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JULY 3, 1903.
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Iowa Democratic Convention,
Tho democratic state convention for
Iowa met at Des Moines June 24.
The first contest came over the plat
form. The resolutions committee composed
of eleven members stood four in favor
of the Kansas City platform and seven
against
Majority and minority reports were
made. The minority report favored
reaffirmation of the democratic na
tional platform. The minority report
vas rejected by a voto of 354 yeas to
4GS nays. v
It was also proposed to include in
tho platform a plank favoring gov
ernment ownership of railroads. Thte
proposition was defeated by a vote of
199 yeas to 628 nays.
Tho minority report relating to the
reaffirmation of tho Kansas City plat
form was as follows:
"We, tho minority members of your
committee on resolutions, be leave
to submit the following minority re
port and move its adoption by this
convention:
"We move to Insert in the pream
ble of tho majority report after the
word party, the words 'as expressed
in the last national platform,' mak
ing the paragraph read:
" 'We, the chosen representatives of
the democratic party In Iowa in dele
gate convention assembled, hereby de-
clare anew our faith in the funda
mental principles of the democratic
party as expressed in the last national
platform and renew our allegiance
thereto.' "
The platform, as finally adopted,
"was as follows:
We, the chosen representatives of
tho democratic party in Iowa, in dele
gate convention assembled, hereby
declare anew our faith in the funda
mental principles of the democratic
party and renew ou allegianco there
to. Wo find much in tho domestic af
fairs of the nation that ought to bo
changed. The tariff policy, original
ly adopted for tho avowed purpose of
raising revenue to meet the enormous
burdens of the civil war, has been
turned to use of individual and class
Interests until it has become the cre
ator of countless unearned fortunes
and the shelter of huge combinations
of capital, organized In tho form of
trusts, which are strangling competi
tion in many of our industries, d
stroylng individual effort, crushing
ambition largely in every line of In
dustry and already acquiring power
which enables them to dictate in
their own interest the prices of labor
and raw material and tho cost of
transportation of finished products.
We declare our unqualified opposi
tion to the principle of government by
injunction.
We renew our demand for the elec
tion of United States senators by di
rect vote of itho people.
Wq demand economy in tho admin
istration of state affairs, repeal of tho
mulct law and the enactment of a lo
cal option law.
We demand the contracting for sup
plies for the state with tho lowest
responsible bidders.
In the interest of tho much needed
improvement in public roads, we favor
state aid in the building of perma
nent highways.
The First Battle
-BY-
W. J. Bryan.
I
A Story, of the Campaign of 1896, Together with
a Collection of His Speeches and a Biographical
Sketch by His Wife.
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I have purchased of the publisher all unsold
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These copies arc handsomely bound in Half Mo
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print. Address
M. T. HOWEY,
611 So. 11th St., LINCOLN, NEBRASKA.
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Wo arc unalterably, opposed to thoj
policy of imperialism by this govern
ment Instituted, fostered, and main
tained by tho republican party. And
wo demand that our government shall
declare it to bo its purposo, and with
out delay adopt such measures as shall
give to tho people of the Philippine
islands and Porto Rico their inalien
ablo right to self-government
Wo condemn tho republican party
for its financial policies which would
foist upon tho country an unstable
currency based upon uncertain private
securities.
Wo protest against the. plan pre
sented in tho Aldrich bill recently be
fore tho United States senato by
which the money of the nation shall
bo loaned to capitalists upon the
bonds and securities of private cor
porations as an effort to give value
and stability to watored bonds and
securities of corporations and trusU,
many of which are maintaining mo
nopolies in defiance of law and public
sentiment
Wo Insist that the Integrity of tho
money of the nation bo guarded with
jealous care and demand that it shall
bo sufficient In volume to meet the
needs of the business interests of the
country, and that it shall be safe
guarded by careful legislation so as
to prevent the gamblers of Wall street
from cornering tho money market,
thus inflicting untold injury upon thi
smaller business men, the farmers and
the laborers of the land.
Wo point with pride to the one hun
dredth anniversary of the achieve
ments of that great diplomat and
democratic statesman, Thomas Jeffer
son, under whose administration th-
Louisiana territory, of which Iowa
was a part, was secured from a foreign I
power ui it iJuucuLiu uuu ciyiw.uu wuy,
without the loss of lire, yet with the
consent of the governed.
In tho great exposition to be held In
St Louis In 1904, to properly commem
orate this event, the people of Iowa
should take a prominent part and
make a creditablo exhibit of the prod
ucts of the soil and the w3rk of the
crafts.
We deplore th.3 corrupt condition of
tho government service in the post
office department and demand a thor
ough Investigation of that and other
departments by a congressional com
mlttee, publicity as to such conditions
and punishment of all wrong-doers.
As tho most alarming features of
our present conditions are the evils
which come from trusts, and as these
evils are made possible by legisla
tion favoring one class and against
another by transportation privileges
and by monopoly of original sources of
supply of natural produots, therefore,
to tho end that the evils connected
with the growth of trusts may be elim
inated, we call for the removal of the
tariff from all trust-made goods and
demand that all tariff schedules bo ad
justed with a view to a tariff for rev
enue only.
Wo ask for such changes In our
law, statutory or constitutional, as
will limit tho charges by railroads to
such an amount r- will yield only a
reasonable return on the capital act
ually invested and will render It im
possible for transportation favors to
be granted to anyone and such as will
make certain that all railway compa
nies will be treated alike, such stat
utes to provide penalties that will be
effectual to secure a compliance with
them. ,
When the sources of supply of any
product are in the ownership of those
who combine to extort from the peo
ple an unreasonable amount for such
products, then we believe it is the
duty of the government to take such
steps as may be necessary to secure
an equitable distribution thereof with
fair compensation to the owners of
the same, and so that the design of
nature In making provisions for tho
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