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DrRUQrE. Iowa. Aug l3

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DrRuQvE, Iowa, Aug. l3, 1889.
The returns from this Congressional district
(,he seccnd.; are nearly all in, and show that
gress by upwards of 1000 rsajority. This is a
Wing gain.
The returns from the First District, as far as
received, indicate the election of Philip Vlele
Wing, to Congress another gain.
The Wings have also carried the Legisa
ture which will enable them to elect United
States Senator to supply the place of the Hon
George w. jones, whose term expires next
March.
We don't hear that the other side get any de-
spatches from Iowa.
Iowa has heretofore been al Loo ofoco State
Tow tina, so consistent and inveterate an enc
my Of River and IIulbor Improvements as
Frank Pierce hls been placed in nomination by
that party, she wheels into the Wing Line =
In 1899, Just before the popular tornado swept
the Van Buren, dynasty into the great Salt Lake
region. and c'rried Gen Harrison triumphant
" into the Presidency, there was, we believe,
but ore Wing State left and that, we need
hardly add, was VERMONT. Vermont remain
ed equally unmoved by the bold and manly pol
ICY of JACKSON, and the sly and cunning and
foxy non committallslr of IAN Buren,. Every
Ken ucky y quaIled, in 1889, before the granite
obstnacy of Jackson, softened by the melIifu-
Gus sophlsrleS of the Sage of Underwood"
Jackson, in those times, was the honest "rough
newer" WHO shaped the image Van Burcn,
the artistic politician who rounded the angles,
gave pleasant expression to the features, and
made the "uemo ratio statue attractive to po-
pular worship. Jackson was strong without
Van Buren,, but not tnpincible Van Buren,,
without Jackson, as the browning event prov
cd, was weaker than burnt fax"
Relieved from the IRON pressure of Jackson's
popularity Ia popularity that his intentions, if
not his acts, deserved) THE PEOPLE brushed off
the mere Shiny politician, Van Buren,, as the OK
brushes off fly by the whsk of his tail. Van
Buren's election to the Presidency was merely
the penumbra of the great influence of Gen,
Jackson. When he reached the end of That
and tried the country ION his own hook, =" he el
flatter than forty thousand pancakes, and has.
start with, IN the memorable campaign of 1910,
larger than any mortal candidate ever had be-
fore, or ever will have again, Icvcry State IN
the Union being jackson state" except this
sturdy little "Star that neper sets he was sthe
worst whipped candidate that this country ever
saw, or ever NIL sec, save and except Bnga-
der General Franklin Pierce, leader of the
'.Forlorn Hope" of Democracy, aud Prime Min
ister of the New Hampshire branch thereof
the Wings of this Union though undenia
bly, IN small minority so far as the Gubernu-
torial complexion of the several States is con
cerned, are not quite SO badly off, TO carry on
the campaign, in l.52, as they were in 1910 -
They have three, or four, five, lit matters not
much which, of the thirty-one Governors of the
Union, and they have candidate for the Pre-
sldency, IN General SCoTT, who, for great and
meritorlou5 and world renowned SERVICES, both
military and civil for elevated and comprehen-
slve Na,ionalism and patriotism of feeling and
aim, and for all stateslnanlike qualities and abil-
tiles, is as far superior to the poor Peddling par
~ politician, Pierce, as the glorious Rapids of
Niagara are to the sudden rain puddle that
PUSHES through the sewer. And THE PEOPLE
KNOW IT and the more they read and reflect,
examine and criticize, think and feel, with re-
ference TO the two candidates the MORE they
know il In our opinion, l'the American Pro