St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-11-10
RATIFIED THE VERDICT
Iowa Democrats Gather at Des
Moines and Rejoice Over
Their Victory.
Gov. Boies Arraigns the Dis
credited Republicans for
ViciouSneSS.
Several Cities Hustling for
the National Conventions
to Be Held in 1892.
Knights Of Labor Will Go on
Record on the School
Question.

DIES MONIES, To-, Nov. 9.-The Demo
Gratis of DeS Moines and Iowa gener-
ally celebrated their recent victory here
tonight at the Grand opera house, The
principal speakers were Gov. Boies,
Col. Charles A. Clark. of Cedar Rapids,
and f. w. Lehman, of st. Louis. The
meeting was full of enthusiasm. The
speech of Gov. Boies was received with
great applause. He said, among other
things:
Those who have won the victory we
celebrate may delightfully."- rejoice at
the result. But in the midst of that re-
Joicing, at the very threshold of our sue
cess, wisdom demands that we study
the causes that have made our VIC
tory possible. 1t is a matter of SUI
preme satisfaction TO know that
throughout our campaign the prin-
ciples for which we contended were
clearly stated, and everywhere openly
and bravely defended. In argument,
the advantage from the start was all OH
our side. We had committed no wrong
against any class of our people, while
our adversaHeS were compelled to de-
Tend one of the most indefenSible acts
=
They could not deny that the i'm
mense capital invested in the breweries
and vineyards of the state when our
prODlbltOry law went into effect was so
invested under the sanction of laws for
which the Republican party was re-
spOnSible, and they knew that through
the instrumentality of that same party
this capital was destroyed. From
a political standpoint their act on in
This respect was
An objectionable Sin.
at could never have occurred except
through the agency of a party iptoxi-
rated with the excess Of its own power.
1t required nothing but the delibera-
ate reflection of the masses of our PEG
pie TO OVerwhelm the parry that com
mitted that wrong. The lesson upon
rs should not be lost. If we expect to
retain the power with which we have
been entrusted we must be wise enough
to understand what is due to every
one Of our people, the weak as well
as the strong, and honest enough to rem
der unto each that which is his due.
Beyond the fact of a wanton destruction
of property accumulated in the protec-
ton OF law, without any effort to rem-
DurSe the owners, our opponents, by this
legislation, had invaded the domain of
natural rights, and, for all practical pur-
poses, subjected the habits of men. in
matters strictly personal to themselves,
TO the control of penal statutes of the
state.
"They failed to realize that the mo-
meIt one locality is permitted to dictate
regulations for the government of
another, at variance with sentiments of
Its people, we cease in that degree to
uphold the vital principle on which our
whole system of government is founded
and without which the bonds that hold
This Union together would become YER
table ropes of sand. They ignored the
lessons of our own experience and
wlllfully shut their eyes to a con-
ditiOn of affairs that could not
fail to startle if it did not alarm patri-
otto citizens of every political faith.
The verdict that has been rendered is
as emphatic protest as free people
can make against any invasion of the
most sacred of their political rights
the right as individuals TO be secure i'm
our person and property, and the right
as organized communities to control
our local affairs in our own way. |
cannot believe this protest will be dis
regarded.
Sensible Counsel.
''With the prOhibitory law so changed
as TO leave 10 each locality within the
state the right to adopt such system of
control over the liquor traffic as the best
Judgment of its own people dictates,
Iowa will assume her proper place
among the states of the Union.
We shall no longer be Inundated
by the fact that every state
that borders upon our own is Outstrip-
ping US in the increase of its popula-
ton, and all but one in the per capita
increase of the wealth of its inhabitants.
Upon this broader plane we can invite
10 our borders respectable people from
every part of the world, without refer
ence to personal habits that involve no
public or private rights OF another.
But the lessons of our late election
do not stop with their bearing upon TO-
cal issues. We are taught by these
that the people OF our state are rapidly
being divided into two great classes
that are separated by lines not aitogeth-
er political i'll their character. Into one
of these the extremists of every
persuasion, the men who are in
capable Of examining any sub
ject except from the narrow and
partisan standpoint are rapidly drifting,
while the other is the natural home OF
those possessed of broader and more
liberal views. 1t is natural, therefore,
that upon one side of this line we find q
great political party devoted to the in
terest of classes alone, bending all its
energies to the accomplishment of Oh
lectS that accord with the wishes Of g
fraction of our people and to the up
building of industries that enrich the
few at the expense of the many"