Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1891 — IOWA REPUBLICANS. [ARTICLE]

IOWA REPUBLICANS.

Enthusiastic Convention Held at Cedar Rapids. Hiram C. Wheeler Nominated for Got. ernor on the First Ballot—The Platform, lowa Republicans held a most enthusiastic convention at Cedar Rapids on the Ist. The platform, as finally adopted for presentation to the convention, indorses the McKinley tariff law in the warmest terms, and particularly commends the reciprocity provision and its interpretation and observation by Presldedt Harrison and Secretary Blaine. Liberal pensions to disabled soldiers and their widows are. pledged. The financial question is briefly disposed of by the indorsemeutof the present law, of which Conger, of lowa, has credit of being the author. The Harrison administration is indorsed, and the large, appropriations of the last Congress are defended as having been necessary for the fulfillment of the obligations welfare and development of the country. The prohibition plank of the platform of last yeai is reaffirmed, and the Democratic party and Democratic officials are arraigned for conspiring with the law-breaking element for the violation and non-observance oj the prohibitory law. The course of lowa’s Senators and Representatives in the National Congress is commended, and particular eulogy is extended to Senator Allison for his liberal and patriotic course as chairman of the Senate committee on appropriations. A liberal appropriation foa the State exhibit at the World’s Columbian Exposition is urged. For Governor Hon. Hiram C. Wheeler, of Odebolt, Zack county, was nominated on the first ballot amid great enthusiasm.

The appropriation for printing and engraving the final volumes of the eleventh census becomes available to-day, and the Superintendent of Census has received the final volume on mines and mining, which will be printed at once. Thereport shows that the total value of the mineral products of the United States at the eleventh census amounted to *556,896,440, the greatest total ported for any country. It far outstripsthe product of Great Britain The total number of industrial mining establishments ft given as 30,000. The number of persons who find employment in mining industries is 512,114. The annual wages paid them aggregate *212,409,80). The capital employed in actual mining op erations amounts to *1,173,000,000. The final volume of mines and, mining will be followed in a few weeks by that on transportation, wealth, debt and taxation. In dlans, statistics of churches, Alaska and the compendium. Mr. Blaine’s health took a turn for the worse on the Ist and his physician wa> called in. It,l* asserted that heisimprovingih health, however, and his ailment o' this date was a “spell” from which h« speedily recovered. Just now he is but a shadow of his former self. His complex ion is very sallow. Part of his troubld Is prostration of the nerves. His voice hat lost its volume and steadiness, and after a short talk with one of his family he be come* hoarse and choked and cough* quit, frequently. It la very hard, so the Tamil' physician says, to make Secretary Blain understand that be most have perfect re*%,