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About The Conservative (Nebraska City, Neb.) 1898-1902 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 22, 1900)
Jtt , 10 'Cbc Conservative * and supply in the general markets of the country have been readjusted , In other words , prices of goods have fallen to a point where buying will again be come active. We think that it may be fairly assumed that the activity in Wall Street prefigures general activity. There are some special facts which sustain this thesis. Several large steel and iron works that had either sus pended temporarily or were running on short time have resumed at their full capacity. Orders for car-building , of great magnitude , which had been held back pending the election , have been given out. The ship-building trade is in full tide of prosperity , and new yards are in course of construction. The ex portation of stdel and iron products to foreign countries has been actively re sumed from both Northern and South ern mills. The exportation of coal in large amounts will begin as soon as the necessary freight room can ba obtained. Even more significant is the demand for money. Call loans which ruled at 2 per cent , or less during the summer , are now at 4 per cent. , and the demand 'is so active that importations of gold would take place but for the heavy sales of our securities in London and Berlin to American buyers. While these indica tions of returning prosperity are to be welcomed , it is easy to "overdo the business " both on the Stock Exchange and elsewhere. New York Evening Post. STAKCH QUESTION A STATE ISSUE. Hon. F. N. Front , candidate for at torney-general , received the highest majority of any man on the republican ticket except McKinley. The attack of G. J. Smjtb , attorney-general , on the Nebraska City starch works , caused every personal friend of J. Sterling Morton to make a special effort for Mr. Prout whose opponent is Smyth's deputy. Everything played right into republican hands in that election and the attack upon the starch works changed as many votes at least as did the money it is alleged Mark Hanna shipped into the state. Alliance Pioneer- Grip. FACTS ABOUT IOWA. Iowa is one of the middle western states that have grown and developed steadily. It came into the union twenty- eighth in rank ; this was far in the rear , but the agricultural resources of the commonwealth soon brought it to a front place. Between 1860 and 1870 , during and following the civil war , Iowa jumped -from twentieth place to eleventh. Another rapid advance was scored between 1870 and 1880. When the age of the commonwealth is con sidered , the Hawkeye state cannot be rivaled in the matter of great and steady growth and commercial expan sion. The following table indicates this : Census of Population. Rank. 1840 48,112 28 1850 102,214 27 18CO 074,018 20 1870. . . 1,104,020 11 1880. . 1,024,015 10 1890 . 1,011,89(1 ( 10 1000. 10 Population by Counties. The population of Iowa by counties in 1900 in as follows : Adair 10,102 Jefferson . . 17,487 Adams 18,001 Johnson 24,817 Allamakee. . . .18,711 Jones 21,954 Appnnooso 25,927 Keokuk 24,979 Aurlubon , . . .18,020 Kossuth 22,720 Bcnton . . . 25.177 Leo 89,719 Blaehhauk 82,809 Linn 65,892 Boone 28,200 Louisa 18,510 Bremcr 10,805 Lucas 10,120 Buchanan 21,427 Lyon 18105 Buena Vista. .10.975 Madison 17,710 Butlur 17,955 Mahaska 34,273 Calhoun . . . . 18,609 Marion. . . .24,159 Carroll. . .20,819 Marshall 29,991 Cass 21,274 Mill * 10,704 Cedar . . . . 10,871 Mitchell 14,010 CerroGordo . . .20,072 Monona 17,980 Cherokee 10,670 Monroe 17.985 Chickasaw 17,037 Montgomery 17,803 Clarke 12,440 Muscatine. . . . 28,242 Clay 13,401 O'Brien 10,985 Clayton 27,760 Osceola 8,725 Clinton 48,823 Page 24,187 Crawford. . . . 21.085 Palo Alto 14,854 Dallas 23.058 Plymouth. . . .22,209 Davis 15,020 Pocahontas . . . .15.C89 Decatur 18,115 Polk 82,024 Delaware 19,185 Pottawattamie. 54,830 Des Moines . . . . 85,089 Poweshiek 19,414 Dickinson 7,995 Bin gold 15,825 Dubuque 50,403 Sac 17,089 Emmet 9,980 Scott 51,558 Fayetto 29,845 Shelby 17,932 Floyd 17,754 Sioux 28,837 Franklin 14990 Story 23,169 Fremont. . . . 18,540 Tama 24,585 Greene 17,820 Taylor 18,784 Grundy 18,757 Union 19,928 Guthrie 18,729 VanBuren. . . 17,854 Hamilton. . .19,514 Wapello 85,420 Hancock 18,762 Warren 20,870 Hardin 22,794 Washington. 20,718 Harrison 25,597 Wayne 17.491 Henry 20,022 Webster 81,757 Howard 14,512 Winnebago 12.725 Humboldt 12,007 Winneshiek 23,781 Ida 12,827 , Woodbury 54,010 Iowa 10.544 Worth 10,887 Jackson . . .23,015 Wright 18,227 Jasper 20,070 Returns of Smaller Cition. The population of certain incorporated places in Iowa having a population of more that 2,000 but less than 25,000 in 1900 is as follows : Albia 2,889 Knoxville 8,181 Algona. . 2,011 Lake 2,791 Ames 2.422 Leniars 4,140 Anamosa . 2,891 Manchester. . 2,887 Atlantic 5,045 Maquoketa. . . . 8,077 Baxter . . . . 2,021 Mar en go . . 2,007 Belle Plnino 2,283 Marion 4,102 Bloomfield 2.105 Marshalltown. . 11.544 Boone 8,880 Mason 0,740 Burlington. . . . 23,201 Missouri Valley. 4,010 Carroll 2,882 Monticello 2,194 Cedar Falls 5,819 Mount Pleasant. . 4,109 Centerville 6,250 Muscatine 14,078 Chariton. . . . 8,989 Nevada 2,478 Charles 4,227 Now Hampton. . . 2,829 Cherokee 8,805 Newton 8,082 Clarinda 8,278 Oelwein 2,142 Clinton 22,098 Osage 2,784 Colfax 2,053 Osceola 2,505 Corning 2.145 Oskaloosa 9,212 Cresco 2,800 Ottumwa 18,107 Creston 7,752 Pella 2,023 Decorah 8,240 Perry 8,980 Denison 2.771 Red Oak. , . . 4,855 Eagle Grove 8,657 Sac 20.70 Eldora 2.223 Sheldon. . . . 2,282 Emmetsburg , . . , 2,801 Shenandoah 8,275 Esthorville 8,237 Spencer 8,095 Fairfleld 4,089 Storm Lake . . 2,109 Port Dodge 12,102 Stuart 2,079 Fort Madison. . . . 0.278 Tama 2,040 Glenwood. . . 8,040 Tipton 2,618 Grinnell 8,8(50 ( Villisca 2,211 Hamburg 2,070 Vinton 8,499 Hampton 2,727 Washington. . . . 4,255 Harlan 2,422 Waterloo 12,580 Independence. . . 8,050 Waukon 2,153 Indianola 8.201 Waverly 8,177 Iowa 7,987 Webster 4.013 Iowa Falls 2,840 Wintersot 8,089 Jefferson 2,001 What Cheer 2,740 Keokuk 14,041 THE NUMBER OF VOTES. How many people vote ? In 1890 , when the whole country was so deeply interested in the presidential struggle , 14,884,780 votes were cast 5,684,148 , people tf voting age stayed at home , some because they were sick or aged or infirm , others because they did not possess the necessary educational or property qualification and some were just indifferent. How many there w reef of this latter class no one can tell. A student of politics ( Eltweed Pomeroy ) recently gathered some figures in re gard to this for the years 1888 , 1892 , 1894 , 1896 and 1898 , which show some interesting results. In 1896 the percentage of voters was 71.7 per cent , and in 1898 54 7 per cent. National questions were involved in both elections , as congressmen and sena tors were elected in both years , but in the former year the fact that a president was to be elected brought out 2,889,028 voters more than came out in 1898 to elect congressmen and state officials. The percentage steadily falls from presidential elections , to local elections , although the citizen comes in contact with his local government 100 times where he comes in contact with his national government once and yet so curiously perverted is his political per spective that he ignores the 'former for the latter. South Carolina , Louisiana and Wash ington had the lowest percentage of voters both in 1896 and in 1898. In the former year South Carolina fell to 10.6 per cent. , in Louisiana to 9.2 per cent , and in Washington to 15.6 per cent. Utah , Indiana , Virginia , West Vir- ginia.and Iowa had the highest per cent- age in 1896 , Utah leading with 113.1 per cent. ; Virginia , 98 6 per cent ; West Virginia , 96.2 per cent. ; Iowa , 90.6 per cent. At first it seems paradoxical that two states should have over 100 per cent , but this was perhaps due to the increase of the voting population since 1890 , when the last figures on this sub ject were collated. In Utah there is an additional explanation in the fact that there is now female suffrage , while in 1890 when the census was , taken only males were included in the estimate. The north Atlantic show less fluc tuation , although Massachusetts and Rhode Island are far in the rear of New York , New Jerssy and Pennsylvania. New York led this group of states in 1896 with 78.8 per cent. , New Jersey followed with 76 9 per cent , and Penn sylvania with 72.8 per cent. The close contest for the first two account for the high figures , but not in Pennsylvania , which is overwhelmingly republican. It may be due to the patriotism of the people or to the particular methpds followed in Philadelphia , where it is possible for one man to vote thirty-three times in the same day and another thirty ei ht times , and for one election