Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-09-04
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Kansas City platform. even the plat.
FORM itself, and there was nothing for
the four members of the committee to
40 Out TO bring in minority report.
IL was agreed that debate should be
limited, each person being given tel
minutes in which to give his views.
Col. Mackey Talks.
Col. G. II. Mackey of Sigourney was
nrst up. He said he had been a demo
crat for thirty-seven years, active in
the warfare and was entitled to be
heard. He was democrat at time
When 1t was stencil to be known as
a member of the party. He came to
Des Moines in 1865 and helped place
IN nomination a ticket which they did
not dare to call democrat; they called
1t soldier ticket, because they had
TO md some name for it other than
democrat. The party was a stencil
then and because of the peace at any
price plank which was being sought
10 incorporate into the Iowa platform,
the party is now stencil in the nos
trils of the people. He said he could
not be read out of the democratic par.
ty. The convention could go back on
the Kansas City platform if it wanted
10; there is no law to prevent people
from making d-m fools of them
selves Col. Mackey pleaded as a
wheel horse of the party for reaffirma-
ton. His appeal was impassioned in
the extreme
Horace Boies.
Hon. Horace Bcies, who had lust
previously read the report of the ma
Jorlty, said an unpleasant duty had
been assigned him by those whose sig
natures were attached to the majority
report, duty which he had tried hard
to eVade. He recited the fact that he
was indebted to the party for honors
bestowed in the past. He had staid
away from conventions because he
knew of the discussions within the
ranks and was afraid that he might
be accused of using his place in the
party as means to split it asunder
yet further. The time has arrived in
his Judgment for settlement In view
OF this he believed it his duty to at,
tend the convention. He had done so
and was there to do what he could
In reply to Mr.. Brewster,who said that
several compromise planks had been
offered in an effort to restore har.
mony, if this be true then what effort
had been put forth by him and his col
leagues to prevent a discussion on the
floor of the convention. He asked the
| convention to remember this. In
conclusion he said that at this time it
would be the rankest folly for Iowa
democrats to reaffirm the silver plank.
He alleged that the silver issue in Iowa
and the United States is the deadest is
sue of any on earth. He thought the
time would come when it would again
be living issue and when that time
came the party would be in shape to
again take it up.
Council Bluffs Man Heard.
j. j. Shea of Council Bluffs took the
floor. He alleged that Mr.. Boies had
repudiated the platform which was in
part the work of his own brain. The
party was face to face with the issue
and had to do one of two things-reaf-
| firm or repudiate. If the silver plank
was repudiated the convention made
it impossible for 100000 democrats to-
vote the ticket and the republican ma
| jority in Iowa last year of 5000
would be swelled to $50.
600 this year Ohio had
endorsed the platform and now
Iowa wanted to advertise to the world
that it was ashamed. He did not be-
| lieve that any political party ever
gained any permanent power by trim
ming its sail to catch every passing
breeze and appealed to the convention
to stand by the Kansas City platform,
to the last ditch.
S. H. Bashor
Hon S. H. Bashor, of Waterloo, be-
lieved it poor policy to reaffirm the
silver plank. He said to be silent onI
the subject was not reputation.
Here Colonel Mackey said he would
see him in - first
Hon. Walt Butler.
Hon Walt. Butler said it panied
him that democrats like Mr., Boies re.
fused to vote for what they wereI
pleased to term live issues in the plat
form because of one dead one-theI
silver plank. He said it was notI
Dead that the man who would stifieI
principle of self was beneath his
contempt. A man who said that free
silver represented a fifty cent dollar.
designated this government as a fiftyl
cent affair and was fifty per cent al
traitor. He could not be scared
when they said the party would lose
votes. He had fought for principles
for a long time. Now was the time for
action. This was the first skirmish,
and he had appealed to the delegates
in the name of justice to be true to
principle and to the Kansas City plat
form.
Other Speakers.
G. F. Rhinehart of Newton, formerly
of Ottumwa. believed that honesty was
the best policy and that it was the
honest thing to do to reaffirm the Kan
sas City platform.
Judge Van Wagenen of Sioux City.
was concerned about the success OIL
the party. That was all there was tol
it. He said to leave out the silver
plank did not mean that in a few
years the democratic party would be a
gold standard organization
General James B. Weaver of Colfax