St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-11-04
WHAT OF The MORROW
Democrats Making a Strong
Pull for Their Governor
in Iowa,
And the Outlook on the Eve
Of Election Is in Their
Favor.
Hutehison Has a Great Many
Bad Spots in His Politi-
cal Record,
And Hawkeyes Are Tired
Of the Prohibition
Farce.
specIal 70 The Giobe.

DAVENPORT, To-, Nov. SIT would
be shock to the Republican party all
over the country if Iowa, once the ban
ner Republican state. should turn about
and elect a Democratic governor: but
just that thing she is likely to do this
fall. The history of the Democratic
party here has been a serial story of de-
feats, but it has survived its TeVerses
and grown stronger from the battles it
has lost, till this fall it engages in the
fray with confidence of victory, and
sees the other fellows uncertain. un-
settled, disquieted and on the run.
Ever since the prOhibi5ory law was
placed upon IOwa's statute books, the
Republican vote has been growing
smaller by degrees and beautifully less.
The Germans, and their name was
legion, went over In body.
They had been largely Republican
and their detection made big gap in
the ranks of the party. Since then,
year by year. Republicans have been
dropping
OUT OF THE PROCESSION.
and espOusing the faith of Jefferson
and Jackson and Grover Cleveland, but
this year the situation is unusually full
of promises OF Democratic triumph. In
the first place there is, in all larger
Iowa towns, great and growing senti-
ment against the perpetuatiOn of that
monumental farce miScalled prohibit
ton. 1t is simply local option
without license restriction. In places
where public opinion tolerateS them
saloons run openly, and unlim-
f+aA or nnnAntrnt1Ad n IN
spect. Conforming TO the provisions
of the common law which renders it
illegal to license crime. no city ventures
TO think of collecting any license money
from these places. With them il is
purely gO-as-yOu-please affair. In small
communities no saloons are permitted
to exist, as a rule. Their presence
or absence at any place depends wholly
upon the feeling of the public regard
ing them. So manifestly absurd Is such
a state of affairs that the sentiment is
daily gaining that the Democratic plat
form gives the only correct plan Of
handling this question: good
STIFF LICENSE
for places that want the saloon; no
SALOONS for places that do not. So well
has the saloon prOSpered under the
prohibition regime that it is not to be
doubted that many saloon men will this
fall cast their first Republican votes.
prohibition is cheaper for them than
license. But, on the other hand, so no
toriOus has been this prosperity that
many prominent Republicans have de-
termined to add their mites to the move
ment to judiciOusly control the liquor
traffic. The 1900 druggists in the state
will vote almost unanimously for the
Democratic candidates. Under the
pTOhibitory law as first enacted, some Of
these men did flOuriShing business IN
liquors, illegally, of course. The next
Republican legislature, TO cut of this
iniQuity, passed a pharmacy law,
of such exceeding strIngency that
not one of these dealers feels
able to handle liquors In the
course of his regular lawful business
without violating some of the many
technical points of that law. There
have been number of innocent Offend
ers against this statute who have been
maliciOusly prosecuted by enemies who
have taken advantage of trivial. techDi-
cal violations as means of
SECURING REVENGE
for some offense. Hardly a druggist
can be found in Iowa who handles
spirits in any form. Here, in Daven-
port, as in nearly all other places, if
you want a mOuthful of brandy to save
dying mans life with, you can't get
it of druggist. You must go to some
saloon The druggists will vote sOlidly
for Horace BOies for governor. Again,
Iowa, of all other states, was pre-emin-
ent in the enactment of granger laws"
in the old days. and Of other statutes of
later years, for the control of the railways
within her bounds. The people OF what
legal measures for the securing demand
they believe to be their rights. The
recently enacted statutes have been
bitterly fought all the way through by
the roads, but the people are not dis
cOuraged in this movement, and united
Iy ask that the legal bonds be made
strong enough to cOntine these OBJ
streperouS corporations that seem de-
termined to obey no laws. In the face
of this the Republicans nominate for
governor man who is known the state
over to be the firm and avOWed friend
of the railroads. and to be interested in
them. Indirectly if not directly. The
Jobbing interests. the farmers in large
numbers and the manufacturers do not
swallow Mr.. HutchisOn. His railroad
record is too rank. 1t will harm him in
another quarter where he cannot afford
TO be hurt.
TIE UNION LABOR PARTY
in Iowa. though not as strong as 1t is In
some other states, is still an important
element, and numbers thousands of
members. Mr. Hutchison's love for the
railroads has fairly cost him the love of
this element, heretofore largely Repub-
lican. As the friend, the backer and
the open champion of corporations and
the av0wed defender of trusts and mo
nOpOlieS. he finds no friends among
them. The last bale of hay that breaks
the burrO's back Is the way the beauti-
full theory of protection is working 10
benefit the farmer; for Iowa Is pre-emi-
Dently- an agricultural state. The na-
ton has been blessed with an abundant
crop, but that fact hasn't made the Iowa
farmer bit happier. After indorsing
with his ballot the campaign cry
OF tariff and high prices for
produce" raised last fall, for
his special benefit, he is now sell
ing his oats at II cents a bushel, his
CO IN for no more, wheat for less than 1t
costs, potatoes at and 10 cents, hogs,
cattle and horses for what he can get.
Scores Of carloads of potatoes, for in
stance, have gone from this point alone
during the past month. Shippers buy
them for 10 cents a bushel, rejecting as
poor in quality stock that they would
have been glad to buy for five times
that amount year or so ago.
THE FARMER
cannot produce aud deliver these goods
for less than 25 cents a bushel. Under
the prevailing prices he Is beginning to
in tho doctrine Of r,rofcotfoD