Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-09-25
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Eighth District Congrsssnsl Con.
Quoting His Campaign Under
Stress Of Physical Pain
An Intense Sufferer from sciatic
Rheumatism Speeches Made
While Seated in Chair.
.Dolliver Speaks Twice In Iowa This
Week The Iowa Speaking
Campaign.

UeS MONIES, Sept. 25.-Col. William
Peters Hepburn, congressman from the
Eighth district, is still, as ne always
has been. an heroic figure. Not only on
the field Of battle. but on other occa-
sions that try a mans courage and
nerve, The has proved himself equal to
all demands. This quality has been
strongly brought out in the present.
campaign. Col. Hepburn returned from
his Kansas trip with very severe
case OF sciatic rheumatism, with which
he is afflicted periodically, but notwith-
standing this fact he kept courageously
on with his campaign work, even keep
ing his engagements for speeches OUT
side his own district. He addressed al
meeting in Hazleton. Buchanan county,,
on the 18th, when he was so badly dis
abled that he could not stand at all exc
Scept by leaning on and STOPPING over a
chair. His speech was delivered for the.
most part while he was seated. He
was accompanied on this trip by his
wife, who was trying to take care Of
him the best he would permit.
Sc
Senator Do1liver. who spoke in Col.
Hepburn's district last week, reported
that the colonel was going around his
district addressing large and very en-s
thusiastic meetings while seated in a
chair and suffering intense pain. II
told him to go home; that he had no.
business to be doing this; that his dis
trict was all right, said Senator Dol
liver. II told him he would never live
to take the oath Of Office: that it wasn't
worth the suffering he was enduring If
he did live. and hope he has gone
to Hot Springs, where he will get relief.
The district is in the best OF condition
Col. Hepburn was always a hero, and
never more so than now. His speeches
lack none Of the fire and earnestnessl
and telling logic and incisiveness that
have made him famous character in
national politics. :"
Col. Hepburn has great war record.
He served as captain, 1majo and lieu-
Tenant colonel OF the Second Iowa cav
| airy thruput the war. He resigned a
good position to enter the service in
1861 and saw much hard fighting. He
was mentioned for gallant conduct in
the famous charge on the 9th Of May,
1862 at Farmington, In front OF Cor
| inth. He was then a major. This was
| one Of the most famous charges during
/ the rebellion. Like the famous charge
of the six hundred. it was blunder.
The men had but to do and die, charg-
ling against a force ten times their
strength, which was supported by ar
ltillery and well entrenched. Col Hep
important posts on the staffs Of Gen.
4 February, 1864, he was in command OF
the Second brigade of the Sixteenth
army corps. His success as a member
of congress and his value to his party
his state and his country are well
known to every one who reads the
newspapers.
Senator Dolliver.S after making two
speeches in Iowa this week, at Grunds
4 Center and Tanla, on the 9th and 2Sth
will go to Indianapolis on the 29th
where he addresses great gathering o1
travelling men. He then goes in.o Ne.
braska and joins the Roosevelt party
4 with which he will remain until aftel
the Davenport meeting on the 5th O
sIOctobar. The next day he speaks ii
5liwapello and Burlington, and the fol
flowing week, beginning October 8, en-
Z lters the Second district for campaign
& that will make things lively there.
The Wapello Republican presents a,
i evidence of prosperity that Is simpl!
stunning. The Republican shows tina
4 lin single bank in that town the de
posts in 1896 were $31,6s1.s9 and tn
number of depositors o25, while the las
bank statement, for September 5, 1900
shows that this bank had TAI depositor
and the amount OF deposits was $131,
I. 1882, or an increase of over 300 pc
u cent. These deposits. it was learned
!. belonged to home people, there beinl
! no foreign capital on deposit in thi
], bank, which is savings bank. An
i other fact common to all banks an
! lsreferred to in this instance, is that TIL
deposits belong chiefly to farmers an,
!, people who live on wages and salaries
!. Bank deposits do not belong to mer
j, chants and capitalists to any great ex
/, tent, because these men use thei
money in their business. No better evi
i dence Of the prosperity Of the peopi
| i can be found than in the rapid growt
! Of bank deposits in Iowa during tn
J past four years. The illustration give
from the wapello bank is not an excep
{ tional one The compilation Of ban
8 reports by the auditor of state ever
i three months has shown this conditio
Ito be universal thruout Iowa.
/. The indications for a large meeting a
e WapeIlo on the afternoon Of the 9th 9
4 October, when Senator Dolliver is i
( speak and there is to be a big barbe
: cue, have gone beyond the expectation
!. of the most sanguine. For several day
4 the managers OF the big show have bee
i wondering what they would do with th
n people when they came. because ther
e would be no place where they could q
5 shear the speech. They have been hu,
t ltling around. however, and have foun
i. q big circus tent that will hold 4.0t
y people. This will be used for the meel
t ling. Senator Dolliyer says that /
s|swould rather speak In 2 tent than an,
. where else. because II gives every OF
n 4 . chance % hear. the aif y good and