Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1897-01-05
Special News Letter.

in the city today. The different state
committees met and finished up the
business of the campaign.
M. F. Healy, Fort Dodge was elect
ed chairman of the democratic state
committee to fill vacancy made by
the death of Mr.. Curry. w. T. Davis
Hamburg was elected committeeman
from the eighth congressionaldistrict
on the democratic committee. Secre-
tary Carr was made chairman and
DR.. Goshorn of Winterset acted as
secretary of the meeting.
A majority of the committe emen
came intending to elect Mr.. Walsh
chairman of the state committee but
after it was found that he was likely
to be called to Washington to take
charge of national headquarters it
was thought best to elect Mr.. Healy.
The populist state committee pas
sed a resolution urging all silver peo-
pie tie subscribe for and help increase
the circulation of silver papers.
A large conference was held in the
afternoon at which number of lead
ing men made short addresses.
Among the speakers was Capt.
Evans and Secretary Walsh of OF
tumwa.
General Weaver was called for and
among other things said that the
three parties should keep up their
organization separate from each
other but that conventions ought to
be called for the same date at the
same place and the same ticket non-
mated. He said to let the gold
democrats alone and if they wanted
to vote with us all right but not pay
any attention to them, that we are
loaded for bear and won't shoot at
chipmunk.
Judge Spurrier of this city was cal
led for and said the silver republicans
were in the fight to the finish, that
they had not enlisted for ninety days
but for three years or during the
war; He said we had to have more
money in circulation or less men and
that is the policy of the republican
party in the senate to have less men
and that if there was any corpses he
wanted to see that the corpses were
there. He said the next fight was a
sure winner and there was no way
possible by which we could be de-
feated except by the republican par
ty adopting our principles.
Judge G. G. Cole said he was in the
fight for all time to come.
Mr.. Healey said that if the election
was to be held today we would be
victorious and that the men who
were victorious Ghe republicans
would spend many minute, an hour
and even night in wishing they had
net promised SO much which they
can never fulfill.
A resolution being spoken of. Rev.
Frank Evans, candidate for congress
at last election, said the conference
must remember that there was NO
book of resolutions in the Bible but
that there is book of Acts and what
we wanted was to act in the way OF
organization and education. He said
q republican had told him he wanted
to hire some body to kick him to death
for voting for Mckinley but that he
was to poor to hire him. He said
from the figures he had made W
there had been more failures since
McKinly's election as a result of the
returning prosperity than at any
other time in the existence of the
country.
Captain Yeomans suggested .hat
we must fight out the money ques
ton by itself as we could not hope tc
win two, three or half dozen re
forms at once.
Fred White said he knew of moth
ing to say without he went in to con-
vert somebody and there was nobody
there to convert; or try to smooth
over some jangle and everybody was
in the best of spirits and all three
parties worked together very har
moniously. That he had always
thought that he would die at about
fifty-five per cent, but at the Chica
go convention when he had seen false
leadership thrown down, when he saw
democracy regenerated and baptized
when he heard the platform read
when he head Bryan's speech, and tt
cap all, when he saw him nominated
he knew he would not die until ht
was 100.
W. H. Robb, from the Eigth, sale
they had 5000 voters down there no
body had ever heard of before, bu
that they were up and to work. even
il they had been cheated this time
He said he knew of no factory he
would think profitable but one and
that would be a factory to make kick
ing machines. These, he seemed tc
think, would meet with ready sale
A number of other men spoke brief.
~, among them being Prof. Rice, Mr.
Quigley of the Dubuque Telegraph,
and Mr., Romans Of the Eleventh,