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Show increased majority? The country takes no stock in Governor Boies' claim. It will do as a special plea in his own behalf be-half for 1892, but not as a statement of an economic condition in the state of Iowa. Governor Boies should not be i ashamed for the country at large to j know on just what lines he has been twice elected governor of Iowa. As its chief executive he has aided in rendering render-ing the prohibitory law a dead letter in order to make it odious to the people. He has catered to the worst elements in society, has pardoned convicted offenders, offend-ers, and gone to such disgraceful extremes ex-tremes in courtiDg the favor of the whisky interests that the Methodist Episcopal church of Towa formally censured cen-sured him. It was by appealing to the basest classes, and by systematically stirring up the prejudices of the foreign element in the population that Governor Govern-or Horace Boies achieved his election, and in that light must he stand as a candidate for the nomination for vice-president vice-president of the United States. 1SOIKS MARKS HIS HID. The campaign in behalf of Cleveland Cleve-land aud Boies on a free trade platform plat-form has begun. Governor Boies of Iowa has made his bid for a place on the national ticket. He has very shrewdly magnified the Iowa campaign al ove what every well informed reader knows it really was. He admits prohibition pro-hibition did its work, but claims also that the people of that state are in rebellion re-bellion against "the burdens of protected pro-tected industries." Governor Boies knows that as a candidate for vice-president vice-president simply on the ground that he carried a prohibition state on a whisky platform he would appear ridiculous. Heme he would have the country believe be-lieve that he represents the triumph of tree trade in Iowa. In this he is more zealous than honest, more crafty than truthful. Why should Iowa be less firmly devoted de-voted to the protective principle than she was in 1888? In that year, when the tariff was the overshadowing national na-tional issue, Iowa gave a majority of 31,000 for the candidates of "protection. What has occurred in the last three years to cause a revolution in that state on the tariff question? Why should the people of Iowe change front on the tariff question when, under the same conditions, the people of Ohio reassert re-assert their faith in protection by an |