Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-07-16
WEAVER SCENTS DANGER. I

/ MC<AN EN SSE-NhAS Ia ~AoSAsfet.
Cautions Republicans Against over
confidence Democrats Have Orr
gnnizcd.
Des Moines, July 16.-..I notice that in
1.-The discussion of the coming campaign
1.-The leaders of both sides seem TO agree
THAT the fight will be in the west" COM
Imented H. o. Weaver, chairman of the !
lrepublican state committee, but they
|leave Iowa out of the list of states
wherein they think the battle will be
fought Now, this is a tine tribute to
the state. to the good sense and, stabil-
! iity of her people. but 1t Is fraught with
some danger. especially to- some of our
lcongressmen. If the campaign is man
j LACED on the theory that 1t is unneces-
sary to pay any attention to Iowa, we
shall have some vain regrets after
1.-the election. Not that think the state
4 is close, but Iowa republicans are often
s afflicted with the disease of over-conti-8
q dence, and we never made as good a
lshowing8 as we should in the state. ex-
lcept in 1896. because republicans always
lfelt 80 sure of success that many Of
them were inactive and many even
failed to vote.
II see signs of an epidemic of this
QlSGdSS iii s1UMd.a GANSt otlS5FlS soy
n that the fight was settled in or favor
A at Kansas City. when the democrats
came out for their real issue, 16 to and
the Chicago platform, nominated Bryan
q and turned down Towne. Republicans
seem to think that the only thing for
s|sthem to do is to wait patiently for the
: |formality of the election to be attended
Ito by others. In 1886 they We're thor
I oughly frightened and they went to
work and never let up till they had
j polled vote of 2S9.2sS for Mckinley.
This was more than 10000 above the
2 highest republican vote polled in the
state before, that of Mcfarland for Sec
retary of state in 1894. Harrison in 1892
: |had o19.GC0. Note how the republican
lyote has fallen since then. In 1897 Shaw
! / had 224 900 for governor, and the next
lyear, when the election of congressman
should have carried the vote away up,
e Dobson, for secretary of state. had 1885,
< coo votes In 1899 Governor Shaw sue
# ceeded in bringing the republican vote
9 up to oss,000, still $4,000 short of the
3 lvote of 1896 Every county In the state
but four, Cherokee, Monroe. MonoEa
= and Palo Alto, showed republican losses
B Tin 1899 compared with 1896. The total
republican gains We're 141, while the
: democrats gained $50 in seven counties,
namely: Benton, Bremer. Cedar Chick
:. asaw, Muscatine, Osceola and Scott
s And what have the democrats been
doing all this time. Mr.. Weaver
They have been doing better thar
we have in getting their vote out. re-
II plied the chairman. tho last year we
beat them little. In 1892 Grover
Cleveland had 100000. to which should
= be added for comparison the 10000 pop
N ulist votes cast that year. In 1894 the
democratic vote was 149,9S0 and the
populist vote 34,901. In 1896 Bryan 22S.
741 and the next year Fred White, dem,
& ccratic nominee for governor, had 1884,
'r S53. "a falling off of only 13 per cent A
the same time the republican falling of
Twas 90 per cent of the vote of 1896. II
1895 the democratic vote in Iowa wa
r-I1Ts 900, and in 1899 Fred White, agail
for governor, had 1SS, 1876. a reduction o
IS per cent from the vote Of 1896. Th
republican vote OF that year shows {
Or reduction of trlfle less, II per cent
II from McKinley's vote.
a. Taking the congressional districts. !
is we'll known that the First, Second
o, Third, Fourth, Fifth and Seventh dis
tricts showed republican losses las
wear as compared with 1898. The Sec
Z ond district gave republican majorit,
of only forty five last year.
at will be we'll for the republicans o
the state to think of these things.
would be almost as bad to have the re
publican vote OF the state run down 8
we would have only a small majorit
as 1t would be to lose a congressman o
two. and both may happen II republic
ans do not do their duty / have n
doubt we shall elect all our eleven con
s.essnnen, hut 4. will be done b;y. ever
republican doing his share. It must ne
be forgotten that the democrats ~
81 better organized In Iowa this year tina
- they have been for several yeaf e.-s-:g - :
bettesS srsAa lsss. They hlys 81