St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-09-26
a Funny Campaign i'm Progress.

Special to the Globe.
DEs MONIES, Ia, Sent. 25.-C0l. W. II.
Hepburn Of Clarinda and j. P. Dolliver of
FL. Dodge opened the Republican campaign
here tonight, speaking to an audience of
about eight hundred. Their addresses ere
ated considerable enthusiasm. The pend
ing Iowa canvass would be best described
as a splintery one. There is evidently
less cohesion in all directions than
has ever been known before. The
Republicans began the campaign under the
depressing influences of national defeat
last year. The malign effect of Gov.
Sherman'S blows with sledge hammer ON
Auditor Browns door and with the Surpris-
| ing increase in the number of saloons in the
chief towns; the treatment Of Maj. AndeT-
son in the state convention and notable re-
volts on local issues that have occurred in
GrundY, Ida and other counties are tending
| still further to weaken the Re
publicans, and while the prin-
| cipal Republican orators are drawing fair
sized audiences, enthusiasm isn't abounding.
| The Republicans are still further bothered
| by the certainty that ultra -Prohibitionists
will put ticket in the field. 1t is prob
able that this movement will have small
vote, but at the same time, it will turn
! loose number of incisive orators, whose
silence would be desirable to the party lead
ers. On the other hand, Republicans
WHO PROFESS TO KNOW,
claim that good many Democrats will ab-
| stain from voting on account of the license
plank in the Cedar Rapids PLATFORM drop
| ping TO too low a figure to suit their owners,
and in this connection it may be stated as a
| broad proposition that something like the
| Nebraska excise law would now be preferred
by majority of both the old parties,
and it is safe prediction that
such will become law in the
legislature of 1883. The seat of the dissat-
isfaction toward the Cedar Rapids platform
is said to be in Poweshiek county Other
Republicans, who claim to speak with
authority, claim that Gillette is to be
scratched considerably by Democratic voters
! because he has always been a Prohibitionist,
but this seems unreasonable, as his Bit
| terest opponents before the Cedar
Rapids convention are. giving him
an honest support. The Greenbackers. too,
have complications of their own. In spite of
the fact that Judge Whiting is an alumnus
of the anti-monopoIy class of 1873, and that
that they have Gillette and Moore besides,
leaving Brannon as the only simon-puIe
Democrat on the fusion ticket, many
| GreenbackerS who are
| JEALOUS OF THE POLITICAL SUCCESS
of Gen. Weaver and Nj. Gillette have
called straight convention to meet at Mar
shalltown. 1t is probable that this split
will just about Offset the vote of straight
Prohibitionists The funniest incident of
this funny campaign is the fusion in Davis
county, the home Of Gen. Weaver, between
the Republicans and Greenbackers. This
fusion has selected S. A. Moore, the father
of the fusion candidate for state superintend-
ent, as its candidate for the legislature
and in the present state of things the father
and son both have chance to win. On
the state ticket careful estimate is that
the Republicans may get through with a
small majority, but whether they succeed
or not the drift of past campaigns toward
| their defeat is still in motion. The opposi-
| ton are sure to gain some senators and
will probably about tie the house, thus re-
ducing the joint majority of Republicans to
! narrow limit.