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IOWA. 



ITALY. 



For Governor, Professor G. T. Carpenter ; for 

 Lieutenant-Governor, Frank T. Campbell ; for 

 Supreme Judge, J. M. Beck ; for Superinten- 

 dent of Public Instruction, J. A. Nash. After 

 which resolutions were adopted and a State 

 Central Committee appointed. Professor Car- 

 penter, when notified, declined the nomination. 

 The activity and energy of the temperance 

 advocates became so great, that representatives 

 of the interests of the dealers in liquors as- 

 sembled in convention at Des Moines on July 

 30th. The Convention was called to order by 

 M. McTighe, who in some remarks referred to 

 the reasons which had brought them together. 

 It was to inaugurate a contest of protection 

 against fanaticism, and to notify all prohibition- 

 ists that the liquor-sellers had determined to 

 stand up for their rights. They were assem- 

 bled together not for the purpose of making or 

 influencing nominations for office, and for no 

 party purpose. J. F. Daugherty was elected 

 President, and the following resolutions were 

 adopted : 



Whereas, We have made the sad experience as a class 

 of business men, that the prohibitory liquor law of this 

 State does not in any degree promote the cause of tem- 

 perance or morality for which it is intended, and con- 

 sequently does not afford the people of this State the 

 desired protection, but on the other hand it is used as 

 a lever to throttle us and to constantly hurl against 

 us an army of dead-beats, blackmailers, and spies, who 

 have in no wise the welfare of the people of the great 

 State of Iowa in view, but who seek to destroy what it 

 has taken years to build up, only to satisfy either their 

 malice, personal greed, or ambition ; and 



Whereas, It is furthermore a universally recognized 

 principle, that wherever there is a demand for any 

 commodity in life, there will always be a supply of the 

 Bame, and as this supply should always be controlled 

 and regulated in the interest and true wants of the peo- 

 ple ; therefore, be it 



Resolved, By the saloon-keepers, brewers, and liquor- 

 dealers of the State of Iowa, in convention assembled 

 in Des Moines on this, the 30th day of July, 1879 t that 

 we claim, as a class of business men, the same rights 

 and protection under the Constitution and fundamen- 

 tal laws of this country as any other class of business 

 men enjoy. 



Resolved. That it is our firm belief that a well-regu- 

 lated and judicious license-law in this State, giving 

 the necessary protection to the dealer and manufac- 

 turer, and at the same time placing them under all 

 reasonable restrictions, would greatly tend to decrease 

 the evils of intemperance, and be in fact a better tem- 

 perance law than we have at the present day in our 

 Btatute-books. 



Resolved, That in order to bring about the repeal of 

 the present vicious liquor law at the earliest moment, 

 and enact in its stead a just and equitable license law, 

 we herely firmly and unqualifiedly declare that we will 

 not vote for nor support any candidate for the next 

 Legislature, no matter what his political creed may be, 

 who does not unmistakably pledge himself to use the 

 utmost endeavors, when elected, to attain such result. 



Resolved, That while the members of this conven- 

 tion belong to all political parties, and are therefore 

 strictly non-partisan, we are not unmindful of who is 

 our friend and who our foe ; and we therefore pledge 

 ourselves not to support any candidate for any office 

 within the gift of the people of the State who is an 

 enemy to the interest which we represent, or who will 

 not pledge himself in favor of a judicious license law. 



Resolved, That we recommend to the friends of per- 

 sonal liberty and license the organization of clubs in 

 every township whero practicable, for the purpose of 



securing a greater unity of action, and to enable the 

 people to become acquainted with the losses the farmer 

 and business man sustains through the pernicious op- 

 eration of the existing prohibitory liquor law of this 

 State. 



The result of the election, which was held on 

 the second Tuesday in October, was as follows : 



FOR GOVERNOR. 



John H. Gear, Republican 157,571 



H. H. Trimble, Democrat 85,056 



Daniel Campbell, National 45,429 



FOR LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR. 



F. T. Campbell, Republican 161,708 



J. A. O. Yt-omans, Democrat 86,400 



M. H. Moore, National 45,760 



FOR JUDGE OF SUPREME COURT. 



J. M. Beck, Republican 160,604 



Reuben Noble, Democrat 85.788 



M. H. Jones, National 45,719 



FOR SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS. 



C. W. von Coelln, Republican 159,3C4 



Edwin Baker, Democrat 84.945 



G. A.Nash, National 47,848 



The members of the Legislature were divided 

 as follows : 



ITALY, a kingdom of southern Europe. 

 King in 1879, Humbert I., born March 14, 1844. 

 He succeeded his father, Victor Emanuel II., 

 January 9, 1878. He married, April 22, 1868, 

 Margaretha, daughter of Prince Ferdinand of 

 Savoy, Duke of Genoa. Heir apparent, Victor 

 Emanuel, Prince of Naples, born November 11, 

 1869. 



The following table gives the area of the 

 larger territorial divisions (compartimenti\ 

 with the population, male and female, of each, 

 according to the census of 1871, and the total 

 population at the close of 1878, according to 

 an official calculation : 



The movement of population was as follows 

 in 1878 : 



