Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1895-07-12

HEAD THE TICKET OF TH1 RE
PuBLlCANS.
Hard Fight for Governor, but Drake
Won the Nomination on the
Sixth Ballot,

Governor. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT M. DRAKl
Lieutenant-G Governor j. MATT PARROT
supreme Judge ....,..... JOSIAH GlVEl
State Superintendent. HENRY SABll
railroad Commissioner. q. w. PERKINi
/ Dies MONIES, July 11.At the repub
lican state convention, after Chairman
Blythe had read the call and praye
had been offered by Rev. j F. Norton
OF Tama, Temporary Chairman JOSEPH
n. Lane addressed the convention, thu
committees We're appointed and thu
convention adjourned for dinner.
In the afternoon permanent organiza
ton was effected by the selection 0.
Lafayette Young as chairman, j. w
| Willetts, of Tama, as secretary and E.
Il. Hutchins as reading clerk. After 9
few remarks by the chairman, ballot
ing for nominee for governor began.
The first ballot resulted: Drake, 36t
Sis; Harlan, PAS 3-15: PARROT, 2o4 4-15;
! Mcfarland, ZIG; Harsh, Sc; Ormsby, 81
| kamrar, "a: Conaway, 21; Let's, "a
| Russell, 4. On the sixth ballot, Drake
won by the following vote: Drake,
| S64h; Harlan, 139 3-14; PARROT, 331
| 3-14.
The conventions next work was TIC
| select a candidate for lieutenant gov
ernor. DUNCAN, Parrot, Kamrar and
Ormsby We're nominated and on the
second ballot all opposition withdrew,
leaving the nomination to Parrott.
Judge Josiah Given and Judge Nc
Crazy were nominated for the supreme
ludgeship, the latter winning by 500 to
ISL.
Henry Sabin was nominated for state
superintendent without opposition, as
was George w. Perkins for railroad
commissioner.
The platform adopted is as follows:
We the representatives of the republican
party of Iowa In convention assembled, reaffrm
oar fealty to the great principles which our
national party from Its birth hns steadfastly
proclaimed In the face OF an ever-shifting foe.
We congratulate the people of this country
upon the fact OF returning, prosperity and re-
wages restored and industries re-established
upon prosperous basis.
In regard toour industries under republican
policies. their paralysis under democratic
power and their revival with the reputation
Of the democratic party and the dissolution Of
the democratic house OF representatives, sue
ceeded by one elected upon the platform OF the
republican party, the Wind cation of the policy
of protection is complete.
Inc ucmOCrauC party Is cOnSlCteu OF OD-
tanning power in 1892 under false pretenses.
In its platform 1t declared the principle OF pro-
lection to be unconstitutional and in its cam
Win compiete power me IN TITS its Hands It's law
makers failed to carry out tie
policy to which they were pledged.
1t is a farcica prctense for the democratic
party to claim credit now for measure frcm
which nine months ago it's president withheld
his approval and denounced as humiliatng
abandonment of their cardinal principles. The
senate bill substituted for the Wilson bill is not
a measure which the republican party would
father: il reduces the revenue upon Injuries, a
method of leyying more effective than any
income tax; it restores taxation to sugar
necessity in every home: II reduces the wage
rate in many industries in which labor is the
chief element of cost; but it maintains
in many of its parts the principle which the
democratic party declared to he unconstitu-
ttonal. To claim credit under it is to claim /
credit for abandoning its own policy -
adopting the principle which it had depco rti
We deplore the fact that the i,taraet in
party, while protesting speci-i -, 49,, do
the enlargement of our eX1,eit .r.sue . ~, n,
stroyed the reciprocity drran genehU9s 49,
lshed by republican adminstf'stioh. W
licitude for foreign trade has been eNhip-
tied only i'll the admission of foreign Goo'is W
our market without obtaining any fecip . 81
favors from foreign nations. we believe N lng
policy of reciprocity as the policy OF pfactical
affairs and the admission of foreign traders 70
the rich markets of the United states, s.,oess.
eiE.I nufkets.
We believe that the compensation OF labor
is the true gauge of civilization, and the wei
fare OF the borsr has been the Cons eoastan a care
unalterably opposed to reducing the American
workman to open competition III our own mar.
ket with the poorly paid worker or the ola
world.
We denounce the doctrine that duties on inn
ports should be levied with a view to revenue
only and rea1lrm the doctrine which has
wrought in America the most marvellous IN
dustrial development ever known i'll the civil
lied world, viz: doctrine OF protection TO
home industries.
We believe in maintaining not only the high
est wage rate for the laborer but the integrity
of the money in which he IS paid. We reaftrn,
the declaration of the republican national
platform of 1892, adopted ut Minneapolis, that
1.-THE American people from tradition ana
interest favor bimetallism; and the
party demands the use OF
both gold and silver standard money with
such restrictions and under such provisions to
be determined 10y Legislation will secure the
maintenance of the parity of value of the two
metals so that the purchasing and the debt
paying power of the dollar whether of silver,
gold, paper, shall be at all times equal.
The interest of the producers OF the country,
its farmers, and the working men demand that
every dollar paper or coin, issued by the gov
eminent shall be as good as any ether"
We urge that the United States exert its IN
fuence to establish with the important com
mercial nations of the world such an interna-
tional commerce will enable this country TO
reopen its minis to the free and unlimited
coinage of both metals without the loss of one
or the other from the volume of our money.
The honest and Industrious immigrant who
comes to ol,l, land with the intent to become IN
good faith an American citizen is al
ways welcome None other should be
permitted to We favor the
amendment and more stringent enforcement of
the immigration laws, so as to exclude Grim
inals, paupers, and all other undesirable
classes. whose presence tends to degrade
American labor and incite disorder.
The republican party, ever mindful OF the
patriotic sacrifices of the veteran soldiers OF
the republic, reafrms its position i'll favor of
liberality to the nations defenders. We favor
the granting of pensions to all honorably dis
charged Union soldiers and sailors, whose dis
abilities or necessities justly entitle them
thereto.
We congratulate the people upon the fact
that the state of Iowa will be represented III
the Fifty -ffth congress by two senators and
eleven representatives who are Jealous
and whose services in the past we heartily
commend With especial pride do renem-
Der the distinguished services of our senior
senator whose long and honorable record as u
servant of the state entities him to expressions
OF our full confidence and our en-
during affection. We hail with salts
faction the universal desire OF the republicans
of the state to continue him in his present field
OF usefulness until called to the larger service
Of the nation.
At a meeting of the state central
committee, H. G.. Mcmillan, of Rock
Rapids, was made chairman, L.. c. Me-
chem, of Centerville, vice chairman,
and /. M. Treynor, of Council Bluffs,
secretary.