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Show IDAHO DEMOCRACY, Tha "Trooly IU" Nominate a Stat Ticket Th Platform. Boise Citt, Ida., Aug. 26. Special. The Stata Democratic convention last evening selected Hon. J. M. Burke as Democracy's standard-bearer in the approaching campaign cam-paign and Colonel J. W. Jones for lieutenant lieuten-ant governor. For governor the names of J. M. Ballentino of Boise, E. A. Stevenson of Boise and J. M. Burke of North Idaho were presented, and on the ninth ballot the latter was nominated, amid great enthusiasm, by the following vote, Ballentine having withdrawn with-drawn on the eighth with 15 votes: Burke, 49; 8tevenson, 46. The nomination was then made unanimous. The platrorm adopted declares that no more taxes should be collected than are necessary to defray the expenses of the government; gov-ernment; demands that the tariff laws be amended so that wealth and capital may ba required to sustain their just proportion of the burden of taxation; favors the enactment enact-ment of law for the prevention of trusts and combines; con mends the organization of the industrial classes for self-protection; recognizes agriculture as the basis of national na-tional prosperity; denounces the policy of special governmental protection to gold a fraud upon labor; favors the free and unlim- lied coinage of silver; favors the establishment establish-ment of postal savings banks of deposit; protests against the enactment of the force bill ; favors the granting of pensions to ex-soldiers; ex-soldiers; pledges Democratic support to the World's fair; advocates the improvement by the government of the navigation of the Columbia and Snake rivers; favors the Democratic policy of the speedy allotment allot-ment in severalty of lands to Indians; congratulates Irish-Americans on the near approach of home rule in Ireland; denounces de-nounces Pinkertonism ; favors a complete revision of the mechanics' lien law; de nounces the course of the Republican authorities au-thorities in dealing with affairs in Shoshone county after the .suppression of all riotous demonstrations, and the arrest of the rioters as a deep laid plot and political scheme for the suppression of a free vote and a fair count and the disfranchisement or expulsion from the state of the Democratic voters of that section; denounces the usurpation of power and tyrannical course pursued by J. F. Curtis, the military satrap now clothed with a little brief authority in Shoshone county, especially his unwarranted interference interfer-ence with the private and peaceful occupation occupa-tion of men attending to their own business affairs, such as his closing down mining-operations mining-operations in the Poorman and Tiger miner, thus throwing several hundred men out of employment. In discussing the Mormon question the platform says: We denounce the hypocricy of the Republican Repub-lican party in dealing with the Mormon question; and Wbekeas, The test oath embodied in the constitution con-stitution of the state of Idaho in relation of the elective franchise is sufficiently far-reaching to protect the rights of the state and insure the rich ts of the electors; and Whereas, The last session of the Bepubliean legislature having in view the perpetual disfranchisement disfran-chisement of a large class of the people known as the Mormons, added to tb constitutional provision pro-vision an e pott; facta -condition and this Ions? after-toe Mormons, tfironefeJJieic "president ana their people, tn the moat solemn -manner had abandoned all their objectionable teachings and practices; and, Whereas, The action of the Mormon people in these respects having been accepted by the national na-tional Democracy in good faith; therefore be it Resolved, That we brand the provision m the election law passed by the Kepublicanejof the last legislature as unconstitutional and ex post facto : that we demand its absolute and unconditional repeal; that we favor an immediate test ease in the proper courts for the determination of th constitutionality of said law, that this prescribed class of citizens may exercise their rights of franchise fran-chise at the coming election. We denounce the practice of the Republican party to prevailing in Binsham county of requiring re-quiring Mormons to pledge themselves to vote the Republican ticket before they are allowed to register. The Democratic party pledges itself to do even and exact justice to the Mormon people. The remainder of the document, which is a voluminous one, is mainly devoted to local lo-cal affairs, and closes with a panegyric on the horny-handed laboring man. |