Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1895 — IOWA POPULISTS. [ARTICLE]

IOWA POPULISTS.

Reaffirm the Omaha Platform Making Silver an Incidental laane. The Populist State convention of lowa, which met in Des Moines, followed the middle-of-the-road course and rejected all advances from those who would*make silver the only issue in the next campaign, Gen. J. B. Weaver, who led the wing of the party in lowa who wished to assist in the formation of a silver party, was defeated. The convention adopted a platform which calls for the free coinage of silver, but along with that other Populistic measures.

When Chairman R. G. Scott, of the State Central Committee, called the assemblage to order there-*was i an attendance of 360 delegates, todk^ng’ it-the largest convention .for sovej-aT,' years,\Aside from the delegate? 300 visitors UvVe present from outside the ci*y. A. of Humboldt, was made man. Tfie temporary forty minutes roufrdly denocncibgjhe two old parties for their “duplicity 'on the money question and their, subserviency to trusts, corporations and the money' power.” :He advised the convention Ye .adhere to pant party platforms.'- EjxMaongressman E. H. Gillette, of Des Moines, was made permanent chairman; The report of'the Committee on Resolutions was received ' and adopted by an overwhelmng vote. The platform reaffirms the principles oE the Omah£ platform; dStounces the decision Supreme Court on the income tax; denounces recent acts.of Government by injunction in the, interests of corporate wealth, and the issue of interest-bearing bonds; recognizes with satisfaction the expression of individual opinion; ifrespeiffive of party, in favor of the'restoration 1 of silver to its constitutional pladein the coinage of " the country at the ratio of 16 *0 1, and' extends the right hand of fellowship to all willing to join inddi* dethronement of the money power of Wall street and Europe and the emancipation of the producing classes of the world; declares for the adoption of the initiative and referendum; demands that all banking institutions’lie required to jpve security to depositors for all moneys received; d&mhnds legislation 1 for inspection of workshops iihd fact'di-ies where mote thoii fdh persons ate- employed for preservation of the liVes and'health ’ of the employes; demands reduction of sal-" aries of officers ‘to a basis to correspond with seduced prices far products -of la-; bor; favors a graduated State tax upon income?, nlso a State inheritance tax and. a State, tax; of 10 per cent on ail contracts made payable jn gold, to be paid by, the holder. A State ticket was nominated, as follows; For Governor,. Sylvester Crance, of Davenport; for Lieutenant Governor, A. R. Starrett, of Humboldt; for supreme Court judge, F. W. I way, of Glen wood; for State superintendent of instruction, L. B. Tabor, of Guthrie Center; for railway commissioner, E. J. Sthson, of Woodbury County; .