpose of nominating candidates
for governor, lieutenant governor, judge
of the supreme court, superintendent of |
public instruction and railroad commits
sioner, There are 1.242 delegates pres
ent requiring 622 to nominate
The auditorium of Calvary Tabern- |
acle, the scene of the convention, was |
plentifully decorated with flags and |
bunting, and when Chairman of the
State Central Committee j. E. Blythe |
called the convention to order at 1854
every seat was filled There were two
thousand visitors in addition to the del
egates.
Prayer was offered by Rev. ]. f. Nor
ton and at the conclusion of the prayer
Senator Allison appeared on the stage.
The entire assemblage arose and united
in series of tremendous cheers. Sem
ator Allison bowed his acknowledge
ments but maintained silence. Joe r.
Lane of Davenport was made temporary
| chairman.
In his speech Mr.. Lane said the re
| publican party in the past had been i3
favor of a protective tariff; in favor of
| American wages for american labor; ins
| favor of American industries and Amer
| lean products; in favor of America first
and England last. There it stands to-
| day Under the fostering influence of
| the protective tariff and reciprocity, en-
acted by the republican party, we had
prosperity, good times, plenty of money.
Industries were established, encouraged,
developed and maintained so that Amer
| lean labor and American capital pro
| duced and supplied to a large extent the
wants of the American people.
| In 1892, said he, through the deception
and false promises of the democratic
party, Benjamin Harrison was defeated
and Grover Cleveland elected. A ma
| jority of the people thought they want
| ed a change. They got it. 1t is a mat
| ter of history in what doses it came and
| how soon they learned that they didn't
| want it, At the time of this election
the country was prosperous, business
was good, manufactures were in opera
ton, labor was in demand. Hardly had
| Mr. Cleveland been inaugurated before
the democratic free trade promises and
threats eliminated in a panic as severe
/
coming.
Cognizant of its gigantic blunder,
smarting under the singing rebuke of
1894, who wonders that the democratic
| leaders at once attempted to conceal
their free trade sacrifice by turning
their tom-toms upon the currency
question? Let US see to it that the dem
ocratic party does not blame both the
/ battle ground and the weapons. Let US
demand that the tariff question be one
of the issues. Let us force the fight
to finish. If wisdom prevails here to-
day we have a good prospect that the
next president of the United States
will be from Iowa. The republican
party has been and is now in favor of
a sound national currency-a currency
always redeemab1e in coin. Whatever
the form of our money, whether gold,
or paper, it must have equal purchasing
power.
In conclusion Mr.. Lane said they
should favor bimetallism, the use of
both silver and gold, with the largest
use of silver in our currency that will
not impair or endanger in any way
the parity in value of all money and
circulation, whether metallic or paper.
They should favor an international con-
ference to adopt such measures as will
! ensure parity of value between gold
and silver for use as money throughout
the world. The United States should
not open it's mints to free coinage of
silver until an arrangement has been
made with other commercial nations
| whereby they will agree to concurrent
ly open their mints.
When the convention reassembled
rules were adopted barring nominating
speeches and limiting other speeches
to five minutes. report of the com
mittee on permanent organization,
naming L. Y, Young, editor of the Des
Moines Capitol, for permanent chair
man, was approved Mr.. Young spoke
for five minutes, denouncing the demo-
cratic party for it's failures.
/ A platform was adopted which reaf-
firms fealty to the principles of the ma
tional party; congratulates the country
upon the evidences Of returning pros
perity, and declares that in the record
of building of our industries under re-
publican policy the paralysis under
democratic power and the revival with
the reputation of the democratic party,
the vindication of the policy of protec-
tion is complete.
The platform asserts that the demo-
cratic party is convicted of obtaining
power In 1892 under false pretenses; and
has Utterly failed to carry out the tariff
policy to which it was pledged. 1t crit
licises the democratic tariff law; deplores
the fact that the democratic party has
destroyed reciprocity arrangements; de-
clares in favor of protection to home
industries; reaffirms the financial plank
In the republican platform of 1892; ia
vors an inssrnational monetary agree
ment, more stringent immigration laws
and liberal pensions, and endores Sena-
tor Allison for president.
The platform ignores the prohibition
question as being out of politics.
After adopting the platform the con-
vention adjourned sine die.
The convention then proceeded to the
nomination of a candidate for governor
The following were put in nomination.:
Geeral f. NJ. Drake, ex-senator ]. F.
Harlan, ex-State Senator Matt PARROT,
]. B. Harsh, E. S. Ormsby, ]. L. KAN
rar, w. NJ. Mcfarland, the present Sec
retary of state, Senator A B. Conway,
F. c. Harlan and W. s. Russell.
On the first ballot Drake received 366,
Harlan 24S, Parrott POS Mcfarland 116.
| None of the others received more than