The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-10-30
IOWA STATE POLITICS.
The Campaign Pretty Sure to End
in the Re- Election Of
Gov. Boies. mu.- @~.
GARNER" Wheeler's Grain Gam
bling not Agreeable to the
Farming Community.
EXPRESSIONS of Democratic Confidence
Come From All Sections of the State
Republicans Downcast.

DIES MONIES, Ia, Oct. 29.-The campaign
In Iowa, which ends next week, will result
in the reelection of Gov. Horace Boies,
the probable election of the entire demo-
cratic state ticket and the control Of the
legislature. The only candidate on the
state ticket who is at all in doubt is that of
railroad commissioner. But if the selec-
ton of this official is to be determined by
fitness of the candidates. Peter A.. Dey, the
democratic nominee, will have a majority
equal to that of his colleagues upon the
ticket. A special appeal, however. has been
made to the farmers to keep in Office the
present incumbent for the reason that he
was uvon the board when the present com
m~issioners' schedule of freight rates was
adopted. and he ought, therefore, to be
continued.
But Mr.. Dey was also a member of the
board, is just as heartily in favor of the
maintenance of just and reasonable rates
and is possessed of much wider knowledge
of the intricate question of railway con-
troll than any of the present membsra
of the board, and is withal a gen
tleman OF the highest personal in,
tegrity. How much the farmers may have
been influenced by this cry of the repub-
lican politicians who are striving to save
this comparatively unimportant Office from
the general disaster that will overwheln
them Tuesday, Nov. 8, is q matter 0
conjecture only. But it does not seen
probable that the cry will be effective.
just now the farmers are interested il
another matter of such transcendent i'm
portance that everything else is lost sigh
of. 1t has been discovered that Farmer
Wheeler, the republican candidate for gov
ernor, is said to be an extensive speculate
on the Chicago board of trade. This 10
practice that has been condemned for year
by the alliance and other organizations
Scarcely a farmers convention has BEEF
held in Iowa since the great Jack Sturgi
deal III the early 'D's-which resulted il
the failure of the Cook County Nations
bank, carrying with it r. F. Aliens ban
in this city, which affected many of tn
smaller banking institutions in differen
parts of the state and swept away the pr
vate Accommodations of many men in moder
ate ~means-that has not denounced in pic
turesque but ~forceful language the evil
that grow out of grain gambling.
If it had been thought at the lime of til
republican state convention hat Nj
Wheeler was in the habit of specializing i
options, he could not have bought the non
nation with the wealth of Carnegie. ri
republican managers know that it ID i'm
possible to eloct II man to any importar
office who is a patron of the bucket shop
and, if they could at the eleventh hour {
this campaign get any reasonably pruder
and prominent man to accept the plac
they would probably take Mr.. Wheeler o
the ticket and put some other fellow up.
This, however, is out of the question
hence MI. Wheeler has been directed
make such denial of the charge as his cor