The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1877-11-09

The nfiasInl snte II thn sia,n fFssna
nil nut oa@ esmnts In The stale
elbows that 'he ,lIain,crtAsi.n ~ th~
ala parties has .slam.n..., nnd that
the ur~rnhw.k w Independent " ~
IN thr party u the future la Iowa
In lsta the Wh.r and Democratic
partl.. vica with eAch othe, In slc.
riafinH slavery agitation fasses
settled. -Four years later Jehn e.
Fremont cn : platform ansAeonisinU
slavery In IL every Mspcct came nenr
being elected president. and In isG0
Mr. Llnecln WAS elected In aninrun.
lam 20 ths very question that the two
parties 81 lsh9 had 20 happily s~stlcd
Tor Ill time. In 1870 In like manner
the republican and democratic par.
ties settled the currency question,
zach virinR with the other In iss
truculcncy TO thu money lords Of
Wall street, and In plcdging 20 them
financial mcAsurcs hostile 10 ovcry
Industrial and commercial interest.
Ohio rcpuhlatcd the base contract In
lS76 u defeating Tildcn for his work
"a defsasing Allen In 1876 and now
Hayes and John Sherman have been
repudiAtcd BY m overwhelming ma.
jortty. aud tho worry mcasurcs 80
happily settled against the people
BY Hayes and Tilden, .ruculcn,
tools 81 tho money power. have been
taken up by tho people and triumph
antly carried. LII Iowa. Mr.. Gear,
the republican candidate for govern
orhad Ave thousand less votes than
Gov. kirkwood obtained two years
ago, and instead of Mr.. Gear having
. majority over all, he Ii IL minority
governor, In u state which gave Mr.
Hayes 10000 majority over Tildcn
This IL tho way the vote stands:
8tubbs, drcenbAck 33,h0:
Irish, Democrat Ta,i3i
Jcssup, Temperance ln.as7
Total l2a.o74
Gear, Republican. l2l.a67
Clear. minority l.SO7
Thus IL will bc ac~n Clear isA min.
orlty Governor. the popular majority
against him being fightera hundred
e ser~n In III. state with ono county
yet 10 BE- reported officially, which
Will increase his minority.
Had tho democrats had sense
enough To have put u candidate In
nomination In sympathy with Its
platform on the currency question.
and smotherd ifs propensity 10
free wlhskrs by a srncr md better
expression ~ doctrine like ,hnt II
tho independent platform. there
would have no need Of either Stubs
or Jessnp In the field and Mr.. Gear
would hive certainly been defeated.
Mr.. Jcssnp WAS certainly no better
temperance man than Mr. Htubbs.
nor was tho platform CA which he
was nominated my more nnequivocAl
on thAt question, than tho Intlcpend.
ent platform. hut ~ II Ii there II
republican loss II over 10000 votes
from last ycar, when Hayes had Ca
GOO majority over both Til.lcn aud
Cooper, md ~ compared with tho
preceding governor election In ls7t.
between kirkwood and LETTER shows
m MninistAkAblc republican loss oi
ovor M.OoO, kirkwood then having
81, 900 over all. Nor III the loss IL
tho democratic strength less ssgnill
cant, and indicates y sweeping vic,
tory 10 '.iAbor and the lighting dol
lar" In the near future. An exAmin
alton OF the election returns not onl,
0f Iowa, but Of the entire countr,
shows that the 0recnback party; tn
party thAt boldly declares thu
"mnsclc must have an equal chanc
with money" II the only one TIM
has made amy gains this year.
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