The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-07-31
IOWA ADOPTS OLD PLATFORM
AGITATION OYER TARIFF AND
 TRUSTS COMES TO NAUGHT.

mousIy Not to Make Any Change Danger That People Night Think Party Was Changing Front.
 Des Moines. Ia, July 3O.-The repub- lican state convention to-day named the following ticket:
 Secretary of state-W. B. Martin.
 Auditor oS state-B. F. Carroll.
 Treasurer of state-Gilbert s. Gilbert son.
 Attorney general-C. w. Mullen.
 Judge of Supreme court-Scott M. Ladd.
 Judge of supreme court (short term)- Charles A. Bishop.
 Clerk supreme court-John c. Crock ett.
 Supreme court reporter-W. W. Corn wall.
 Nearly HOO delegates attended the convention.
 The only controversy was over the tariff and trust utterances of the plat ford and tha. was settled in the com mittee on resolutions i'll favor of reit- eration of last years utterances, with an addition to the trust plank congrat- ulating President Roosevelt on the in- auguration of judicial proceedings to enforce the antitrust laws.
 The meeting of the committee on res- olutions developed the expected con- troversy over re-affirming that clause of last years platform which declared for "any modification of the tarlf schedule tEat may be required to pre- vent their affording shelter to monop- oly"
 The debate was a repetition of that which has been carried on in the Iowa press for some months. Judge H. M. Towner and James c. Davis insisted that the objectionable plank in last years platform was virtually plea or guilty to the democratic charge that the tariff is the parent of trusts. Tn reply w. H. Berry of the Seventh dis trict. G, E. Roberts and others insisted that the language expressed the exact view of a large majority of the party | that it had stood test of one campaign and that it's elimination at this time would make it an issue in this year campaign, put the party on the deten' sive and lead the people to believe thai the party is changing front on the trust question.
 At the opening of the afternoon ses' sion, E. c. Roach of Rock Rapids, was made permanent chairman. N. E. Ken dau, chairman of the committee on res olutions. reported the platform.
 The resolutions were passed by the convention without a dissenting voice.
 The congratulate the people upor the country's prosperity; deplore tne death of President Mckinley, express confidence in President Roosevelt ant endorse his administration: express ap proval-of the work of the Fifty-seventi congress, and declare for the Philipln' policy.
 The tariff plank reads:
 .We stand by the historic policy O the republican policy in giving protec tion to home industries and point 10 it's ample vindication 10 the extraordl nary rapidity with which our nattona resources have been developed and ou industrial and financial independenc secured. We favor such changes In tn tariff from time to time as may becom advisable through the progress of ou industries and their changing relation to the commerce of the world. We en dorse the policy of reciprocity as tn natural complement of protection an
 urge it's development as necessary t
 the realization of our highest commer
 cial possibilities
 In dealing with trusts the resolution
 say:
 "We assert the sovereignty of the pee
 pie over all corporations and aggrega tions of capital and the right residin
 in the people to enforce such regula tions, restrictions and prohibitions upo corporate management as will protet
 the individual and society from abus of the power which great combination : of capital wield. We cordially endorse the position ( President Roosevelt in appealing to tn
 courts to secure regulations that wi control treat combinations of capitt : which prevent competition and contr'
 the industries to the people Withot legal sanction or public approval" The dissranchisement of citizens t the south is condemned and the resoll tions close by approving the work ( ! Governor Cummins.