The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-25
SULLIVAN FOR GOVERNOR
He is Acceptable to All Mem
 berS of the Party.
Proposition to Incorporate in Plat form a Plank Calling for Govern ment Ownership of Rail-
 roads is Rejected by
 the Convention.

Des Moines Ia. June Ex-Governor. J. B. Sullivan; Lieutenant Governor. D. B. Butler; Judge of Supreme Court. John R. Caldwell Superintendent of Public In- struction, A. B. McCook; Railroad Com missioner, w & Porter
 The Democratic State Convention by a vote of 463 9-10 to 354 1-10 today refused to adopt a minority report signed by four members of the Committee on Resolutions, adding to the platform reported by the seven members constituting the majority of the committee a plank reaff!rming the Democratic national platform of 1900. and b va vote of 62Ss to 199ls rejected another minority report adding to the plank demanding government control of railway charges, a provision that in case such control should not prove effective the national government should acquire own ership of railroads
 All the nominations were made by &C., clamation, the friends of Judge A. A Van Wagenen of Sioux City having, conclud- ed not to present his name for Governor after it became apparent that the conven- ton would not adopt government owner ship plank which he has favored. J. B. Sullivan, nominee for Governor. has been affiliated with the Bryan wing of the party, but he was acceptable to the gold Democrats.
 Convention Adjourned.
 State Chairman Jackson called the con- vention to order at Il a m. and named J. H. Quick of Sioux City as temporary chairman.
 When the convention met at o'clock permanent organization was effected. E. M. Haron of Davenport presented the re- port of the Committee on Resolutions and made the only speech in its support. J. M Parsons of Rock Rapids submitted the mi nority report in favor of government own ership. of which he was the only signer and spoke in favor of its adoption. After the rejection of the report, w. H, Robb of Creston presented the reafirrnation plank. 1t was rejected and the report of the majority committee was adopted, without division. The preamble to the platform reads:
 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 the use of ln dvidual interests until 1t has become the creator of countless unearned foi- tunes and the shelter of huge combina- tions of capital, organized in the form of trusts which are strangling competi- ton in many of our industries, destroy ing individual effort, crushing ambition largely in every line of industry ard al- ready acquiring power which enables them to dictate in their own Interests the prices of labor and raw material and the cost of transportation of finished pro- ducts"
 Platform on State Affairs.
 The platform as 1t relates to State af- fairs calls for economical government equitable taxation of corporate and pri- vate property, the purchase of supplies from the lowest bidder the substitution of a local option for the present law and State aid in the building of permanent roads Government by injunction Is de- nounced and the election of United States Senators by direct vote of the peo- pie is demanded
 Further the platform reads:
 We are unalterably opposed 10 the pol fey of imperialism by this Government instituted and maintained by the Republi- can party And we demand that our Gov ernment shall declare 1t to be it's pI-pose. and without delay to adopt such meas ures shall give to the people of the Philippine Islands and Porto Rico their inaienable right of self-governm ant.
 We condemn the Republican Party for its financial policies which would foist on the country an unstable currency based on the uncertain private securities.
 We protest against the plan presented in the Aldrich bill recently before the United States S'nate by which the money of the nation shall be loaned to capital fists upon the bond nd securities of pri- vate corporal tions. as an effort to give value and stability to watered bonds and securities of corporations and trusts, many of which are maintaining monopo- lies in defiance of law and public senti- ment.
 We insist that the integrity of the money of the nation be guarded with zealous care and demand that 1t shall be sufficient in volume to meet the needs of the business interests, of the country and 1t shall be safeguarded by carefs legis- laton go as to prevent the gamblers of Wall Street from cornering the money market. thus infiictiIg untold injury upon the smaller business men, the farmers and the laborers of the land.
 Corruption in Cow =--~-~nt.
 I've Geplore the corrupt condition of tke government service in the Postoffice Department and demand a thorough in vestigation of that and other departments by a Congressional Committee; publicity IS to such conditions and punishment of all wrongdoers.
 As the most alarming features of our present conditions are the evils which come from trusts and as these evils are made possible by legislation favoring one class and against another by transporta- tlon privileges and by monopoly of orig inal sources of supply of natural pro- ducts. therefore to the end that the evils connected with the growth of trusts may be eliminated. we call for the removal of the tariff from all trust-made goods and demand that all tariff schedules be ad- justed with a view to tariff for revenue only.
 aWc ask for such changes in our law. statutory or constitutional as will limit +hA charges by railroads to such an amount as will yield only a reasonable return on the capital actually invested and will render 1t impossible for trans portation favors granted to any one and such as will make certain that all rail way companies would be treated alike, as such statutes provide penalties that will be effectuat to secure a compliance with them.
 When the sources of supply of any product are Tn the ownership of those who combine to extort from the people an unreasonable amount for such pro