Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-03
EACH CLAIMS IOWA.
A Complication of State and Ma
ti0nal Issues in That State
WILL ATTRACT A VERY FULL VOTE.
Three Questions, Temperance, Tariff and
Silver, Up for Decision.
BOTH PARTIES GIVE THEIR FIGURES

DEs MONIES, Nov 2.-The most excit-
ing off.year campaign in the history of poll
tics closes tonight. For three months the
war has been unremittingly waged in every
precinct and school district of the State, and
all parties are exerting every effort to bring
out the full vote tomorrow. A full State
ticket is to be elected, and four political
parties have candidates in the field Horace
Boies, the present incumbent, is the Demo-
cratic candidate for Governor; Hiram C.
Wheeler, the Republican candidate; A j,
Westfall, the Peoples candidate, and Isaac
7. Gibson, the Prohibition candidate
The three salient issues in Iowa politics
this year have been the temperance, the
tariff and the silver questions. An under
standing of the exact position assured by
the leading parties can only be reached by
quoting from their State platforms The
Democrats made the following declarations;
Points in the Democratic PLATFORM
In the interest of true temperance we
demand the passage of a carefully guarded
license tax law, which shall provide for the
issuance of licenses in towns, townships
and municipal corporations, and which
shall provide that for each license an
annual tax of $500 be paid into the County
Treasury and such further tax as the town,
township or municipal corporation shall
prescribe. the proceeds thereof to go to the
use of such municipality.
We denounce the Mckinley bill, the mo-
tives of its authors and defenders and the
theory under which it is submitted FOR the
approval of the American people. We de-
mand equal opportunities for every section
OF our country and for every citizen, and
we insist that every oppressive feature of
the tariff be eliminated. to the end that our
merchant marine may be restored to the sea
and the markets of the world be opened to
the producing classes The sugar bounty is
not Earl1. 1t is q spoliat1on of the Treas
ury for special classes and interests, which
are no more entitled to be aided by the Gov
ernment than the farmers of Iowa in raising
hogs and corn, or the settler of the frontier
for their hardship and suffering
We reiterate our demands of one year ago
for the Tree coinage of silver and that it be
made full legal tender for ali debts, public
and private and denouncs as unjust and
dishonest the provision of the law recently
enacted allowing parties to stipulate against
payment in silver and silver certificates,
thus setting up one standard of value for the
creditor and another for the debtor; one for
the poor man and another for the rich man.
The Reply of the Republicans.
The Republican State Convention fol-
lowed few weeks later and met these is
sues as follows:
We have no apologies to offer to the peo-
pie nor to the Democratic party for the Re
publican record. In the interest," of true
temperance and under the laws of Iowa en-
acted by the Representatives OF its sovereign
people, the saloon was made an outlaw in
this State. We charge that the outlaw has
had the patronage, council and protection
OF the Democratic party, and that as 1t has
won power it has nul!ifed the law, defied
the authority of the State and the expressed
will OF the people, and that now an appeal
for approval of the lawless work We
recognize that it is law against defiance of
la W; subordination against insubordination:
the State of Iowa agains5 the Democratic
party. We recorniZe thai the issue is be-
tween true temperance and indiscriminate
traffic. We re 'ogniZe the fact that the con-
troll of til next Legislature by the Demo-
cratic part means Statewide license and
the CONT, of the next Legislature by the
means continued oppositioe to
the behests of the saloon power through the
of law
We commend the Republican party in the
last Congress for its redemption of the
pledges as to revision of the tariff.
We approve the coinage act by which the
great product OF the siive:. mines of the
United States ia added to the currency of
the people, and out of which experiment
may come wise adjustment of financial
questions. liberal toward Western interests.
The Prohibition Issue Is Paramount.
Thus the issues were clearly defined.
Upon these questions has the battle been
fought in Iowa, the saloon question proba-
bly, being the paramount ISSUE The result
of to-morrow's election is difficult to pre-
dict because of thc intermingling of State
and national issues, and the many discord-
ant elements that enter into the campaign.
The Republicans are divided On the prohi- |
bition question, the Democrats are divided |
on the silver question, SO that on the tariff |
question alone have the party lines been at
oil tenaciously drawn. The Democrats have |
striven to make the tariff ques- |
ton the paramount issue, while the Repub- |
licans, hoping to absorb the greater part of |
the prohibition vote, have kept the liquor |
question well in the foreground. Both |
parties have coquetted with the silver ques-
uion and have tacitly striven to postpone |
this issue until afte6 the national conven-
tions next year shall have spoken.
Upon one conclusion are all parties united |
to-night-that there will be full vote to- |
morrow. The addition of new voters, the |
long campaign and the interest aroused in |
the issues, gives assurance that the polls |
will show as large vote this wear as was
cast at the last Presidential electlon-about |
I'll 600
Tho Figures of Previous Elections
In 1889, when Governor Boies had 6,575 |
plurality, the total vote cast was 360,623 |
Governor Boies had $50, Ill; Mr.. Hutchin- |
son, the Republican candidate, 173, ,53s, and |
the Union-Labor, Prohibition and Green
pack candidates together 6,974.
1t was subsequently claimed, and is now
generally admitted, that at that election a
great many Republicans voted for Boies, as
all of the remainder of the Republican
State ticket was elected by from LOO to
!, 900 plurality. Last year the total vote
was 800, ,353, OF which the Republican candi-
late for Secretary of State had 191 COG. a
plurality of 1866, and the whole RepubIi-
IAN State ticket was elected. Thus the
Republicans have once carried the State for
minor State officers since Boies was elected
by the Democrats.
The fact that the next Legislature will re-
district the State, adds greatly to the local
and general interest of this election and |
both parties are making strenuous attempts
% capture the General Assembly, as we'll as
10 elect the State officers. The Democrats
have the assistance of the
liquor and saloon interests, while the Re-
lublicans are quite as confident that thev
will get the support of thousands of probi-
,itionIsts.
Counting on Returns to the Fold.
The Republicans also claim that a great
majority of the Independent Republicans
lave gone back to the party fold, because
hey fear that the result in the State will be
accepted as Iowa's declaration on national
ssues, and because they fear a Democratic
Governor and Democratic Legislature
night gerrymander the State, neutralizing
.owa's power in the Electoral College and
he Republican nominating convention.
This claim is doubtless correct, as is equally
o the Democrats claim that thousands Of
German Republicans and the liquor inter-
SITS generally will support the Democratic
icket There is in Iowa a heavy German