Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-06-30
Crestop Lawyer Well Known
in Ottumwa Unanimously
Selected b. Convention.
SILVER WING BEATEN
9 Re-A f1rmationists Completely
Routed by Reorganizers.
VAN WAGENEy WAS FORGOTTEN

VAN WAGENEN WAS FORGOTTEN
The Sioux City Judge Whose Boom
Was Fed Carefully for Months
Was Lost in the Shuttle and His
Name Not Mentioned.
For Governor Jerry Sullivan, of
Creston.
For Lieutenant GOVERNOR. D..
Butler, of North English.
For Judge of Supreme Court-John
R. Caldwell, Tama county
For Superintendent of Public In
struction-A. r. McCook, Howard
county.
For Railroad Commissioner-W. s.
Porter, Hardin county.
Des Moines, June 25.-(Special) -
This is the ticket named by the demo.
Gratis of Iowa in convention in this city
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reaffirmation of the Kansas City plat
form and declaration favoring gov
eminent ownership of railroads, both
of which lost out because the conserva-
tive element of the party was in the
in the saddle and would not incorpor-
ate anything that looked to the leaders
like an ism.
The Platform.
Following is the platform adopted
after two minority reports, one on reaf-
firmation and the other on specific gov
eminent ownership of railroads, had
been fought to standstill on the floor
of the convention:
eve, the chosen representatives of the
democratic party in Iowa, in delegate con-
vention assembled, hereby declare anew
our faith in the fundamental principles of
the democratic party and renew our allie
glance thereto.
The Tariff Plank.
1--WE find much in the domestic affairs
of the nation that ought to be changed
The tariff policy, originally adopted for
the ayowed purpose of raising revenue to
meet the enormous burdens of the civil
wars has been turned to use of individual
creator of countless unearned fortunes and
the shelter of huge combinations of capital
organized in the form of trusts which are
strangling competition in many of our in
dustries, destroying individual effort,
crushing ambition largely in every line of
Industry and already acquiring power
which enables them to dictate in their own
interest the prices of labor and raw mate
rial and the cost of transportation Of fin
ished products.
Government by Injunction.
1--WE declare our unqualified opposition
to the principle of government by injunc-
ton.
I'VE renew our demand for the election
of United States senators by direct vote
of the people.
State Affairs.
Eve demand economy in the administra-
tion Of state affairs, repeal of the mulct
law and the enactment of a local option
law
1--WE demand the contracting for supplies
for the state with the lowest responsible
bidders.
in the interest of the much needed i'm
provement of public roads, we favor state
aid in the building of permanent highways.
"Imperialism."
1--WE are unalterably opposed to the pol
Icy of Imperialism by tnls government in
stituted, fostered and maintained by the
republican party. And we demand that
our government shall declare it to be its
purpose, and without delay adopt such
measures as shall give to the people of
the Philippine lslanus and Porto Rico their
inalienable right to self government.
Republican Financial Policy.
eve condemn the republican party for
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upon the country an unstable currency
based upon uncertain private securities
The AIdrich Bill.
"We protest against the plan presented
in the Aldrich bill recently before the
United States senate by which the money
of the nation shall be loaned to capitalists
upon the bond and securities of private
corporations as an effort to give value and
stability to watered bonds and securities of
corporations and trusts, many of which
are maintaining monopones in defiance of
law and pubic sentiment.
Want Treasury Guarded.
Eve insist that the integrity of the
money OF the nation be guarded with jeal-
GUS care and demand that it shall be suffi-
Client In volume to meet the needs of the
business interests of the country, and that
1t shall be safe-guarded by careful legisla-
tlou 50 as 10 prevent une gamblers OF Wall
street from cornering the money market
thus inficting untold injury upon the
smaller business men, the farmers and the
laborers Of the land.
Jefferson Mentioned.
I'VE point with pride to The one hun
dredth anniversary of the achievements of
-haf great diplomat and democratic states
man, Thomas Jefferson, under whose ad-
ministration the Louisiana territory, of
which Iowa was a part, was secured from
foreign power in peaceful and civilized
way, without the loss of life, yet with the
consent of the governed.
Iowa at st. Louis.
SIN the great exposition to be held in st.
Louis in 1904, to properly commemorate
this event, the people Of Iowa should take
a prominent part and make creditable
exhibit of the products of the soil and the
work of the crafts.
Postoffice Scandal.
I'VE deplore the corrupt condition of the
government service in the postoff1ce de-
partment and demand thorough investiga-
tion of that and other departments by a
congressional committee, publicity as to
such conditions and punishment of all
wrong doors.
Trust Evils.
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