Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1900-10-19
The Same Thing May Happen
Again Unless Repllhlieans
Are Wigilant.
Democrats Much Better ORGANIZED
to Poll Their Vote Than tfor
Several Years.
Ghsirusan fWssvsr Points 0ut Danger 10
4 Republicans in Losing a
Single Vote.

! Giiuore, OF Stuart, has itseeHtfsiVeit12
Through the northern parton tiiesstate
Igfoy the tfepupiicanS. s tie GeommltteeEIot
so,tse weeks, and having been eItgaasstl
in similar .woek before, rs ii close &iiiia
reliable observer. lnttalkings
political situation rs he finds ii where
he has been, he said the one thing
which impressed him most was. tiesins-
iiiaritr OF the feeling this year and iii
1882, Esghen the extreme confidence Co1
republicans and their consequent III
activity led 10 the defeat OF Benjamin
Harrison.
democrats Ase Well fOrsanizeG.
There is one thing fthepeopieluon't
seem TO understand, at least the re
rut11,iicaps,,' said Air. Gilmore. ',andlthat
is that thay arc confronted by "A Ter''
different situation from that OF isst
Ysar OF two wears ago OF three years
ago. 3EyeryIiittle while j 5lear.sonfe re
publican say that they had such and
such q majority 10 a certain town coa'
count last year Or Two, years; age, ann
they felt perfectly asafe.and everything
WIGS all right and so on. They don't
seem TO realize that the democrats
have had no Observation-Disclosures
ing OF since 1885. and this year tthc,t
.jaye "A lar better organization than
tiey have ever had isefOre IN iowa.
And they have more money TO spend
TOO. they have Deen working omit all
this yeaE.
TDea.Ocsnts tIa~e gt'ienty OF MOner.
Ever since last January they nave
been al ii with solicitors working up
tie organization and raising TundS.
Mf tIaiv.eg, vino IS 4 fifsE-ciass ssoitct-
tor, spent several days III Stuart quiet
IL working up tiie mat ter OF funds. lie
got !pietlnes and contributions tfom q
great man: men. nearly all small
SUMS, put the aggregate amounted 10
a handsome sum. II wasn't all paid
at once. lie got ,ptetiges feom men VINO
agreed 10 contribute small sums lnfn-
stalimcnts through the campaign. 4ie
and other stIemOceatic workers fol
lowed the same plan allco%er the state.
aud they were vers successful becanse
they tiidstit ask for large SUMS and
were willing TO wait for most OF it,
Iisits..nces of DemOs.eatic Actixity.
II see EVIDENCES rof tieinoceatic actir-
it's wherever 4 go. They have a guot
many lcltl'sS organized in the towns
with regular weei.ing meetings. This
canilot help out 1pROtiuce an effect. Our
people ought 10 wake up TO the lnlpot-
tance OF working just rs hacd as they
did in 1896. II they don't they will ipc
sorry Tor it. From all the information
L can gather there is no dutut the re
publican party has the votes An iowa
80 coll ,ip,s.n enormous amaiorits anc
eject everybody on "Gnetticket and carry
through lnearis ali che county officers.
but unless everyone OF rus gets q 1noV"
on himself and does his share toward
bringing this vote TO the polls, we Shall
fall far shoot Of ,what we ought to
haze and will lose q great inanS local
candidates and have some ntfrow eS-
Sci.pes on congressman
1.-The whole thing this year de
penis, not upon the lniLktng OF con
lyert:5. SO far as Iowa is concerned"
SAD Chairman Weaver, '"nut upon the
energy and activity Of republicans in
getting out the republican vote. i
know to q ct;ertatmty OF Whit speak
when j say thai ii the republican vote
lis potled III every congressional t$lS-
tatict NE shall carry every district
10y a comfortable ma.jotsty, that rs, j
auetn that if every It.en who lis now
convinced ttiGat the republican party
ought 80 Win wsil simply go 10 fthe
polls On election a<Say and put in 4
uaflot to that effect we shall have
IN aowa the greatest ana.jortty that
WIS ever given TO any party i'll any
STATE west of tue Mississippi riHer.
J haEe examined all the facts, all jthe
indications end an i'll possession OF
thorough information on the subject
i iknow what / anu talking about.
III the republicans in Iowa will 10
fiiis much for AIS. every republican,
nominee for congress will have more
than 1900 majority. But if the re
pstbticans themselves. the rank and
file OF the party Of whom nothing
more is asked in support OF their
convictions thar the nsre expression
OF their choice on election day say
If these auen Gail to do that much
TO sustain the party and upheld What
il, represents in the Omitted States,
fhen 40 man can TELL Misas win hap
pen 10 ,ss. That is the oagF danger
j fsar in this campaign. either in the
state Or III any congressional district
III ought not be necessaav to re-
peat again what everyone knows
sbout tlis effect of a reduced na-
jotJty in iowa. Ut viii Stimulate fhe
democrats. Ghe ausionists. the sree
sl5lsesStes. the BrTaaites and the $50,
called 'antd-ianasest4l$sts. They VIII b.
encouraged to believe that Iowa is
coming around ~ their way Of think