Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1895 — IOWA POPULISTS. [ARTICLE]

IOWA POPULISTS.

Reaffirm the Omaha Platform Making Silver an Incidental Isaac. f The Populist State convention of lowa, 1 which met in Des Moines, followed tha : 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 oft the party in lowa who wished to assist' in the formation of a silver party, was defeated. The convention adopted a plat-’ form which caUs for the free coinage of silver, hut along with that other Populistic measures. When Chairman R. G. Scott, of the State Central Committee, called the assemblage to order there was an attendance of 300 delegates, making jt the largest convention for several years. Aside from the delegates 300 visitors were present from outside the city. A. R. Starrett, of Humboldt, was made temporary chairman. The temporary chairman spoke for forty minutes roundly denouncing the two old parties for their “duplicity on the money question and their- subserviency to trusts, corporations and'the money power.” He advised the convention to adhere to past party platforms. Ex-Con-gressman 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 of the Omaha platform; denounces the decision of the 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, irrespective of party, in favor of the restoration of Bilver to its constitutional place in the coinage of the country at the ratio of 16 to 1, and extends the right hand of fellowship to all willing to join in the dethroneinent 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 be required to give security to depositors for all moneys received; demands legislation for inspection of workshops and factories where more than ten persons are employed for preservation of the lives and health of the employes fdemands reduction of salaries of officers to a basis to correspond with reduced prices for products of labor; favors a graduated State tax upon incomes, also a State inheritance tax and a State tax of 10 per cent on all contracts made payable in gold, to be paid by tho holder. A State ticket was nominated, as follows; For Governor, Sylvester Crance, oft Davenport; for Lieutenant Governor, A. It. Starrett, of Humboldt; for supremo Court judge, F. W. Ivory, of Glenwood; for State superintendent of instruction, L. B. Tabor, of Guthrie Center; for railway commissioner, E. J. Stason, of Woodbury County.