St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-03-12
lOWA'S ONLY CHOICE
Continued From First Pace.

10 close matters up by abandoning the pres
e el;.t pasls OF American business on which all
existing contracts stand, and take refuge,
from pubic and private creditors alike in the
unlimited issue of silver dollars gratuitously
manufactured for the owner, out of material
worth IN the neighborhood of so cents The
republican party, without concealing its de-
sire to continue the large practical use of
silver short of introducing dangerous elements
or disturbance and huctuation into the coin-
age, refuses to follow the counsel of either.
THE TRUE REMEDY
lies, not in perilous experiments In banking
currency and coinage, but in the prompt
provision OF an adequate national revenue.
That is the first step, and it cannot be taken
zoe soon. But the increase Of revenue, in
order to be useful, must be brought into the
treasury In such way as will protect the
occupation of our own people. If we never
knew 1t before we know now that the best
customer or the farms Is an American
tlsan, with steady employment and good
wages sitting at the head of his table, sur
rounded by his family, with fixed prejudice
against oleomargerine and filled cheese and
an established taste for fresh meat and white
bread. That is the customer for whose pros
perity the state of Iowa, following faithfully
the counsel Of W. d. Allison, casts its full
vote IN both houses Of congress. We in
tend to defend that customer, and we believe
that all his interests will be safe In the
hands of the great senator whose constructive
craftsmanship has been influential In franz
Ing every protective tariff law that has found
place In the statute book for quarter of
century. He is a protectionist, not for the
sake Of particular industrials, but because the
wage level OF the United States cannot be
degraded without injustice to the American
workingman and without infinite perils to
our institutions. The need of these times is
not so much for leader to rally the people
to the Republican banner, as for master of
the art of administration, conservative and
strong, able to hold the victory after 1t Is
won: Nothing can keep the American peo-
pie from voting against the Democratic party
this year. No man has been proposed for
the nomination whose election would not
bring honor to the chief Office Of the people,
but among all the illustrious men who are
presented for the favor of the party, in this
year OF hope and victory, not one Outranks
In ripened preparation for its duties, the
unassuming leader of Republicanism of Iowa,
whose name is on the lists and in the hearts
of all our people today.
LIST OF DELEGATES.
The address was frequently inter-
rupted by applause, which became tre-
mendous at every reference to Allison.
Following is a complete list Of the del
gates elected to the national conven-
ton:
First district. J.. G. Davis, of KeOkuk; G:
Jackson county; Col. George F. French. of
Scott county; Third Hon. Edward Knott, of
Waverly; Capt. J. F. Merry of Manchester;
Collins Of NcrthW 1Se Fifth G. R. strubie.
of Toledo; S. w. Rathburn, of Marion; Sixth,
Calvin Manning of Wapello; w. H. Need
ham, Of Keokuk; Seventh. A. B. Cummings.
Of Polk; DR.. o. D. Bennington, of Madison;
Eighth, L. Banks Wilson, Creston; r. H.
Spencer, Mount Ayr; Ninth, John N. Bald
win. Council Bluffs; Hon. Silas Wilson; At
Macomber. of Carroll; Eleventh, Hon. E. O.
Roach. Rock Rapids; F. H. Holseld Sioux
Rapids.
The convention adjourned until p. m.
At the afternoon session Hon. A. B.
Cummings was elected permanent
chairman Of the convention, and the
following delegates at large were cho-
sen together by resolution: James 8.
Clarkson, D. B. Henderson, John H.
Gear and w. P. Hepburn. Alternates
at large were chosen as follows: G. M.
Curtis, Clinton; H. G.. Mcmillan, Rock
Rapids; G. J. A. Ericsson, Boone; Phil
Schaller Sioux City.
ALLISON RESOLUTIONS
The following are the resolutions
adopted unanimously:
We, the representatives of the Republican
party of Iowa, voicing the unanimous will and
enthusiastic purpose of the Republicans of the
state, herewith formally present to the Re-
publcans of the nation the Hon. William B.
Allison United States senator from Iowa, as Il
fitting candidate for the Republican nomination
for president Of the United States The Re-
publicans of Iowa, in their fealty to Repub-
lican principles, and with profound sense Of
their obligation to the people of the nation to
do only what seems best to bring back to the
Frustrated interests of the nation, the health
giving tonic of Republican policy, present Mr..
Allison in a spirit far above any consideration
of state pride. For many years there has been
a universal feeling among the people of Iowa
that Senator Allison is conspicuously fitted for
the position of president of the republic, and
this sentiment has spread widely over the ma
ton. So that We present his name today in no
sense Of personal compliment to him, in no
spirit Of local pride, but in the profound con-
viction that we are fulfilling duty to the
party and duty to the nation.
We believe that Senator Allison represents
as well as any man in the nation the compe-
tency of the Republican party to deal honestly,
wisely and successfully with all the interests
of the country. For a third of century the
Republican party has solved the greatest diff
ficulties in government that it is possible for
party to encounter. It's rule was grandly ben
efted and the growth and prosperity of the
Democratic party displaced it in rule, the
record has been of wretched mismanagement
and dismal disaster.
1T IS THIS CONTRAST
between Republican competency and Demo-
cratic incompetency that will carry the Re-
Of its cause will rest not upon its issue, but
upon it's demonstrated ability to meet all is
sues firmly, wisely and successfully.
Senator Allison has been a conspicuous fig
ure in this beneficent work of the party
throughout it's whole existence. No other man
in the nation more emphatically represents
the constructive ana reSOurCSIuI capacity or
the party to meet, in practical and success
full way, the difficult problem of adminstra-
ticn. For thirty-one years he has had
moulding hand in all the important laws upon
the nations statute books Throughout this
long period he has been prominent and in
defatigable laborer in all the difficult prob
lens connected with the war and the means Of
sustaining It.; reconstruction, and the har-
monizing Of the sections: the abolition of
slavery; the enfranchisement, education and
upbuiiding OF the negro, experimenting in
state to give the ballot to the black man; the
raising Of revenue to sustain the govern
ment, pay pensions and discharge thousands
of millions of the public debt; the creation of
our financial system and the return to specie
payment; the creation of a sound currency;
the upbuilding of agencies for the development
OF the West the reform of civil service; the
national control of railroads; the upbulding of
American industries; the protection of dairy
and agricultural products; the prevention of
Chinese and pauper and criminal immigra-
ton, and the creation of a pension list I'M
equaled in the gratitude of nations. He has
been favorable to
TRUE BIMETALLISM
and he has at all times labored to maintain
an abundant currency 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 stable, free
from the oscillations so dangerous to business
interests and so unjust to the wage-earners of
the nation, whose thousands of millions of an
nual wages and many thousand millions of
credit in savings banks and other forms, con-
stitute them the great creditor class of the
nation.
If the dominant issue Of this contest Is to
be the tariff. then no man better represents
1t, for no man has been oftener placed In the
leadership in the formation of Republican
tariffs than Senator Allison. For thirty-one
years he has been among the foremost in
their construction and discussion and always
upon the line OF fair and sufficient protection
that is the strength of the party policy He
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