Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-08-24
aeyx1&Yxsayxssy.Ssy<3ayx.
Convention Comment.
)xA%Dx&<DraS11AsDx~<DeAsD(

- - ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Y
Chicago, Tribune: The attempt to
dehorh the fire. silver calf in Iowa may
he set down as a failure.
Centervil1e Citizen: Poor Fred
White we dosfeel sorry for him that he
is to again be sacrificed for long lost
cause. il
Clinton Herald: The populists did it
at the midnight caucus. The result is
Cato Sells is not The candidate for gov
ernor and the populists have represent
alton on the state ticket.
Keokuk Gate City: Copperheadism
seems hereditary in the democratic
party. II is always pull down the
flag party.
And now Iowa demopopery has got
to Il specific setting forth of the bene-
fits of socialism IN its state platform.
The Iowa Bryan platform goes be
yond the Chicago Bryan platform and
asserts the benefits of socialism.
( Quincy Wing: This platform was
written under the eye of Mr.. Bryan,
and taken in connection with his
speeches at Dies Moines, would indicate
that the Nebraskan has come to the
conclusion that free silver at the di-
vine ratio OF 16 to is not the para
mount issue he thought it was going
to be a short time ago. 1t must make
room for anti-imperialism.
Chicago News Qnd.): 1t is possible
that the Iowa democrats will be accus-
ed Of shelving the financial question
and substituting the issue of imperial
ism in its place. But the very first
lines of the platform adopted ut Des
Moines s'unqualifiedly and unreserved-
ly indorse the Chicago platform of 1896
in whole and in detail.'' 1t is not easy
to see what they could have said that
would have committed the party in
the state more completely to the 16 to
j idea.
Milwaukee Sentinel: The Iowa dem
ocrats, by endorsing the Chicago plat
form Sin the whole and in detail, y
have shown that they disagree with
the eastern statesmen who say that
the ratio 'can safely be left to con
gress, which. in time, will fix it on a
safe basis" They are not only for the
free and unlimited coinage of silver,
but they are for 16 to 1, and against
any other ratio. The Justification OF
predictions made three years ago by
Mr.. Bryan hasftaught these Iowa dem
ocrats nothing. Their official declara.
tion is plainly and Enthusiastically in
favor of 16,to1 and every other piece
of folly in the Chicago platform.
Dubuque Times: As the case stands
the democrats of iowa must choose be-
tween disloyalty to party and disloy'
atty to country, between sound money
and fiatism, between conservatism and
socialism. Their present leaders, not
withstanding the country is today en-.
joying the most prosperous period in
its history, find that the trusts consti.
'trte a condemnation of the existing
order of society and justify revolution.
The party is in the hands of revolu-
tionists whose aim is socialism and
whose leadership constitutes fearful
reflection upon the intelligence and in
dependence OF the rank and file. The
platform will be repudiated by every
man of courage who knows what de.
mocracy means. 1t deserves the sup
port of populists and socialists and the
antagonism of every friend of the Uni
ted States government and every
friend of the existing basis of society.
Iowa State Register: The Iowa
democratic state conventions never
make any progress in advance of their
party. They are permanently allied to
all the old and long exploded hobbies,
and about the only change made in
their theories during the past third OF
a century has been the assimilation
of populist crazes that will tend to
keep their anarchistic allies in line for
the democratic ticket. This years
democratic platform is mainly repe-
titieh of the old democratic theories.
The committee on resolutions had
plenty of rope, but they used about
all of it in the second and third planks,
which are unequalled in length because
of the numerous repetitions of the dec
laration against the trusts in the sec
ond resolution, and of the sympathy
expressed. for the armed enemies of
the nation in the third resolution
sympathy that is as Unreasonable as the
resolutions adopted by the national
democratic convention in 1864, which
declared the war for the preservation
of the nation ga failure" Few patriot
lie Iowa democrats can read the demo-
cratic state convention platform and
vote for that party's ticket this year.
Briefly and correctly summarized,
that platform is 'agin" the national
and state governments, opposes pro-
lection of American labor, and places
the democrats of the state in support
of the armed enemies of the nation.
1t is practically the same old plat
form that has annually been defeated
in Iowa for forty-five years, and it
will be defeated this year by the larg-
est republican majority ever cast at
an exclusively state election in Iowa,
for there are many loyal democrats
who will vote against all candidates
who will accept nominations on a
platform which practically declares
for a Filipino-democratic alliance
against the army and navy of the
United States.
Killed by sunstroke.
Webster City, Aug. 22.-While stack.
ing oats Fred Schweppe was overcome
4. Al * III