Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-10-06
ROBERTS ! N|| SPEAK
Director Of the United states Mint
VIII Take Part n the
Campaign.
u D. 0'Connell Also Coming West
TO Mako : Few Speeches in
Iowa.
Allison Going to Aid In Other States
Allison Going to Aid in Other States
Many Big Meetings Next
Weak.
pecial to es.Republican.

Dee Dee .Muihes, Oct. 1.-TWO important
names will soon be added to the list OF
republican speakers in Iowa. George
y. Roberts, director Of the mint. is one
OF them and 1t is likely that NJ. d.
IO'Connell, solicitor Of the treasury, will
lSbe able to come west about the same
time and participate in the last two
weeks OF the campaign. Mr.. Roberts
has never made speeches before. but
he has furnished ammunition for2many
other speakers: His work in the cam
paign OF 1896 and before and since that
time In the preparation Of sound money
and protective tariff literature brought
him before the country as a writer ON
nnance and economics Of the first class.
he demonstrated an extraordinary ca
pacity for assimilating facts and fig
ures and Transforming dry statistics
INTO such attractive and meaty form
that every one who could read could
not fail to feel the full force and effect
OF his original arguments.
His work, Iowa and the Silver
question, a pamphlet of sixty four
pages, was circulated in hundreds Of
thousands in 1885, 1t proved by indis-
putable evidence that the alleged de-
cline In the price of farm products in
Iowa had not been caused by legisla-
ton adverse to silver and that there
mad not been steady fall Of prices. BY
careful compilation OF market prices
OF farm produce in Iowa since 1861 he
demonstrated that the value of farm
products in gold had fluctuated owing
to natural causes and that the claim
that the crime Of 1873" had anything
TO dc with 1t was entirely without
foundation in fact. In this little book.
as IN the reply he made to Coin, known.
as 'sCoin at School in Finance" Mr..
Roberts appealed to the people in a
common sense way. with homely illus
trations and applications to their ey-#
cry day business, and he demonstrated;
to their often expressed satisfaction
that a sound currency and a reliable
home market were greatly to their in
fteresl
Mr. Roberts will be a very popular
speaker in Iowa. for he is well known
and much liked, both by politicians and
by the people. who know him PERSONAL
ly and thru his writings. They know
he is man who can always be trusted.
who is candid and entirely reliable in
MS statements. He first became known
as editor of the Fort Dodge Messenger
and in 1882 was elected state printer
and was twice reelected.
NJ. D. O'Connell, solicitor Of the
treasury. has been a conspicuous and
powerful factor in Iowa politics for
more than twenty years. He also is a
resident of Fort Dodge. He was one of
the most dependable campaigners the
state committee had and he often went
outside the state to speak for the ma
tlonal committee. "A big, strong man,
both physically and intellectually, he
was always able to endure any amount
of hard work that might be assigned to
him. He was United States district
attorney for the northern district Of
Iowa under President Harrison and
was appointed to his present position
early in the administration.
Senator Allison will soon leave the
state, either to go to Indiana and Ohio
or to South Dakota. Montana, Wyonl-
LAB Seaiiu AoeA1lo. IL has NOT Oeena decided
which way he will go. The senator has
three meetings in Iowa next week. at
Sioux City. October 8; Council Bluffs,
October 10, and Shenandoah, October
II.
Next week will be the liveliest week
the campaign in Iowa has vet seen.
There will be more speakers in the field
both under the direction of the state
and national committees and the local
committees han al any time before,
and this will be kept up until the night
before election.
Senator Dolliver and Capt. j. n. W.
Rumple, republican nominee for con-
gress in the Second district, wifi go
thru the district together, speaking in
Maquoketa Monday evening and clos
ing in Muscatine on the 18th. They
will speak in Jackson, Clinton, Johnson
and Muscatine counties. Speaker Hen
derson will speak in Iowa City Monday
evening, October s.
Congressman j. A. T. Hull, Of Des
Moines, chairman of the executive
committee of the republican national
congressional committee. will come into
the state on the 10th for five meetings,
speaking in Keosauqua on the 10th,
West Branch the 18th and Dewitt the