Show ThE IOWA DILEMMA ai One of the Republican members of the Iowa legislature Senator GATCH has kicked over the traces and introduced a bill for local option Only one other Republican Re-publican in the senate favors this measure but the Democrats in a body will it is thought support it and then there are some expectationsof its passage The defeat de-feat a short time ago of a similar bill called the SCHMIDTT bill raised a great outcry among the antiprohibitionists of Iowa but the legislature notwithstanding has been flooded with potitions calling I upon the Republicans of that body to stand firm and not yield an inch though thereby they lose the Presidency It is acknowledged acknowl-edged on all hands that the Democracy has carried the state twice on this Issue but the Republicans claim that to divide on the liquor question is to practically breakup break-up their organization They argue that concession to the high license idea will drive off all the coercive temperance people who form ninetenths or more of their numbers and leave them high and dry suspended like MAHOMETS coffin This is understood to be the idea of Senator ALLISON who has the confidence of the Republicans generally and who having helped to make prohibition an issue in Iowa doesnt see how the responsibility can be escaped It is his interest to keep the party undivided but the present attitude atti-tude of affairs is one of groat embarrassment embarrass-ment to him especially considering the use that has been made of his name in connection con-nection with the Minneapolis nomination for tho Presidency As the Washington Post remarks in a recent article It is al right for Mr ALLISON to make tho best of a bad situation but a plurality of 31000 for HARRISON in 1888 followed by a Democratic plurality of 6500 for governor in 1880 which was increased to over 8000 in 1691 carrying with it tho election of the entire Democratic state ticket hardly seems to warrant the Senators hopes of recovering so much lost ground in 1892 |