St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-28
PLEASANT INIoWA.


The situation in Iowa grows in inter
est. The nomination OF ALLISON for SEN
ator has not hushed the elements OF
discomfort in the Republican ranks.
All the Republicans in the legislature
have apparently succumbed before the
lash of the ringsters, and will vote fol-
him if the house shall organize and
give them a chance. A number of them
have been instructed by the home alli-
ances to bolt ALLISON or prepare for
their political funeral. But if they
bolt they might as well join McGINTY.
1t is ruin to them in any event. Gov.
LARRABEE has not recalled a word OF
his remarkable summing up of the SEN
ator in such unequiYocal language as
this:
HE has not the confidence of the peo-
pie. He has expressed no sympathy
with recent Iowa movements. He
hasn't the courage of a mouse. He has
run ana lodged at the least alarm of
danger TO himself. AS far as ability is
concerned, there are score of men in
every county in Iowa who would fill his
Shoes"
This is the statement of the present
Republican governor. twice elected by
the party. and who has the unbounded
confidence of the farmers. This is a
big chunk of dynamite in the very heart
of the Republican situation. The indi-
cations are that the governor represents
in this-a very large proportion of the
Republican farmers. The machine Or
ganS are appalled, at his defiant stand,
and beSeech him to remember that he is
endangering the party mill. The cen
trail organ, operated by GARRISON, the
famous guill0tine worker at Washing
ton, hints at making him a victim of
such machine if he does not recant. It
says:
1--WE dislike to think that one who has
been twice elected to the governorship
of Iowa, and had for more than twenty
years been the recipient of Republican
regard and favor, would now dellber-
ately try to disrupt the party organiza-
ton and destroy the party confidence,
and. so far as his word might go, en-
barrass the party in the future"
The governor, so far from attempting
to swallow himself, asserts that his
sentiments are just of that color, and
he has no whitewash. He proposes to
assert them right along, and if he is
read out of the party he will have a
tremendous crowd with him. The &C.
dar Rapids Gazette. perhaps the ablest
Republican paper in the state, which
made a brilliant fight against the sena-
tor, now amuses itself with haunting the
Republican farmers who have been SO
servile III the party traces while insist
ing that their interests demanded new
policies. This is the sort of pleasantly
it INDUCES in, speaking of its party
friends:
"Then they could have instructed
their candidates for the legislature to
vote for some one who would help them
out of their difficulty. But no: they
sat around and looked wise, and paid
their high taxes, and bore their tariff
burdens and all that sol of thing, and
said nothing and did nothing except to
drop their Jaws when the country ring
politicians instructed for ALLISON,
against which action they made no pro-
test,'
This is all pleasant and enjoyable. 1t
is working out for the good of the peo-
pie. There is no occasion for discon-
tent or interference on the part of the
Democrats. They will not disturb tn e
diffusion of pleasantries among the par
ties who are responsible for the election
of Senator ALLISON. There is nothing
of somber character to the Democratic
situation there.