Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-09-29

Now Estimated That Nearly $4,000
People Will Attend the Water.
loo Rally.
Davenport Will Try to Equal
Waterloo Campaign Well
Under Way.

W6t0TlUO - campaign W0ll
Under Way.
Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, Sept. 29.-Altho Governor
Roosevelt makes but three stops I'M
Iowa, he will have audiences of oearly |
$4,000 people as he passes thru the state
next Friday, October 5. The Waterloo
and Davenport meetings will be the
largest, altho Cedar Rapids will give
him by no means a small audience. A
4 big circus tent has been secured for
1 the Waterloo meeting and this will be
used in case the weather is bad. 1t will
seat nearly 10000 people. The arrange
ments for the meeting at Davenport
i will also include a big tent. Railways
are making specially low rates for all
these meetings. some of them less than
II half cent a mile. and heavily loaded
4 special trains will be run on all lines
!. reaching ALI these points. some Of them
7 going more than $50 miles to see and
hear the rough rider
West Liberty. the junction town of
the Rock Island and the b.. G. r. & NJ,
a between Cedar Rapids and Davenport.
is living in hopes of catching glimpse
of the hero OF the occasion and per-
q haps hearing few words from him!
s when he passes thru there late in the
9 afternoon.
) The. Black Hawk county Fremont
ftClub, consisting of men in Cedar Falls.
I Waterloo and LaPorte City who voted
. for John G.. Fremont and are now for
: Mckinley, has reached membership
! of more than 200 This club will re-
r ceive. the Des Moines Fremont Club
e and the veteran Tippecanoe CLUB upon
q their arrival in Waterloo on the day of
E the great meeting. 1t is expected that
i about 500 of these old war horses Will
: be brought together in this way ana
al they will form the escort for Governor
Roosevelt and will be given front seats
: at the meeting.
8 A deep interest in this Fremont VOL
t .ers. organization is shown all over the
a state and hundreds OF letters are being
n received at the state. headquarters II
e jDes Moines from voters who want t.
be put on the list. II is becoming
feature of county rallies to have par
these veterans of many campaigns.
Several hundred rough rider club:
have been organized in the state, man,
y of them being composed of farmer boys
= Iwho have good horses and delight II
IS using them for mounts in the rough
T rider clubs. Similar csuss have beer
e organized in Des Moines and they VII
ls be mounted and take part in the Roose
u al Waterloo.
> The opening of the democratic cam
nairn las,. Tuesday does not appear 7
have been attended With any enthusl
asm. Their. meetings since then als
i. have been very poorely attended !
stigar spoke at Marshalltown the othe
- night to sixty people and Cat
= 3seIl.s meeting at Shell Rock wa
= n dismal failure. In Chercke
q 4 M. Parsons, one of the be-s
y known5 democratic speakers was booke
,, for the same night that Congressn1a
=. Robert G.. Cousins wa. there. The resu
, was that M Parsons meeting wa
abandoned because he had no audtenc
The people all went to hear Mr. Cou:
ins.
e- The republican speaking can mpats tsfl5
By being conducted With great eners!
lie the largest force of speakers that ha'
he bsen abroad in the state since lsse. %
'or ginning next week and until elecllon
conservative estimate puts TN nuinp
lie iof republican speakers under the dire
by ton of the county committees ~
air sta te committee ia constantly adding
ch I;tis, list. All the Iowa congressman a
ed ait work and so are Senator Allison a,
~ Senator Dolliver. Governor Shaw 5egil
an. Monday. returning tomorrow from
weeks, campaign in Indiana. He n
argI he-n engaged for a. month under the 6
Ein5l ,ection of the republican national cor
NC mitiee in Illinois. Missouri. South D
nm ISkota. Nebraska and Indiana. Tho /
all csiving very few speakers from the n
NO tional5 committee. Iowa is pretty w
SO able 10 take care of her self Amol
the spea kers now in the field are B.
salineer. #of Carroll; j. Y. Sammis.
Mars: Rev. P. NJ. Nystrom. OF $
an CITY; Col d. u. Palmer. of Washinsto
her John n Baldwin, OF Council Bluffs, a
ra- Sidney A. Foster, of Des Mones. I
In latter TWO under the direction Of 7
md nstional committee; w. b. Emerson,
aen Atlantic. who four Nears ago support
our Bryan, B. f. Clayton, of lndianola
ck- many others.
at Inc D1SSeslt HltSNliles III tlie- Hsit@ y
en- trict will he held Saturday afternot
e,y October in Wapello, where Senai
ed EDolliver speaks. An old ld-fashionet! 9
npv roas st is to be prepared. Lieut.. Govern
Miiliman and d. j. Palmer speak in
evening. 1t will be a general farme
picnic and farmers from all over II
oe.s section of the stateaWill attend
in meeting. Five bands. among them
en- oakville Rough Rider band. will ma
Or things lively.
NJ Sena tor Dolliver goes into the Seco
is district the week following the Roo
,,;a- veft meetings. He and Governor Sha
~ Senator Allison. Speaker Henders
Stha Congressman Cousins. Charm
~ Weaver and National Committeem
no Hart will accompany the Roosevelt p
s;,,. ty, and all of these speakers will
heard more or less in some Of tn
meetings. The Second district cont
lues to be the center Of interest.
last Senator Allison speaks in Des Moi
1oor on Oct. and it will be the chief me
], at ing of the campaign here This city 8
lred county being so heavily republican, |
{ noithe democrats showing 80 little activ
1t is not likely many meetings Will