Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-08
Col. Swords Explains How the Iowa
Republicans Lost the State
Through Prohibition.
MISSEDBY YNOMINATINGAF FARMER.
Dan o'Day Virtually Succeeds Rockefeller
as President of the Standard
Oil Company.
wHrTHE OHIO DEMOCRATS DIDNTFLoP.
How the Mormons Are Now Considered From Business
Point Of View.

Colonel n. L. Swords, Purchasing Agent
of the Treasury Department, arrived in the
city last evening and will remain for sew
eral DAYS. his business here being to ascer-
tain what furniture and supplies will be re.
quired for the Internal Revenue and Pen
sion Agents Offices on the second floor Of
the new Government building. The Colonel
had his first view of the new postofice
interior on his arrival and expressed great
admiration at its completeness and magnif.
cence
Why said he, ''there is not another
like it in the United States Even our
Cabinet officers have not such beautiful
private Offices as Mr.. Mexican, here. And,
having had something TO do with furnish
ing the building, feel little pride in it
myself"
Colonel Swords is an Iowan, and has just
returned from his native State, where, hav-
ing Republican majority of from 80, 900 to
$4,000, they last Tuesday elected Demo-
cratic Governor with a majority of 5000.
Asked for an explaratis sa of this result, the
Colonel said:
Prohibition Caused the Loss.
'Tt was all through prohibition. Our
party in Iowa passed prohibition law some
years ago, and il has become unpopular.
The Democrats know this, and in the pre-
vIous gubernatorial campaign came out
tquarely in favor of high license law So
many Republicans were disgusted with
prohibition that they voted with the other
fellows and our candidate was defeated,
though we kept majority in the Legisla-
ture. This tied the hands of the Democratic
Governor, of course and they said:
1--WE can't do anything this time be-
cause the Republican Legislature won't
pass high license bill. Wait until next
time, and if we can only get Democratic
Legislature We will pass such law very
quickly
"They made that their campaign cry this
year and the Republicans held to the pro-
hibition idea, which is popular with the
people in the interior of the State. We
nominated Mr. Wheeler, a farmer, because
many of the farmers wanted a farmer candi-
date. He is very fine man, but no speech
maker, and was at decided disadvantage
on that account
How the Democrats Carried Iowa.
The Democrats nominated Governor Boies
for a second term. He is a popular,
bright fellow, hustler, you might say, and
while not brilliant speaker, he managed
to make an average of two speeches day
for so days, covering nearly every county in
the State. While making great pretense of
working for the balance of their ticket, the
Democrats really put in their best efforts
for the Governor only, not desiring "to kill
the goose that laid the golden egg" by
electinC a Democratic Legislature, thereby
compelling their party to keep their pledge
TO pass high license law and at the same
time removing the issue from the fight for
the future. Now they are in precisely the
same position as before. They have elected
their Governor, we have the Legislature,
the bill will hardly be passed and the issue
will still be open at the next election That
is just the way the Democrats want it to be-
"But, although Bcisg was elected by 5000
majority, we feel sure that if our candidate
had been David Henderson or some other
popular man and good speaker, and he had
made a canvass such as Boies made, we
would have won a victory in the face of the
high license issue"