Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-01
THE IOWA POLITICAL TIE-UP.
Railroads Concentrating All Their
Efforts to Elect Wills.
OTHER CANDIDATES DESERTED
Republican Nominees Practically En-
dorsed by the Union Labor Party
Earnest Work BY the Whole
sale Merchants.
Iowa Politics.

Iowa Politics.
DEs MoINEs, Ia, Sept 30 Special to
THE BEE. The campaign on the part of the
republicans opened in this state last week.
Speeches We're made in nearly every con
gressional district. Governor Larrabcc and
Railroad Commissioner Campbell are on the
stump and are greeted with great throngs of
farmers, many of whom come fifteen or
twenty miles to see the men who have done
so much to relieve them from railroad eX-
tortion. The democratic state ticket is fast
going to pieces. George Hebcrling the rem
egade republican from jackson county who
was named for secretary of state, seeing
the hopelessness of the contest, has with
drawn. The other democratic candidates,
realizing that they are only cats paws Tor the
railroads to be traded off to pull through
Wills, Lund and Dey, the candidates for
railroad commissioners, are not entering the
campaign with any degree of enthusiasm.
The railroads have practically deserted
I.und and are concentrating all their efforts
to elect Wells. The union labor party which
polls about fifteen thousand votes, has not
nominated any candidates for commissioners
and practically endorse the republican nom
inees. Overtures have recently been made
to this party to put Wills on their ticket,
and although he is in the employ of the
Northwestern and is confessedly the rail
road candidate, the scheme may succeed
The railroads hop to elect wis, ana ex-
give the control of the board to the demo-
Gratis. A few weeks ago it looked as If Dey
would certainly be elected, but his chances
are daily diminishing 1t has been dlscov.
the scheme to tie up with the
| railroads and gave It his sanction
| He even went so far as to say he would not
accept the nomination from the republicans,
| because the democrats would then be com
| PEELED to endorse Smith and Campbell, the
| republican candidates, and this would pre-
| vent any railroad combine. The anti
| monopoly republicans, who had intended TO
| support Dey are taking sober second
thought and as the republicans have noml-
mated three strong anti -monopolists for com
| mssioners and the democrats three men
| who are perfectly satisfactory to the rail
| roads and the issue is thus fairly joined,
very few of them will throw away their votes
| on Dey. The action of over onehalf of the
| democratic senators in the last Legislature III
| boldly repudiating the plank of their party
platform, which demanded the passage OF
| the two-cent fare bill and other restrictive
| railroad legislation ought to be enough to
| convince any anti-monopollst that the demo
| cratic party cannot be trusted to deal with
| the railroad problem. The election of either
| two of the democratic commissioners would
paralyze ali present efforts to secure relief
| from railroad eXtortion. Should the
farmers support Dey, the corporation
| strikers Of both parties can then turn their
| undivided attention to the election of Wills.
| of the close corporation composed of both
| democrats and republicans, who are bleeding
| the railroads and assuming to dictate the
policy Of both political parties, but it will
| hardly materialize on election day. The re-
| publican farmers are not so easily duped,
| and with rare exceptions, will vote ssolidly
for and elect all three of the republican can
didates-Smith, Campbell and Malhin.
| THE SEVENTH AND EIGHTH DISTRICTS.
The democrats and union labor men in
| this, the Seventh congressional district,
| seem to have parted company for good. Last
| year they fused upon w. l.. Carpenter of
this city, and made rattling canvass, cut
| ting down Conger's majority to less than
| LOCO. This year, Carpenter, who is now
mayor Of the city, preferred the Office in hand
| to the empty honors of a congressional nomi-
nation, and refused to make the race.
| The democrats then turned to their rail-
man named Morrison, Of Perry,
who is foreman of the Milwaukee shops
at that place. The union labor party, to
| their honor be it said declined to join in the
deal and nominated Hon. j. A. Nash, of tins
city, who is already in the field as the
nominee of the straight prohibitionists. You
can put Congers majority down at anywhere
from 1000 to 5000.
The contest in the Eighth district, which
was made famous two years ago by the fight
between Anderson and Hepburn, promises to
be close and exciting. Anderson has been
renominated by the democrats and the union
labor party, and is making vigorous can
! Vass. The republicans OF that district, taking
a lesson from their defeat, have thrown the
Hepburn gang overheard, ana are making
heroic efforts to redeem the district.
| THE JOBBERS TO THE FRONT.
| The Wholesale jobbers of this and other
| cities have taken off their coats and gone into
politics in dead earnest. They are getting
out a circular which they propose to send to
every wholesale and retail dealer urging
them to support the republican nominees for
| railroad commissioners. They realize that
unless the outrageous discrimination in favor
of Chicago is stopped, nearly every wholesale
and jobbing house in Iowa must close its
doors. The Iowa commissioners alone have
power to grant relief in this direction, and
they propose TO see to IL that the commits
sioners who are elected shall be friendly tC
their interests. The action of this numerous
and influential body of men will largely
affect the result and greatly increase the re
| publican vote in all our large cities.