Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-07
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DEs MONIES, November 6.-The Demo-
Gratis of Iowa have been jubilsnt all day,
but tonight they are fighting mad. They
are kicking themselves and kicking each
other not because of what they have done,
but of what they did not do. They have
| carried the entire State ticket by 1000 ma
| jority. The vote for Horace Boies may ex-
ceed that figure, but there is little indIca-
tion that it will fall below. Some of the
candidates will run slightly behind Boies,
but each man thereon is safely and surely
elected.
The result yesterday is really the first
| Democratic officer the State has seen since
1854, period of 35 years. Having now
taste Of victory after this long fast, what the
Democrats are dissatisfied about is that they
did not capture the Legislature. When the
Democrats, several years ago, after the Re-
publican party had espoused the cause of
prohibition, had begun to show
SIGNS OF ROBUST HEALTH,
threatening the capture of the Governor
ship and the, Legislature, the Republicans
perpetrated a scheme of gerrymander, and
fixed, as they supposed, the Legislature for
ever safely Republican. But the land
precaution. Districts, supposed to have
been strongly Republican, succumbed to the
Democratic hosts, until tonight the Re-
publican State Committee only claims the
Legislature by three majority on joint bal
lot, and are quaking in their boots lest that,
too, will be wiped out, and Allison will be
left at home.
This is what makes the Democrats mad.
Had their foresight been equal to their
hindsight, Iowa would have sent a Demo-
crat to tbe United State Senate. There was
practically no effort made to capture or
gain seats in the Legislature on the part of the
Democrats. They regarded the Legislative
contest as simply hopeless, and no special
effort was made to capture it. or even to
make gains therein. The returns show
A GREAT MANY CLOSE DISTRICTS
which could have been captured with little
effort, three of them being in this county,
where the Republicans pulled through with
from 40 to 100 majority. The Democratic
committee did not even have list OF the
legislative nominees, and no attention what
ever was paid to this campaign.
The result, under such circumstances, is
simply startling. Mr.. Allison can thank
his stars for this careless Indifference. If he
pulls through at all it will be owing to the
fact that the Democratic managers deemed
any effort to defeat him hopeless one. But
that the Dubuque Senator does not feel that
he is perfectly safe is shown by the fact that
he has been in constant communication with
Chairman Pray since his political future
began to be clouded with the prospect of
defeat. To-day the two have actually kept
the wires hot.
HARD TO GIVE UP.
The Republican managers have been slow
IN oil Sfafo lof off
noon they have sent out bulletins claiming
HutchIson's election. All such rumors are
groundless. There is absolutely nothing
upon which to base them. AT 8 o'clock this |
evening returns complete from rs counties, |
and the remaining 13 estimated as having |
voted as they did two years ago, show the |
election of Boies and the entire State ticket |
by 1000. There is no reason to doubt these |
13 counties will not show gains proportion |
ate with the rs heard from. If they do, the |
majority will be increased probably to 10,- |
000
Nothing can be surer than the complete |
and overwhelming success of the Democ- |
racy of Iowa in Tuesdays election. The |
causes leading to the result are not difficult |
to locate. Prohibition is the chief one. |
The revolt of the Farmers Alliance against |
the alleged railroad record of Hutchison is |
another. The tariff question has not been |
without It's eHecI. line low prices OF Iarm |
products has had an influence.
A COMBINATION AGAINST THEM.
There was a combination of circumstances, |
all tending to work against the party in |
power. In the cities the gains were made |
up on the prohibition question. They were |
large. Cedar Rapids, Dubuque and Sioux
City show Democratic gains of over 200 |
each. In Keokuk, Burlington, Davenport,
Clinton, Des Moines and Council Bluffs the !
gains were almost as great. In North
western Iowa, among the Granger counties
the percentage of gains held up close to
those of the cities.
The majority of Republicans charge the
responsibility of defeat to prohibition, and
openly declare that they will advocate the
adoption of high license by the new Legis-
lature. This will irritate the Prohibition
its and stimulate the third party advocates
to marshal their forces, and threaten the
party from another quarter. To pursue
their theory of prohibition further will con-
sign them to perpetual defeat. To repudi-
ate it is to invite as certain disaster from
another quarter.
Thus the Republican party, after an un-
interrupted rule OF So years, finds itself de-
feated, disheartened, and confounded with
obstacles of so serious a nature that it is
doubtful indeed if it recOvers in time to
save the electoral vote of the State in 1892.