The Helena independent., 1891-11-03
IOWA.
10th Parties Very Confident Elements Of
Uncertainty.


10th Parties Very Confident Elements of
Uncertainty.
DEs MONIES, Ia, Oct. 2.-rhe most excit-
ing off-year campaign in the history OF
Iowa closed tonight. For three months
war has been unremittingly waged, all par
ties exerting every effort to bring
out Il full vote tomorrow. A
full state ticket will be elected. -Four par
ties have candidates in the field. Horace
Boies present incumbent, is the democratic
candidate for governor; Hiram @. Wheeler,
the republican,; A. j. Westfall, the peoples .;
Isaac u. Gibson, the prohibition. Ihs
three salient issues have been temperance,
tariff, silver. The democrats denounced
the present prohibitory law, favoring local
option with license of $500: denounced
the Mckinley law; declared for the free
coinage of silver. The republicans indorsed
the prohibitory law, denounced the demo-
Gratis for obstructing it's enforcement; COM
mended the tariff legislation Of the last
congress; met the silver question by merely
approving the present coinage act as a mea-
sure out of which may ultimately come a
wise adjustment of the financial question.
Upon these questions the battle has been
fought, tho saloon question probably being
the paramount issue. +h@
The result Of to-morrow's election ls
difficult to predict, because vi the inter
mingling of state and national issues. and
the many discordant elements that enter
into the campaign. The republicans are
divided on the prohibition question, the
democrats are divided on the silver ques-
ton, SO that on the tariff question alone
have party lines been at all tenaciously
drawn. The democrats have striven to
make the tariff the paramount issue. while
the republicans, hoping to absorb the
greater part of the prohibition vote, kept
the liquor question we'll in the foreground.
Both parties coquetted with the silver ques-
tion and have tacitly striven to postpone
this issue until after the national convsn-
tion. next year. Upon one conclusion all
parties are united, that there will be full
vote tomorrow.
The fact that the next legislature will re-
district the state adds greatly to the inter
attempts to capture the general assembly az
we'll as elect the state officers. The re-,
publicans are confident they will
get the support Of thousands of
prohibitionists and claim that a
great majority of the independent repub-
licans have gone back to their party. This
claim is doubtless correct, as is equally SO
the democratic claim that thousands of
German republicans and the liquor inter
ests generally will support the democratic
ticket. A very uncertain factor is the vote
for Westfall, candidate of the people 8
party. He claims that he Will poll at least
10000 votes. Gen. Weaver says he will get
%, 600, but republicans and democrats do
not concede Westfall over 10000. These
will probably come in about equal numbers
from both parties. The prohibitionists are
not expected to poll over 1000 or 1900
votes.
Chairman March. of the republican state
central committee tonight estimates that
Wheeler will have plurality Of at least
10000. 1.-The republicans Of Iowa." said
he, will certainly elect the whole state
ticket by handsome majority. Tho next
house will be republican by fair majority,
and the senate will have majority of at
least two" Chairman Fuller, Of the dem
ocratic state committee, placed the proba-
BILE democratic plurality at from 11,Oo0 to
13, 600 based on the reoorts the most con-
servative Boise. it is estimated, will run
1000 to 5000 ahead.