Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1908-07-21
State Democratic Platform.

State Democratic Platform.
The Iowa democrats at their conven-
ton at Sioux City, adopted the follow
ing platform:
Wehailwith 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 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 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 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 dis
elimination against the people of Iowa,
and we instruct our representative 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 inspassenger
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 op
Grating in Iowa.
We favor law guaranteeing bank
deposits, similar to that recommended
by w. j. Bryan and now in successful
operation in the new democratic state
of Oklahoma.
We also ask the legislatu to define
more precisely the powers of loca
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 regulation
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 ir
which insignificant epidemics have
been used to lay great burdens of tax
alton against the various counties O
this state.
We favor the establishment of
state insurance commission, a 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 o
enhancing agricultural interests, ant
especially do we commend the recogni
tion of cooperative institutions.
We recognize the dairy interest a
one of the most important in this state
and we ask the legislature to give i
such encouragement as will bring thu
herds and manufacturing processes o
our dairyman up to the highest stand
ard that may be obtained
We reaffirm the traditional policy o
the democratic party with reference t.
local self government and home rule.
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The Republican Party s Own Answe
In his address to the republican ma
tional convention, Temporary Chirmal
Burrows referred to the republican
victory in 1904, and then asked: 81
view of this Endorsement, it become