Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-08-30
TOMAKEFICHT
Democrats Will Try Hard to
Capture This District.
"A LAST FoRLoRN HOPE.
Work at State Headquarters Will Be
Almost Abandoned and All Efforts
Will Be Turned to Carrying the
Sixth and Second Districts.

Des Moines, Aug. 30.-(Special) y
The republican central committee is in
receipt of information which indicates
clearly that the democratic commit
tees are about to open their campaign
in the congressional districts, especial
| ly the second and sixth. 1t is report
ed that there will be but little work
| done by them at, the state headquar-
ters at Des Moines, but that all their
force will be transferred to these dis
tricts and the work in those districts
will be under the direct supervision of
the democratic central committee.
1t has been learned that the repre-
sentatives of The committee and espe-
cially Congress sman walt" Butler,
have about completed their first can
vass of the state and have turned in
funds sufficient to make a lively cam
paign in those districts. In addition
to the work that those canvassers
| have 6Cnc IN the solicitation of funds
they have c!,,aIned complete list of
all the Germ; Il voters IN these dis
tricts and these lists have been sent
to the national committee from whom
literature will be sent direct to the
voters. 1t is also learned that demo-
cratic papers, printed in the German
and other foreign languages, are being
sent in to the state and especially in
these two districts, SO that every for
eign born citizen, whose party posi-
| tion is at all doubtful, will be over
whelmed with democratic pamphlets,
newspapers and other documents in
his native tongue. 1t is plain to see
the object of this extraordinary activ-
ity on the part of the democrats.
Mr.. Walsh's Pledge.
1t is understood that Secretary
Walsh has pledged the democratic con-
gressional committee that the demo-
cratic nominees in both the second and
sixth. districts will be elected and the
committee is going to work those dis
tricts to redeem this pledge In the
sixth district it is said that efforts are
already being made to influence the
vote of the miners of that district
against Congressman Lacey. 1t is
miners in the sixth district now than
there were four years ago, and the
democratic central committee is claim
ing that these two thousand miners
are all of them practically solid for the
democratic ticket Chairman Huffman
of the democratic central committee,
is boasting that they have certainty
of electing their nominees in these
n ipt, ote nd ha n1 i'm,
to feel very sanguine of such a result.
i Both Districts Are Safe.
At republican headquarters it is de-
MED that the democrats will carry
: either of these districts. Chairman
; Weaver said on that subject today:
"The republican committee realizes
} that practically the entire efforts of
!, the democratic committee will be GEN.
tered in these districts. We have
known for some time that this would
be the case and our friends in both
: districts report unusual activity on the
j, part of the democrats there, and they
| also state that both districts are being
i flooded with democratic campaign doc
!, uments, especially in the German Ian
J, guage. This corroborates what
; have previously stated in regard to
the efforts that the democrats will
make to ALLEVIATE the German vote
from the republican party in these dis
: tricts. They are making the fight there
solely on the ground of Imperialism,
and while the money issue is discussed
: they deny that there will be any
change in the gold standard should
Bryan be elected. This they state on
the strength of the claim which they
are making, that even should Bryan
succeed and carry the house with him
the senate will remain republican for
wears to come. This statement is not
true, as any one will see who will in,
vestigate the matter carefully. In the
first place, if Bryan is elected the
house will be democratic, and in the
second place, if he is elected the sen
ate is almost absolutely certain to be
either tie or one majority for free
silver at the outset of his administra,
ton. In the present senate there are
not to exceed fifty-four votes, includ-
ing the man to be appointed to fill the
vacancy in Pennsylvania, who will
stand for the gold standard law. OF
this number nine are sure to be sue.
ceeded by free silver senators in case
of Bryan's election. This will tie the
senate and leave Senator Wellington
OF Maryland, who is at outs with the
administration, and Senator Clark, OF
Wyoming, who is rather disposed to
free silver, both of them counted as
gold men. That is the exact situation
and viewed in this light, the republi
cans have the right to claim that free
silver is the paramount issue this year
and we believe that when the German
voters of the second district and the
sixth district realize these facts, they
will stand for sound money as they did
four years ago and save both OF these
districts to the republican candidates.