Omaha daily bee., 1889-10-07
IOWA POLITICS SEETHINC,
New Complications Developing
Every Day.
REPUBLICANS UP AND DOING.
Immense Crowds Greet Hutchinson as
Every Point-Dcmocrats Get
ting Interested in the
Honest Farmer.
The Rattle Is Rnrlnu-

DEs MONIES, Ia, Oct. b-lSpcCial to THR
BEE, Politics are getting decidedly inter
csting in Iowa, and new complications are
daily developing
Tho republicans are making vigorous
canvass and the "spell binders" are begin
ming to enthuse the masses of the party with
old time fcrvor. Immense crowds greet
Governor Hutchison at every point, ana At
looks now as If the party majority would be
held up 10 nearly the presidential figures.
This will undoubtedly be the case unless
secret work is done by the corporations at
the polls. The democrats have apparently
cut loose from their railroad allies, and by
taking u radical anti monopoly stand have
made bold bid for the granger vote Just
how much of this vote they snail succeed in
corraling on election day remains TO be seen,
but to the knowing ones 1t looks as if their
antl-monopoly professions were only skin
deep.
There is reason TO believe that the dem.
ocrats, in their mad desire to oh.
tain office, have made combine
openly with the farmers and secretly with
the corporations and hope TO ride to victory
on both horses Such veteran railroad poll
ticlans rs John Il. Duncombo, of Fort Dodge,
who was a member of the committee on reso-
lutions at the Sioux City convention, are not
porter of the Waterloo" statesman
Boies and Bestow have not vet answered
the Alliance letter. but it is safo to say IL
will be satisfactory to that organization.
While the railroads arc not showing a very
bold hand in the state contest they do not
take any pains to conceal their designs in the
legislative districts.
In the Thirty seventh senatorial district
convention, Harden county, which out
numbered the Hamilton delegation py two
tod hn hnI ,.,l,t
county and carried out the programme by
nominating Ellsworth, of Iowa Falls, the
railroad candidate. The Hamilton delega-
ton, with the regular delegation from Wright
county then proceeded to dominate Nj. C..
Smith, Wright county farmer Both sides
seem determined aud the result will be two
republican candidates both claiming to be
"rcgular.n The vote ut the last gubernatOr-
ial election In this district stood republican,
1850, democratic 24l7, republican majority
22I3, or only IA less than the full opposition
vote. Thus unless the republican vote is
divided equally between Ellsworth anu
Smith, one or the other will be elected.
Should the vote tie, democrat VIII slip i'll
by narrow margin. The chances at present
are decidedly in favor of Smith. The Els
worth delegation from Wright county were
olecued by forty-One boilers from the regular
county convention, and these boilers and
their work were most empbatically re-
pudlatcd and condemned by the unanimous
action of the state central committee as well
as the state convention. Hamilton county
will cast nearly every one of her l. 40 votes
for SInith, and the 900 farmers of Hardin,
who have already repudiated Ellsworth at
the primary, will undoubtedly cast their ball
lots for the Wright county man, and Smith
wall certainly be able to poll half the vote of
his own county. The result, therefore, based
on this conservative estimate will be about
as follows Smith 2600 Ellsworth 1900,
democrats =, 400. Should Ellsworth work the
gravel trains successfully and draw to his
support considerable democratic following,
his election is within the range of possibility.
The state central committee may
take hand in the row and settle
the matter but so far they have shown no
disposition to interfere. =.
Railroad politicians die hard in Iowa. Both
WoOlson and 6Olter, the two leading oppo-
nents OF the railway legislation in the senate
two years ago, are up for reelection. Bol-
ter has already been nominated by the demo-
Gratis Of Harrison and Crawford, and Wool
son, with thirteen votes from Henry, is en-
deavoring to force the stubborn delegates
from Washington, who are also thirteen in
number, To accept his caunidacy. Washing
ton is firm, ana demands nominee from
within her own borders; so unless u trade is
made Woolson will be forced off the track,
as split will follow. The election of SEN
ator Boltcr is very doubtful. The repuU-
lcans have nominated Mr.. j. Il. Romans, of
Crawford, very popular candidate, who on
a former occasion cut down the democratic
majority from about four hundred to fifty.
Should he do as well again he would defeat
Boter by 800 votes. The 600 union labor
votes in this district will never go to BoIter,
and many are quite likely To be cast for RO-
mans Tho farmers alliances, which are
strong in this district can also be rehed on
TO swell the vote. IL looks now If the
railroads would be deprived of two of their
ablest and most crafty leaders In the next
senate REX.