Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1888 — IOWA DEMOCRATS FOR CLEVELAND. [ARTICLE]

IOWA DEMOCRATS FOR CLEVELAND.

A Resolution Indorsing Him for Renomination Adopted by the State Convention. An Anti-Prohibitory Resolution Gives Rise to an Animated Debate. CoL Charles A. Clark presided over the lowa Democratic Convention, which met at Des Moines on the 2d inst. The Committee on Resolutions reported as follows : 1. The Democrats of lowa in convention assembled indorse the administration of President Cleveland ana commend his enforcement ot all laws and his manly and courageous declaration for a reduction of useless war taxes, and his clean, honest, and economical administration of puolic affairs and the liberal, prompt and generous payment of all deserving pensions on meritorious claims. 2. We are opposed to the exercise of the taxing power for any but public purposes, and fully and unqualifiedly declare President Cleveland's message as the views of the lowa Democracy on the tariff question. In the interest of American homes we demand free coatsand blankets. In the interest ot temperance and morality we oppose free whisky and tobacco. 3. In appointments to all offices the duties of which may reflect the policies of the administration, persons should be selected whose principles harmonize with the party having the responsibilities of such administration. But subordinates should be selected and retained for their efficiency. Levying assessments upon officeholders for partisan purposes cannot be too strongly condemned, and we commend in the fullest extent every effort which President Cleveland has made in the direction of the reform and elevation of the civil service. 4. We again declare our opposition to all prohibitory liquor laws in State or nation. On the last plank there was a division of sentiment, and a minority report was presented which opposed the introduction of Stat* issu*s into a convention called to select delegates to a national gathering. A warm and bitter debate followed, and resulted in the adoption of th* plank and the sustaining of the majority repoit by a vote of 383 to 170. For delegates-at-large to the St. Louis convention the following were chosen: F, W. Lehman, Des Moines; J. C. Kelley, Sioux City ; P. M. Ballingall, Ottumwa, and W. H. M. Pusey, Council Bluffs. For district delegates : First Distrlot—W. W. Baldwin, J. D. Hamilton ; Second District—Moses Bioom, Thomas Lambert; Third District—Cato Sells, J. H. Scoles; Fourth District—G.T. Bellamy, L. L. Ainsworth; Filth District—C. A. Clark, J. E. jHennques; Sixth District—B. 8. Caruthers, L. J. Anderson; Seventh District-—W. H. McHenry, A. E. Morrison ; Eighth District—W. E. Sprout, F. 8. Whitmore ; Ninth District—J. 8. Tam, D. M. Wyland ; Tenth District—J. J. Wilson, A. D. Keith; Eleventh District—F. D. Higgs, W. A. Willis. A full set of alternates was selected. Some tableau effects were given prior to the regular proceedings, in which the portraits of Washington, Jackson, Jefferson, Tilden, Hancock and Cleveland were successively displayed. the band playing an appropriate air as each portrait was uncovered. The convention fairly went wild when Cleveland's portrait apveared, and then cheers were given for the first lady of the land. Other than the speeches of the temporary and permanent Chairmen there were no oratorical efforts. The business of the convention was quickly dispatched and the meeting adjourned in the best of spirits.