The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1906-08-09
PORTER FOR GOVERNOR
IOWA DEMOCRATS NOMINATE
CENTERvlLLE MAN.
NAMED ON THE FOURTH BALLOT
Platform Favors Tariff for Revenue
Only and Demands Legislation to
Destroy Trusts-Pedge Support to
Bryan-The Ticket.

Waterloo, Ia. Aug. S.-The Demo
cratic state convention nominated
full state ticket, headed by Claude i.
Porter of Appanoose county for gov
ernor, adopted platform and adj
journed sine die.
The platform favors tariff for rave-
nue. only, the election of United States
senators by direct vote of the peopls
and demands the enactment of such
legislation as will effectually destroy
sympathy with the purposes OF ma
tional labor organizations, as set forth
in recent address by Samuel Com
pers, John Mitchell and others calling
on labor to assert it's political rights
at the ballot box. A resolution was
adopted pledging to William Jennings
Bryan the support of Iowa Democrats
for the presidency in 1908.
On the tariff question the platform
says:
I'VE believe in tariff for revenue
only. There should be immediate re-
lief granted to the people who arc
now being robbed by extortionate
prices exacted under the shelter IF
tariff. We believe that the people Of
this country who produce our wealth
to pay our taxes to fight the battles
of the republic are entitled to pu;-
chase the goods manufactured in this
country as cheaply as the people who
reside abroad. We denounce the ex-
tortion inflicted upon our people under
the pretense of protection as All CUT
rage upon the consumer and upon
the poor and upon the laboring people
who produce the wealth of the coun-
try. We believe the tariff should be
removed from all trust made goods
and in the removal of all duties on
iron, steel, lumber and coal. We de-
mand the enactment of such lesisla-
ton as will effectually destroy all
trusts and the strict enforcement Oh
all laws concerning the same, and
we denounce the executive OF the
state of Iowa for failure to enforce
existing laws
The ticket nominated follows: Gov
ernor, Claude r. Porter AppanCose
county; lieutenant governor, John D.
Dennison, jr., Dubuque county; secre-
tary of state. ]. S. McLuen, Guthrie
county; auditor, c. E. Munroe, Ma
haska county; treasurer, l.. F. Dan
forth, Calhoun county; attorney gen
eral. Fred A. Townsend, Monroe coun-
ty; superintendent public instruction,
w. S. Wilson, Lyon county; judges
supreme court. L. M. Fisher Of Scott
and b. M. Carr of Delaware county:
clerk supreme court, T. w. keenan,,
Page county; reporter supreme court,
H. M. Parker, Muscatine county; rail-
road commissioners, w. l.. Carpenter,
Polk county, and E. K. Stoll, Henry
county.
The first ballot on governor re-
suited: Claude R. Porter, 1852; John
D. Dennison, 2451a; George W. Ball.
231A; H. B. Boies, 1870; Donald Mac
rae, SO. The second ballot showed
a slight gain for Porter. The name
of Macrae of Council Bluffs was with.
drawn after the second ballot. The
third ballot gave Porter 1913, Dennison
249, Ball 179, Boies 1853. The fourth
ballot was started when Ball with
drew. Porter was then nominated re
ceiving 5O7 votes; .Boies 292 and Den
nison 1872.
John d. Dennison was nominated fol
lieutenant governor by reclamation
Both Porter and Dennison were called
before the convention and spoke
briefly. Other nominations were made
by reclamation until judges of the
supreme court were reached. Fou
names were presented and one rol
call. L. M. Fisher OF Scott and E. M
Carr of Delaware were nominated owe
E. A. Sager of Bremen and E. c. Her
rick of Cherokee. One ballot wa
taken on railroad commissioners.