Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-06-26

| m1raple condltIon. But ne conoemneu the
| present revenue system as a monster of
| injustice. The republican legislature camo
| in for severe criticism for It's alleged cor
| ruption. The establishment of the state
| account system in penitcntiaries he cred
| tied to the democratic party mainly, but
| recommended a still further reform which
will take the prisoners entirely out of the
competition with other labor.
Wants to Retire from Politics.
In conclusion, the governor said that he
appreciated the approval of his friends as
! shown by their desire for his denomination,
but claimed that he was not in condition
to stand for reelection. His health was
broken by his attention TO public duties
and his property interests were suffering,
He had no ambition to be party lader,
and asked that he be permitted to re-
tire from public life. His closing words
were: Let the world know that we re-
gard our party platform as sacred as holy
writ, and that any pledges made to the
people will be carried out. and long before
the ides Of November the cohorts of plu-
tocracy and corruption and all their hire
lings and hangers on will be driven from
the great temple of the people,"
The governors illusions to President
Cleveland We're received with tumultuous
applause. When he announced that his
physical and financial conditions would pre-
Vent him entering a canvass for reelec-
tion there was a depressing silence, fol-
lowed the next moment by mighty
shout of moi the convention, rising en-
messe and repeating the ovation that
greeted his entrance.
EN-Congressnlan Clark of Missouri, jol-
lifted the audience with q humorous
speech, In which he named Boies, Bland,
Bryan, Matthews and Blackburn as ac-
ceptable nominees of the Chicago conven-
ton. The name of the Iowa ex-governor
was accorded the bulk of the applause.
Gen. Stubbs, of Iowa, spoke briefly.
The Platform.
Following are the principal points in the
platform adopted by the convention:
I'VE favor the soundest and safest money
known to man, and as experience has
shown that this consists of both gold and
silver. with equal rights of coinage and
full legal tender power we demand the
repeal of that republican and plutocratic
legislation which demonetized silver and
reduced 1t to the basis of token money,
destroying by one-half the stock of real
money, and by doubling the work to be
done by gold doubled its purchasing power
so that the farmers and producers had
to give twice as much work to get dol
lar as they formerly had and found 1t
hard to meet the debts. interest, taxes and
fixed charges, which We're not lowered.
I'VE believe in the greatness and pa
triotism of the American people, in their
energy. industry and thrift, and that such
Il people, with the unlimited resources Of
our land. are strong enough to sustain q
monetary system without the aid Of foreign
governments.
1--WE believe that the benefits of the in
dependence which we gained a hundred
years ago-the war for which was initiated
upon a matter of tribute--should not be
lost by yielding vassalage to q monetary
system preferred by other governments.
I'VE believe that the bimetallism which
has done the work of the world since the
dawn of civilization and which was made
the basis of monetary system by Ham,
ilton and Jefferson Is absolutely neces-
sary at present to the prosperity of man.
kind, and that its reestablishment will
check the present business paralysis. will
give to the country safe and honest cur
rency of adequate volume, will restore
prices of agricultural commodities, will en-
courage enterprise and give our people
steady and profitable employment Hay-
ing learned through bitter experience that
Wall street has controlled the financial
legislation of Washington, and knowing
that every effort will be made to defeat the
will of the people, we deem 1t proper to be
explicit in our declarations
'Actuated by the foregoing principles
and desiring the prosperity of the people,
we demand the immediate restoration of
the free and unlimited coinage of both gold
and silver as standard money at the rate
of sixteen ounces Of silver to one of gold
of equal flneness, with full legal tender
power to each metal. without waiting for
or depending on any other nation on earth;
and the delegates from this convention to
the national democratic convention are
instructed to use all honorable means to
secure q similar declaration by said ma
tional convention, and to support only such
men for the presidency as are in full and
pronounced sympathy with these princ-
pies"
The platform opposes contraction of the
currency by the retirement Of treasury
notes; favors tariff for revenue only;
opposes revival Of the Mckinley law,
which 1t declares produced deficit in the
treasury for the fiscal year ending June
80, 1894. of S70,00O,O00, under which wages
were greatly lowered, and which gave
proprietors monopoly while it permitted
them to fill their shops with the cheapest
kind Of labor brought from all parts Of the
earth. The resolutions demand the aboli-
ton of government by injunction. whereby
federal judge at once became legislator,
judge and executor, and denounces this
new form of oppression as destructive
of republican institutions, robbing the citt-
zen of the right of trial by jury and Of all
protection by the constitution; 1t declares
that arbitrary interference on the part OF
the federal government in local affairs by
ignoring lawful authorities is not only a
violation OF the constitution of the United
States, but crime against free govern
ment The platform favors a constitu-
tlonal amendment permitting the levyine
and collection of an income tax Delegates
TO the national convention are instructed
to support only such men for the presi
dency as are in full and pronounced syn-
pathy with the declarations of this plat
form, to vote upon ell matters including
nominations non for candidates. to vote as