Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1889-11-27
Iowa Election.

81 am afraid / hardly realize it my
SELF" said Mr.. Boise. when spoken to
of the great political revolution which
had taken place, "and / am at times
tempted to believe that it is all mis-
take. Like all other residents of this
State had become so thoroughly i'm
bued with the idea that Iowa is at all
times Republican that the thought OF
a Democratic victory here seems
something that should be classed
among the impossibilities. When /
was nominated / told my family that
it was all right; that they need not
worry about the breaking up of our
home, as there was no chance of my
being elected, and it was only within
few weeks that began to believe
that such an outcome was possible"
Speaking of the cause which, in his
opinion, had led to his election, Mr..
Boise said he was disposed to rate
the prohibition issue as the main fac
tor. at seems to me-" he said, cas- a
fair indication that majority of the
people of Iowa are tired of the work.
ings of the prohibition law and prefer
a good license law as the better meth
cd of regulating the liquor traffic
Other questions entered into the result
of course but it would seem as if
the prohibition question was the great
est issue, as the two parties were
squarely opposed to each other on that
matter. | rather think the prohibi-
ton law will be repealed. The Re-
publican majority in the Legislature
is so small, / don't believe there will
be any difficulty in securing major
ity for satisfactory license law. l
tell you, if we had only known how
close the Legislature was going to be
we could have carried, it as we'll as the
State ticket, but since the last reaper
tionment, when the Republicans ger
rymandered the State so as to make
Democratic Legislature almost an
impossibility, 1, like other town Dem
ocrats, got into the habit of believing
that it would take political earth
quake to wrest the Legislature from
the Republicans. AS it is, however,
we came pretty near to it, near enough
to make them anxious. The transport
tation question had considerable inhu-
ence over the result. The vote show
ed that l received the support of the
country as well as the city. In fact
the most gratifying as well as remark
able thing about the election is that
Democratic gains were equal and uni
form throughout the State. 1t often
happens in a great State like Iowa
that some question will come up which
will give a political party an advant-
age in some section or locality, but
Tuesdays vote showed that the Dem
ocratic increase was everywhere, and
there was hardly precinct where the
Republicans added to their vote.
"Of course there were a few cities
like Cedar Rapids, Dubuque, Burling-
ton, Council Bluffs and Iowa City
where the Democratic vote was re-
but in the main the result
was due to a steady and uniform gain
all over the State, which was about
the same percentage IN every county
and kept up the same ratio from start
to finish.
CAS- | said, there are several inhu-
ences which went to attain this result.
The campaign was in the main con-
fined to State issues, all except the
tariff question, but now that a majori-
ty of the people of Iowa have once
broken the ice and voted the Demo-
cratic ticket, do not think it would
be hard to convince them, especially
the farmers, how hostile to their best
interests the present so-called protec-
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