The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1885-12-31
[Iowa State Register.l
The Result in Iowa.

The Republican majority in Iowa
on the State ticket is not Of soaring
altitude But it will do, and it is
larger than that which the party has
had at four different times in the last
few years. While it is entirely COM
Portable and sufficient on the State
it is fairly superb on the Legislature
We have confounded our enemies,
surpassed our own expectations in
fact, and blown the Fusionists and King
Doodle clear out of the water The enc
my are dazed and dumbfounded by it,
and Republicans are properly delight
ed. We have SO of the 100 members
of the House; the Fusionists have SO,
1 is an Independent Republican, and
one is doubtful Republican major
ity Of eighteen or twenty. which is a
great deal better than the uneomfort-
able Republican majority of one in the
same body last session. In the Senate
we elect fifteen Of the twenty-four
Senators elected this year, and have
sixteen Of the hold-overs, making the
Senate stand, Republicans thirty-one,
Fusionists and all sorts nineteen-a
Republican majority Of twelve, a very
pleasing and comfortable majority
On joint ballot we shall have the fine
majority of thirty-two. good plump
figure for Republican majority in a
body that the Fusionists and King
Doodle were so certainly going to cap
ture. This is a magnificent and CRATE
full victory. 1t is also one that is sig
nifcant and reassuring. As they look
upon it in mute wonder and disgust,
the Fusion and Doodle people will
have feelings that any one who knows
them, and has seen them in this cam
paign, can imagine We would like
to know just what Guelich and Kinne,
Weaver and Eiboeck, Gillette and Ed
Campbell really think of it. The peo-
pie who gave the Doodle to make it
otherwise, would no doubt like to
have all the aforesaid gentlemen ex-
plain how it happened. But they
never will. For they do not know.
The Republicans are serene over the
result It leaves them absolute mas
tiers Of the situation in the State.
They hold power in all places, and by
such slender majority that the Fusion
lists can toy with it as they did in the
House last session. The Republicans
hold the fort-all the forts now-and
with abundant strength, and all that
is done in State policy, or Legislative
action, will be done by them, and by
them alone The Fusionists are rout-
ed and overthrown, defeated inglori-
ously. after a year of vain boasting,
and left powerless in the State
while King Doodle has fallen down in
utter disgrace, and lies under the, feet
of the Republican party, to meet
whatsoever fate may be imposed upon
his satanic majesty.
Meantime Kinne and Weaver, and
all the lesser people, are left tc cool
their heels in the halls Of defeat, to
try and explain how it happened, and
to quarrel over who is responsible for
it, and to be laying their plans to cut
each others throats in the future
with the good people devoutly hoping
that they may have in this all the
success so brilliantly achieved at Kill
kenny.
1t is magnificent lesson-the best
of all the victories Of Tuesday week.
It clips the claws of the Great Beast
Of the Rum Power in Iowa. 1t re-
Dukes the men and leaders who sold
themselves to it. It reaffirms the hon
esty, the purity, and the moral valor
of Iowa