Omaha daily bee., 1889-11-04
WAITING FOR THE VERDICT.
The Iowa Campaign Now Practi-
cally over.
HOW THE BATTLE WAS FOUGHT.
Republicans Employ the Methods OF
Civilized Warriors, While Demo-
Gratis Indulge in Guerrilla
warrare-State News.


DEs MONIES, Ia, Nov 3.-[Speclal to THE
BEE. The Iowa campaign OF 1889 is practi-
cally ended and the parties are awaiting the
verdict of the polls. ...-s,
II has been a very peculiar campaign in
some respects having had the chief fight
center about the Eovernorship, TO the total
neglect of everybody and everything else.
The republican slde of the campaign has
been conducted in the usual manner-frank,
fair, open and straightforward. There have
been between forty and fifty speakers in the
field at once, under the direction of the re-
publican state central committee, and they
have pushed the battle along the lines OF
party principles.
But the democrats have conducted very
different and very dishonorable campaign.
They started out with the lnteutou of max
ing still hunt. MIR. Boies was. of course,
kept on the stump, but not half dozen
other democratic speakers joined him. The
chief reliance of the democratic managers
was on false charges. Misrepresentation of
records and positions, and mean personal
attacks upon Senator Hutchison. AT the
very outset of his campaign the democratic
paper in mis- own home began to sneer and
slur at his soldier record. Senator Hutchi-
son raised company and served in the
army of the Potomac. Although in the SER
vice only about a year, he took part in some
of the hardest fights, such as Antietam
aud Chancellorsville, and saw more bard
fighting than many men who were in
the service three times as long. But
his year was packed fuii OIL
fighting, In which he took such consplcu-
Gus part that he was specially commended
for his bravery. And vet this paper in his
own town came out in low, disreputable
attack upon, rideuling him as white feather
member of the 'milish," and impugning his
honor and bravery as a soldier. Other dem
ocratic papers copied the article and began
the campaign by that kind of guerrilla fight
ing. 1t has since been developed that the
editor of the Democrat, who started the
slanderous attack, was the same man who
offered TO sell out to the republican state
central committee in 1884 tor 500. Aletter of
his TO Chairman Wolf, making the proposi-
tion, has since been published to the world
so that it can be seen what kind OF defamers
these Iowa democrats are. This attack upon
his record as a soldier was followed by at
tacks upon his private business affairs,
charging him with having made false returns
TO the assessor and evaded paying his taxes,
ana much other insulting and absolutely un-
true insinuatons and statements OF like
character. Then came the democratic tool,
who was hired to attack Senator Hutch
ison's legislative record, under the
guise of being an officer of the Farmers
| alliance. 1t was not a fair review of his
| record, for 1T suppressed facts that were
necessary to properly explain his votes.
! But taking out isolated votes it distorted
| their meaning and put unfair constructions
upon them, and deduced inferences and con-
clusions entirely unwarranted and unjust.
This attack was sent over the state as the
| ''authorilative'' expression of the alliance,
| although ii was known at The time that this
| democratic tool had been dropped by the
| alliance weeks before So it has been one
assault of SANDER and abuse after another.
| The democratic managers haven't had the
| as they have made other years, square
| open fight upon their principles. Instead
| they have gone about IN the dark, starting
| irresponsible stories af1oat, making stabs at
| personal character, lodging any square fight
| upon their principle, but running in and out
with insinuations and false charges which
they dare not make, for they could not
| meet in open, honorable warfare. In the
| last few days they have grown bolder
| and have been making the widest claims of
| success, which were utterly without founda-
| tion. Their game now is brag ana buster,
| in the hope of influencing some wavering
| voters. But they have no better chance, and
| not so good, OF winning, as they had two
| years ago, and unless all signs fail Senator
| Hutchison will have 10000 or 1900 more
| votes than his democratic opponent AT no
| place in the state can any serious detection
| of republican votes be found. or course,
| there will be votes lost here and there for
| one reason and another, which is to be ex-
| pected every year, but the party lines are IN
| good shape, and there is no break anywhere.
| AS General Harrison had over thirty thou
sand plurality in this state last year the re-
pnblicans can afford TO lose u few stragglers,
| and still have very good victory.