Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-10-01

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wishes of the leaders until after the
! time set for the concluding session of
the convention. When he had once &C
cepted the offer of the nomination the
rest of the ticket took only to hours to
arrange.
Waited in Ignorance.
Meanwhile the $50 delegates waited
in the convention hall in all but abso-
lutte ignorance Of what candidate they
would be asked to name. So numer-
Gus were the aspirants for places on
the ticket that not one ventured more
than prediction who would be select
ed until the leaders concluded their
deliberations.
The convention proceedings that fol
lowed we're marked by smoothness and
rapidity which the democrats say indi-
Gated the harmony Of their organiza-
ton
Congressman William Sulzer was the
only other candidate for the nomina-
ton of the governor, who took his case
before the delegates. His defeat was
decisive. Out of the votes he ceceiv-
ed 16.
Thomas F. Conway of Clinton county
was named for lieutenant governor, and
Edward Lazansky of Kings county for
secretary of state.
Sketch of Dix.
Dix is so years old, and was born
in Glenns Falls, New York. He re-
ceived his early education in the home
schools. He graduated from Cornell in
1882. Two years ago with Lewis Stuy
vesant Chanler as the head of the tick
ct Dix was the nominee for lieutenant
governor.
+ Last June Dix succeeded William ].
Corners of Buffalo as chairman of the
democratic state committee.
State FavOrs Right.
The platform condemns attacks on
the supreme court of the United States;
opposes any usurpation by the federal
government of the rights of the states
the Payne tariff law is denounced as a
betrayal of the trust of the people be-
cause it failed in the promise for re-
vision downward. The tariff law is de-
clared to be contributing largely to the
high cost of living. The platform de-
clares for true revision downward.
1t says:
Fourteen years of republican rule
have brought us to the point where
prices for the necessities of life are
almost without precedent in the history
of the country"
The republican party is charged with
gross extravaganza. Republican state
legislative corruption is denounced.
The democrats pledge themselves to
an active investigation. State wide
primaries are favored, as is also the
popular election of United States sena-
tors, a federal amendment favoring the
income tax, and an extensive parcels
post. Strict enforcement of the for
estry laws are demanded.
"New NatIonaIism, Raped.
On new nationalism" the platform
says:
I'VE solemnly declare our infiexible
opposition to the so-called new nation
alism.' Its inventor put this forward
as if it were progress, while in reality
it is sheer reaction to the tyrannical
methods of long ago which have been
shaken off by the free peoples Of the
earth. The settlers of our country fed
from Europe to escape it. Whatever |
advance its adoption would bring is an
advance toward socialism. They would
have us abandon freedom. They would
reduce the state 20 perfectures govern
ed from Washington. They would !
clothe the president with power to de-
clare what was lawful
Such new nationalism' would lay |
the meddling hand of bureaucracy upon
every industry, increasing the burdens
of taxation, making the struggle of life |
still harder, and compelling every !
American workman to carry. on his |
back federal inspector"