The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-09-04
IOWA DEMOCRATS
DROP FREE SILVER
Renew Faith in Fundamental
Principles of the Party.
PUT OUT FULL STATE TICKET
Hit the Trusts a Solid Blow Between
the Eyes--DeoIares Government
Should Drive Them From
American Soil.
PUT OUT FULL STATE TICKET

Des Moines, Iowa, September 3.-Secre-
tary of State, Richard Burke.
Auditor-J. S. McLuin.
Attorney General-John. Dennison.
Treasurer. u. Chapman.
Judge of SUPP enc Court-Thomas Sta
pleton.
Clerk Supreme court-Jesse Trip
Supreme Court Reporter. F. Dalton.
Judge Supreme Court, short term--W.
H. Quick
Railroad ommissioner-Thomas Ben
son.
The foregoing ticket was named by the
democratic state convention here today
The nominations were by acciamatiUn Ina
every case.
The convention adopted a platform
which makes no mention Of free silver or
the national declaration Of the party at
Kansas City.
This Is the first Iowa democrats who
have ignored the silver question since
the Dubuque convention in 1896 when
free silver at a ratio or I6 to I was
specifically endorsed.
The result today was reached at the
conclusion of a protracted contest. The
initaial plank over which the contest
arose reads!
I'VE, the chosen representatives OF the
democratic party In Iowa hereby declare
anew our faith in The fundamental prin-
ciples of the democratic party and re-
new our allegiance thereto"
Trust Utterances.
IL, ~
follows
I'VE find much in the domestic affairs
of the nation that ought to be changed.
The tariff policy originally adopted for
the avowed purpose of raising revenue
to meet the enormous burdens of the
civil war has been turned to the use of
the individual and class interests until
1t has become the creator of countless
unearned fortunes and the shelter OF
huge combinations of capital organized
in the form of trusts, which are strang-
ling competition in many of our indus
tries, destroying Individual efforts, crush
ing ambition largely In railway line Of
industry and already acquiring power
which enables them to dictate In their
own interest the prices of labor and
raw material and the costs of transpor-
tation and of finished products.
I'VE affirm the power and declare 1t to
be the duty of the government to grapple
with all monopolies Of this character
and by laws which can neither be evaded
or defed, drive them from every inch
of American soil.
I'VE assert that an immediate reduc-
ton of our tariff system to revenue
basis as an absolutely essential remedy
| of these overshadowing evils, without
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1.-THE Iowa republicans are congratulate
! ing themselves on having in the platform
adopted at their state convention recog-
nized that a protective tariff may be
made so high as to become the shelter
for monopolies and regret is expressed
/ that their brief utterance on the subject
| is a matter of severe criticism on the
part of leading members of their party
| throughout the country and openly re-
pudiated by many of their own repre-
sentatives in congress from this and
other states
Freight Determinations.
1t is Charged that discrimination in
freights by common carriers is the hand
maiden of an exorbitant protective sys-
tenn I'm fact fostering gigantic trusts
and a revivision of the interstate COM
merce law is demanded.
1t is also charged that the recent re-
/ publican administrations have violated
the fundamental principles of the declar-
alton of independence in permitting the
British to purchase supplies in this coun-
try for the purpose of crushing out
democratic government in South Africa.
The Philippine war is declared to have
been unjust and should be atoned for.
On this subject the platform says:
ITO accomplish this we insist that our
steadfast aim should be to prepare the
Philippine people for self-government in
the broadcast sense that the term inn
plies with a pledge Of the honor of the
nation that they shall not be permanent
ly held in subsection by military forces
and that within a reasonable time they
shall be permitted to determine for them
selves whether they will remain an In
tegral part of the American republic or
become a separate and Independent ma
ton by themselves"
! The Fowler bill Is denounced, opposi-
ton to government by injunction de-
ciares and demands are made for equal
taxation in the state economy in the
conduct OF state affairs and the contract
ing for state supplies with the lowest
bidders
H. C. Tayor, temporary chairman,
spoke at the morning session.
HoRSEMAN SHOOTS EDITOR.