The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-05-27
IOWA DEMOCRACY.
Presents the Name Of Horace
Boies for President.
State Convention Held at Dubuque-Ex-
Governor Placed at Head of Dele
cation to Chicago-Declares
for Free Silver.

SothOAA ~ ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
for Free Silver.
Dubuque. Ia, May 21.-Carryfng out the
programme formulated by the leaders of
the majority element, the democratic state
convention on Wednesday declared for
free silver in the most radical terms; pre-
scented ex-Gov. Horace Boies to the
democracy of the nation as a candidate
for the presidential nomination and in
structed the delegates at large and the
district delegates. three of the latter being
adherents of the sound money doctrine. to
vote as unit.
The majority report of the committee
on resolutions was barren of any refer
ence to President Cleveland or his admins
tration, while the commentator of the
chief executive attached to the minority
report was voted down by nearly three to
one.
Ex-Gov. Boies heads the delegation 20
Chicago and his associates are: Samuel
B. Evans. Ottumwa; William A. Wells.
Elkader, and Lewis T. Genung, of Hast
ings. These are the alternates: Judge A
Van Wegenen, Woodbury.; d. B. Stubs,
Jefferson; Andrew c. Daily. Marshall: C.
H. Mackey, Sigourney. When ex-Gov
Boies was named as first delegate and it
was moved that he be selected by acclama-
ton, there was small negative vote.
but the chair declared that the motion had
been carried unanimously. This provoked
After the business proper Of the con-
vention had been disposed of ex-Gov Boies
was presented and accorded tumultuous
reception. He said that in the
part he had taken in the present trouble he
had been animated by the sole desire to Sc
cur for the masses in the state represen-
tation in the convention. He believed before
as he did now that in many conventions of
political parties the voice Of the people
had been stified and so far as he was con-
cerned he had been determined that the
democracy of Iowa should speak for itself.
It had done so and he hoped that from this
time on they would recognize the fact that
the strength Of the democratic party rested
in the masses.
There was an exodus of delegates stimuli
taneous with the governors closing words.
and the report of the committee on resolu-
lions presented by W. L. Read, of Des
Moines, was listened to with scant atten-
ton.
It reafirms the allegiance of the Iowa
democracy to the doctrine of bimetallism,
to the use of both gold and silver as pri-
mary money and the coinage OF both at a
ratio without charge or limit; favors the
repeal Of all laws which either in spirit
or in letter discriminate against silver and
in favor of gold, and the substitution
thereof of affirmative legislation which
shall, restore silver to equal rights with
gold in the minis and coinage of the coun-
try; favors the immediate repeal of all laws
by which silver was demonetiZed and de-
mands it's unqualified restoration to the
right of free and unlimited COMA ge in the
minis of the nation as money of full legal
tender and final redemption at the ratio of
sixteen to one recognizes the money ques-
ton as the leading one of the times, and
declares that as the result of the present
conflict must be a return to the money OF
the constitution, or the substitution there
for for all time to come of a standard of
values, born of British aristocratic greed,
which doubles the purchasing power OF
money, and reduces by one-half the price
of all the great staples of industry The
marty pledges itself to stand by the con-
stitution, and to fight with all it's strength
every wrongful aggression of the money
power and in this effort cordially invites
the cooperation of all good citizens without
reference to political affiliations in the
past. 1t protests against all schemes for
the retirement of our non-interest-bearing
national paper currency and the SubStitu-
ton therefor of $500, OOO.O0O OF interest-bear-
ing bonds to become an additional burden
upon the producing classes, that national
hanks may be supplied with interest-bear-
.dividual business; it also protests against
the further issuance and sale of govern
ment bonds to acquire gold with which to
redeem such currency, and demands of the
government that it shall hereafter redeem
the same with the coin Of either metal IL
may possess in strict accord with both the
spirit and the letter Of the law. 1t de-
nounces as a transparent fallacy the claim
that labor can be penehteo by
standard as the basis Of our f1nan-
cial system, and declares it to be the
experience Of all ages and or every coun
try alike clearly demonstrates that con-
tracted currency invariably compels con-
traction Of business; the lessening of in
dustrial enterprises: the enforced tdleness
of great numbers Of the working classes;
and nothing Of which the human mind can
conceive is more clearly self-evident than
the naked truth that the wages of labor
must always be adjusted to correspond
with the price of labor's products in the
markets. 1t favors the appointment Of
cabinet official to be known as secretary
of labor, whose duty it shall be. in all
cases of tariff-protected industries, to in
vestigate. ascertain and report to congress
what share, If any, Of the enhanced price
for which protected products are sold in
the markets Of this country Is paid by en-
ployers in these industries to their en-
ployeS, and to inquire into the merits of
the controversies between employers and
employees and recommend the adjustment
thereof upon such terms as to him or
arbitrator appointed by him shall seem
just. and in case Of the failure of either
party to abide by the recommendation
made to report the facts to congress or to
state legislature, as the case may re-
Quire, with recommendation for addition
al legislation if such in his Judgment be
necessary. 1t instructs the delegates to
the national convention to vote as unit
on all questions. especially those relating
to the adoption of a platform and the NOM
ination Of candidates for president and
vice-president. 1t also instructs the dele
gates to present the name of Horace Boies
to the national convention as the candidate
of the Iowa democracy for the office Of
president of the United States, and to use
all honorable means to secure his nominal
ton.