The sun., 1891-06-24

Tho Iowa Democratic Convention will meet
at Ottumwa to-day to nominate candidates
for Governor. Lieutenant-G Governor. Judge
OF the Supreme Court. Railway Commission
or, and superintendent OF Public Instruction.
Uncle HORACE BoIEs will be renominated
for Governor without opposition, tho first
Democrat elected Governor Of Iowa within
o generation. There Is no man Of equal
strength In the Iowa Democracy. and should
hs be successful next fall, his friends will
boom him for vice-President, and perhaps
for President. His plurality In 1889 was e,52s.
Many Prohibition Republicans voted
for him. and many did not vote. In 1890
there were nearly 10000 moro votes cast
than In 1889, and tho Republican candidate
for Secretary OF State received q plurality
Of 8868.
Tho Iowa election will be Of national Inn
portance this year because tho result
Of 1t will bo taken as evidence Of the
probable politics OF the State In 1892. The
immense nsjorlties OF the Iowa Republicans
have disappeared. and will never be re-
gained. but 1t is by no means certain as yet
that the State can be counted upon by the
Democrats. There has been great
amount OF dissatisfaction with the Republi-
can party. and the Democratic party has
been the gamer thus far. Tho Republicans
have paltersd with prohibition with the re-
suit Of incsiising tho extreme Prohibition
ists who have ticket OF their own this
ycar but do not seem to be dangerous. and
of driving many opponents Of prohibition
into tho Democracy.
The Republican party Of Iowa has bcen
weakened by too many years Of undis-
puted domination, while the Democrats,
after lighting bravely losing fight, have
been inspirlted by success beyond their
hopes. The chief cause OF the Democratic
success In Iowa, however. seems to have
boon that feeling Of dissatisfaction which is
tho spring OF the Alliance movement.
The Republican party was In the ma
jority and therefore held responsible for
tho grievances real or imaginary. Of which
the farmers OF Iowa and the other agricul-
tural States Of the West complain. The Re-
publican party accordingly has been kicked,
but as the new movement has developed
programme and policy of radical financial
and economic changes. will the Democracy
be able to hold the recruits who have gone
over to 1t, not from thorough sympathy with
its principles but because it offered the only
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dancy Of tho Republicans The Peoples
party has nominated candidates in Iowa.
viii 1t developa respectable strength. and II
1t does from what sources will their strength
be drawn? Will 1t come from the Republ-
can farmers in the Alliance. or will 1t take
from the Democrats some Of the support
they have received Of late years from Re-
publican malcontents whose Democratiza-
ton is far from complete as yet?
Governor BoIEs has given Iowa an honest
and capable administration, his popularity
and prestige are great. and his party has
reached high state Of discipline and Or
ganization. The Iowa Democrats have an
excellent position. The Republicans have
so much at stake, however. that they will
make extraordinary efforts. and assistance
from outside OF the State will not be want
ing to them. Governor BoIEs is somewhat
too much OF FREQ trader for our taste. but
he 10 fine old fellow all the same. and a
sturdy Democrat; and he will have the best
wishes OF tho Democratic party In the can
vass that will begin tomorrow.