Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-05
Governor Boies' Majority Now
Expected to Be From
5000 to 10000.
LEGISLATURE REPUBLICAN
The Entire Democratic Ticket Is
Considered Elected.
RETURNS ARE MISERABLY SLOW.
The Peculiarities of Politics in the Prohi-
bition State.
FIGURES FROM SOME OTHER STATES

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATcH.l
DEs MONIES, Nov. 4-The count of the
vote of Iowa proceeds so miserably slow that
it is exasperating. Up to this evening the
Democratic Committee has heard from so
counties out of 80. Chairman Fullen says
his estimates upon these so counties war
rant him in saying that Governor Boies' ma
jority will be about 5000, with the rest of
the ticket very close behind him.
The Western Union Telegraph Company
undertook to collect the returns last night
by precincts 1t got as far as 431 precincts
out of ,927, and then quit for the day. This
afternoon it was taken up again, and at sun
down there was covered about 600 precincts
The company is away behind in its count,
but so far as it goes it agrees with the esti-
mate of the State Committee.
Chairman Mack, of the Republican Com
mittee, agrees in the main with Chairman
Fullen that Boies is elected by something
like 5, 900 plurality, but does not concede the
election of the rest of the State ticket, ex-
cept Dey for Railway Commission. There
can be no disputing the Democratic figures,
as they are mostly based upon official re-
returns Of the various county committees
who have reported to the State committee.
The Whole Ticket Follows Boies.
These reports show that the candidates
for State Offices, outside of the Governor,
have run well up with their chief Proba-
bly, the weakest of them will not have
majority of less than 5000 In some pre-
cincts Bestow, for Lieutenant Governor,
obaaJ of poias and in otbor rraoipnte
Kinne, for Supreme Judge, does the same.
The one peculiar element is the 1egisla-
ture. 1t seems a strange incongruity that
in campaign where anti-prohibition would
be vital issue, the voters, while express
ing their sentiments, should have failed to
vote for the very influence which could
bring their wishes about. 1t would seem to
have done mighty little good to vote for a
Democratic Governor and not at the same
time provide for Democratic Legislature,
for without the one the other is powerless;
but then that is one the peculiarities of
Iowa politics.
The most that the Democrats can hope for
at this writing is that the Senate may be
tie. That marvel of hopefulness, physical
energy and heroic voice, Brother Ed Hun
fer, declares that the Democrats have 25
Senators, the Republicans "a and a poor,
forlorn Peoples man fill up the so. That
same astute authority, Brother Ed Hunter,
declares that the House will not have more
than 6 Republican majority.
Beaten by Peoples Party Candidates.
This estimate is based upon the same re-
turns upon which Chairman Fullen rests
his 5000 majorities on the same ticket.
Hunter says that the lower House would
undoubtedly have been Democratic if it had
not been for the Peoples vote in many of the
counties. In two districts alone the Peo-
Piles party threw their vote for their own
homeless candidates, and so defeated the
Democratic candidates
The increase of Governor BoieS' majority
is so widely scattered over the State that it
is hopeless task to analyze it closely. He
has made large gains where few were ex-
pected, and, on the other hand, has suffered
losses where they were wholly unexpected.
For instance, in his own town of Waterloo
he lost JOG, but this is accounted for by the
of neighbors cast their votes for
him without the least hope of his election.
This year some of them took it back. The
western counties did not do as well as was
expected. Sioux City, Woodbury. county,
which month ago was calculating on
about 2, 800 majority, has tumbled down to
1,200, and glad to get it. Pottawatonie
county, Council Bluffs, also boasted loudly
of what it was going to do, but it did not
keep its promise, actually running behind
Its vote of two years ago.
Close Calculation by Some Counties
On the other hand, the Mississippi river
counties stood up to their work beyond
expectation. Scott county gave within 40
votes of what it promised; Qubuke county
gave 800 increase; Des Moines county was
but 76 votes short, and Clinton less than 80.
Such showing as this, considering the
enormous vote cast, is almost phenomenal
Of course, the Democrats are iubilant;
they have made tremendous fight against
mighty odds; they have won o victory
which they hoped for, but, if the truth
must be told, scarcely expected. They are
disconnected at the loss of the Legislature.
but they are not disheartened They still
assert that the prohibitory law must 90.
They believe that enough Republicans will
be found in the coming Legislature to ioin
the Democrats in repealing that law If
that is impossible, the issue is only to come
up again.
Meantime, Governor Boies is now the big
gest Presidential candidate there is in the
West. He arrived in Des Moines tonight
from Waterloo. The Democrats are pre-
pairing to give him royal welcome. The
streets are packed with excited people
shouting for Boies-
The Farmers Alliance candidate, West
fall, for Governor received about $1,000
votes in the State. The Alliance carried
one county for Governor, Monona; one for
Representative, Montgomery, and the
Montgomery Mills Senatorial district. The
Prohibition vote has not been reported, ex-
cept in few counties, but it is probably