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burdens of monopoly put upon them by Republican 

 rule, and, as a feature ot such relief, for tlie cheapening 

 of transportation by Government appropriation lor and 

 improvement of the Mississippi River with its naviga- 

 ble 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 i> fully emphasized by the amazing 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 were as follows : For Gov- 

 ernor, L. G. Kinne, of Tama County ; Lieuten- 

 ant-Governor, J. M. Walker, of Polk County ; 

 Supreme Judge, H. P. Hendershott, of Wapello 

 County ; Superintendent of Public Instruction, 

 Professor W. II. Butler, of Delaware County. 



The Republican State Convention met also 

 in Des Moines on the 28th of June, over one 

 thousand delegates being present, and every 

 county represented. Buren R. Sherman was 

 nominated for Governor after twelve ballots. 

 For Lieutenant-Governor, O. H. Manning, of 

 Carroll County, was nominated ; for Supreme 

 Judge, Austin Adams, of Dubuque, was re- 

 nominated. The nominee for Superintendent 

 of Public Instruction was Professor John W. 

 Akers, of Linn County. The platform adopted 

 by the convention was as follows: 



We, the representatives of the Republican party of 

 Iowa, demand of the people of the State anew their 

 fullest confidence and support because of the faithful- 

 ness of the party in the State and in the nation to 

 party pledges ; because of the magnificent results it 

 has achieved in the line of good government ; because 

 of the marvelous devotion it has shown in support of 

 the Union ; because of its abhorrence of slavery and 

 polygamy, and of its successful efforts to crush the 

 one and of its persistent struggle to get rid of the 

 other, sure to go on to its final extirpation ; because of 

 its active interest in the relief of struggling and op- 

 pressed humanity everywhere j because of its deter- 

 mination to abolish all inequalities of citizenship, to 

 give all men of all races and nationalities in this land 

 equality of civil and political rights ; because of its 

 efforts to establish temperance, to educate the people, 

 and to upbuild all moral forces ; because it has been 

 earnest in efforts toward honest and economical 

 government, and has been swift to correct abuses 

 when it has discovered them ; because it has steadily 

 maintained the financial honor of the nation, is 

 rapidly discharging its great war debt, and has made 

 the recent financial history of the government the 

 marvel of the nations ; because it has protected the 

 labor of the country, and built up its agricultural and 

 manufacturing interests, and promoted the means of 

 internal commerce by judicious legislation; because 

 it is positive and progressive, and will, in the future 

 as in the past, prove its capacity to grapple promptly 

 and successfully with every emergency of the nation, 

 and with every question affecting the people's in- 

 terests ; and, finally, because it win secure a complete 

 and lasting unification of the country, entire peace 

 and concord, upon statute basis of free schools, free 

 speech, a free press, and a free ballot. 



In the spirit of the purpose that has redeemed for- 

 mer pledges and produced these results, the Republi- 

 can party of Iowa resolves : 



1. We reaffirm the Republican national platform of 

 1880, and insist upon its enforcement in its relation to 

 the several affairs of the nation, the States, and the 

 Territories, in order that sound policies shall prevail 

 in the nation, and ample protection be affordea to its 

 citizens in all of their rights of citizenship in the 



several States ; and that the Territories be made &a 

 absolutely free from the deba-sing presence and per- 

 nicious influences of polygamy as the States now are 

 of slavery. 



2. We congratulate the country upon the election 

 of James A. Garfield, and the national Administration 

 upon the vigorous manner in which it has undertaken 

 to ferret out fraud and suppress extravagance in public 

 expenditures, to secure the personal and commercial 

 rignts of our people abroad, to deal justly with the 

 Indian wards of the Government, and upon the con- 

 spicuous success of its financial policy. 



3. That we are in hearty sympathy with the spirit 

 of recent conventions for supplementing and improv- 

 ing the great water-routes ot the nation, and cordially 

 indorse all measures which look toward a practical 

 and judicious improvement of the magnificent water- 

 ways which Nature has afforded us for cheaply trans- 

 porting the immense commerce of the State, and 

 therefore developing the immense resources of tlie in- 

 terior of our national domain. 



4. That we recognize railways as one of the most 

 potent agencies in our national progress, but one 

 which, by reason of its relation to the people, must be 

 kept subordinate to the interests of the people, and 

 within the legislative control of Congress and the 

 State ; that in the spirit of its usefulness it must bo 

 dealt with hi fairness and without injustice. But we 

 are in accord with the popular demand, that unques- 

 tionable legislative power shall be used to protect the 

 people from any abuse and unjust exactions. 



5. That the plenary power of Congress over the 

 subject of patents should be so exercised as to protect 

 the people against the wrongs and abuses which have 

 been developed and are practiced under the present 

 system of laws relating to patent rights, and we ask 

 our Senators and Representatives in Congress to lend 

 their best efforts toward the accomplishment of this 

 end. 



6. That the position attained in our commerce by 

 American meats and live animals demands the en- 

 actment of effective legislation by both the nation and 

 the States for the suppression of such diseases as are 

 calculated to interfere with this important feature of 

 our foreign trade. 



7. That in pursuance of the uniform justice of the 

 Republican party to observe the pledges and perform 

 the promises made and given in its platforms, we de- 

 clare that the provisions in the platform of 1879, for 

 the submission of the so-called prohibitory amend- 

 ment of the Constitution of Iowa to a vote of the peo- 

 ple at a special and non-partisan election, should be 

 enforced, in order that the good faith of the party may 

 be maintained, and that the people in this government 

 of the people, by the people, and for the people, may 

 have an opportunity to express their wishes concern- 

 ing the pending amendment, regardless of party affil- 

 iations and with perfect freedom from all party re- 

 straint and influence. 



The election in October resulted in the choice 

 of the Republican candidates. The vote for 

 Governor was as follows : Sherman, 133,323 ; 

 Kinne, 73,395; Clark, 28,146; William John- 

 son (Anti-Secret Society), 191. 



The Legislature was constituted as follows : 

 Senate, 45 Republicans, 2 Democrats, 2 Green- 

 backers, and 1 Independent ; House, 70 Re- 

 publicans, 22 Democrats and 6 Greenbackers. 

 The finances of the State are in a favorable 

 condition. At the beginning of the biennial 

 period ending September 30th there was no 

 money in the general revenue fund of .the 

 State. During the term that fund received 

 $2,126,900.90. There was disbursed $2,035,- 

 050.39, leaving a balance on hand in general 

 revenue of $91,850.51. The warrants drawn 



