The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1895-07-18
IOWA REPUBLICANS.

Governor, Gen. +. M. Drake.
Lieutenant governor, Matt Par.
rott.
Judge of supreme court, Josiah
Given.
Superintendent public instruction,
Henry Sabn.
Railroad commissioner, George w.
Perkins.
Thi0 platform was adopted:
We, the representative of the
republican party of Iowa, in conven-
tion assembled, reaffirm our fealty
to the great principles which our
national party from it's birth has
f.etpAafastly proclaimed in the face OF
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ave tfte peopis OF CHS country upon
the evidences 81 the returning pros
perity, and rejoice In each in ,tance
of labor re- employed, wages re-
stored and IN lustry re- established
upon a prosperous basis. In the
record of the bulli ng of our indus
tries under republican policy, their
paralysis under democratic power,
and the revival with the reputation
Of the democratic party and the dis
solution of the democratic house of
representatives, succeeded by one
elected upon the platform of the
republican party, the vindication of
the policy of protection is complete.
The democratic party is convicted
OF obtaining power in 1892 under
false pretenses. In its platform it de-
clared the principle of protection to
be unconstitutional, and in its cam
paign 1t denounced the policy as
robbery. But with complete power
in its hands its lawmakers have
utterly failed to carry out the policy
to which they were pledged. 1t is
farcical pretense for the democratic
party to claim credit now for a
measure from which nine months
ago its president withheld his ap-
proval, and denounced as a humilia-
ting abandonment of their cardinal
principles. The senate bill, substi-
tuted for the Wilson bill, is not a
measure which the republican party
fathers it reduces the revenues upon
luxuries, method of levy more
effective than any income tax; it
restores taxation to sugar, neces-
sity in every home; it reduces the
wage rate in many industries in
which labor is the chief element of
fost a tSs Pit prnaPs i maiPtssWRfh Whth in vdsituos
cratic party declares to be unconsti-
tutional. To claim credit under it is
to claim credit for abandoning its
own policy and adopting the princi-
pie which it has denounced.
The platform deplores the revoca-
tion OF reciprocity, denounces tarifl
for revenue only, and declares for
American wages. On currency the
platform says:
eve affirm the declarations of the
republican national platform of 1892,
adopted at Minneapolis, that 'the
American people from tradition and
interest favor bimetallism, and the
republican party demands the use of
both gold and silver as standard
money, with such restriction and
under such provisions to be deter
mined by legislation as will secure
the maintenance Of the parity of the
value of the two metals; that the
purchasing and the debt paying
power of the dollar, whether Of sill
yer, gold or paper, shall bo at all
times equal. The interest of the
producers of the country, its farmers
and the workingmap, demands that
every dollar, paper or coin, issued
by the government shall be as good
as any other.' We urgo that the
United States exert its influence to
establ all with the important COM
mercial nations of the world such an
international agreement as will en-
able this country to reopen its mints
to the free and unlimited coinage of
both metals without loss of one or
the other from the volume of our
money"
The platform favors restriction of
immigration and pensions for all
honorably discharged union soldiers,
and closes with the following indors-
ing Senator Allison:
"We congratulate the people upon
the fact that the state of Iowa will
be represented in the ifty-fourth
congress by two senators and eleven
representatives who are jealous and
fearle ss advocates of republican
principles and whose services in the
past we heartily commend. With
especlal pflue 90 we remember inc
distinguished services of our senior
senator, whose long and honorable
record as servant of the state en-
titles him to expressions of our full
confidence and our enduring affec-
ton. We hail with satisfaction the
universal desire of the republicans
of the state to continue him in his
present field OF usefulness until
called to the larger services of the
nation.n
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