The Commoner.
Oct. io, 1909
11
The democrats of -the Ninth congres
sional district of Ohio have nominated
Hon. Charles J. York of Genoa for
congress.
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nominees: First district, Thomas
Hedge, Burlington; Second district,
William Hoffman, Muscatine; Third
district, B. P. Birdsall, Clarion; Fourth
district, G. N. Haugen, Northwood;
Fifth district, Robert G. Cousins, Tip
ton; Sixth district, John F. Laeey,
Oskaloosa; Seventh district, W. P.
Hepburn, Clarinda; Ninth district,
Walter I. Smith, Council Bluffs; Tenth
district, J. P. Conner, Denlson; Elev
enth district, Lot Thomas, Storm
Lake. The populists have not entered
the field in Iowa this year. Last year
L. H. Weller, their candidate for gov
ernor, received 780 votes and this year
they held no state convention and
they held 10 w district or county conventions.
The republican state convention of
Montana indorsed Roosevelt for presi
dent in 1904. Joseph M. Dihon of Mis
soula was nominated for congress and
Judge W. L. Holloway of Bozeman for
associate justice of the supreme court
Judge George A. Day, who was nom
inated to fill the vacancy on the dis
trict beach in the Fourth judicial dis
trict in Nebraska, caused by the resig
nation of Judge Keysor, has accepted
th "governor's appointment and will
enter on the discharge of his new du
ties October 6. The appointment
merely lasts until election.
On September 27 Governor Bliss of
Michigan tendered the United States
sonatofship made vacant by the death
of James McMillan to Russell A. Alger,
formerly secretary of war in McKin
loy's cabinet, and Mr. Alger accepted
the appointment, and will also be a
candidate for the regular term.
; A dispatch from Waterloo, la., un
der dato ofSeptembor 29, says: The
democratic judicial convention for the
.Tenth district was held -in the city
at the office of Mayor Martin, when
R. J. Williams of Grundy Center and
C. L. Everett of Independence were
nominated for judges of the district
court to oppose Judges Blair and Piatt
Both are able lawyers, the latter be
ing an associate of C. E. Ransier of
Independence.
It is reported from Missouri that
Governor Dockery has called a spe
cial election in the Twelfth congres
sional district, including St Louis, to
fill a vacancy caused by the action of
the house of representatives declaring
vacant the seat of. James J. Bfitler
(democrat) and that no valid election
was held in the district in 1901.
.A complete list of republican and
democratic nominees is furnished in a
special dispatch to .the Omaha World
Herald from Des Moines, la., under
date of September 29. The dispatch
says: The republicans and democrats
have made all their "nominations in
Iowa districts for congress and the
nomination papers are all on file with
the secretary of state or will be be
fore the time for filing expires. , The
other parties have not made all their
nominations or if they have their nom
inees have not been filed with the
secretary of state. The third party
vote will be remarkably light in Iowa
this year and their nominations have
attracted little attention, except in the
Third -district, where the candidacy of
Rev. J. A. Earl on the prohibition
ticket has attracted more attention
on account of the withdrawal of Hen
derson. The following is the list of
democratic nominees: First district,
J. E. Craig, Keokuk; Second district,
M. J. Wade, Iowa City; Third istrict,
Horace Boies, Waterloo; Fourth dis
tort, A. L. Sortor, jr., Mason City;
Fifth district, Anthony C. Daly, Mar
smalltown; Sixth district, John P.
Reese, Albia; Seventh district, Parley
Sheldon, Ames; Eighth district, T. M.
Stuart, Chariton; Ninth district,
George W. Cuilison, Harlan; Tenth
district, Kaspar Faltinson, Armstrong;
Eleventh district, J. M. Parsons, Rock
Rapids. The republican candidates are
more familiar to the people at large,
as all of them are the present con
gressman, with the exception of Hoff-r
- -r iQan of the Second and jBirdaall, of. the.
, - .. , Fifth. Following -are the republican.
The democratic central committee of
Michigan decided on September 30 that
L. T. Durand should succeed his
brother, George H. Durand, as nominee
for governor. G. H. Durand was com
pelled to withdraw from the race on
account of ill health. The fight as to
his successor lay between the gold
democrats and the "silver leaders"
who wanted to nominate State Senator
Helmo or some other democrat Mr.
Helme, however, declined the nomina
tion at the hands of the committee
and Mr. Durand was thereupon chosen.
It is reported from Kansas that the
democratic and populist state commit
tee have nominated William H. Stryk
er for superintendent of public instruction.
The democratic state convention of
Rhode Island met at Providence on
October 1 and nominated L. F. C.
Garvin for governor. Lieutenant gov
ernor, Adelard Archambault; secre
tary of state, Frank E. Fitzsimmons;
attorney general, Dennis E. Holland;
general treasurer, Clark E. Potter. The
following platform was adopted: "The
democrats believe that the soundest
principles of government require the
adoption. of the initiative and referen
dum; the abolition of all property
qualifications to vote; home rule for
the cities and towns; municipal own
ership of public utilities, street rail
ways, electric and gas lighting plants;
education by enforcement of the com
pulsory education laws and which nec
essitates the providing of sufficient
f nds to allow every child to attend
school; taxation of corporate and pri
vate property; the enforcement of all
laws, especially those which pertain
to the health and happiness of the peo
ple, the factory inspection law. The
democratic party is opposed to govern
ment by injunction and favors the
election of senators of the United
States by the people. The democratic
party pledges itself to stand In the
future for every law which amelior
ates the condition of the working
classes, especially those laws which
relate to shortening the hours of labor.''
The legislature of Vermont elected
John G. McCullough, republican, gov
ernor of the state on October 1.
Much interest has been manifested
in the sessions of the democratic state
convention of New York in convention
assembled at Saratoga. The conven
tion was almost entirely ruled by
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David B. Hill nnd his contingent, and
ihe following atato ticket was adopted:
Governor, Bird S. Color of Kings;
lieutenant governor, Charles N. Bul
ger of Oswego; comptroller, C. A.
Preston of Ulster; secretary of stato,
Frank H. Mott of Chautauqua; attor
ney goneral, John Cunnon of Eric; en
gineer, Richard W. Sherman of Onoi
da; treasurer, George R. Finch of War
ren; Judge court of appeals, John C.
Gray of New York. It is said that Tam
many took no part in making the nom
inations for tho party, but tho Hill
element was so strong that neither of
Uo delega!;ons from. tho Ninth Now
York was seated. This resulted in
tho ousting of William S. Dovory, for
mer head of the police department of
Now York, and who hold a regular
certificate of election from the Ninth
district Tho platform adopted calls
for steadfast fidelity to American prin
ciples, "for the lack of which it ar
raigns tho republican party; demands
tho return to tho principles of Thomas
Jofferson democracy; opposes trusts
that injuriously affect tho consumer
and drives out small competitors, un
reasonably depriving the people of tho
necessities of life. Restriction of tho
amassing of wealth is advocated and
the amendment of tho tariff law by
placing tho necessities of life on the
free list is demanded. Tho Dingloy
tariff law is condemned as a whole.
Tho president is criticised for dila
tory conduct and is accused of not
wanting to offend tho trusts. Tho
platform asserts that tho proposition
to amend the United Slates constitu
tion to enable the federal government
to proceed against tho trusts is merely
dilatory; second, it denounces the neg
lect of the state and national (admln
istration to enforce tho Sherman law
and the Donnelly stato law; favors
trade expansion, but objects to this
country "apeing" England in trying
to establish a colonial government;
condemns the action of tho govern
ment for its treatment of tho Filipinos;
demands justice for Cuba in the mat
ter of trade reducing the tariff to a
strictly revenue basis; arraigns tho
state administration for the extrava
gance in the administration of stato
affairs; declares in favor of a 1,000
ton barge canal; denounces the present
state excise laws and demands the re
turn of all moneys received by the
county so collected; sympathizes with
the Jews in Roumania; favors the elec
tion of United States senators by pop
ular vote; condemns the national ad
ministration for "trading judicial po
sitions for state aid." In regard to
tho pending coal striko, tho platform
advocates the exercise of the law of
eminent domain as applied to the coal
mines, "which will put the mines under
national ownership and supervision."
The republican nominees for con
gress in Kansas arc as follows: First
district, Charles Curtis, Topoka; Sec
ond, J. D. Bowersock, Lawrence;
Third, P. P. Campbell, Pittsburg;
Fourth, J. M. Miller, Council Grove;
Fifth, W. A. Calderhead, Marysvillo;
Sixth, J. M. Reeder, Logan; Seventh,
Chester I. Long, Medicine Lodge.
Democratic nominations for congress
in Indiana are as follows: First dis
trict, John W. Spencer, Evans ville;
Second, Robert W. Miers, Blooming
ton; Third, W. T. Zenor, Cory don;
Fourth, F. M. Griffith, Vevay; "Fifth,
John A. Wiltermood, Clinton; Eighth,
James E. Truesdale, Alexandria;
Ninth, L. J. Kirkpatrick, Kokomo;
Tenth, Capt Wm. Gutherie, Monticel
lo; Eleventh, Judge John C. Nelson,
Logansport; Twelfth, Jariies M. Robin
son, Ft Wayne; Thirteenth, Prof. F.
Hi. Herlng, South Bend.
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Democracy's Danger.
If. Morgan and his associates can
.control -the jdemocratiCvpar.ty, it will
receiye their support -as it . did --when
Cleveland was a candidate. But what
would it profit the democracy? It
would give a certain number of lazy
louts ofllco in tho name of democracy,
b-t it would involve betrayal of tho
party to plutocracy and tho disap
pointment of its rank and file. It
would curse the party as it was cursed
when Cleveland was elected in 1892,
and tho treasury department turned
over to Morgan and his associates and
the arm of the attorney general paral
yzed to prosecute the trusts.
There is a great struggle, ahead for
tho possession of the democratic par
ty. If tho "reorganizers" secure pos
session of its machinery and are per
mitted to name its candidates the trust
magnates will have a club with whifih
to discipline recalcitrant republicans
such as Roosevelt Is disposed to be.
They will bo able to resume tho old
game of contributing liberally to both
parties, confident that .whichever side
shall win they will not lose. But
should tho party remain true to its
mission, if a real democrat is nomi
nated for president and an alliance
with plutocracy rejected, inevitably the
party must come into Its own, and
coming into its own it would be able to
servo the interests of the people, in
stead of being made a catspaw for or
ganized ""wealth. Milwaukee Daily;
News.
Dpes not Dare.
There is a demand for tariff read
justment north, sduth, east and west
The people think that tho increased
cost of living is due largely to high
tariffs, which shelter tho trusts, and
thoy will not be denied. Yet tho re
publican party dares not undertake the
ask of revision. Therefore, the best
brain in the nartv has said. "Keen on
Jetting well enough alone." Meid
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