Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-07-03
HAPPENINGS IN IOWA
EVENTS OF A WEEK THROUGH.
OUT THE STATE.
Democratic State Convention Refuses
to Reaffirm the Party's National
Platform of 1soo-Dubuque
Strike Settled.

The Democratic state convention at
Des Moines by vote of 463 Clio to
1854 lilo refused to adopt minority re-
port signed by four members uf the
committee on resolutions adding to
the platform reported by the seven
members constituting the majority OF
the committee plank reatfirming the
Democratic platform of 1900, and by a
vote Of 6281s to 1914 rejected another
minority report adding to the plank
demanding government control of rail-
way charges provision that in case
such control should not prove effective
the national government should ac-
Quire ownership of railroads.
The following ticket was decided
upon:
Governor, ]. B. Sullivan; lieutenant
governor, D. B. Butler; Judge of SUI
preme court, John R. Caldwell; super
intendent Of public instruction, A. R.
McCook; railroad commissioner, w.
s. Porter.
All the nominations were made by
exclamation, the friends of Judge A.
A. Van Wagenen Of Sioux City having
concluded not to present his name for
governor after it became apparent
that the convention would not adopt
q government ownership plank which
he has favored. j. B. Sullivan. the
nominee for governor, has been affiliat-
ed with the Bryan wing of the party.
but he was acceptable to the gold
Democrats.
J; II. Quick Of Sioux City was tenn
porary chairman and D. w. Hamilton
OF Keokuk county permanent chair
man.
The preamble to the platform reads:
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 1T has become the
creator of countless unearned fortunes
and the shelter of huge combinations
of capital. organized in the form of
trusts. which are strangling competi-
ton in many of our industries, de,
stroying individual effort, crushing
ambition, largely in every line of in.
dustry, and already acquiring power
which enables them to dictate In their
own interest the price of labor and
raw material and the cost of trans
portation Of finished products"
The platform as it relates to state
affairs calls for. economical govern
ment. equitable taxation of corporate
and private property. the purchase of
supplies from the lowest bidder. the
substitution of local option for the
present mulct law and state aid In the
building of permanent buildings. The
Louisiana Purchase exposition is en-
iorsed. Government by injunction is
denounced ard the election of United
States senators by direct vote of the
Ipeople Is demanded.
The platform opposes the Republican
policy Of imperialism. demands self
government for the Philippines and
Porto Rico, condemns the Republican
Iparty's financial policies, protests
against the Aldrich bill for loanfng
money of the government. deplores the
corruption in the postoffice depart
ment. refers to the alarming growth
| Of the trust evils, favors revision of
the tariff, opposes government by in.
junction, favors change in law to
limit charges by railroads so that only
reasonable return on capital invested
may be realized, and in conclusion ad.
vocates government action to obtain
the equitable distribution of any COM
modify controlled exclusively by com
btne which charges extortionate prices.