Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1895-06-21

men, ana TO whose laws all human enact
meuts must confirm to secure the blessings
of peace and prosperity, presents the fol
lowing declarations and principles:
We declare our sympathies, as a party OF
reform, to be in favor of whatever tends
to make men intelligent and virtuous We
assert our purpose to be Identical with that
of the national constitution to establish
justice, to insure domestic tranquility, to
promote the general welfare and to secure
the blessings of liberty to ourselves and
our posterlty
We reaffrm the liquor traffic as a foe to
civilization and to popular government
that 1T promotes poverty and crime: that
It thwarts the viii of the people and
destroys our homes, and we declare anew
for the entire suppression of the manufact-
ure and sale OF alcoholic liquors as bever-
age and that the full power of the govern
ment should be asserted to secure this
result.
We declare that the so-called regulation
by license, mulct or taxation, whereby a
revenue is derived from this traffic, is con-
trary to good government, is completely
with the liquor crime and corrupting to
public conscience
We pledge our cooperation with all
organizations endeavoring to suppress the
evils of the saloon, but our experience OF
disappointments convinces his that any
political party, not openly opposing this
interests, and for party success will shape
the legislation to secure or retain their
We therefore declare for prohibition,
with the prohibition party behind it.
We demand that every citizen of the
United States shall be allowed to cast q
free and unrestricted ballot at all elections,
and that such ballot shall be returned as
cast: and that this sovereign right shall be
denied to no citizen on account of sex.
We declare for tariff for revenue to
defray tie necessary expenses of the
government economically administered,
but discriminating with special reference
to the protection Of our domestic labor.
We believe in the gold and silver coinage
of the constitution and national currency
issued by the general government only.
We demand the return of the free coin
age of both silver and gold, without dis
elimination against either, at the ratio of
l6 to l. and at once independent of the
action of any other nation.
We affirm that railroads, telegraphs and
all work now granted franchises, the right
OF eminent domain and other sovereign
privileges, should be owned or strictly con-
trolled by the government for the people,
and our opposition to all monopolies by
legislation because they are violations of
equal rights of the people.
This country has always been a refuge
for all the oppressed of exiles, for con
science sake; but it is now becoming large
ly refuge for the criminals and the home
tor the pauper population of other
countries. We. therefore declare for the
revision of our emigrant laws that we may
continue to receive the worthy and may
be free from the burden of the vicious and
indolent.
We stand for the American public school
taught i'll the English language, and OPP
posed to any appropriations for sectarian
purposes or for the perpetuation of foreign
customs or LANGUAGES, and declare that we
can only thus hope to become and remain
a homogeneous and harmful people.
We defend the divine right of all to one
days rest in seven.
The armies of the republic are disbanded
we trust never to be marshailed again in
battle array, but so long as patriotism
exists we demand for the soldiers of the
nation generous and liberal pensions, and
their widows and orphans.
STATE MATTERS.
We denounee in unmeasured terms the
so-called mulct law of this state, and we
arraIgn the republican party which enacted
it for perfidy and treachery to the vote of
the sovereign people cast for prohibition
June 81, 1882, and we declare that no one
layman or priest is worthy of the public
confidence of the people who aided or
abetted the enactment of the infamous
statute or who now palliates its
continuance.
We demand that the revenue laws of
Iowa shall be radically reconstructed, to
the end that the wealth of the wealthy
shall bear It's Just proportion OF taxation.
In other words we demand legislation that
shall cause each dollar to pay it's own
taxes.
We demand that the public institutions
of Iowa shall be placed on purely busl-
ness foundation and their management
divorced from partisan control.
We demand that legislation shall be had
to control the charges for telephones, tele-
graphs and express companies, as well us
to regulate transportation of railways.
We demand legislation reducing official
salaries of the state SO that officers shall
only be paid in proportion to compensa-
tions given similar talent in the other
business affairs of the world
We demand a reduction Of legal rate of
interest IN this state to per cent
We declare in favor OF arbitration as the
wisest, most humane and economical
method of settling all nterna tional as well
as lesser differences in nation and state.
We declare that the principle of tax
alton amplifed in the income tax law
just and beneficent, and we greatly de-
plore the decision of the United States
supreme court by which that law was
made, void, and SO long as it is neces-
sary to look for national revenues by
tariff, we declare for tariff for revenue
only, that shall meet the expenses of the
government economically administered,
but discriminating with special reference
to the protection OF our domestic labor.
The convention then proceeded to
nominate state ticket as follows:
For governor, Frank Bacon: for
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, M. w Atwood;
for supreme judge, Judged. W. Rogers;
for state superintendent Mrs. L. d.
Carhart: for railroad commissioner, H.
F. Johns The state central committee
was chosen as follows: First district,
Isaac L. Gibson. Salem; Second, Mrs
w. F. Clark, Maquoketa; Third. n L.
Shaw. Waverly: Fourth B. L. Wright,
Charles City: Fifth, j. A. Nichols,
Clarence: Sixth, W. T. Hites, Oskaloosa:
Seventh, DR.. ID. S. Grossman, Minburn;
Eighth, p. Dodds, Hepburn; Ninth,
Rev. A. B. Hammer, Stuart; Tenth. M
W. Atwood, Estherville; Eleventh, A.
e. Forsyth. Lake View.
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