The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1891-08-15
The Iowa Campaign.



The campaign in Iowa has begun and the Demo.
Gratis have practically won the fight already"
This was from W. C. Mcnamara, the biggest bridge
builder in the west, and prominent man not only
in Sioux City, his home, but all the Hawkeye
State.
=" / am not talking to inspire courage among the
members of the Democracy of Iowa" he went on,
but to simply state the facts Governor Boies will
be elected this autumn by bigger majority than
last year and that land slide. Prohibition will
help The rabid, non thinking, hot Prohibition
lists will vote the Republican ticket but the liberal,
far-seeing members of the party win put Demo-
cratic ballot in the box. Governor Boies has given
US an excellent administration and the Republicans
did not know what to put against him. Last winter,
when Governor Boies was at political banquet in
New York City, he said that not a farmer in Iowa
had made any money during the last three years in
raising corn and selling it at the market price This
fact used to illustrate his arguments the tariff
question. No sooner had the telegraph instruments
clicked his speech 10 Sioux City than the Republi-
papers began TO attack the governor in a vigor
Gus manner. They stated that he was telling that
which was not true and that the statement would
njure the state. They argued that immigration
would be stopped if it were spread broadcast thatn
more could be made in Iowa by raising corn, and of
course the basis the attack that the statement
was an absurd falsehood. For a long while the Re-
pubcans were in frame of mind over Governor
Boes TALK and that WIS the only point thai was
used against the governor II has been the only real
criticism during his administration. Before the Re
publican state convention few weeks ago the
party leaders decided that man should be nomi-
mated who could prove that Governor Boies' state
ments were false If a rich farmer could be found
thought the Republicans whose broad acres, fat
cattle and big bank account would demonstrate that
raising corn was very profitable under the present
tariff conditions, that man would sweep the state
The farmerSwould vote for him irrespective of party
lines and the Boies stock would fall below par. That
was the scheme. In looking around they found II.
C.Wheeler, OfSac county, of the most extensive
corn rasers in the west. He Is good man, and his
famous farm is known for miles around. He is
called the Hello farmer because he has telephones
all over his vast lands and gives his orders the
wire The Republicans thought that this man
a living argument that corn raising was profitable,
and other things being satisfactory, he was nomi-
mated. Now it has just been discovered that the
prosperous looking farm plastered with mortgages
which aggregate over SO 900. This only found
out a few days ago, and dsmay and CONSERVATION
now peryade the Republican army of Iowa While
simply mortgage on n mans farm does not signify
anything special to most politicians that little pro-
position in Iowa will elect Governor Boise by an
overwhelming majority 1t proves that all the tariff
deductions are correct and removes the only criti
csm made against him. Mark my prediction, that
Ii. c. Wheeler and his $4,000 mortgage will be
written up 20 years from now by the political his
torians of that day"