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Massachusetts
238, 866
156,997
6,202
9,607
2,599
191
Michigan .
316, 269
211,685
11,859
2, 826
903
837
Minnesota
190, 461
112, 901
8,555
3,065
1,329
1,644
Missouri
314, 092
851,922
5,965
6,139
1,294
4,244
3
Montana
25, 373
37,146
298
708
116
Nebraska
121, 835
114,013
3,685
820
1,103
Nevada .
3,849
6, 347
New Hampshire.
54,799
35, 489
1,270
790
16
New Jersey
221, 707
164,808
7,183
4,609
2,074
669
New York
822, 013
678, 462
22,077
12.869
12, 621
737
North Dakota
35, 891
20,519
731
518
110
Ohio.
543, 918
474,882
10,203
4,847
1,688
251 4, 284
Pennsylvania.
712, 665
424,232
27,908
4,831
2,936
638
Rhode Island
33, 784
19,812
1,529
1,423
South Carolina
3, 579
47,236
South Dakota.
54, 391
39,487
1,520
163
328
Tennessee
123, 008
145, 250
8,860
346
1,322
Texas
121,173
267,337
2, 644
1,841
160
20,976
Utah
47,139
45,006
209
120
106
Vermont
42, 568
12, 849
Virginia
115, 865
146, 080
2,150
145
167
63
Washington
57,456
44, 833
2, 363
2,006
866
West Virginia
119, 829
98,807
1,692
219
268
Wisconsin
265,760
159,163
10, 027
7,048
503
Wyoming.
14, 482
10,164
The United States
7,209, 289 6, 358, 880 207, 292 93, 949 33, 595 49, 933 5, 698 518 1, 309
Popular vote, Mckinley over Bryan
850,409
Popular vote, Mckinley over all.
458,110
North Carolina.
132,997
157,733
990
...
Oregon.
46,526
33, 385
2,536
1,486
203
Mississippi.
5,753
51,706
Maryland. .
136, 212
122,271
4,582
908
4, 584
Idaho
27,198
29, 414
857
..
368
431
Total popular vote all candidates, including scattering votes, 1900 .. .. 13, 960, 468
Total popular vote all candidates, including scattering votes, 1896. . .. 13, 923, 378
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ELECTORAL VOTE FOR PRESIDENT BY STATES.
STATES.
Mckinley.
Bryan.
STATES.
McKinley.
Bryan.
Alabama
11
Nevada ..
Arkansas
8
New Hampshire
4
California
9
New Jersey
10
Colorado
New York
36
Connecticut
6
North Carolina
11
Delaware
3
North Dakota
8
Florida
4
Ohio
23
Georgia
13
Oregon
4
Idaho
3
Pennsylvania
32
Illinois
24
Rhode Island
4
Indiana
15
South Carolina
9
Iowa
13
South Dakota
4
Kansas
10
Tennessee
12
Kentucky
13
Texas
15
Louisiana
8
Utah
3
Maine ..
6
Vermont
4
Maryland.
8
Virginia
12
Massachusetts
15
Washington.
4
Michigan
14
...
West Virginia
6
Minnesota
9
Wisconsin
12
Mississippi
9
Wyoming
3
Missouri
17
Montana
Nebraska
8
Total
292
155
....
..
3
8
4
LIBERAL ARTS BUILDING-UNIVERSITY OF IOWA, IOWA CITY.
PART V. ELECTION STATISTICS OF THE STATE ELECTION, 1903. PARTY PLATFORMS. VOTE BY PRECINCTS.
OFFICIAL VOTE BY COUNTIES. VOTE FOR SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES.
VOTE FOR CONGRESSMEN 1896-1902.
VOTE FOR JUDGES, DISTRICT COURT, 1902.
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ELECTION STATISTICS 1903.
REPUBLICAN PARTY.
STATE TICKET.
For Governor. ALBERT B. CUMMINS, of Polk County.
For Lieutenant Governor, JOHN HERRIOTT, of Guthrie County.
For Judge of Supreme Court, CHARLES A. BISHOP, of Polk County.
For Superintendent of Public Instruction, JOHN F. RIGGS, of Keokuk County.
For Railroad Commissioner, DAVID J. PALMER, of Washington County.
The state convention met at Des Moines, July 1, 1903. Temporary Chairman-HON. GEORGE D. PERKINS, of Sioux City. Permanent Chairman-HON. N. E. KENDALL, of Albia.
STATE PLATFORM.
The republicans of Iowa, in convention assembled, congratulate the people of state and nation on the results of republican administrations, which have pro- moted the welfare of the entire country in all of its material interests, and have brought to them prosperity, contentment and happiness.
Iowa republicans especially rejoice in the acknowledged leadership of Iowa in the councils of the republican party and its influence in the shaping of poli- tics. We rejoice in the material prosperity of the people of our state, safe- guarded as they have been by the legislation in the interests of the entire body of the people.
t. We commend entirely and without reservation the administration of Presi- dent Roosevelt. Called as he was to the office of chief executive under the most trying circumstances, his fidelity to the public welfare, the wisdom and moder- ation of his utterances and counsel, and the performance of all his duties com- mand our respect and admiration ..
Iowa republicans, in common with the republicans of the entire nation, ex- pect and desire his unanimous nomination as his own successor.
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We congratulate the people of the state that in his cabinet and among his advisers, Iowa has such wise, able and judicious statesmen as Secretaries Shaw and Wilson.
We also congratulate the people of the state that in the Senate of the United States our representatives hold positions of the highest character and influence; and that our representatives in the lower house of congress occupy positions of foremost place in that body.
The state has had a worthy successor in the distinguished line of chief exec- utives in Governor Albert B. Cummins. His administration merits and de- serves an unqualified approval. We commend his courage, discretion and scrupulous fidelity to duty, and his devotion to the progressive policies of the republican party inspires our confidence in his political leadership.
We reiterate our faith in the historic policy of protection. Under its in- fluence our country, foremost in the bounties of nature, has become foremost in production. It has enabled labor to secure good wages and has induced capital to engage in production with a reasonable hope of fair reward. Its vin- dication is found in the history of its successes and the rapidity with which our national resources have been developed and our industrial independence se- cured, and we heartily renew our pledge to maintain it.
Tariff rates enacted to carry this policy into effect should be "just, fair and impartial, equally opposed to foreign control and domestic monopoly, to sectional discrimination and individual favoritism," and must from time to time be changed to meet the varying conditions incident to the progress of our industries and their changing relations to our foreign and domestic commerce. Duties that are too low should be increased, and duties that are too high should be reduced .¿ (
We endorse the policy of reciprocity as the natural complement of protec- tion. Reciprocity between nations is trade for mutual advantage and both sides must give and take. Protection builds up domestic industry and trade and secures our own markets for ourselves, reciprocity builds up foreign trade and finds an outlet for surplus.
We approve the treaty with Cuba recently ratified as conferring substan- tial benefits upon both countries and urge that the remaining steps necessary to make it effective be promptly taken.
We believe that the large corporations commonly called "trusts" should be so regulated and supervised both in their organization and operation that their evil tendencies may be checked and their evil practices prevented. In many instances they are efficient industrial instruments and the natural outcome of an inevitable process of economic evolution. We do not desire their destruc- tion, but insist that they shall be so regulated and controlled as to prevent monopoly and promote competition, and in the fullest measure subserve and advance the public good. The patriotic and resolute course of the President of the United States in his recomendations to congress upon this subject and upon the related subject of the further regulation of interstate commerce com- mands our confidence and admiration, and the recent legislation of congress in harmony with his recommendations meets our hearty approval.
We renew our allegiance to the principle of the gold standard as enunciated in the national platforms of the republican party in 1896 and 1900, which re- sulted in the establishment of the parity of all our money and the stability of our currency on a gold basis. (
Under republican administration of national affairs gratitude to our sol- diers and sailors has been attested by liberal pensions provided by legislation
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supported always by the nearly unanimous votes of the republicans in con- gress. We recommend the further provision for this purpose as made by the last congress. G We favor the systematic establishment of good roads in this state, and such further legislation upon that subject as investigation and experience may es- tablish as requisite to the economical and effective improvement and mainten- ance of our country roads.
We recommend to the general assembly further legislation in aid of system- atic drainage.
We note with satisfaction the gradual improvement of conditions in our re- lations with the Philippine islands under an administrative policy, avoiding the necessity for control through military power, and we commend the steady prog- ress made in the preparation of the Philippine people for the fullest practical degree of self-government.
The essence of free government is government by law. Laws must be en- forced by the government and should be cheerfully obeyed by the people. The spirit of lawlessness wherever met must be rebuked and we commend the fidel- ity and zeal of the national and state officials wherever exercised for the vindi- cation of this principle.
That we are earnestly opposed to all legislation designed to accomplish the disfranchisement of citizens upon lines of race, color, or station in life, and condemn the measures adopted by the democratic party in certain states of the union to accomplish that end.
Believing with the late President Mckinley in his last public utterance that "expositions are the timekeepers of progress," we take pride in endorsing the exposition to be held in St. Louis in 1904, celebrating the Louisiana Purchase, and approve of liberal appropriations therefor. We commend to the careful consideration of the general assembly of the state the needs of Iowa in making a creditable exhibit.
REPUBLICAN STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE.
R. H. SPENCE, Chairman.
GEORGE C. SCOTT, Vice Chairman.
O. W. PHILLIPS, Secretary.
MEMBERS OF COMMITTEE. Terms Expire.
First District-C. J. Wilson, Washington. 1905
Second District-C. W. Phillips, Maquoketa 1904
Third District-Burton E. Sweet, Waverly. 1904
Fourth District-J. G. Hempel, Elkader 1904
Fifth District-George Estabrook, Marshalltown. 1905
Sixth District-W. W. Epps, Ottumwa 1905 Seventh District-W. P. Fitchpatrick, Nevada 1905
Eighth District-R. H. Spence, Mt. Ayr 1904
Ninth District-Asmus Boysen, Gray. 1904
Tenth District-S. X. Way, Wesley. 1905
Eleventh District-George C. Scott, Sioux City 1904
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DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
STATE TICKET.
For Governor, J. B. SULLIVAN, of Union County.
For Lieutenant Governor, J. D. BUTLER, of Iowa County.
For Judge of Supreme Court, JOHN R. CALDWELL, of Tama County.
For Superintendent of Public Instruction, A. R. McCOOK, of Howard County.
For Railroad Commissioner, W. S. PORTER, of Hardin County.
The state convention met at Des Moines, June 24, 1903.
Temporary Chairman-HON. J. H. QUICK, of Sioux City.
Permanent Chairman-HON. D. W. HAMILTON, of Sigourney.
STATE PLATFORM.
We, the chosen representatives of the democratic party in Iowa, in dele- gate convention assembled, hereby declare anew our faith in the fundamental principles of the democratic party and renew our allegiance thereto.
We find much in the domestic affairs of the nation that ought to be changed. The tariff policy, originally adopted for the avowed purpose of rais- ing revenue to meet the enormous burdens of the civil war, has been turned to use of individual and class interests until it has become the creator of countless unearned fortunes and the shelter of huge combinations of capital, organized in the form of trusts, which are strangling competition in many of our indus- tries, destroying individual effort, crushing ambition largely in every line of industry and already acquiring power which enables them to dictate in their own interests the prices of labor and raw material and the cost of transportation of finished products.
As the most alarming features of our present conditions are the evils which come from trusts, and as these evils are made possible by legislation favoring one class and against another by transportation privileges and by monopoly of original sources of supply of natural products, therefore, to the end that the evils connected with the growth of trusts may be eliminated, we demand that all tariff schedules be adjusted with a view to a tariff for revenue only.
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Weask for such changes in our law, statutory or constitutional, as will limit the charges by railroads to such an amount as will yield only a reasonable return on the capital actually invested and will render it impossible for trans- portation favors to be granted to anyone and such as will make certain that all railway patrons will be treated alike, such statutes to provide penalties that will be effectual to secure a compliance with them.
When the sources of supply of any product are in the ownership of those who combine to extort from the people an unreasonable amount for such prod- acts, then we believe it is the duty of the government to take such steps as may be necessary to secure an equitable distribution thereof with fair compen- sation to the owners of the same. And so that the design of nature in making provision for the wants of man may not be perverted into means for his oppression.
The fundamental principle of democracy, "equal rights to all and special privileges to none, " applies in full force to the subject of taxation. The demo- cratic party believes that the burden of taxation should be borne equally by all taxable property and pledge our members of the General Assembly to formu- late and urge the adoption of such laws as will compel the burdens of taxation to rest on corporation and individual property alike without favor to or exemption to any interest.
We are unalterably opposed to the policy of imperalism by this government instituted, fostered, and maintained by the republican party. And we demand that our government shall declare it to be its purpose, and without delay adopt such measures as shall give to the people of the Philippine Islands and Porto Rico their inalienable right to self-government.
We condemn the republican party for its financial policies which would foist upon the country an unstable currency based upon uncertain private securities.
We protest against the plan presented in the Aldrich bill recently before the United States Senate by which the money of the nation shall be loaned to capitalists upon the bonds and securities of private corporations as an effort to give value and stability to watered bonds and securities of corporations and trusts, many of which are maintaining monopolies in defiance of law and pub- lio sentiment.
We insist that the integrity of the money of the nation be guarded with jealous care and demand that it shall be sufficient in volume to meet the needs of the business interests of the country, and that it shall be safe-guarded by careful legislation so as to prevent the gamblers of Wall street from cornering the money market, thus inflicting untold injury upon the smaller business men, the farmers and the laborers of the land.
We point with pride to the one hundredth anniversary of the achievements of that great diplomat and democratic statesman, Thomas Jefferson, under whose administration the Louisiana territory, of which Iowa was a part, was secured from a foreign power in a peaceful and civilized way, without the loss of life, yet with the consent of the governed.
In the great exposition to be held in St. Louis in 1904, to properly commem- orate this event, the people of Iowa should take a prominent part and make a creditable exhibit of the products of the soil and the work of the crafts.
We deplore the corrupt condition of the government service in the postoffice department and demand a thorough investigation of that and other depart- ments by a congressional committee, publicity as to such conditions and pun- ishment of all wrong-doers.
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We declare our unqualified opposition to the principle of government by injunction.
We renew our demand for the election of United States Senators by direct vote of the people.
We demand economy in the administration of state affairs, repeal of the mulct law and the enactment of a local option law.
We demand the contracting for supplies for the state with lowest respon- sible bidders.
In the interest of the much needed improvement of public roads, we favor state aid in the building of permanent highways.
DEMOCRATIC STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE.
A. E. JACKSON, Chairman.
N. C. ROBERTS. Secretary.
J. B. ROMANS, Treasurer.
MEMBERS OF COMMITTEE. Terms Expire.
First Disirict-N. C. Roberts, Ft. Madison 1904
Second District-S. W. Mercer, Iowa City 1905
Third District-L. F. Springer, Independence 1904
Fourth District-D. A. Lyons, Cresco 1904
Fifth District-A. E. Jackson, Tama 1905
Sixth District-Thomas Kelley, Sigourney 1905
Seventh District-J. C. Likes, Des Moines. 1904
Eighth District-A. W. Maxwell, Seymour 1904
Ninth District-S. B. Morrisey, Harlan 1905
Tenth District-J. B. Romans, Denison 1905
Eleventh District-J. H. Inick, Sioux City 1904
PROHIBITION PARTY.
STATE TICKET.
For Governor, JOHN F. HANSON, of Mahaska County.
For Lieutenant Governor, JAMES H. SCULL, of Henry County.
For Judge of Supreme Court, WILLIAM ORR, of Page County.
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For Superintendent of Public Instruction, JOHN S. WARD, of Polk County.
For Railroad Commissioner, H. R. BRADSHAW. of Webster County.
The state convention met at Marshalltown, May 27-28, 1903.
Temporary Chairman .- REV. J. G. VAN NESS, of Mt. Vernon.
Permanent Chairman .- REV. A. J. BOLSTER, of Villisca.
STATE PLATFORM.
The prohibition party of Iowa, in convention assembled at Marshalltown, on the twenty-seventh and twenty-eighth days of May, 1903, recognizing the authority of Almighty God in the affairs of men, puts forth the following dec- larations :
1. We believe that the federal government, by raising a large part of its revenue by taxation of the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors, makes itself "particeps criminis" in the infamous business, and we insist that our government should go out of this unnecessary and vicious partnership, and cease this ungodly practice. We believe that it is the first duty of the state and nation to forever prohibit the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors as a · beverage, because the liquor traffic is the most fruitful source of ignorance. poverty, political corruption and crime in existence. We demand its absolute overthrow, and we believe that the work can be accomplished only by a po- litical party crystallized around the doctrine and committed to its enforcement as recent events through the country have testified. =
2. We declare in favor of equal suffrage, regardless of sex, race or color.
3. Since mulet means fine or penalty paid in advance for the commission of a crime, therefore we reaffirm our positive disapproval of the "Martin Mulct Law," and demand its repeal and the speedy resubmission of a prohibitory con- stitutional amendment to the popular vote of the people.
4. Since inebriates are the products of the saloon, and asylums have been established in which to treat them at the expense of the state, therefore we demand that all taxes and moneys collected from saloons by the state, county or city be used to bear the expenses for the treatment of said inebriates and the maintenance of said asylums.
5. We demand the enforcement of all laws and that officials who disregard their solemn obligations in this respect shall be removed from office.
6. We believe that next in importance to the liquor question is the prob- lem of marriage and divorce and we advocate the enactment into national law the statute on this subject prescribed by Jesus of Nazareth permitting divorce only for the cause stated by Him.
7. We favor the settlement of all controversies between capital and labor by arbitration and all international differences that cannot be settled by diplo- macy should be referred to The Hague Court.
8. We favor placing our traderelations with foreign countries in the hands of a competent commission, non-partisan in character, with authority to revise the tariff schedules as necessity demands.
9. We declare for the inauguration of the initiative and referendum.
10. We favor the election of United States Senators by a direct vote of the people.
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11. We are opposed to all legislation that favors a combination of capital resulting in the formation of trusts and the crushing out of individual enterprise.
PROHIBITON STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE.
W. D. Elwell Chairman.
G. A. Bale, Secretary.
F. P. Fetter, Treasurer.
MEMBERS OF COMMITTEE.
First District-Geo. W. White, Fairfield.
Second District-C. H. F. Bohstedt, Victor.
Third District-J. A. Armstrong, Plainfield.
Fourth District-C. F Paine; Fayette. Fifth District-O. D. Ellett, Marshalltown. Sixth District-G. N. Adams, Hedrick.
Seventh District-W. D. Elwell, es Moines. Eighth District-James Cronch, Allerton. Ninth District-F. P. Fetter, Oakland. Tenth District-G. A. Bale, Lake City.
Eleventh District-O. W. Griffin, Sioux City.
SOCIALIST PARTY.
STATE TICKET.
For Governor, JOHN M. WORK, of Polk County.
For Lieutenant Governor, A. K. GIFFORD, of Scott County.
For Judge of Supreme Court, I. S. MCCRILLIS, of Polk County. For Superintendent of Public Instruction, FLORENCE A. BROWN. of Keokuk County. For Railroad Commissioner, OAKLEY WOOD, of Calhonn County.
The state convention met &t Des Moines July 4, 1903 Temporary Chairman HON E DUNKLE, of Rock Rapida Permanent Chairman-HON. E. HOLZ, af Dubuque.
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STATE PLATFORM.
We, the socialists of the state of Iowa, in delegate convention assembled at Des Moines, July 4, 1903, declare our allegiance to the principles of international socialism and endorsement of the platform of the socialist party of the United States.
We define wealth to be the creation of labor applied to the resources of the earth, and capital to be the accumulated portion of wealth used to create more wealth.
Capital, therefore, being primarily the product of the labor of society as a whole, society has the supreme right to its disposal.
We, therefore, declare our purpose to acquire the ownership of capital represented by the mines, machinery and all means of production and distri- bution, and relieve society from the reign of arter or competitive industry, inaugurating a distribution of the necessi ies, luxuries and opportunities pro- duced, based upon the labor contributed by the individual.
As all laws or regulations of industry by the government are the creation of society expressing their ideas and conception of individual principles, society may and will change these laws and regulations to meet the emergen- cies that arise.
Therefore, society may create laws to conform to the most scientific and systematic means of production and the most just methods of distribution. It is, therefore, our declared purpose as members of organized labor and the producing and working class, to acquire through the power of our united ballots the entire control of government in all its offices and functions. The courts, the laws, the military and all the powers of government will be used as a means to secure for society their national rights and to protect them therein and in the end to establish through the power so gained the co-operative commonwealth.
In the division of labor the work of the farmers has gone slowly but surely into the city until they sell to and buy from the large organizations of capital on their own terms, placing them on a footing with labor. We call upon them to organize and secure for themselves the advantages, privileges and opportunities to which their wealth should entitle them, and which sociali m can alone give. To this end we ask every member of o ganized labor, every wage earner and producer in the state of Iowa whose interests are identical to join us in the struggle.
SOCIALIST STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE.
W. A. JACOBS, State Organizer.
J. J. JACOBSEN, Secretary.
MEMBERS OF COMMITTEE.
Second District-W A. Jacobs, Davenport.
Third District -- E. Holtz, Dubuque.
Sixth District-F. J West, Avery. Seventh District-A. H. Weeks, Des Moines. Eighth District-T. F. Willis, Clarinda. .
Tenth District-S. R. McDowell, Lake City.
Eleventh District-John W. Bennett, Sioux City.
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PEOPLES PARTY.
STATE TICKET.
For Governor, L. H. WELLER, of Chickasaw County.
For Lieutenant Governor, S. M. HARVEY, of Polk County.
For Judge of Supreme Court, J. A. LOWENBERG, of Wapello County.
For Superintendent of Public Instruction, MILO BUNCE, of Adair County.
For Railroad Commissioner, WALTER MOCULLY, of Decatur County.
The state convention met at Des Moines, August 27, 1903. Temporary and Permanent Chairman-HON. L. H. WELLER, of Nashua.
STATE PLATFORM.
1st. We endorse the Omaha platform of 1892, with direct legislation added. 2d. We favor the adoption of the Initative and Referendum in all elections of state and national character.
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