St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-10-21
THE ENEMY BLUNDERS.
Iowa Republicans Doing the Heavy and
Artistic Blundering This
Year.
A Hawkeye Greenbacker, Who is Also a
Pessimist, Sees Naught but Rack
and Ruin.
More Rottenness Coming to the Front
in Cfncinnatf--The OFF,
cial Count.
The New York Campaign Opened
Alleged Political Offenses in
Pennsylvania.
Opposition laundering in iowa.

Opposition Blundering i'm Iowa.
Special to the Globe.
DEs MONIES, Oct 2O.-For wonder
the blunders of the campaign of 1885 have
not been on the side of the Democracy, or
II there have been any, they have been
overcome by the greater blunders of the
Republicans. The latter organization has
been on the verge of open rupture for
three years and has seen the withdrawal
OF thousands of voters, caused by
surrendering the party machine into the
bands of people with fanatical views on
the prohibition question. 1t has seen its
leading organ demand the exemption of
the Des MoineS diStillerieS from prohibitory
law as the price of its support of that
measure, and it has seen the tenn
perance ZealotS make a square trade and
| accept this conditional advocacy. 1t has seen
Auditor Brown elected from office by bayo-
nets by order of a peryerse governor, while
the county sheriff was waiting for an APP
pearance bond to be filed. 1t has seen one
OF the leading men in its ranks hoWled
down i'll the annual folknote because he
desired hearing on Browns case
| Still later it has seen a party
organ print dozen columns of circumstan-
| tial allegations that Senator Whiting, the
| fusion nominee, had given utterance
TO DISLOYAL UTTERANCEs
during the war, statement concocted by
youth under an assumed name, and a ru-
raj editor who once found it convenient to
go violently insane as short
cut out Of some very awkward per-
! sonal complications and backed in a
vague way by some very defunct politicians
denounced by soldier neighbors of Senator
Whiting, some of whom intend to vote for
Mr.. Larrabee; two influential Methodist
clergymen, both Republicans, who have
klown Whiting for many years and often
accepted his hospitality, have declared the
charges to be outrageous and untrue,
and thousands of Republicans are angered
at this ineXcusabe attempt to make a
bloody shirt an issue in the canvass. The
Republicans have not only to go to the
| polls under the damaging effect of all these
causes of weakness, but they have just discov-
| cred that, While the cities have been grow
ing, the rural population has barely held
| its own: aud they are constrained to admit
that this is another
SOURCE OF DANGER,
for no matter whether a Republican is in
different as to the Brown outrage or not. if
he moves to Dakota his vote will not show
| for Larrabee. The opposition On the other
hand, are in magnificent fighting order
Gen. Weaver, perhaps the most effective
| stumper in the Northwest, is tormenting the
| Republicans beyond description at his daily
meetings. Other pleaders for the fusion
| ticket are doing yeOman service, and they
all now claim with much confidence that
the fusion ticket will be elected. 1t should
be remembered that Shermanis majority two
n Nx-oc 1,-- -
that Blaine drew out the reserve vote last
| year, but there is now no apparent reason
| why Larrabee should do this. The opposi-
ton. on the contrary, will have out about
| all its vote, and the GTeenback detection
will just about balance the straight temper
ance vote, neither being worth considering.
Pessimistic Greenbacker.
| Special to the Globe.
| DEs MONIES, Oct. 2O.-The result of the
election in Ohio has stiffened the vertebral
column of the Iowa Republicans amazingly.
1t has added fully 5000 votes for Larrabee.
| Wagers are being made on 0.000 Republic
can majority i'll this state. 1t should be
understood by every Republican in Iowa
that the opposition are turning their whole
effort to the legislative ticket. Not only do
they desire to get control of the house, but
| as those elected this fall will hold oyer to
| the next session, when United States SEN
atOr is to be elected. They are wasting no
powder. Agents of the Brewers associa-
tion are going over the state and putting
money where it will do the most good. The
noise and bluSter over the state ticket
is kept up for effect. The legislative hunt
is still on. and the secretary, j. D. Sanks,
| the Gteenback leader in Dallas county, and
prominent man i'll the party, in a recent
address to his friends, said he had been pa
tlenty waiting the development of the
| financial policy of the administration to de-
eide whether Or not he could accept the fu-
sion cake set before him. but he finds it is
the same old idea Of no money, slave labor
| and free trade, and
THE COUNTRY GOING TO THE DEVIL
as fast as possible. Since Manning took
the treasury the national debt has in
creased S19, ,005, 900, the national bank cur
| rency decreased S25, 900. coo, gold and sill
yer certificates decreased S72, 900, 900 and a
contraction of the currency of nearly $780,
| 600. 600. How any Greenbacker can in
dorse such policy is past his comprehen-
! sion, when the Endorsement is to foist men
| into office opposed to every Greenback prin-
ciple. He says he will not do it. Hon. S.
b. Zlegler has, on account of pri-
vate business, been compelled, positively,
to decline the nomination of senator to fill
the Larrabee vacancy. 1t is probable the
committee will nominate Capt. Stewart Of
| Waukon, who was the next highest candi-
date in the convention. 81. n. Gleason,
Republican candidate for the house in the
Forty-second nistrict. died at Dunlap on
| Saturday after four-weeks' Illness A
new convention will be called at Logan to
| I'LL the vacancy. The resignation of Lieut.
| Gov. Manning and Senator Gillette OF
Boone, Who was president pro tenn. of the
senate, in the event of the death or reSig-
NATHAN OF the governor, would leave the
state without any executive head, the stat
ute having made no provision for such a
contingency. The statute provides that the
| governor shall fill all vacancies in the state
offices until the next election, but it is I'M
derstood Gov. Sherman will make no ap-
| pointment in this case, as he don't expect
to get killed and he wont resign.
ScandalOus Election Practices.
I CINCINNATI, Oct. 20.-Testimony was
heard to-day before Judge Buckwalter in
the mandamus proceedings to compel the
| judges of election in Precinct E, Eight
eenth ward, to make proper return of the
election. Their returns were brought in
unsealed and unsigned, and hence the writ
j. A. Thompson, one Of the judges, testi-
fed that he had been called upon to act as
| judge on behalf of the Republicans James
Higgins and John Regan were the Demo-
cratic judges. In the morning they divided
| the labor thus: Thompson was to receive
| the votes and deposit them in box, Hig-
gins was to turn the crank. and Regan was
/ to check the names from the registry book
After about fifty votes had been received
outside parties iuterfered and took the book
| from Regan and threw it under some rub