Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1903-06-29
IOWA DEMOCRATS REFUSE FREE
SILVER PLANK.
DEMAND TARIFF REVISION
Strong Platform Language Used To
Declare in Favor of REIMBURSEMENT
of Custom Schedules so as To Give
Others Than Great Trusts oppor-
tunity To Prosper.

Des Moines, June 25.-The demo-
cratic state convention yesterday
nominated the following candidates:
GOVERNOR. b. Sullivan, Creston.
Lieutenant gOvernor-D. b. Butler,
Iowa City.
Judge of the supreme court-John r.
Caldwell, Tama.
Superintendent of public instruction
"A. r. McCoolk, Howard.
Railroad commissioner-W. S. Por-
ter, Harding.
The convention, by a vote of 463 to
80, late yesterday afternoon refused to
adopt the minority report, signed by
four members of the committee on res
Olutions. adding to the platform re-
ported by the seven constituting a ma
jority of the committee a plank reaf-
firming the democratic national plat
form 1900, and by a vote of 326 to
199 rejected another minority report
adding to the platform a plank de-
handing government control of rail
way charges, with the provision that
in case such control should not prove
effective the national government &C
quirs-the ownership of railroads.
All nominations were made by ac-
clamation, friends of Judge Van Wag-
enen of Sioux City having concluded
not TO present his name for governor
after it became apparent that the con-
vention would not accept the govern
ment ownership plank, which he has
favored. ]. b. Sullivan, the nominee
for governor, has been affiliated with
the Bryan wing of the party, but was
acceptable to the gold democrats.
State Chairman Jackson called the
convention to order.
Find Much To Be Changed.
The preamble to the platform adop-
ted declares:
1--WE find much in the domestic af-
fairs 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 individual and
class interests until it has become a
creator of countless unearned fortunes
and a shelter for huge combinations of
capital organized in the form OF trusts,
which are strangling competition in
many of our industries, destroying in
dividual effort, crushing ambition
largely in every line of industry and
already acquiring power which enables
them to dictate, in their own interest,
prices of labor and raw material and
the cost of transportation of the fin
ished products"
The platform denOunces government
by injunction; favors the election of
senators by the people; opposes i'm
pe-ialism; condemns the republican
financial policies; protests against the
AldriCh bill, by which, the platform
says. the money of the nation is
loaned to capitalists upon the securi-
ties of private corporations to give
stability TO watered stocks; deplOres
the corruption in the postofIice depart
ment; denounces the trusts; demands
the removal of the tariff from trust
hAdus soou>s dshS III d law W COhIloi
railroad charges; demands that the
morey Of the nation shall be suffi-
cient in volume to meet the needs of
the business interests of the country,
and thst it shall be safeguarded by
careful legislation so ito prevent the
gamblers OF Wall street from corner
ing the money market, thus inflicting
untold injury upon smaller business
men, the farmers and the laborers Of
the land"