St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-10-01
Iowa Democrats Prepared to
Sweep Things From Keo-
kuk to Council Bluffs.
The Great Majorities of Gar
fields Days Only Mat
ters Of History.
All Of Eastern Iowa in Open
Revolt Against the Re-
publican Party.
Gov. Boies Practically As
sured Of a Majority Which
May Reach $4,000.
Special to the Globe.

Special to the Globe.
DAVENPORT. TO-, Sept. 3O.-All eyes
are on Iowa this year. 1t has been long
since she occupied such position as
she does at this time. From the posi-
ton of the most certain of Republican
states she has shifted her political
ground till she is now almost as GER
tainly Democratic as she ever was Re-
publican, for it is to be set down as a
sure thing this year that the next cleo
ton will reinstate in the gubernatorial
chair the present incumbent, Horace
Boies. This is vast change to come
over the people of state such as this
in the space OF eight or ten years-a
change of an even hundred thousand
majority from one side to the other
and this is what makes the situation in
teresting in part. Other features that
add piquancy to the situation are the
factors III the change, the temper and
spirit of the people, and the fact-that
the term that is drawing to a close is the
first that has been served by Dem
ocratic governor here for 10! these many
years.
Republicans Routed.
In Eastern Iowa, at least, and in fact
in the rest of the state as well, the Re-
publican party has no longer a grip.
1t used to have hold on this city and
this county that seemed too strong to be
shaken off. Now these same counties
along the Mississippi river are Demo-
cratic more strongly than they were Re
publican. The change has been almost
revolution, and, it is insisted by those
who are in position to know, that rev.
olution is going to stay. Here it is that
Democracy is strongest and most ag-
gressive, and here it is that the cause of
the opposition is weakest and most
promising of defeat. A few years ago
it would have sounded like one of Baron
Munchausen'S richest to have mentioned
the probability of defeat for the g. O. p.
in this state, but now no Republican
smiles when you talk thus, unless he
smiles through his tears.
Some = 40 Held if.e Faith.
The reason for this revolution in the
river counties of the state is NOT difficult
of dIscernment. Among the earliest set
tiers of Iowa were many thousands OF
those hardy husbandmen, winners,
farmers and gardeners whose homes on
the banks of the stored Rhine were
brought to mind again by the pictur-
esque hills that held in the valley of the
Mississippi and its smaller ailments.
All along these rivers are German
homes, many of them now verging to-
ward half century in age. These peo-
pie came here and made their homes in
all honesty of purpose. They brought
with them all those attributes of sobri-
ETY. and industry and thrift that go to
make good citizens, and they were good
citizens. The state owes 10 small part
of her prosperity to them and what they
did for her.
Why They Left 1t.
When the prohibitory law was placed
among the statutes of Iowa these peo-
pie rebelled. They had been RepubIi-
caus till then, almost 10 unit. There
were Democrats among them. but not in
a majority, by any means. Now these
Democrats were suddenly joined by
some thousands of their fellows who
had held an opposite political faith.
Furthermore, those thousands were in
creased by still other thousands till the
majority, instead of being merely re-
duced, was actually reversed. The
Democrats elected their governor.
There have been two years of pros
perity in Iowa following that event.
Neither blight nor drouth nor pesti-
lence has devastated the land, and the
people have been happy. Even in spite
of the efforts of the long-haired man
and the short-haired woman to make
them virtuOus by legal enactment and
enforcement they have been happy.
Their interests have been we'll served,
they have had good appointive officers,
there have been no administration scan
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been impaired. Iowa has no reason to
feel dissatisfied with the administration
of Gov. BOies, nor is She.
Gov. BOies as a Speaker.
There is one thing here that the peo-
pie like about the present governor,
whom they propose to re-elect. He
isn't afraid to be heard when he has
anything to say. The Republican pa
pers have been manufacturing great
capital out of the utterance he is re-
ported to have made at certain speech
in New York. AT the same time they
have been compelled to hunt all kinds
of apologies for Mr.. Wheeler, their own
candidate, because he made 10 utter
ance at all, good or bad. The fact is,
and they admit it, when they can be
made to admit anything, that Gov.
Boies is not in the habit of saying fool
ish things, but that he says what is on
his mind openly and without fear or
favor when he has anything to say.
A Davenport Episode.
A little over year ago he came to
Davenport by invitation of the commit
tee having in charge the arrangements
for the celebration of Labor day. Just
about that time the labor unions were
making good deal of stir here. Retail
clerks were organizing, hdd carriers
had grievances that they wanted the
Tri-city labor congress to take up and
air, and meetings were being held in
the evenings and on SUNDAYS, at which
resolutions were adopted by the bushel
and all sorts of things regulated. The
brickmasons and the plasters and the
carpenters succeeded in killing, bv
these well-meant efforts, a large pro-
portion of the building in prospect for
the ensuing months, and there was need
of remedy of some kind.
just then Gov. Boies dropped in with
his little speech. He talked in pleas
antly, fatherly way to the laborers
made them speech that was good as a
speech and that contained some good
truth of general kind in addition, and
then he got around to their one tender
spot and rubbed it with a good-sized
stick of lunar caustic.
With Surprise I'm 1t.
Gov. Boles said he would not stop to
enumerate or Specify all the yafions
sorts of labor organizations and Incl
dent labor troubles that exist in this
fair land Of ours, but would take the
railroads and their employees for an ex.
ample of the class. he touched broadly
on the matter, and then he came to the