Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-07-02
IOWA DEMOCRACY
STATE CONVENTION MEETS AT
SIOUX CITY.
NAME HOUSE AND HlGBIE
They Are Nominees Of the Party
for Judges Of the Supreme
Court.


convention adopted platform
and nominated A. J. House of Ma
quoketa and D. w. Higbie of Creston
for justices Of the supreme court.
Clint Price of Indianola was elect
ed chairman of the democratic state
central committee. John F. Dalton
of Manson was elected secretary Of
| the committee.
The vote on nominations for SUI
preme justices follows: A. J.. Nh
quoketa, 1870; d. w. Higbie of Ores
| ton, 612; w. H. Jacques of Ottumwa
376; Theo. Bradford of Marshall.
town, 100.
Tim Clary of New Hampton was
temporary chairman of the conven-
ton and the convention organized by
making jeremiah Sullivan Of Des
Moines permanent chairman.
The only contest of consequence 90
CURED in the committee on resolu-
tions.
Henry Vollmer Of Davenport sub
mitted the following plank: Eve de-
plore the attempt to again inject into
the politics Of the state the question
of resubmission Of the prohibitory
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 a majority OF
the committee agreed to stand for
the following very general statement:
1--WE reaffirm the traditional policy Of
the democratic party with reference
to local self-government and home
rule"
The resolutions committee was
made up as follows:
First district-William Louden
Wayne.
Second-Henry Vollmer, Scott.
Third-C. w. Miller, Waverly.
Fourth-E. A. McIlree, Clayton.
Fifth-W. N. Townsend, Tama.
Sixth--O. P. Myers, Jasper.
Seventh-Parley Sheldon, Ames.
Eighth-R. Weissell Adams.
Ninth-Ed. Barrett, Pottawatamie.
Tenth-Julius Ruge, Carroll.
Eleventh.. P. Keifer, Plymouth.
The democratic platform follows:
1--WE hail with qualification the Ger.
tainty Of the nomination for presi.
dent of the United States of the great
commoner, William Jennings Bryan
at the hands of the democratic ma.
tional convention to meet in Denver
July Z, 1908.
1--WE rejoice in the fact that the
democrats of Iowa have nominated for
United States senator the Hon.
Claude r. Porter, a man who sim
cerely and steadfastly stands for the
progressive reform ideas unsuccess
| fully urged by Governor Cummins.
1--WE rejoice further in the nomina
tion 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 cleo.
ton would mean an able and econo.
mical administration of that high
office and a guarantee that the plot
of republican reactionaries will be
foiled and that the hand on the dial
of progress shall not be turned back
In Iowa.
eve demand such legislation as
will make the American house OF
lords more responsive to the peoples
will and to this end favor the cleo,
ton of United States senators by
popular vote.
1--WE are opposed to government by
injunction and it's 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 i'm.
portance to the farmers and people
of this country of the subject OF
good roads. and favor such legisla.
ton as will promote 1t. We also
favor the improvement OF our interior
waterways on comprehensive plan
to supplement the inadequate trans.
portation facilities afforded by the
railroads in normal times of business
activity.
1--WE denounce the injustice of pre-
vailing railroad freight rates as a dis.
elimination against the people of
Iowa, and we instruct our representa-.
| tives In legislature and congress to
take such action as will make i'm.
possible the contemplated general
raise Of freight rates, which raise Is
to be made on the fraudulent pretext
that ii is necessary to make up for
shortage In passenger receipts, due
to the 2-cent fare law, which short
age does not exist in fact. We favor
an increase of the powers of our
state railroad and interstate com.
merce commissions to this end.
1--WE demand the enforcement OF
the Iowa statutes against trusts and
h n of In, raCtr lint NJ
trade operating in Iowa.
1--WE also ask the legislature to de
fine 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 unnecessarily heavy quar-.
antine expense. We favor reason.
able effort and diligence towards pro.
tecting 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 insignia.
cant epidemics have been used to lay
| great burdens Of taxation against the
various counties of this state
I'VE Aavor the establishment of a
| state insurance commissioner, to be
appointed by the executive ana az
| proved by the senate. We favor
| state recognition of Institutes and as
semblies for the purpose of enhanc-
ing agricultural interests, and es
| pecially do we commend the recogni
tion of cooperative institutions.
I'VE recognize the dairy interest
as one of the most important in this
state, and we ask the legislature to
give 1t such encouragement as will
bring the herds and manufacturing
processes of our dairymen up to the
highest stan lard that may be OBJ