Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-07-28
State Democratic Platform.

State Democratic Platform.
The Iowa democrats at their conven-
ton at Sioux City, adopted the follow
ing platform:
hailwith qualification the certainty
of the nomination for president of the
United States of the great commoner
William Jennings Bryan, at the hands
of the democratic national convention
to meet in Denver on July Z, 1908.
We rejoice in the fact that the demo-
Gratis of Iowa have nominated for
United States senator the Hon. Claude
R. Porter, man who sincerely and
steadfastly stands for the progressive
reform ideas unsuccessfully urged by
Gov. Cummins.
We rejoice further in the nomination
by the democracy of the state of Iowa
of that gallant old soldier and statesman,
the Hon. Fred E. White, for governor
of this state. His election would mean
an able and economical administration
of that high office and a guarantee
that the plot of republican reac-
tionaries will be fooled and that the
hand on the dial of progress shall not
be turned back in Iowa.
We demand such Legislation as will
make the American house of lords
more responsible to the peoples will
and to this end favor the election of
United States senators by popular vote.
We are opposed to government by
injunction and its putative father and
urge the hosts of organized labor to
support the only party that is truly in
sympathy with their just demands and
will sincerely attempt to carry them
out when entrusted with the power SC
to do.
We realize the Importance to the
farmers and people of this country of
the subject of good roads and favor
such legislation as will promote it.
We also favor the improvement of
our interior waterways on compre-
hensive plan to supplement the made
quate transportation facilities afforded
by the railroads in normal times of
business activity.
We denounce the injustice of pre-
vailing railroad freight rates as a dis
elimination against the people of Iowa,
and we instruct our representatives in
Legislature and congress to take such
action as will make impossible the con-
templated general raise of freight
rates, which raise is to be made on the
fraudulent pretense that it is necessary
to make up for shortage in.passenger
receipts due to the 2-cent law, which
shortage does not exist in fact. We
favor an increase of the powers of our
state railroad and interstate commerce
commission to this end.
We demand the enforcement of the
Iowa statutes against trusts and illegal
combinations in restraint of trade OPP
Grating in Iowa.
We favor law guaranteeing bank
deposits, similar to that recommended
by w. ]. Bryan and now in successful
operation in the new democratic state
of Oklahoma.
We also ask the legisl allure to define
more precisely the powers of local
boards of health to the end that there
be no needless oppression of the people
by reckless autocratic orders and I'M
necessarily heavy quarantine expenses.
We favor reasonable effort and dill
gence toward protecting the public
health, but believe that all regulations
and restrictions to that end should be
prescribed by the legislature rather
than to be left to the state board of
health. Also we deplore the manner in
which insignificant epidemics have
been used to lay great burdens of tax
alton against the various counties of
this state.
We favor the establishment of q
state insurance commission, commits,
sioner to be appointed by the executive
and approved by the senate.
/ We favor state recognition of insti
tutes and assemblies for the purpose Of
enhancing agricultural interests, ane
especially do we commend the recogni
ton of cooperative institutions.
We recognize the dairy interest az
one of the most important in this state
and we ask the legislature to give i
such encouragement as will bring tn,
herds and manufacturing processes o:
our daifyman up to the highest stand
ard that may be obtained.
| We reafdrm the traditional policy o.
the democratic party with reference tx
local self government and home rule.
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