St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-10-30
WHEELER IN DESPAIR.
The Farmer Candidate Realizes
That He Is Already Reaten.

Dies MONIES, Oct. 29.-Candidate
wheeler is still in town. He puts up in
sumptuouS parlOr at the Hotel Sayery.
but all the comforts that surround him
cannot eradicate his tired look. The
smile that was broad and beamiug in
the early days Of the campaign has en-
tlrely disappeared, and in its place has
com despairing look that tells too
plainly of impending defeat. Ii Mr..
Wheeler has any idea in the world that
he will be elected governor of Iowa
next Tuesday there is not a line in his
countenance that betrayS it. The cam
paign that he has conducted is not of
an exhaustive kind, physically or intel
lectually, and yet he seems to be COM
pieteiy used up. In the meantime Gov.
Boies continues to make two species a
day to enormous audiences, and his as
fresh as lark.
Another anxious candidate who was
in town last night IS Judge Weaver, the
Republican nominee for the supreme
/ bench. Gov. Larrabee in his speeches
has been devOting gvod deal of his
time to the praise of Judge Klnne, who
is Judge Weaver'S Democratic oppou-
ent. Weaver has beard this, and is
OF the opinion that it is not do
ing him any good. Then again,
farmers journal, has been airing Judge
Viewers legislative record and show
Ing concluslvely that he was consist
ent friend of corporations and monopo-
lies. This, with Gov. Larrabee's praise
of Judge Kline, caused Mr.. Weaver to
adjourn court in Hardin county and
hasten down to Republican headquar-
tiers. He was cloSeted with Chairman
Mack and Candidate Wheeler.an Man
ager Boardman in conference that
was barren of results. Judge Weaver
VIII as surely be defeated as will Can
didate Wheeler
The state temperance Alliance here
does not take kindly to the appeal made
to the independent Republicans to stand
by the old party lust this time" for the
reason that that party will modify the
prohibitOry law. The officers of the
Alliance know as well as the Democrats
know that the Republican party can be
relied upon to do no such thing They
laugh at the proposition as an absurdity,
and do not hesitate to declare that the
policy of the party on this Question at
least will be mapped out and controlled
by the Alliance in the next legislature,
as it has been in the past. Mrs. Nc
Murray, secretary of the Alliance, saws
that the party is committed to prohibit
ton by its platform, and that it must
maintain that policy and must enforce
the law.
Those independent Republicans, if
any there be, who suppose for a mo-
ment that Mr.. Wheeler is inclined to
sympathize with them will find out
their mistake if he should happen to be
elected governor. They will find that
clay was never more plastcin the hands
of the potter than Mr.. Wheeler will be
in the hands of the state temperance
Alliance. Let them not be misled by
the vain hope that in the event of the
passage OF bill by the legislature mod
Itying or repeating the prohibitory law
Mi. Wheeler, as governor, would dare
to sign it. He would dare to do nothing
of the kind. He has said in published
letter that he is a life member of the
Alliance, and. although his drug bill at
Odeboltis $40 per annum, the Repub-
licaDs of Iowa can be assured that he
will do just what the Alliance demands
of him to do. He would more willingly
sign an act establishing a state CON
stabulary than one repeating or modify
ing the prohibition law.
The Republican effort to get up a
''Michiganization" scare has died an
early death and gone the way of all
such campaign bugaboos. None of
them who cried 80 loud against it ever
for moment believed that the Demo-
cratic party had any such purpose in
view. They knew as clearly as they