Omaha daily bee., 1889-09-09
DEMOCRATIC CHOICE.
Iowa Bourbons Dividing on Boise
and Anderson.
ASKING SOME SHARP QUESTIONS.
The Alliance Catecbising All the
Candidates For the Hawkeye
Governorship-Eaoh AnK-
ious to Satisfy.
Hawkcyc Politics.

DEs MONIES, Ia, Sept. S-[Special to THE
BEE. l-Wll 1t be Boies or Andersonl is tho
question the democratic politicians are ask
ing themselves just now. Tho "slough
water" districts and the alliance wing of the
party decidedly prefer Anderson for gov
ernor, but the counties like Dubuque, which
give the heavy democratic majorities are
more favorable to the former.
Mr.. Boies is q good sort of fellow, dis
tinguished principally for his intense hostility
TO prohibition. He was formerly repub-
lican, and went over to the democrats on
that issue, His residence In Waterloo, a
strong railroad town, would indicate that he
is a strong favorite with tho corporations,
and IL this influence rules the Sioux City con-
venton Mr.. Boies will quite likely be the
nominee.
Major Anderson is a low tariff man and
not much of prohibltionist, and his posi-
tion on these questions would not
be In the way. but he could not
hope to get much corporation support
Should Anderson run but little help from
this source would be expected. The demo-
Gratis would bank their chances on his record
as au anti-monopoist, hoping to draw a
large part OF the Wheeler men into their
ranks. The recent meeting of the State
Farmers alliance, which was held in this
city and attended by nearly three hundred
delegates, propourded series of very sharp
questions TO the candidates for governor and
lieutenant governor, and should the reply
from Hutchinson be unsatisfactory in the
least the democrats stand ready to take ad-
vantage of this, and with Anderson as their
standard bearer it can not be denied that
they would make some inroads into the re-
publican ranks. Hutchinson is too old q poll
tlcian TO be caught mapping at this stage of
the proceedings and his answer to the alli-
ance questions will be satisfactory in the
main. The anti-monopoly republicans are
fully aware that should the ticket be de-
feated this fall, the corporation press will
charge Ito the railroad legislation enacted
tvs years ago, and strong demand for a re-
peal of these laws would Immediately follow.
For these and other reasons there is not
likely to be any general stampede to the
democratic ranks no matter whom they may
nominate or what replies Hutchinson may
make to the alliance.
The democrats are likely to lose the as
sstance of the 10000 union labor votes this
fall This party has nominated as it's candi-
date for governor Hon. s. b. Downing, of
Davis, who is not only opposed to fusion, but
is also strongly prohibitonist. Downing will
neither fuse nor get off the track, aud it now
looks as if each of these parties would go it
alone in the coming campaign. Small as the
union labor party is it is not entirely har-
monious. The radicals, who live mostly in
the interior and believe in woman suffrage
ana every OJner species Oh crank
lsm, have a war in the convention
every year between the delegates from
Dubuque and other cities. This year Wick
lin, of Dubuque, was beaten for governor by
a vote of Ill to 20. The nomination of Down
ing will almost annihilate the party IN Du-
buque, where it has cast as high as 500 votes.
e. H. Gillette, of this city, who once rep
resented this district in congress and is now
the editor of the greenback organ, has ac-
cepted the nomination for the legislature
h nsr1 DO, tetg
probably. be supported by the few union
labor voters. These two mistit parties com
bined will not cut much of figure, and un-
less they have revival before election will
hardly poll over 200 votes here. REX.
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