The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-03-18
GLOOMY OUTLOOK IN IOWA.
The Prohibition Incubus Has Wrecked
the Renublican Party.


1t is generally conceded here among
Iowa Republicans, in both the Senate and
House, that the outlook is exceedingly
gloomy. The prohibition question
has been the incubus which has
brought the Republican party prac-
tically from position to penury,
from power to pauperism in political
sense. The bill for the resubmission of
the prohibition question to the people.
which passed the state House of Repre-
sentatives. will not be passed by the state
Senate. The constitutional amendment
will remain in force, and so long as it
does the Republican party will be held
responsible in Iowa for its existence.
Thousands of good Republicans in the
cities along the Mississippi and Missouri
rivers will vote the Democratic ticket upon
all state issues until that amendment is
withdrawn from the constitution. In the
national election the state will un-
doubtedly be Republican, because
of the fact that the conservative
Republicans in the state are still
loyal to the Republican party; but it is
generally believed here that thousands of
Republican votes in the cities will be cast
for Democratic members of the state leg
islature. Itis common talk among Iowa
Republicans that Governor Boies will be
the next United States senator from Iowa
to succeed James F. Wilson, whose term
will expire March 4, 1898.
Concerning the congressional situation
in Iowa, it may be stated positively that
Ex-Governor Gear, who was defeated in the
last political cyclone by J. j. Seer!ey, will
be a candidate on the Republican ticket in
the First district agains. his strong young
antagonist. In the Second district Judge
Hayes, who was for many years the solitary
Democrat from the state of Iowa, will be
renominated and reelected. In the Third
district Colonel Henderson. of Dubuque,
will be renominated by the Republicans
and it is believed that he will be reelected,
mainly because of his strength with the
soldiers, he being one-legged veteran
with great military record and
man who has also looked after
the interests of his soldier constituency.
In the Fourth district Congressman But
ler will probably be renominated by the
Democrats and will have ex-Congressman
Hiveney as his opponent. In the Fifth
district Mr.. Hamilton will probably be re-
elected by the Democrats. In the Sixth
district Mr.. White will be renominated by
the Democrats and have the support of the
old Greenback following of General Weaver,
which will well nigh assure his re-elec-
ton. In the Seventh district Ex-Governor
Hull, of Des Moines, will probably be re-
elected by good majority. In the Eighth
district Congressman Flick will not be a
candidate, but his predecessor, Colonel
Hepburn, now solicitor of the treasury,
will be the Republican candidate, and his
election is conceded by the Democrats
from that district. In the Ninth district
Tom Bowman, editor of the Council
Bluffs Globe, now representing that dis
trict as Democrat, will be re-
elected by very strong majority,
the city of Council Bluffs, originally
strongly Republican. is now safely and
strongly Democratic On account of the
prohibition question. In the Tenth dis
trict the denomination of Congressman
Dolliver, the brilliant and almost remark
able young Republican orator, will be re-
elected. The Eleventh district, now
represented by George d. Perkins, editor
of the Sioux City Journal, will be a
candidate for denomination, but will
have ex-Congressman Struble as his COM
petitor, and it is doubtful whether Mr..
Perkins can be renominated. Whether
the Republican nominee be Perkins or
Strublc, he will be reelected, as the large
rural vote in that district will safely over
come the Democratic vote of Sioux City
by at least 5000 majority.