Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1888 — IOWA DEMOCRATS HOPEFUL. [ARTICLE]

IOWA DEMOCRATS HOPEFUL.

Preparing to Make a Hard Struggle to Capture the Hawkeye State for Cleveland. The Democrats of this Stato are not indulging in much noise, but they are nevertheless making the State campaign a deep study. They realize that they have a fighting chance of winning this fall. The Republican's are fully aware that there is hard work ahead, and that success depends greatly upon their ability to retain the prohibitory vote. The sumptuary enactments favored by the Republican party, together with the prohibitory laws, have driven the Germans into the Democracy. The Norwegian vote, which is becoming a potent factor in the northwestern and western parts of the State, is being turned into the Democratic party by force of the tariff issue. During the past four years there has been a very large emigration from lowa and this tends to increase Democratic possibilities. The largest vote ever cast in the State was in the Presidential election of 1884, when it reached 375,932. In 1887 this vote had decreased to 338,312, and it is safe to say tßat this year it will not reach over 360,000. In 1887 Governor Larrabee had a majority over Anderson, the Democratic candidate, of but 16,160. At that time there were cast 14,449 votes for the Greenback candidate, and a few less than, one thousand for the Prohibition candidate. The Greenback strength remains about as it was. It is conceded by many Republicans that the [Fisk vote this year will reach 10,000, drawing ulmost its entire strength from the Republican party. There is thus early a wejl-dellned movement on foot which, if successfully managed, will unito the Greenback, Labor, and Democratic vote, the two former being allowed to name four of the thirteen Presidential electors. Victory for the Democracy is now considered among the possibilities. —Masotf City (Iowa) dispatch to Chicago Herald.