Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-09-18
OUT FOR M'KlNLEY
L. M. Martin Will Vote for the
President This Year.
As TO THE IOWA CAMPAIGN.
Chairman Weaver Feels That There
is Danger in Certain Parts of the
state-says steck is not Campaign
ing for Fun.

Des Monies, Sept. 15.-(Special.) y
L. NJ. Martin, formerly general mana
ger of the Iowa Central railroad, who
was one of the leaders in the gold
democratic movement four years ago,
and who will have charge of the gold
democratic headquarters this year,
was in Des Moines yesterday. In
speaking of the present campaign, Mr..
Martin did not hesitate to say that he
was as much in earnest in his opposi-
ton to Bryan today as he was in 1896
There shall be no halfway work with
me this time" he said, II am going to
vote for Mckinley this year and l do
not hesitate to say So"
Mr.. Martin said that since the ap-
pearance of the Olney letter, he had
been approached by number of his
friends belonging to the so-called reg
ular" democracy. They called to his
attention the position taken by Mr..
Olney and said that Mr.. Cleveland
would soon write letter endorsing
Bryan. On the strength of this they
asked him if he could not come back
and support the Kansas City ticket.
My answer to them" he continued,
was that it made no difference to me
If Mr. Olney and Mr.. Cleveland and
both declared in favor of Bryan, did
not propose to do SO. l propose to
vote for Mckinley, and whatever l can
do to assist in the election of McKin-
ley am ready and anxious to do"
Mr.. Martin spoke of the situation as
; he viewed it, and said that Mr.. Bryan
had little more cause for hope posi-
bly, at the start now than in 1896, be-
cause he was able to add to his list
of states Kentucky probably and as
his friends claim Maryland also. To
Offset these claims. however, Mr.. Mar.
tin believed that the Bryan crowd
would lose Kansas, Washington and
South Dakota, and he hoped Nebraska.
I In speaking of the outlook in Nebraska
he saiu that from the information he
coud get, he thought the republicans
stood the better chance to at least
elect their state ticket, and if Mr.. Bry-
got the electoral vote of the state, it
would probably be by an exceedingly
small margin.
Il am going to indianapolis in few
days." he said, ''for l have received a
telegram asking me to come and take
charge of the gold-democratic head
quarters. / have many business mat
tiers of my own which should attend
to, but / wish to do everything in my
power to assist in the defeat of Bry
anism, and for that reason expect tc
go to Indianapolis"
Not An AIamist.
Chairman Weaver is by no means
disposed to be an alarmist in regard
to the situation, but he does feel that
there is danger in certain parts of the
state, that the republicans either thru
over-confdence or that apathy which
is always the result of prosperity, may
fail to realize their duty in seeing to il
that every republican vote in their pre-
cinct is polled. Speaking on that sub
ject today he said:
I see by the papers that the demo
5 Gratis are disposed to make much o
what they call the slump of the vote il
Maine. They compare the vote witt
four years ago and show that the re
publicans are to be troubled this yea
with a large number of stay-at-hom
voters. understand that their matt
ematicians have been doing a littl
figuring on the possible outcome i
Iowa, in case the same percentage G
loss should hold true here. They est
mate that we are not going to po
z more than seventy-five or eighty pc
cent of the vote. Now 1 do not BIZ
lieve that we are going to lose any
thing like that amount, but this muc
I will say, the only danger possible t
our ticket in Iowa in any of tn
congressional districts is thru thi