Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1881 — IOWA DEMOCRATS IN COUNCIL. [ARTICLE]

IOWA DEMOCRATS IN COUNCIL.

’l'lie State Convention at Des Moines. The Democratic State Convention of lowa assembled at Des Moines on Thursday, June 16. Col. E. D. Fenn, of Story county, was chosen temporary Chairman, and T. O. Walker, of Davis, temporary Secretary, with assistant secretaries. In taking the chair Mr. Fenn returned thanks for the honor conferred, and made a speech which was well received. Committees on Credentials, Permanent Organization and Resolutions were appointed. The following were appointed members of the State Central Committee: First district, Edward Campbell, Jr., of Jefferson ; Second, A. W. Richardson, of Jackson ; Fourth, G. It.

Miller, of Grandy; Fifth, J. J. Snouffer. of Linn ; Sixth. P. G. Ballingall, of Wapello; Seventh, J. P. Hall, of Decatur; Eighth, Hoyt Sherman, Jr., of Shelby ; Ninth, John Dowd, Jr., of Webtiter. The Committee on Credentials reported seventy-five comities represented. The Committee on Permanent Organization reported W. A. Stow, of Fremont comity. as President, with Vice Presidents and Secretaries from each Congressional district. On taking the chair Mr. Stow made a strong speech, which was enthusiastically applauded. A letter from the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of lowa, asking action favorable to the prohibitory amendment, was referred to the Committee on Resolutions. The Committee on Resolutions reported as follows : The Democratic party of lowa, assembled in convention, reaffirms the national platform of 1878 and 1880; demands strict economy in all public expenditures, the strict accountability of all public servants, and declares: 1. For tariff reform, ultimating in a simple revenue system, with commercial freedom as its issue. , 2. That we oppose all sumptuary laws, and the proposed prohibitory amendment to the constitution, in all its steps and stages, as the most offensive form of sumptuary legislation. 3. That the great agricultural aiid producing interests of the country should be emancipated from the burdens of monopoly put upon them by Republican rale, and as a feature of such relief for the cheapening of transportation by Government appropriation for the improvement of the Mississippi river, with its navigable tributaries and other water-ways. 4. That we execrate the constant official corruption grown into an invariable Republican practice, and that the demand of our national platform for civil-service reform is fully emphasized by the immense spectacle of Republican factions, disturbing the public peace, not by agitation of great measures of statesmanship, but by a vulgar quarrel over a partition of public spoils, and a squabble for the opportunities of official theft. THE NOMINATIONS. Nominations for Governor being declared in order, the Hon. John P. Irish presented the name of Judge L. G. Kinne, of Tama county, as a candidate for Governor, and his nomination was made by acclamation by a rising vote of the convention. Justice Clark, of Montgomery county, was nominated for Lieutenant Governor by James Hageman, of Lee county, and G. M. Walker, of Polk county, was nominated by Mr. Yeoman, of Webster county. . The first ballot resulted : Clark, 199; Walker, 212. Mr. Walker’s nomination was then made unanimous. H. B. Hendershot, of Wapello county, was nominated by acclamation (or Judge of the Supreme Court. Walter H. Butler, of Delaware county, was nominated for Superintendent of Public Instruction. The convention then adjourned.