Show CAMP AIGNS OPENED Governor Boies Shows the Failure ure of Prohibition Iowa ilKINLEY BERATES FREE SILVER li e Tells of r Its Evil Effects and How I Would Injure the Laboring ManThe AlgerBlaine Interview CHEROKEE Iowa Aug 22Tbis was a Democratic day and the city was full of Boles adherents to assist in opening the tate campaign A large mass meeting was held this afternoon I was addressed by > Governor Boies at great length on the position of parties in the state toward the i ssue before them the prohibition law he declared had proved a failure and he cited the fact that 4095 persons in the state oran or-an average of more than fortyone in each county hold federal license for the sale of liquor Besides there are open saloons in many places In addition many mayors may-ors report sales by bootleggers and joints whore no open saloons exist to an extent equal to or greater than before the passage of the present law These reports were received from little more than half the counties in the state The governor said the penalties which the law inflicts are in many instances hideously hideous-ly cruel and their consequence to entirely innocent parties so serious that no man possessed of a human heart can turn deaf ear to them Applications are constantly being made to the for governor relief I do not underestimate the evils of intemperance intem-perance and yet with full knowledge of this I do not hesitate to declare that the enforcement of this law so far as it has been enforced in this state since its pas sage has pauperized more fam ilies and inflicted greater suffer ing on wholly innocent parties than all the intemperance that would have existed in the state i the sale of alcoholic liquors had been absolutely unrestricted during that time I we turn to the effects of the law upon the material interests of Iowa the situation is no more satisfactory It is as apparent as any fact can be made by statistics that an increase of the population of our state has been greatly retarded by the law There is nothing ambiguous in the proposition of the Democratic party on this question It is not proposecnto bring the legalized saloon back to a single locality in the state where public sentiment is opposed to it The broad proposition is to let each city town and townsnip determine by vote whether they do or do not want a licensee saloon Until it i is shown by a majority vote of the electors that such is their desire the Democratic party is pledged as strongly as any party can be to leave undisturbed the right of every municipality to maintain the prohibitory laws The governor dwelt at some length on principles the tariff question denouncing protective |