Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-09-09
Names OF the Candidates who wSps
Chosen By AoolanatIo n-Ths ST.
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the Platform.

lions Delng made by reclamation:
Secretary OF state, Richard Burke. Ma
haska county: auditor of state, ]. 8. Nc
Luin, Guthrie: attorney general, John
r. U. Chapman. Des Moines: Judge OF
supreme court Gong term), Thomas
Stapleton. Iowa; clerk Of supreme court.
Jesse Trip. Jasper; supreme court re-
porter. John F. Dalton. Calhoun; !udgs
supreme court (short term), w. H.
Quick. Woodbury.; railroad commissioner.
Thomas Benson. Faystts.
The Platform.
The following "a the full text Of
the platform:
We. the chosen Representatives OF the
democratic party In Iowa, in delegate
convention assembled. hereby declare
anew our faith in the fundamental prin-
ciples Of the democratic party and renew
our allegiance thereto.
We 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 use Of individu-
al and class interests until 1t has become
the creator OF countless unearned for
tunes and the shelter of huge combina-
lions of capital. organized in the form
OF trusts which are strangling COM
petition in many of our industries, de-
etroying individual effort, crushing ambi-
ton largely in every line OF industry
and already acquiring power which en-
ables them to dictate in their own inter-
est the prices OF labor and raw materi-
al and the cost Of transportation of fin
ished products.
We affirm the power and declare 1t to
be the duty of the government to grapple
with all monopoles Of this character. and
by laws which can neither be evaded or
defled, drive them from every inch of
American soil.
We assert that an Immediate reduction
OF our tariff system to a revenue basis
is one absolutely essential remeay for
these overshadowing evils, without which
they can never be overcome.
We charge that discrimination in
freights by common carriers Is the hand
maid of an exorbitant protective tariff.
in fostering the gigantic trusts that have
become menace to the welfare OF the
masses, and We demand such changes in
our interstate commerce act as may be
necessary to secure the speedy punish
mont by Imprisonment OF any officer or
agent of corporation engaged in inter-
state commerce, who Is guilty Of such
discrimination. and the enactment Of
further provisions that shall make such
discrimination ground for prohibiting
the offending corporation from transact
ing the business Of a common carrier In
the business of interstate commerce.
| We are especially proud OF the fact
| that our party in state and nation alike
Is loyal to the principles enuneiated in
that immortal chart of human liberty,
the Declaration of American Independ-
| ence and to-day with unehaksn faith in
| it's wisdom and justice alike we rsaf-
| firm its central and ever enduring truth
| that governments derive their Just pow
er from the consent of the governed"
We charge the republican party in its
recent administration of the affairs OF
| the nation has wantonly violated this
| fundamental principle of our government
| upon which its most beneficsnt tnstitu-
| lions were built, and must continue to
rest, If their blessings are to be pre-
served for generations to come.
The Philippine war Is declared to have
been unjust and to be atoned for. On
this subject the platform continues:
ITO accomplish this, we insist that our
| steadfast aim should be to prepare the
Philippine people for self-Eovernment in
| the broadcast sense that term implies,
with a pledge Of the honor of the nation
that they shall not be permanently held
in subsection by military forces and that
| within @ reasonable time they shall be
permitted to determine for themselves
whether they will remain an integral
part OF the American republic or become
a separate and independent nation by
| themselves"
We denounce the Fowler bill now pend
| ing in congress, and referred by the re-
publican majority in the house to the
| committee of the whole that 1t may be
| put on its passage at once, as a DELHI
| crate attempt to convert the banking in
tsrests OF the United States into one
huge financial trust. backed by the ap-
| parent credit Of the government, that
L y>Io Ma ,IN1A han h,,~i
of the country under single manage
ment of three individuals. clothed with
| the all important governmental function
OF controlling the currency OF the people.
and fraught with every danger to the
| masses that was threatened by the old
| United States bank which jackson throt-
tied in its infancy three-fourths Of a
century ago.
We declare our unqualified opposition
to the principle Of government by in
! junction.
We renew our demand for the election
of United States senators by direct vote
of the people.
The fundamental principles of democ-
racy, Equal rights to all and special
| privileges to nons," applies in full force
to the subject of taxation. The demo-
cratic party believes that the burdens of
| taxation should be borne equally by all
| taxable property. We pledge our mem
and urge the adoption of such a law as
will compel the burdens Of taxation to
rest on corporate and individual prop
erty alike, without favor to or exemption
OF any interests.
We demand economy in the administra-
ton OF state affairs, the repeal of the
| mulct law and the enactment Of O local
option law.
We demand the contracting for sup
plies for the state with the lowest re-
sponsible bidders.
New Central Committee.
The new state central committee
consists of the following:
N. C. Roberts, First district: g. w.
Mercer, Second district; l.. F. Springer,
Third district; D. A. Lyons, Fourth dis
trict; A. E. Jackson. Fifth district; S. n.
! Mcconnell. Sixth district; ]. c. Likes,
Seventh district; A. w. Maxwell Eighth
district; S. B. Morrissey, Ninth district;
]. B. Romans. Tenth district; J. H.
Quick. Eleventh district.
| Likes American Innovations.
London, Sept. s.-Rev. Wilson Car
lille, honorary chief secretary of the
Church army, which he founded in
the slums in 1882, is introducing what
is designated here as american ideas
of religion" with a vigor that startles