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Show MOKE ABOUT IOWA. The Omaha Bee verifies the statement made by The Times ou Friday last under the caption of "Iowa," relative to prohibition being the main issue in potitics in the Hawkeye state during the recent political campaign. Says the Bee of Thursday last: "In the re-election of Governor Boies the people of lqwa hsve again rendered a verdict against prohibition. pro-hibition. It will not be questioned that this was the real and vital issue of the campaign, and the popular judgment again so plainly and unmistakably unmis-takably declared onght to convince the republican party of the folly, almost criminal from a political point of view, of its position on this question. Republican adherence to prohibition will inevitably inevita-bly make Iowa a democratic state, not only in off years but in all years, and if there bo any so blind that they cannot see this they should be excluded ex-cluded from the couircils of the party. It appears probable that the new legislature will be in the control of the republicans, which will prevent the state being gerrymandered or Mlchigauized, and will also insure the election of a republican United States senator to succeed Senator Wilson. In that case the democratic victory will lack a great deal of being decisive, though there can be no mistaking its meaning as a verdict against prohibition. It is entirely safe to include Iowa as among the states that will choose republican presidential pres-idential electors next year. The Bee is in error, though, as regards a material bearing of the recent Iowa election on the successorship to the United States senate of Senator Wilson. Wil-son. Mr. Wilson's term will not expire ex-pire until March 4, 1895. The legislature legisla-ture of Iowa is composed of 150 members: mem-bers: 50 senators and 100 representatives. representa-tives. A full house is elected every two years; senators are chosen for four years, but the membership of the upper bouse is so classified that one half of that body is elected every two years. In 1893 a full house and one half of the senate will be chosen, so only one-sixth one-sixth of the members of the legislature recently elected can have a voice in the next senatorial election at Des Moines, unless, of course, some of them shall be re-elected. |