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First District-Charles Carrett, of Washington, Washington county. Second District-C. H. F. Bohstedt, of Victor, Iowa county. Third District-L. F. Foulk, of Waterloo, Black Hawk county. Fourth District-A. M. Walker, of Osage, Mitchell county . Fifth District-C. P. Whitemore, of Mt. Vernon, Linn county. Sixth District-R. L. Turner, of Oskaloosa, Mahaska county. Seventh District-A. M. Haggard, of Des Moines, Polk county. Eighth District-S. A. Baker, of Russell, Lucas county. Ninth District-Frank P. Fetter, of Oakland, Pottawattamie county. Tenth District-H. R. Bradshaw, of West Fort Dodge, Webster county. Eleventh District-C. W. Griffen, of Sioux City, Woodbury county.
For State Officers.
Secretary of State-ALBERT J. BOLSTER, of Villisca, Montgomery county. Auditor of State-J. D. C. MCFARLAND, of Des Moines, Polk county. Treasurer of State-WILLIAM P. SOPHER, of Oskaloosa, Mahaska county. Attorney-General-
Judge of Supreme Court-H. F. JOHNS, of Woodbine, Harrison county. Railroad Commissioner-George W. White, of Fairfield, Jefferson county.
The State convention to select delegates to attend the National conven- tion at Indianapolis, Indiana, and to nominate candidates for presidential electors and State officers, was held at Boone, May 24-25, 1904.
Temporary Chairman - A. M. HAGGARD, of Des Moines, Polk county. Permanent Chairman-K. W. BROWN, of Ames, Story county. Secretary-H. E. WOODRING, of Oelwein, Fayette county.
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STATE PLATFORM.
We, the Prohibitionists of Iowa in State convention assembled, recognize Almighty God as ruler of the universe, and His law as the standard of human law.
Whereas, the great weight of public opinion, among all classes of citizen- ship, among all departments of commercialism, among all moral and religious organizations, among statesmen, scholars and philanthropists, recognizes in the legalized liquor traffic, men's mental, moral and financial ruin, and in the organized liquor traffic, a spirit of anarchy, endangering the liberties of our people and the flag of the republic; it realizes that the perpetuity of the Nation, now menanced by such a foe to Christian citizenship entrenched in organization, can be preserved only by uniting at the ballot box, the citizenship that stands for good government and the enforcement of the law, in support of a political party whose platform declarations carry conviction to the voting masses that if given power it will carry out its pledges.
Resolved, 1. Therefore, we the Prohibition party of the State of Iowa, reaffirm our former pledges, if given power, to prohibit the manufacture, sale, importation and exportation of intoxicants for beverage purposes. We de- clare for good government and enforcement of law and pledge our sacred honor to conduct the authority entrusted to us to this end.
2. We are opposed to the principle of taxation without representation, therefore, we stand for a universal qualification for the right of suffrage, re- gardless of sex.
3. Since the safety of government and the people's will depends so largely on the law making power, being so closely related to its constituency, we de- clare for the election of United States Senators by a direct vote of the people.
4. To guard against corrupt legislators and class legislation, that so often thwart the will of the people, we declare for the initiative and referendum system of government.
5. To remove the danger of panics because of tariff revision, as well as the menace to trade during presidential campaigns resulting from the discussion of tariff changes, we favor a tariff commission, non-partisan in character, to study the commerce and trade relations of nations and make proper recommenda- tions of tariff changes to Congress whenever the people's interest demand it.
DELEGATES AND ALTERNATES TO THE NATIONAL CONVENTION.
DELEGATES AT LARGE.
A. U. COATES, Perry.
W. HOWARD, Marshalltown.
DELEGATES.
Geo. W. White, Fairfield. W. P. Sopher, Oskaloosa. C. H. F. Bohstedt, Victor. John McConnell, Princton. A. H. Sewell, Waverly. J. H. Campbell, Waterloo.
G. W. Hine, Lona.
S. P. Leland, Charles City.
H. C. Culver, Mt. Vernon.
John R. Hall, Cedar Rapids.
Ira D. Kellogg, Oskaloosa.
J. H. Booth, Des Moines.
A. M. Elliott, Ames.
J. H. Carr, Ames.
George M. Adams, Hedrick.
Mrs. A. S. Farrow, Boone.
J. G. Vaness, Mt Vernon.
Frank Swearinger, Marshalltown,
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C. H. Bay, Albia.
A. L. Night, Richland.
W. D. Ellwell, Ames.
T. G. Orwig, Des Moines.
J. R. Johnson, Harlan.
C. H. Payne, Fort Dodge.
A. J. Bolster, Villisca.
P. H. Ferch, Le Mars. Wm. Becket, Boone.
Chas. Locken, Aurelia.
O. D. Ellett, Marshalltown.
D. S. Grossman, Minburn. Robert P. Carson, Danville.
H. A. Dalrymple, Birmingham. W. C. Mott, What Cheer.
Mrs J. S. Ward, Bondurant.
F. H. Laure, Winfield.
T. H. Mason, Reinbeck.
N. A. Walker, Anamosa.
E. W. Birch, Rockwell City.
H. E. Woodring, Oelwein.
J. W. Leedy, Epworth. Miss Bell Mix, Danville. Mrs. Nora Walker, Anamosa.
Mrs. Anna A. Ross, Laurel.
Mrs. J. E. Howard, Marshalltown.
ALTERNATES.
E. Brady,
B. P. Heston, Libertyville. J. D. Frick, Conroy. S. W. Wittock, Geo. W. Mitchell, New Providence. Wm. Case, Fredericksburg. A. M. Walker, Osage.
B. D. Alden, Mt. Vernon. T. D. Wilcox, Marshalltown.
S. Holmes, Fremont. C. Piersel, Mt. Pleasant.
A. R. Gould, Birmingham. Wm. S. Boyes, Boone. Mrs. J. H. Campbell, Waterloo. F. B. Vandike, Fairfield. James Davidson, College Springs. J. A. Mitchell, Valley Junction. J. H. Wright, Woodbine. Henry Graves, Oakland. A. Hugart, Somers. J. L. Hayden, Ogden. J. A. Glassco, Morning Sun. I. K. Ferris, Morning Sun. J. H. Sewell, Waverly. J. S. Barnes, Villisca. William Hay, Keota. David Hine, Chickasaw. J. H. Wherry, Guernsey. Geo. W. Penman, Rock Rapids. William Orr, Clarinda.
Chas. Garrett Red Oak.
A. S. Cochran, Storm Lake.
A. H. Longworth, Polk City. Chas. Pugsley, Woodbine.
E. Dewey, Sergeants Bluff. A. C. Blockman, Akron. W. S. Reed, Knoxville.
C. W. Griffen, Sioux City.
W. P. Briggs, Sheldon. George Southwell, Webster City.
J. W. Johnson, Gowrie. A. Perry, Harcourt. H. K. Gronbeck, Jewell Junction.
W. G. Wright, Nevada.
T. M. Banford, Cole.
S. A. Baker, Russell.
Geo. W. Deyo, Strawberry Point.
Geo. Detrick, Oelwein.
A. Harvey, Perry. Mrs. A. Harvey, Perry.
S. D. Platt, Oelwein.
F. A. Darisan, Edgewood. John Good, Milo.
Elias King, Keota.
J. A. Armstrong, Greenfield.
H. B. Knouls, Council Bluffs.
H. B. Butler, New Providence.
Miss Hattie Payne, Fort Dodge.
Mrs. M. E. Williams, Fayette. Fred Shields, Ireton.
STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE,
Chairman-A. J. BOLSTER, Villisca. Secretary-G. N. ADAMS, Hedrick. Treasurer-GEO. W. WHITE, Fairfield.
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MEMBERS OF_COMMITTEE.
First District-Geo. W. White, of Fairfield, Jefferson county. Second District-C. H. F. Bohstedt, of Victor, Iowa county. Third District-J. A. Armstrong, of Plainfield, Bremer county. Fourth District-C. F. Paine, of Fayette, Fayette county. Fifth District-O. D. Ellett, of Marshalltown, Marshall county. Sixth District -- G. N. Adams, of Hedrick, Keokuk county. Seventh District-W. D. Elwell, of Ames, Story county. Eighth District-J. W. McDougal, of Chariton, Lucas county. Ninth District -- F. P. Fetter, of Oakland, Pottawattamie county. Tenth District-G. A. Bale, of Lake City, Calhoun county. Eleventh District-C. W. Griffin, of Sioux City, Woodbury county.
SOCIALIST PARTY.
NATIONAL TICKET.
For President, EUGENE V. DEBS, of Indiana.
For Vice- President, BEN. HANFORD, of Pennsylvania.
National convention, Chicago, Ill., May 1-6, 1904.
Chairman-A Chairman was chosen for each day's session. The following officiated :
JAMES F. CAREY, of Massachusetts ; N. A. RICHARDSON, of California ; MORRIS HILLQUIT, of New York; F. A. SIEVERMAN, of New York; WILLIAM MAILLY, of Nebraska; SEYMOUR STEDMAN, of Illinois. Secretaries-F. X. WALDHURST, of Alabama ; CHAS. DOBBS, of New York.
NATIONAL PLATFORM.
The Socialist party, in convention assembled, makes its appeal to the American people as the defender and preserver of the idea of liberty and self- government, in which the nation was born; as the only political movement standing for the program and principles by which the liberty of the individual may become a fact; as the only political organization that is democratic, and that has for its purpose the democratizing of the whole of society.
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To this idea of liberty the Republican and Democratic parties are equally false. They alike struggle for power to maintain and profit by an industrial system which can be preserved only by the complete overthrow of such liber ties as we already have, and by the still further enslavement and degradation of labor.
Our American institutions came into the world in the name of freedom. They have been siezed upon by the capitalist class as the means of rooting out the idea of freedom from among the people. Our state and national legislatures have become the mere agencies of great propertied interests. These interests control the appointments and decisions of the judges of our courts. They have come into what is practically a private ownership of all the functions and forces of government. They are using these to betray and conquer foreign and weaker peoples, in order to establish new markets for the surplus goods which the people make, but are too poor to buy. They are gradually so invading and re stricting the right of suffrage as to take away unawares the right of the worker to a vote or voice in public affairs. By enacting new and misinterpreting old laws, they are preparing to attack the liberty of the individual even to speak or think for himself, or for the common good.
By controling all the sources of social revenue, the possessing class is able to silence what might be the voice of protest against the passing of liberty and the coming of tyranny. It completely controls the university and public school, the pulpit and the press, and the arts and literatures. By making these econom- ically dependent upon itself, it has brought all the forms of public teaching into servile submission to its own interests.
Our political institutions are also being used as the destroyers of that in- dividual property upon which all liberty and opportunity depends. The promise of economic independence to each man was one of the faiths upon which our in- stitutions were founded. But, under the guise of defending private property, capitalism is using our political institutio us to make it impossible for the vast majority of human beings ever to become possessors of private property in the means of life.
Capitalism is the enemy and destroyer of essential private property. Its de- velopment is through the legalized confiscation of all that the labor of the work. ing class produces, above its subsistence-wage. The private ownership of the ·means of employment grounds society in an economic slavery which renders intellectual and political tyranny inevitable.
Socialism comes so to organize industry and society that every individual shall be secure in that private property in the means of life upon which his liberty of being, thought and action depends. It comes to rescue the people from the fast increasing and successful assault of capitalism upon the liberty of of the individual.
II.
As an American Socialist party, we pledge our fidelity to the principles of international socialism, as embodied in the united thought and actions of the socialists of all nations. In the industrial development already accomplished, the interest of the world's workers are separated by no national boundaries. The condition of the most exploited and oppressed workers, in the most remote places of the earth, inevitably tends to drag down all the workers of the world to the same level. The tendency of the competitive wage system is to make labor's lowest condition the measure or rule of its universal condition.
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Industry and finance are no longer national but international, in both organ- ization and results. The chief significance of national boundaries, and of the so-called patriotisms which the ruling class of each nation is seeking to revive, is the power which these give to capitalism to keep the workers of the world from uniting, and to throw them against each other in the struggles of contend- ing capitalist interests for the control of the yet unexplored markets of the world, or the remaining sources of profit.
The socialist movement, therefore, is a world movement. It knows of no conflicts of interests between the workers of one nation and the workers of another. It stands for the freedom of the workers of all nations; and, in so standing it makes for the full freedom of all humanity.
III.
The socialist movement owes its birth and growth to that economic devel- opment or world process which is rapidly separating a working or producing class from a possessing or capitalist class. The class that produces nothing possesses labor's fruits, and the opportunities and enjoyments these fruits afford, while the class that does the world's real work has increasing economic uncertainty, and physical and intellectual misery, for its portion.
The fact that these two classes have not yet become fully conscious of their distinction from each other, the fact that the lines of division and interest may not yet be clearly drawn, does not change the fact of the class conflict.
This class struggle is due to the private ownership of the means of employ- ment, or the tools of production. Wherever and whenever a man owned his own land and tools, and by them produced only the things which he used, economic independence was possible. But production, or the making of goods, has long ceased to be individual. The labor of scores, or even thousands enters into almost every article produced. Production is now social or collective. Practically everything is made or done by many men-sometimes separated by seas or continents-working together for the same end. But this co-operation in production is not for the direct use of the things made by the workers who make them, but for the profit of the owners of the tools and means of produc- tion; and to this is due the present division of society into two classes; and from it have sprung all the miseries, inharmonies and contradictions of our civilization.
Between these two classes there can be no possible compromise or identity of interests, any more than there can be peace in the midst of war, or light in the midst of darkness. A society based upon this class division carries in itself the seeds of its own destruction. Such a society is founded in fundamental injustice. There can be no possible basis for social peace, for individual freedom, for mental and moral harmony, except in the conscious and complete triumph of the working class as the only class that has the right or power to be.
IV.
The socialist program is not a theory imposed upon society for its accept- ance or rejection. It is but the interpretation of what is, sooner or later, inevitable. Capitalism is already struggling to its destruction. It is no longer competent to organize or administer the work of the world, or even to preserve itself. The captains of industry are appalled at their own inability to control or direct the rapidly socializing forces of industry. The so-called trust is but a
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sign and form of the developing socialism of the world's work. The universal increase of the uncertainty of employment, the universal capitalist determina- tion to break down the unity of labor in the trades unions, the widespread apprehensions of impending change, reveal that the institutions of capitalist society are passing under the power of inhering forces that will soon destroy them.
Into the midst of the strain and crisis of civilization, the socialist movement comes as the only conservative force. If the world is to be saved from chaos, from universal disorder and misery, it must be by the union of the workers of all nations in the socialist movement. The Socialist party comes with the only proposition or program for intelligently and deliberately organizing a nation for the common good of all its citizens. It is the first time that the mind of man has ever been directed toward the conscious organization of society.
Socialism means that all those things upon which the people in common depend shall by the people in common be owned and administered. It means that the tools of employment shall belong to their creators and users; that all production shall be for the direct use of the producers; that the making of goods for profit shall come to an end; that we shall all be workers together; and that all opportunities shall be open and equal to all men.
V.
To the end that the workers may seize every possible advantage that may strengthen them to gain complete control of the powers of government, and thereby the ooner establish the co-operative commonwealth, the Socialist party pledges itself to watch and work, in both the economic and the political strug- gle, for each successive immediate interest of the working class; for shortened days of labor and increases of wages; for the insurance of the workers against accident, sickness and lack of employment; for pensions for aged and exhausted workers; for the public ownership of the means of transportation, communi- cation and exchange; for the graduated taxation of incomes, inheritances, franchises and land values, the proceeds to be applied to the public employment and improvement of the conditions of the workers; for the complete education of children, and their freedom from the workshop; for the prevention of the use of the military against labor in the settlement of strikes; for the free administration of justice; for popular government, including initiative, refer- endum, proportional representation, equal suffrage of men and women, municipal home rule, and the recall of officers by their constituents; and for every gain or advantage for the workers that may be wrested from the capital- ist system, and that may relieve the suffering and strengthen the hands of labor. We lay upon every man elected to any executive or legislative office the first duty of striving to procure whatever is for the workers' most immediate interest, and for whatever will lessen the ec nomic and political powers of the capitalist, and increase the like powers of the worker.
But, in so doing, we are using these remedial measures as means to the one great end of the co-operative commonwealth. Such measures of relief as we may be able to force from capitalism are but a reparation of the workers to seize the whole powers of government, in order that they may thereby lay hold of the whole system of industry, and thus come into their rightful inheritance.
To this end we pledge ourselves, as the party of the working class, to use all political power as fast as it shall be entrusted to us by our fellow-workers, both for their immediate interests and for their ultimate and complete emanci-
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pation. To this end we appeal to all the workers of America and to all who will lend their lives to the service of the workers in their struggle to gain their own, and to all who will nobly and disinterestedly give their days and energies unto the workers' cause, to cast in their lot and faith with the Socialist party. Our appeal for the trust and suffrages of our fellow-workers is at once an appeal for thei · common good and freedom, and for the freedom and blossoming of our common humanity. In pledging ourselves and those we represent, to be faithful to the appeal which we make, we believe that we are but preparing the soil of that economic freedom from which will spring the freedom of the whole man.
NATIONAL COMMITTEE.
National Secretary-WILLIAM MAILLY, 269 Dearborn street, Chicago, Ill. MEMBERS OF COMMITTEE.
Alabama-B. Andrus, 1108 N. 14th St., Birmingham.
Arizona-H. H. Keays, Groom Creek.
Arkansas-L. W. Lowry, 2224 Ringo St., Little Rock.
California-N. A. Richardson, San Bernardino.
Colorado-A. H. Floaten, 1715 Champa St., Denver.
Connecticut-W. E. White, 229 Exchange St., New Haven.
Florida-W. R. Healey, Longwood.
Idaho-C. F. Carter, 530 S. 13th St., Boise.
Illinois-B. Berlyn, 662 E. 63d. St., Chicago.
Indiana-S. M. Reynolds, 1115 S. 5th St., Terre Haute.
Iowa-John M. Work, 1313 Harrison Ave., Des Moines.
Kentucky-Chas. G. Towner, 203 E. 7th St., Newport.
Kansas -Walter Thomas Mills, 1429 Masonic Temple, Chicago. Louisiana-Wilbur Putnam, Evangeline.
Maine-Chas. L. Fox, 10 Free St., Portland.
Massachusetts-John C. Chase, 64 E. 4th St., New York City.
Michigan-W. E. Walter, Hotel Irwin, Bad Axe.
Minnesota-S. M. Holman, 11 Oak St. S. E., Minneapolis.
Missouri-Geo. H. Turner, 14 Rookery Building, Kansas City.
Montana-James D. Graham, 532 I St. N., Lincoln, Neb. Nebraska-C. Christensen, Salida, Colo.
New Hampshire-M. H. O'Neil, 4 C St., Nashua.
New Jersey-Chas. Ufert, 4121 Boulevard W., Hoboken.
New York-Morris Hillquit, 320 Broadway, New York City. North Dakota-Tonnes Thams, Fargo.
Ohio-H. H. Caldwell, 522 N. Summit, Dayton.
Oregon-B. F. Ramp, Salem.
Oklahoma-R. Maschke, Kingfisher.
Pennsylvania -J. Mahlon Barnes, 232 N. 9th St., Philadelphia.
South Dakota-Samuel Lovett, Aberdeen.
Texas-John Kerrigan, 346 Elm St., Dallas.
Vermont-John W. Arvidson, Rutland.
Washington-Geo. E. Foomer, Prosser.
Wisconsin-Victor L. Berger, 344 6th St., Milwaukee.
West Virginia-F. A. Zimmerman, McMechen,
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STATE TICKET.
For Presidential Electors.
At Large-JOHN M. WORK, of Des Moines, Polk county. HENRY BILTERMAN, of Avery, Monroe county.
First District-William Strauss, of Burlington, Des Moines county.
Second District-Lee W. Lang, of Muscatine, Muscatine county.
Third District-Robert Brown. of Waterloo, Black Hawk county.
Fourth District-C. J. Thorgrimson, of Decorah, Winneshiek county. Fifth District-Watson Roberts, of Marshalltown, Marshall county. Sixth District-F. J. West, of Avery, Monroe county. Seventh District-E. E. Bennett, of Polk City, Polk county.
Eighth District-J. E. Rhodes, of Shambaugh, Page county. Ninth District-J. S. Morris, of Logan, Harrison county.
Tenth District-J. F. Sample, of Boone, Boone county.
Eleventh District-J. M. Maus, of Sioux City, Woodbury county.
For State Officers.
Secretary of State-JOHN E. SHANK, of Sioux City, Woodbury county. Auditor of State-MRS. CARRIE J. TRILLER, of Dubuque, Dubuque county. Treasurer of State-JOSEPH HOLMES, of Marshalltown, Marshall county. Attorney-General-I. S. MCCRILLIS, of Des Moines, Polk county. Judge of Supreme Court-T. F. Willis, of Clarinda, Page county. Railroad Commissioner-J. W. Zetler, of Muscatine, Muscatine county.
No convention was held to select delegates to attend the national conven- tion at Chicago, Ill. The delegates were selected by referendum vote of the party membership. The following were so selected :
Delegates.
John M. Work, Des Moines.
Alternates. W. A. Jacobs, Davenport.
J. J. Jacobsen. Des Moines. A. K. Gifford, Davenport.
Mrs. Carrie J. Triller, Dubuque. John E. Shank, Sioux City.
John W. Bennett, Sioux City. John F. Sample, Boone.
The State convention to nominate candidates for presidential electors and and State officers met at Marshalltown July 4, 1904.
Temporary Chairman-PERRY ENGLE, of Newton, Jasper county.
Permanent Chairman-W. A. JACOBS, of Davenport, Scott county. Secretary-A. A. TRILLER, of Dubuque, Dubuque county.
STATE PLATFORM.
The Socialist party of the State of Iowa, in delegate convention assembled at Marshalltown, Iowa, July 4, 1904, call upon every member of the working class to join with us for the purpose of capturing the powers of government by the ballot that we may take possession of the tools of production, abolish the wage system, and establish a system of production for the benefit of the workers.
Today the tools of production are owned by the capitalist class; they are operated by the working class, but only when their operation will make profit for the owning class. Ownership of the machines, the mines, factories and rail-
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roads gives the capitalist class control over the lives of the members of the working class, through the wage system.
The owning class can give or withhold employment at will. As a result of this absolute power, the workers, who perform all useful labor, must humiliate themselves by begging for jobs of a class that performs no useful labor. If this permission to work is withheld they and their families must starve.
The wage system is the cause of starvation, disease, crime, prostitution, child labor, stunted bodies and warped minds for the workers, while it gives to the capitalists palaces for homes, the pick of the world's markets for their food. the finest raiment, culture, education, travel and all that makes life worth living.
Society is thus divided into two hostile classes, the capitalist class and the working class. This condition has brought into birth the Socialist party, the political expression of the struggle of the working class for power. This party owes allegiance to and is a part of the International Socialist movement.
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