Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-10-08
McKinlers Grand March.

Major McKlnleyS campaign In Ohio
has been so successfully aggressive as to
warrant the great leader leaving the
teldi,in charge of his lieutenants for q
short time while he fell upon the flank
Of the already demoralized Democrats o.
Iowa. Ohio is a battlefield won for and
by the Republicans All that now Is
nee led is enough Republican yigor to
cement the De hocratic retreat into q
rout The fight of the enemy In Iowa
has been more stubborn, though appar-
emily not more successful. than In Ohio.
1t is of great Importance that both
States should be carried by the Republi-
cans In November, and it seems certain
that they will be. There is SO little en-
thusiasm among the Democrats of Iowa
that the shrewd Senator Palmer, Of Illi-
nois, has conveniently discovered that
he will not have time to address the
Democrats Of the Hawkeye State before
election day. Major McKinley's advent
to Iowa and Palmer's refusal to enter
the State must be taken as assurances
of that double victory which oil Repub-
licans ardently desire. A disheartened
enemy is half-beaten enemy, and the
Democrats of Iowa are disheartened.
The Republican campaign in Iowa
has been managed with great prudence
While the Democratic candidates for
the State Legislature are, in much the
greater part, professional politicians.
and often the hired men of the whisky
interest, the Republicans have gone to
the farms of the counties and to the
stores and offices of the villages and
towns in search of their State Repre-
sentativss and Senators. The legisla.
tive nominees of the Republican party
are beyond comparison, of higher social
standing and of closer intimacy with the
people than those of the Democrats.
The Republicans have sought for repre-
sentatives of the people, the Democrats
have repeated their old blunder of rely
ing exclusively upon the professional
politicians.
And as the Republicans have been
wise in their choice of Candidates, so the
Democrats have been foolish in their
choice of issues 1t was sad blunder
that Gov. Boies made whe he opened
his campaign at Cherokee by reitera-
ton of his New York declarat ton con-
corning the loss incurred by the farmer
on every acre of corn raised by him.
This year the corn acreage of Iowa is
unusually great, and the yield per acre
will be unusually large There is not
farmer in Iowa who is not feeling thank
full for the glorious weather that is
hardening his latest grain crop, and
fondly anticipating his profit from it.
1t was an insult to the intelligence of
these men when Gov Boies spoke of
their yearly loss on corn, as If they
would keep on planting that from which
no profit could be made. Moreover,
every man in Iowa knows that Gov.
Boies is not a man who holds on to
worthless property, and he does hold
firmly to the great farms which he rents
to tenants whom he de delights to speak
of as oppressed
The Democrats of Iowa also are in
the unhappy position of witnesses whose
testimony is successfully impeached by
rebutting evidence. A few months ago
they swore by all that was good that
they knew that the Mckinley bill would
lower the price of crops and increase
the price of manufactures. The crops
are testifying, and they contradict the
Democratic evidence: they are not
lower but higher. The manufacturers
also are speaking: their prices are not
higher, but lower, "on account of the
tariff"
The one force that is left unimpaired
to the Democrats of Iowa is that of the
Whisky League II is strong and I'M
ScrupulouS Organization, but that it can
overcome the moral sentiment of a
great majority of the people we do not
believe.