Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1889-11-15

now 1T HAPPENED.
A Coneensus of Opinion ss To the Iowa
Election.

/ Prohibition has wiped out repub
llcan majority OF 20 900 In Iowa, anC
given the state TO the democrats.
the republicans uf Nebraska dali,
with it they will see the same resul
here.
The republican party must recog,
niLe the fact that the choice for then
lies between defeat in quasi-allianc,
with prohibition, or victory upon /,
platform Of high ense..-Beatrice
(Neb.l, Express.
Iowa, once the banner state OF re
pubiicsnism, has been forced bach
ward aud backward until It has beer
fairly forced into the democratic ranks
Men Of one idea have taken control o
matters and the question Of what met
shall drink has superseded every
other interest until the people ar,
tired, and they have arisen and re
buked the reigning power by an over
whelming defeat. That the question
of prohibition has played havac with
the republican party in Iowa is be
yond question, and that il will down
any party in any stste that subscribe,
to it just as certain. Fremont, (Neb. }
Flail.
The republicans OF Iowa would have
done better in the last three or fouI
years If they had not fooled with pro
hibition a. party.
People get tired Of being dragooned
by convention into subscribing to
platforms or planks, with which their
party affiliations have no connection,
merely because majority of the con,
ventioD had it In its power to go wan,
dering about In search of new party
tests. The republicans of that state
have been losing ground ever since
they shouldered prohibition.-Lincoln
(Neb. }, Journal.
Mr.. Boies stood for selfgovernment;
Mr.. Hutchinson was pledged TO oppose
II Mr.. Boies demanded practical reg.
ulation of the liquor traffic; Mr.. Hutch
inson was chained to q policy that was
running the state. After five years OF
trouble and failure the intelligent peo.
pie OF Iowa want something better
They have thrown their votes 10 swell
the tidal wave which has swept ovei
New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Con-
necticut ard Rhode Island. In all
these states prohibition gets damaging
blows. Iowa il rushing along witt
the fiow.-Dayenport Demoerat-Ga'
zette.
Prohibition met defeat in Iowa or
Tuesday.
Why? Primarily because snti-pro'
hibition republicans largely avallet
themselves Of the opportunity as the
most timely that had arisen to record
tn cir dissent from prohibition as Q
policy for dealing with the drink evil
The result disproves the declaration
in the republican platform that prohi-
bitIon is the settled policy of the state
The result establishes that prohibi'
ton l. on trial in Iowa for its life.-
Lincoln Journsl.
Prohibitionlsts who In SO were on
their knees for the success OF the party
that had come 10 the rescue of the
home from its enemy, the saloon, were
10 $50 out upon our streets soliciting
the votes OF republicans for a ticket
whose voting strength meant just &C
many votes subtracted from the ticket
that had stood for prohibition rs the
settled policy Of the state and for the
better enforcement OF the prohibitory
law.-Cedar Rapids Republican.
The democrats of Iowa in state con-
vention declared emphatically and
unequivocally for high license. This
declaration was supported aud con
firmed by the people In Tuesdays
election. 1t Is now the duty Of the
legislature to do away with the foolish
prohibition experiment and substitute
for Il high license law. The saloons
must he brought under the control ol
the law and the bcot-legger and hole
in-the-wall, those hideouo children oI
prohibition, must be done away with
forever iu Iowa.-Sioux City Tribune
There was combination Of circum-
stances all tending to work against
the party IN power. In the cities the
gains were made upon the prohibition
question. They were large; Cedar
Rapids, Dubuque and Sioux City show
democratic gains over one thousand