St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-09-18
The President of Cedar Rap
ids Crack Democratic
Club So Predicts.
Facts and Figures Adduced
to Prove His Prophecy
Well Grounded.
Judge Parsons Advises a Re-
publican Organ to Inter-
view Democrats.
None Of the New Workers Are
Feeling Either Blue
or Sore.

of the celebrated Jefferson Club Of
Cedar Rapids, To-, is at the Ryan, the
guest of Hon. j. Russell Parsons. the
well known New York attorney, who is
managing the legal business of the Wal
ter A. Wood Harvester company. Mr..
Tuttle, two years ago. was the chair
man of the Democratic central commit
tee of Linn county, and had much to do
with the election of Hon. John I. Ham
ilton, of Cedar Rapids, to congress in
the old Fifth district. He has filled the
office OF president of the Jefferson club
from the time it came into existence,
and feels no small degree of pride in
the success of the organization. Like
all other Iowa Democrats, Mr.. Tuttle is
an enthusiastic admirer of Gov. Horace
Boies, and is able to give facts and fig
ures to back up his enthusiasm.
'We feel in Iowa." he said," as
though we are going to carry the state
for Cleveland, and ! will tell you some
of the reasons which lead us to think
so. Garfield carried Iowa by $4,000.
Since then we have made gains at every
election. We gained on Blaine in 1884,
and on Harrison in 1888. Since the lat
ter year Democratic governor has been
elected, the second time by an increased
majority, carrying the entire state ticket
with him. In 1889, when Gov. BoieS
was first elected, nearly all the other
candidates On the ticket were de-
feated by a few votes, and
the total vote was over $4,000
less than it was in 1888. This fact led
the Republicans to believe that all they
had to do to carry the state was to get
their voters out. On this basis they
went into the fight last year and the
voters came out 10000 stronger than
they did in 1888, and the result was the
election of the full Democratic state
ticket by larger plurality than Gov.
Boies had two years before.
Now" continued Mr.. futile, "the
remarkable part of the victory of two
years ago was the fact that our gains
over 1889 were made not in the river
counties where the prohibition ques-
ton cuts great figure, but in the rural
districts. where we made our fight on
the tariff question solely. In 1891 our
majorities fell off somewhat in the anti
Prohibition strongholdS, but the farm
ers came to our aid on the tariff ques-
ton"
How will the river counties vote
this year?''
'Well, rather expect that some of
the anti-prohibition Republicans there
will vote the Republican national ticket.
but they will not be very numerous, and
in their places will be thousands of
farmers who are willing to vote with us
OH the tariff, but not OH the state Issue
of prohibition. In the rural counties
we know, too, that there are many
Democrats who will not vote with us on
license, but are all right OH the tariff
issue. and will vote the national ticket
What we lose for the national ticket IN
the anti-prOhibition counties we shall
more than make up in the others on the
tariff"
Gov. Boies is a remarkable man."
continued Mr.. futile. ITO people who
have not lived in Iowa and have not
come in contact with him 1t is, of course,
difficult TO describe him as he is. He is
a man of great magnetism. and when
you see him you cannot avoid being i'm
pressed with the fact that he is all
right, man of character and ability.
He has made a study of the tariff ques-
ton, and l never knew him to make a
speech that did not win votes. He
possesses the faculty of making the
most vigorous arrangements of the pO-
litical principles of the opposition, at
the same time making no enemies
dtuOllS llS lItdlClS. l. nave lGNcI hDOWI
him to make an enemy. 1t the people
of the country knew Gov. Boies he
would be set down as one of the great
est men in public life in the United
States.
''Such man is our leader again in
this campaign" concluded Mr.. futile,
land | do not feel that l am oversan-
guine when l say that Iowa's electoral
vote will be cast for Grover Cleveland"