Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-10-30
/. IOWA. TUESDAY. OCTOBER 80, 1900

IOWA TUESDAY, OC'
S1.e5 per hundred, nails 81 per keg, steel |
rails $42 per ton. BY July there had been
an advance amounting TO 81 per ton on
the pig; by the latter part of August |
another dollar had been addedg but in /
the month of September came a jump Of |
$40 per ton. Four months later /. e.,
January 22, 1880, pig Iron was quoted at |
$41 to $4z per ton, steel rails a t $50 to
3s5. bar iron at $s.75 per hundred. and
nails 1926 per keg. This was before the
era OF trusts.
Following the panic of 1870 there had
been a period Of sx years of dull times,
when confidence In the future seemed to
be dead Hand-to-mouth buying was
the rule. all construction and repairs
that could be postponed We're put OF.
and stocks We're run down to the lowest
limit. Then came the, Inflow of money
caused by the return of gold payments.
Jan. /, 1879. and to the heavy exports of
that year; and forthwith resulted
revolution in continent and in condi-
lions. With hope awakened and cour-
age regained the country was starving
for goods, and manufacturers We're
flooded with urgent orders, When their
capacity was engaged for months in ad-
vance, or with only small margin for
possible increase. famine prices ap-
peared. Probably only a small portion
OF the output was sold at those figures
Buyers bid against each other for the
unsold capacity, as people fight for seats
in a lifeboat that can not carry all. The
foregoing description covers exactly the
conditions that followed the panic Of
1893 and eliminated In the boom of 1899.
The rise of last year sgnified nothing
as to the power Of the trusts over prices.
1t was merely q demonstration OF the
effect Of an excessive demand.
George A. Huffman. chairman OF the
democratic state committee, has issued
secret instructions to all his committee
men and local democratic workers thru
out the state, instructing them to organ
ize vigilance committees to tefrorize re-
lpublicans at the polls on election day.
| This information came to republican
headquarters yesterday in the form of
1.-THE following letter addressed to Chair
man Republican Committee, Des
Moinss. 1t was postnarked at a town
| in the Sixth district and reads as fol-
llows:
Il send you herein a circular letter
issued by Chairman Huffman of the
i democratic committee. and you can
make such use Of 1t as you see fit. Up
Ito this time | have supported Bryan
and Steck, but can't stand this kind Of
instructions. have always been a
i democrat and contributed literally to its
campaign fund, but have too much re-
/ spect to givemy aid to any cause which
on its face indicates an attempt to incite
feeling OF this kind between parties
That kind OF instructions won't do in
4 Iowa, where both democrats and repub-
Ilicans strive for the quiet, peaceful cleo
ton Of an intelligent psople. For my
part refuse to obey ouch instructions.
Y oura from former democratic
4 lworker, but no longer.
a The circular of instructi6ns referred to
4 as folloWs: s
PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
q INSTRUCTIONS
Call a private meeting of your work
d ers the night before election and get
4 leach man to promise to get from one to
three doubtful voters to the polls early
Z lin the morning.
s Have one or more democrats at the
A voting placeto check off the democrats
lag they vote and send teams after all
J. Ithoss who have not voted by noon.
Have your workers form themselves
.lintosa vigilance committee and have
lavery man who is not entitled to vote
Iarrested when he presents himself to
slyote.
See that you have your proportion OF
the election judges and clerks, and II
4 they are not loyal denocra tss have them
q removed.
Have a loyal democrat outside of the
"A election officers watch the counting OF
the vote. and when 1t is counted take
!. the vote of each candidate on the tick.
s. et
See that every democrat votes an6
that 1t is counted. and also see that nj
Illegal votes are polled.
The republicans will resort to the
, 1886 methods If they are not watched. b,
lon the alert from the time the polls oper
& till the vote is counted and the ballo
box locked.
AZ soon as the vote is counted sent
1.-THE result in your precinct to the count,
chairman, who viii send the result o
the county to us a once.
Give all of election day to the gettin:
out of the full democratic vote
We depend upon you for the resul
in your precinct
&c A. HUFFMAN.
Chairman Democratic State Commit
tee"
Chairman Weaver has in his posses
. sion the original circular and letter
Warning has been sent to the go, ,0GO re
! publican local workers warning them O
this attempt to incite riot and interfer
with a peaceful. orderly election. Thi
democratic circular ia almost exactl,
.. like the secret letters Of instruction sen
!, by democratic campaign managers Ii
I the south to their lieutenants to preven
: colored men from voting This is tn
J first time that any such thing was eve
! attempted by a chairman Of any com
mtttee in Iowa. The cry OF fraud wa
I never raised in this state before. It ha
never been claimed by any one, demo
: icrat or republican, that any fraud wa
: : accomplished or attempted in any elec
!, tion in the state until Huffman mad
. the charge He has recently said tina
10000 fraudulent or illegal votes wer
. cast In Iowa in 1885 This is what h
means by 1886 msthodr..''
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