The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-28
Liquor Question viii Not En-
ter Into This Years
State Campaign
MATTER LEFT TO PEOPLE
OF CITIES AND TOWNSHIPS
Platform and Accuses National Adj
ministration of n Reckless
Waste of Public Money

Ottumwa, Ia, July 27.-Townships and
municipalities of Iowa willing to pay .
high license for the sake of trafficking
in liquor may do so in the event of DEM
ocratic success at the Forthcoming GU
bernatorial election. AT least the plat
form adopted at the convention of that
party here today says SO. The pledge
was not made without a fight, both In
committee and on the floor
Former Congressman Martin Wade,
chairman of the resolutions committee,
defended the plank against a vigorous as
sault on the part of Gen. J. B. Weaver.
II am tired of belonging to a party
which is known as the liquor party" de-
clared Mr. Wade. Where a majority Of
community desire liquor they should
have 1t, and vice versa. That's personal
liberty gentlemen, and it is democracy,
too
General Weaver replied vehemently in
his answer
II don't know what will do more TO
make the democratic party the liquor
party than the plank offered, he de-
cared
p. b. Wolf of Clinton received the long
term and H. G. vanwagen the short
term nomination for the supreme court
bench. J. B. Sullivan of Des Moines. In
his capacity as temporary chairman, de-
livered the keynote speech.
Claude r. Porter, democratic nominee
for governor of Iowa, addressed the con-
vention. Mr.. Porter, criticising President
Taft said:
fahq ianf jc a
Wall street that in his anger that any
republican congressman should oppose
legislation desired by him, he has gone
to the extreme of petty politics and re-
fused to appoint men of their selection
to minor postoffices and has commenced
his semi-official jaunt across the coun-
try by acclaiming Senator Aldrich as the
leader of the United States Senate"
Tariff Revision Denounced
The platform denounces recent tariff
revision as a masterpiece of injustice.
1t declares trusts and monopolies to be
intolerable and opposes the central bank
idea 1t condemns the postal savings
bank law in allowing the withdrawal of
savings from the communities in which
they are deposited, and accuses the re-
publican national administration of maxi
ing reckless expenditures. The resolu-
tions indorse the regulation of railroads.
telephone, telegraph and express compa-
MES, an Income tax, and the conservation
OF natural resources. the principle of the
initiative and referendum and the recall
1t indorses Improvement of public roads
and urges a modification of the state
primary law to reduce expenses. II de-
ciares for the Oregon plan of electing
senators, until such time as 1t shall be
possible to do otherwise, by direct vote
of the people.
I'VE denounce the republican tariff act
as a masterpiece of injustice involving
remorseless exactions from the many to
enrich the few, through the trusts te
monopolies. which 1t fosters.
illegal trusts and combinations are IN
tolerable. They are fdNtered by repub-
lican tariff legislation. w favor the vig-
orous enforcement of tA criminal law
against guilty trust mag, ties and offi-
cials. We believe the tn method of
enforcing the criminal sta utes Of the
United States is by the pl secution of
the individual guilty of the 7rong. The
assessment of fine against the corpora
tion is imperative and inspires only con-
tempt for the law"
Sullivan's Speech
.'The hour was never more propitious for
the application of democratic principles
than the present. declared Jerry Is. Sui
livan, of Des Moines, in lis address as
temporary chairman of the convention.
..On all sides we behold unrest and the
feeling that the government of our coun-
try is not satisfactorily administered. The
elements contending for supremacy are
fraught with injustice and wrong-the
concentration of power. the exacting OF
tribute. the wealth of the nation In con-
troll of the few are all calculated to
cause the citizens to stop and ask them
selves their meaning for more than II
years the republican party has been in
control of every branch of the govern
ment.
TT has enacted laws SO repugnant to
public opinion that members of its own
faith have refused to remain responsible
therefor and have publicly repudiated Its
acts. During this period 1t has Witness
ed the formation of gigantic trusts,
whose purpose was to stifle competition
and who are today in chsrge of every
agency that would contribute to public
welfare. 1t has enacted tariff laws op-
pressive and so increasing the tax to
call for the absolute necessity of the re-
peal of such laws.
Against this line of unjust and op-
pressive laws, patient hut suffering
people refuse to longer remain silent
Against such legislation as this In which
graft and greed are the potential eIe-
foremost enemy and will at the bar of
public opinion defy it's defenders and
overthrow its makers