Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-11-03
LsIlMArEp MAJoRITIEs
IOWA.
Four Tickets-rhe Temperance Issue
Prohibitlon-A Church Faction.
fBv telegraph to the Dlspa,ch.l


DIS MoISEs. a.. November 2.-lhe most
exciting campaign III the history OF iowa
nnlitics closes tonight. For three months
Sxar has been unTemttinglY waged IN every
,,r.cinct and school district of the State,
and all parties are eXertlng every effort 10
lriur out their full vote tomorrow. Il
fuu State ticket Is to be elected IN Iowa
this wear. and the republican, Demo
cratic Peoples, and Prohibition parties
G"ve candidates IN the fcld. The salient IS
s,es IN Iowa politics this year have been
the temperance question, the tarlH ques-
non. and the silver question. lhe Demo-
crnts in their State platform III the ih-
terest Of true temperature uemahueu u
houor-hcensc law providing Tor an annual
: 100 county tax and such audllohai V'1
as any town should prescribe; denounced
The McKlnlev bill, its motives, defenders,
and theory in unmistable terms as spolia-
non of the few for the many, and de-
uandcd free coinage and that contract
nroysions against silver payments De IOr-
hiadcn.
TN rng INrEEEsT OF TRUE TEMPERANCE
the Republican party upheld It's prohibl-
tory law and said the saloon Was lnauc an
uuflaw IN this State. Ne charge thatth
outlaw has been made the patron, coun-
sci, aud protector oi the 'e ihocra'l' paiN.
No recognize that the ISSUE is between
time temperance and free and indlscriml-
nate traffic. We renew our pledge 10 the
pooplc and submit the tissue t. them Inc
kenubhcans then commented the tarii
legislation Of the last Congress ana SIMPLY
anuroyed the present coinage act AS wise
rxperiInent, out of which may come
wise adjustment OF hnahch questions,
liberal towards western interests" Upon
tbcse questions the battle has been fought
in iowa. the saloon question probably be-
ing the paramount issue.
DIFFICULT TO PREDICT.
The result of to-morrow's election IS
difhcult To predict because OF the inter.
,rinoI,np of state and national issues and
tha many dlscorded elements that enter
INTO the campaign. The Republicans are
divided on the prohibition question. Inc
Demncrats are divided on the silver ques-
ZION. SO that on the tarlh question alone
nave the party lines been at all tenaciousiy
drawn. The Democrats have naturally
strlyen TO make the tariff question the
paramount issue, while the kepu ollcans,
loping TO absorb the greater part Of the
nrohibition vote. have kept the liquor
nnestion we'll III the foreground. Both
nocties have cOquettcd with the silver
question and tacitly striyen 20 postpone
,bis issue until after the national conyen-
tions next year shall have spoken.
AFuLL VOTE CERTAIN.
rnon ono conclusion are all parties
united to-night-that there will be full
vote tomorrow. The addition OF new
voters. the long campaign, and the inter-
est aroused in the issues give assurance
that the polls will show as large vote TINS
wear as was cast 1T the last presidential
election about All 900. In 1889 when Gov;
ernor Boies had 5,5l4 plurality the total
vote east was GO.C23. IL was subsequently
claimed and is now generally admitted
that at that election great many hepuo-
hcans voted for boes, as ~ s,sts 81 'pc tictet
was elected by from 100 10 5000 plurality:
Last year the total vote was 3gQ.3oS, OF
which the Republican candidate for Sec.
retary Of State had 19i.4le pluiaiity OF
1886, and the whole Republican btate
ticket was elected. Thus the kepubIicsns
have once carried the State Tor MINOR