The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-06-26
IOWA DEMOCRATS NOMINATE J.
3. SULLIVAN FOR GOVERNOR
BY RECLAMATION.
GOLD NJ IN CONTROL
MINORITY REPORT REAFFIRMjNG
THE PLATFORM OF 1900 IS
VOTED DOWN..

cratic state convention by a vote Of
463 go to 1854 LILO late in the after
noe refused to, adopt a minority re-
port signed by four members of the
committee on resolutions adding to
the platform reported by the eve
members constituting the majority Of
the committee a plank reaffirming the
Democratic platform Of 1900, and by a
vote Of 62Sk to 1912 rejected another
minority report adding to the plank
demanding government control of rail-
way charges a provision that in case
such control should not prove effective
the national government should &C.
quire ownership of railroads.
The following ticket was decided
upon:
GOVERNOR. B. Sullivan.
Lieutenant Governor-D. B. Butler.
Judge of Supreme Court-John r.
Caldwell.
Superintendent Of Public Instruc-
tion-A. r. McCook.
Railroad Commissioner-W. 8. Por-
ter.
All the nominations were made by
reclamation. the friends of Judge A..
A. Van Wagenen of Sioux City having
concluded not to present his name for
governor after 1t became apparent
that the convention would not adopt
a government ownership nlank which
he has favored. J. B. Sullivan. the
nominee for governor. has been afiliat-
ed with the Bryan wing OF the party.
but he was acceptable to the gold
Democrats.
Temporary Chairman Named.
State Chairman j. M. Jackson called
the convention to order at IL a. m.
and named j. II. Quick Of Sioux City
as temporary chairman.
When the convention met at 2
o'clock. permanent organization was
effected with D. W. Hamilton Of Keo.
kuk county as chairman. E. M. Han
on of Davenport presented the report
of the committee on resolutions and
made the only speech in it's support.
J. M. Parsons of Rock Rapids sub
mitted the minority report in favor Of
government ownership. Of which he
was the onlv signer, and spoke in ia
vor of It's adoption. After the rejec-
ton of the report. w. H. Robb of Cres-
ton presented the reafirmation plan.
Its adoption was urged bv Mr.. Robb,
G. s. Rhinehart. Former Congressman
Walt S. Butler 1T Des Moines and G.
p. MackeX Of Sigourney. 1t was re.
jected and the report Of the majority
of the committee was adopted without
division.
The preamble to the platform reads:
I'VE find much in the domestic af-
fairs Of the nation that ought to he
changed. The tariff policy. originally
adOpted for the avowed purpose of
raising reverne to meet the enormous
burdens Of the Civil war. has been
turned to the use of individual and
class interests urtil it has become the
creator of countless unearned fortunes
and tho sho'ter of huge combinations
of capital, organized in the form OF
trusts. which are stranglirg COMPETE
ton In manv of our Industries. de-
stroving 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"
Relating to Stat. Affairs.
The platform as it relates to state
affairs calls for economical govern
ment. equitable taxation of corporate
oAu pdlSoiG RlOpCIIS, Lie purchase VI
supplies from the lowest bidder. the
substitution Of a local option for the
present mulct law and state aid in the
building of permanent buildings. The
Louisiana Purchase exposition is en-
dorsed. Government by injunction is
denounced and the election of Ur~-l
States senator's by direct vote of ulie
people Is demanded.
Further the platform reads:
I'VE are unalterahly opposed to the
policy of imperialism by this govern
ment, instituted. fostered and main
tanned by the Republican party. And
we demand that II government shall
declare it to be it's purpose and with
out delay adopt such measures as
shall give to the people of the Philip
pine islands and Porto Rico their in
alienable right to self-government."
The platform then condemns the Re-
publican party's financial policies,
protests against the Aldrich bill for
loaning money of the government, de-
plores the corruption in the p~ostofice
department. refers to the alarming
growth of the trust evils, favors revis-
ion of the tariff, opposes government
by injunction. favors change in law
to limit charges by railroads so that
only a reasonable return on capital In
vested may be realized, and in conclu-
sion advocates government action to
obtain the equitable distribution of
any commodity controlled exclusively
by a combine which charges extor-
tionate prices.
Mr.. Bryan Declines to Talk.
Logansport. Ind, June 25.-W. ].
Bryan, who arrived here from Column
bus City, declined to discuss the action
of the Iowa Democratic convention.
INCLUDES MONTANA TOWNS.
New District Added to United Mine
Workers.