Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-09-03
eiIvER FACTION DEFEATED.
/ s9saseintions Committee Stands Seven to
Four Against Reaffirmins Kansas
ss CIV Platform.
! NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. n

City PtAtform.
4 Special to Times
PES Moines, Sept. 3.-The result OF
\ slthe caucuses of this morning was
fconlplete triumph for the democrats
who are opposed to the reaf1irmatlon OF
Il the Kansas City platform. The silver
4 ties controlled four districts, the sixth,
!. seventh, Eighth and Tenth, and the
ether faction controlled all the other
81 raucuses. This makes 1t certain that
the platform as 1t will be presented to
I the convention will bn substantially
along the lines that are desired by Gov
.arncr Boise. He has platform pre-
,Rared and will be chairman OF the COM
Il syltteei The platform he has prepared
\ n long one and covers the whole
st3ange of subjects in an elaborate way.
sfIt refers to the past record of the party
sSand TO the past utterances of national
md state CONVEX sis. The committee
ccnsists OF the following:
First district-John J. Seerley, Bur-
olngton.
second-E. n. Thayer. Clinton.
Third Horace Boies Waterloo.
FourtI-H. c. Bishop, Ellsader.
Fi2th-John r. Caldwell. Tama.
Il sst Sixth A. Brewster, OttumWa.
Seventh--C. o. Holley, Des Moines.
s Eighth-Frank @. Stuart, Charlton.
NinthJohn p. Morgan, Council
4 BlnMs.
u Tenth. D. Edward Mcdonald. Car
ron.
Eleventh. A. Van Wagenen, Sioux
City.
An effort was made to secure silver
Instructions to Boise in the Third dis
trlct, but they We're held down 60 to
3 a6, Dubuque county going against
e silver 17 to s. Representative Springer
4 pf Buchanan. gold democrat, was
Y unanimously elected member of the
ptate committee. The Sixth district
4 Instructed for free silver. Gen Weaver
presided and was placed on the COM
Is nlittee on permanent organization with
Instructions to select a free silver per-
manent; chairman. The vote on. the
resolutions committee stood q for
Brewster and Z for Nelson, gold. An
effort to instruct for silver in the
Eleventh district was voted down 40
4 10 IL. Quick was unanimously re-
slected committeeman. In the Tenth
y The free silyerites had it their own
Ii way. In the Second S. w. Mercer, of
8; iowa City, was placed on the state
: e0rnm.t .ttee to succeed Hipwell, resigned
IN the Fifth district the test was on the
vote for resolutions committee Judge
caldwell. of Tanla, getting thirty six
s. votes to thirty for C. D. Huston, of
Cedar sRa pids. put up the silver men.
IN the Seventh district the silver men
+ won out with a lively fight. In the
Second and First districts there was
great unanimity in opposition to re-
lfiirmation of Kansas City platform.
The essential part of the platform
will be the Boies platform and which
will In all probability be adopted by the
convention, Is as follows:
sSs ;sss I'VE. the chosen representatives of
y the democratic party in Iowa, in con-
4 VentiOn assembled, hereby renew our
3 allegiance to the fundamental pinci-
pies of the democratic party as pro-
1 elai,ned by the fathers of democracy at
bts birth, promulgated in long line of
national platforms of our party and in
q berpreted by It's great leaders from the
foundation of our government to the
1Essent ime.s