The record-union., 1896-03-12
ALL SOLID FOR ALLISON.
The Republicans Meet at DeS MOineS and
Select National Delegates,
Formally Inaugurating the Senator s
Boom for President.
The Largest Convention Ever Held in
the State and Marked by Great En-
thusiasm, Especially When the
Name of Their Favored Son Was
Mentioned-The Platform Adopted.

Mentioned-The Platform Adopted.
DES MONIES Qa.), March 11.-The
Republican State Convention met in
this city to-day to select delegates TO
the National Convention at st. Louis,
and to formally inaugurate the candi-
dacy of Senator William B. Allison of
Iowa for President. The convention
was one of the largest ever held in the
State and hundreds of people were
turned away from the tabernacle in
which it was held
The forenoon session was called to or
Ger at III o'clock and Congressman J. P.
Dolliver was named as Temporary
Chairman. His speech served to rouse
The enthusiasm of Allison's supporters
10 the highest point and it was cheered
from first to last. He did not devote a
great deal of time to the discussion of
Allison's claims to the Presidency, but
devoted himself largely to an arraign-
ment of the Democratic party for its in
competency in the management of Gov
ernment affairs.
The gathering of people at both ses-
sions was perhaps the most representa-
tive of the State ever seen at a State
Convention. Several members Of Con-
gress had come home to attend the
gathering, and all Of them were given
OVations by the convention.
The forenoon session did nothing but
listen to the speech by Mr.. Dolliver and
name the Committees on Organization,
Resolutions and Credentials.
In the afternoon the serious work was
done. A. B. Cummings OF Des Moines
was made Permanent Chairman. He
made brief speech which added to the
enthusiasm.
General Baldwin of Council Bluffs
offered a resolution naming Senator
John H. Gear, Congressman w. P. Hep
burn and David B. Henderson and j. S.
Ciarkson as ates-at-large. There
had been a movement to keep Clarkscn
of the delegation, but it was promptly
squelched before the convention came to
order, and the resolution carried unani-
mously.
For alternates-a s-at-large there We're a
number of aspirants, and those selected
were H. G. Mcmillan of Lyon. David
Heimshaimer of Mills, Phil Scha1ler of
Sac and J. e. Foster of Mahaska
The resolutions are in form at vari-
ance from the ordinary declarations of
State Conventions; they are in the ma
ture of an address to the country of the
claims Of Allison for the Presidential
nomination. The platform, briefly, is
the public record of Allison, with which
alcne the platform deals They for
mally present him to the Nation as a
candidate, and call attention to the part
he has taken in National legislation
The important sections of the platform
are as follows:
Senator Allison has been a conspic-
uous figure in this benefcent work of
the party throughout its whole exist
ence. No other man in the nation more
emphatically represents the construc-
tive and resourcefuI capacity of the
party to meet in a practical and sue
cessful way the difficult problems of
administration. He has been a promi-
nent and indefatigable laborer in all
the difficult problems connected with
the war, and the means of sustaining
it; reconstruction and the harmonizing
of the sections; the abolition of slavery
and the overthrow Of polygamy; the
enfranchisement, education and up
building of the negro, supplementing
in this the work which he early did in
his own State.
THE raising of revenue to sustain the
Government; properly pension and
properly discharge millions of the pub
lie debt; the creation of sound cur
rency; the upbuildfng of agencies for the
development of the West; the reform of
the civil service; the national control
of railroads. the upbuilding of Ameri-
can industries; the prevention of the
Chinese and pauper and criminal i'm
migration; the protection of dairy and
agricultural products, and the creation
of a pension list unequaled in the graf
itude of nations
IF the dominant issue is to be the
tariff. then no man better represents it,
for no man has oftener been placed in
the leadership in the formation of Re
publican tariff than Senator Allison.
For thirty-nine years he has been
among the foremost in their construc-
ton and always upon the line of that
fair and sufficient protection that is the
strength of the party policy He was
Chairman of the subcommittee that
after many months of investigation
drafted the administrative provisions
of the customs laws, accepted under
all tariff bills since constructed as
most efficient in their operation. He
was Chairman of the Senate committee
that drafted the Senate substitute for
the Democratic bill of 1888, which sub
stitute was largely the basis of the
Republican tariff of 1890. He had the
Senate leadership again in the perfec-
ton of the last Republican tariff, where
IL received many of its important pro-
visions. notably that of reciprocity. He
was again selected by the Senate Re-
publicans to lead the discussion and
assault upon the free trade Wilson
bin. and his skill and influence operated
largely in saving whatever measure
of protection American industry was
secured under that law.
IF the financial situation is to be the
issue of the campaign then Allison is
the man to be first commended to the
nation by reason of his reputation for
financial resourcefulness and construc-
tiyeness and soundness, q fact conspic-
1lously recognized by the pressure of
Presidents Garfield and Harrison upon
him to take the portfolio of the treas
lrv in their respective Administra-
tions. He has been favorable to a true
bimetallisn. He has at all times Ia
bored TO maintain an abundant cur
rency of gold, silver and paper made
incontrovertible and equal to the best
currency Of the commercial world. He
has demanded for the business of the
nation currency equitable and sta
1,1e free from the oscillations so dan
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