The Donaldsonville Chief

THE RIGHT RING.

The Iowa Republican State convention which met at Des Moines on Wednesday was a very large and harmonious body, every county in the State being represented by a full delegation, with no contestants.

Gov. Buren R. Sherman, Lt. Gov. O. H. Manning and Superintendent of Education Okers Line were renominated by acclamation, and Judge Reed was the successful candidate for Supreme Judge.

The platform is a sound one, and the following resolutions on the tariff have the right ring:

Sixth—That stability is desirable in such public policy as relates to and affects all productive industries, and we condemn the threat of the Iowa Democracy to disturb and keep at unrest said industries, and the capital and labor employed therein, by gradual and persistent efforts to so change the customs laws as to establish free trade, and insist upon such revenue laws as will encourage American industries and protect American labor, in order that the American workingman shall have a fair day's wages for a fair day's work, and tend to assure permanent employment.

Seventh—That the inability of the Democratic party during the six years it held undisputed control of the House of Representatives of Congress to agree on legislation for the revision of the tariff and the reform of the civil service, notwithstanding both subjects were constantly and prominently present in the platform of promise and campaign activities, and the passage of laws affecting both the said objects by a Republican Congress at its late session demonstrates anew the capacity of the latter.

It becomes every day more and more apparent that the Republican party is still the party of protection, while the Democracy is gravitating farther and farther towards free trade. Attempts are made to obscure and evade the issue by a thin disguise of "tariff for revenue only" arguments, but the lines are constantly growing clearer. That the tariff problem will be the principal issue of the next national campaign is now generally conceded, and it is scarcely less plain that the Protectionists will all be on the side of the Republican party while the Free Traders will all gather in the Democratic camp.