Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-09-27
The IOWA CANPA|GI|
Republican Canvass Fairly Started
and the Main Issues Definitely
Shaped.
Attempt Of Democrats to Prejudice
the Foreign Vote Will Be
Ably Met
Significance Of the Silver Issue
To Be Kept to the
Front.
Special to Times-Renub,;can3

Des Moines. Sept. 27.-With the meet
ing of the republican state committee
today the state campaign may be said
to be we'll started and the issues def
nitely shaped. 1t is perfectly clear
that the whole force of democracy and
its allied organizatio is to be exerted
to hide the real issue and endeavor to
reduce the republican majority by
raising disturbance among voters of
foreign birth about imperialism" So
called. The terrors of standing army.
so we'll known to the German especial
ly, are to be held up to frighten them,
with the hope that these voters may be
fooled into believing that the govern
ment of the United States intends to go
into the world-conquering business and
impress every able bodied man into the
military service, as is done in some of
the European countries from which
these people have fled. This will cap
ture only the ignorant and unthinking,
but that it is a weapon that has no
danger no shrewd politician will deny.
In the presence of such belief many
voters are likely to forget what is un-
derneath the cloak democracy and
fusion have put on for the campaign
that is, the free coinage of silver at the
ratio of 16 to /. Any gains they may
make will be used next year, yes, will
be claimed at once as gains for free sill
Yer and reasons for renewing the effort
begun in 1896 to reduce the country to O.
silver basis Then would the world
conquering career of the United States
in commerce surely be brought to
sudden stop and inglorious end. This
is the view taken by the republican
leaders, then, that they must. while
meeting and combating the expansion,
imperialism | issue which the opposition
| has raised. constantly keep in sight the
lreal issue between the parties, the cur
lrency question, the only debatable
lquestion now in American politics. The
ltalk against expansion is mere noise
and buncombe, for no government
lcould or would dare to do very much
different from what President Mckin-
Hey has done with our new possessions.
This is about the line that will be fol-
lowed by the party leaders in Iowa this
| year State issues do not promise to
Icut much figure; the record of the re-
publican party is 50 creditable it will
hardly be assailed and a mere state
ment of facts which Governor Shaw
will make in Davenport October 2 will
be sufficient.
The state house officials and em-
ployes had an agreeable surprise yes
terday when they received the usual
polite invitations from the chairman of
the republican state committee. They
We're, as usual, reminded that it costs
money to run campaigns. to pay for
printing, postage, speakers expenses.
etc, and the fact that they We're en-
ljoying some of the more immediate
benefits of republican supremacy was
not concealed from them. But they
were not counted upon for quite as
much patriotism as on some former
similar occasions. The result of this
moderation has been quite satisfactory,
for the responses have been much more
prompt and cheerful and the interest in
the campaign has been of a more pa
triotc character. This is. of course, a
hard year in which to get together the
funds necessary for the ordinary eX
penses of the campaign, as it is an off
year and the interest is less. The inn
jportance of making a good showing III
| Iowa this year is fully recognized by
the politicians and the party leaders.
land no effort will be spared to preserve
the rarity and the issues it represents
from damage resulting from either ag-
gressive attacks from without or
Ilethargy within. Chairman Weaver
has started in with energy and good.
judgment and he is surrounded by able
advisers and assistants.
Railway Commissioner Edward A.
Dawson will probably not be able to
take part in the campaign this year to
any great extent, if al all. He is suf-
fering from an abcess in his head.
which one surgical operation has failed
to relieve His hearing is threatened,
being almost totally gone, temporarily,
in one ear. He is receiving the best at
tention which can be had in Chicago,
and his complete recovery is expected.
provided he refrains from work and
takes care of himself.
Adjt Gen. Byers will start for San
Francisco about October u to meet the
Fifty-first regiment, which will arrive
there somewhere from the 18th to the
23d, depending upon how long they
stop in Japan and Hawaii, and on the
other conditions attending a long sea
voyage. Governor Shaw is obliged to
give up going. much as he desires to do
so. because it would take nearly three
weeks out of the heart of the cam
paign, when he cannot be spared from
the state. The uncertainty of time of
arrival of the regiment makes it neces-
sary for the welcoming party to be in
San Francisco probably several days
before the arrival of the regiment, and
the demonstrations there will take
probably "a week. Gen. Byers hopes to
get the boys home in time to vote. and
this can be done If they are mustered
out and have all their papers finished
on shipboard before they reach San
Francisco. That is the plan and order
of the war department. The men
would then be paid off and would not
have to spend more than four or five
days in San Francisco before starting
home. The sooner they get started the
more money they will bring home, so
Gen. Byers will have the transportation