Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-08-15
The WIND KNOCK[DOUI
Prohibitionists' Satisfied With
Cummins' Statement as to
the Mulct Law.
The Convention Of Alleged lnde.
pendents at Des Moines Will
Be Called Off.
Dubuque Democrats Adopt Muir.
phys Platform in Full.
Political News.
Special to Times.R Republican.

'oPeCldi 10 1lIneS-HepODllCan.
Des Moines, Aug. lot is probable
the anti Cummins convention called to
meet in Plymouth church will be called
off. owing to the statement of Cummins
that he will not urge change in the
law. Members of anti-saloon league say
they will not countenance the move
ment.
Dubuque, Aug. 15.-The democratic
county convention to select tfirty-tiv
delegates to the state convention was
held yesterday afternoon. John S. Muir
ply was the master spirit, and intro
duced set of resolutions which were
unanimously adopted. The resolutions
affirm the Kansas City platform
adopted and promulgated on July 5, 1900,
and express the conviction that it is in
cumbent upon the democratic state con-
vention to ratify that great declaration
of fundamental principles. Equality of
taxation is demanded, especially in the
taxing of railway properties, which is
said to be far lighter than in neighbor-
ing states. The following delegates were
selected: John S. Murphy, p. F. Ryder,
M. l.. Lyons, r. F. Bennett, NJ. j. Null
grew, p. III. Mclaughlin, T. j. Conlon,
w. F. Slattery, Joseph Palen, John
Flynn, NJ. NJ. Hoffman, F. N. Schroeder,
NJ. c. Matthews, H. j. Nelson, T.. j..
Fitzpatrick, A. F. Frudden. John Wei
nler, j. j. OFT, Joseph Marquid, F. M.
Knoll. G. F. McGovern, Joseph Kessler,
j. S. Hayes, ]. B. Utt. Henry Tegler,
John Alsop, ]. 7. Daykin, Fred Fett-
gether, Charles Baldwin, P. j. Schroe-
der. P. C. Mclaughlin, ]. Muehl, T. No
Ian. j. McAleer and A. j. Wood
j. s. Murphy then read the following
resolution, which was adopted:
The democrats of the county of Du-
buque, in convention assembled, again
heartily endorse and reaffirm the plat
fornf-adopted and promulgated by the
national democratic convention at Kan
sas City on the 9Th day of July. 1900, and
express the conviction that It is incum-
bent upon the democratic state conven-
ton to ratify that great declaration of
fundamental principles.
The basal principle of the democratic
party. one whose application and main
tenance are vital to the existence and
perpetuity of free government. is equal
rights to all. privileges to none. Under
republican party rule this principle is
deliberately violated and spurned In
Iowa, particularly in the mater of taxa
ton. Railroad property is here taxed
far more lightly than in Minnesota,
Wisconsin and other neighboring agri-
cultural commemorative, and while the
Hawkeye farmer and city property own
er must pay on the basis of 25 per cent
of the actual value of his holdings, the
favoritism of the state executive coun-
Gil, composed exclusively of members of
the dominant political party, permits
the railroad corporations to escape with
payment on the basis of from 9 to 10
per cent of the actual value of their
property estimated by the true criterion
of the market value of their bonds and
stocks. George F. Edmunds. OF Yer
mont, long the republican leader in the
senate of the United States and recog-
nized as one of the greatest of contem-
porary constitutional lawyers, affirms
that unequal taxation is the most gall
ing and destructive of all forms Of ty-
ranny." Nowhere in the country are the
people oppressed by the blighting form
of tyranny to a greater extent than in
Iowa. AS the union of states could not
continue one-half slave and the other
half free, SO equality before the law can
not exist when the burdens of the un-
privileged are unjustly increased and
those OF wealthy and powerful corpora
tons inequitably diminished. This con-
vention resents the iniquitious outrage
upon public and individual rights in
volved in the discrimination, and to the
end that the rule of the people may be
substituted for corporation rule, it here
by denounces the class-creating tax
policy of the republican party and IA.
vors and insists upon declaration in
the democratic state rSltform vigor-
ously demanding equality Of taxation,
and the nomination for governor of a
man whose public record and utterances
are guarantee of his entire sympathy
with the declaration"