Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-06-26
RIVER TOWNS beaten
Effort to Secure Liquor Plank
Turned Down By Democratic
State Convention
PRICE is MADE STATE CHAIRMAN
A. J. House and D. w. Hisbee Nomin-
ated for Judges of Supreme Court
Platform Opposed to Government
by Injunction" = Long Fight Over
Liquor Question.
Times-Republtcan.

Special to Times Republican.
i Sioux City, June 26.-The contest ir
the resolutions committee and later
| before the convention delayed the adj
/ iournment of the democratic state
gathering until late in the evening
/ Those opposed to incorporating q
| liquor plank In the platform, as de-
sired by the river cities on the east
ern border, finally won a decisive VIC
tory, and. the platform is therefore
quiet on this question. The conven-
ton adjourned after nominating A. j.
House, of .Maquoketa, and D. w. Hig-
bee, Of Creston, for supreme judges
Clint Price, Of Indianola, was elected
chairman OF the democratic state CEN
| trail committee. N. +. Reed of OF
| tumwa was In, the race for a while, but
pulled out when it became evident that
Price had the edge on him. John +.
Dalton OF Manson, was elected ssere-
tary Of the committee.
/ The only contest of consequence oc-
Cured in the committee on resolutions.
| In the interests of Mark Walsh's can
didacy for congress, the Second dis
| trict insisted ON an outspoken declara-
ton against prohibition, while several
members of the committee opposed
such statement.
Henry vollmer Of Davenport, SUBJ
| mitted the following plank: I'VE de-
plore the attempt to again inject into
the politics Of the state the question
Of resubmission of the prohibltory
amendment. We are opposed to SUCH
amendment and Its resubmission, and
we urge in the name Of true temper
ance and home rule that the several
communities of the state be given
power to make their own purely local
police regulations on this subject"
In, order to. prevent fight on the
floor Of the convention majority OF
|the committee agreed to stand for the
following very general statement: we
reaffirm the traditional policy OF the
democratic party with reference to To-
cal self government and home rule"
The vollmer plank was considered
entirely too strong by the majority.
The following members OF the resolu-
tions committee would not even stand
for the milder plank, and signed a
minority report, protesting against 1T:
o. p. Myers Of the Fifth district, w.
N. Townsend Of the Sixth, r. G. Weis-
sell of the Eighth. They wanted the
convention to ignore the liquor Ques-
ton entirely.
fnitted to the convention it was voted
down. SOL to 1926. The platform was
adopted as follows:
The Platform.
eve hail with qualification the GER
tainty~of THE, Nomination for president
Of the United States Of the great COM
moner, William Jennings Bryan, at the
hands Of the democratic national con-
vention, to- meet In Denver, July Z,
1908.
1--WE rejoice IN the fact that the dem
ocrats of Iowa have nominated for
United States senator the Hon. Claude
r. Porter. a man who sincerely and
steadfastly stands for the progressive
reform ideas unsuccessfully urged by
Governor Cummins.
I'VE rejoice further in the nomina-
ton by the democracy OF the state Of
Iowa, Of that gallant old soldier and
statesman. the Hon. Fred b. White.
for governor Of this state. His cleo
ton would mean an able and econom-
ical administration Of that high office
and guarantee that the plot of re-
publican reactionaries will be foiled
and that the hand on the dial of pro-
gress shall not be turned back in Iowa.
I'VE 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.
1--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 so
to do. We realize the Importance to
the farmers and people Of this coun-
try Of the subject OF good roads, and
IdVOT SUCH leSlSidllOH dS VIII ~ oAiAOSS
1t. We also favor the Improvement Of
our interior waterways on compre-
hensive plan. to supplement the In
adequate transportation facilities at
forded by the railroads in normal
times Of business activity.
I'VE denounce the injustice Of pre-
vailing railroad freight rates as a dis
criinination against the people Of
Iowa, and we instruct our representa-
tives in legislature and congress to
take such action as will make impos-
sible the contemplated general raise OF
freight rates, which raise is to be made
on the fraudulent pretext that it is
necessary to make up for shortage in
passenger receipts, due to the 2-cent
fare law, which shortage does not exist
in fact We favor an increase OF the
powers of our state railroad and in
terstate commerce commissions to this
end.
Eve demand the enforcement of the
Iowa statutes against trusts and IL
legal combinations in restraint of trade
operating in Iowa.
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