Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1900-07-13
RouE 4 s.ider Clubs.

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ceived scores Of letters from all
parts of the state, saying that it would
take like wildfre wherever it was pro.
posed. The Rough Rider clubs will
prove to be as conspicuous a feature OF
this campaign as the Rail Splitter
clubs were in 1860, or the log cab
ms in 1910, and our grandchildren
will be reading in history about
how in the memorable campaign
of 1900, their grandfathers rode
about the country in mounted clubs
uniformed and made up III honor of the
heroic, brilliant, noble young soldier,
statesman and scholar who was in thai
year elected vice president with Will
lin Mckinley. The clubs will be organ
lied as soon as the campaign is under
way. Within a week or so the state
central committee will have some form
of organization which it can send out
to all applicants desiring to organize
clubs.
The Republican League.
The Iowa Republican league is pre-
pairing to send a strong delegation to
the national convention of the Repub-
lican league, to be held in St. Paul, July
1910. The convention comes at very
opportune time, being Immediately fol-
lowing the democratic convention in
Kansas City, which has made it so easy
for the republican party to carry the
country this year. 1t is the first grand
national gathering following the maxi
ing up of the issues of the campaign,
and some of the best speakers in the
nation will give addresses there. This
is the headcenter of the republican club
organization in the country and Iowa's
interest in it is second to that of no
other state. President Conway, of the
Republican State league, will be glad to
hear of any representative republicans
who desire to be delegates.
g. Almost Too Good to BE True.
The democratic national convention
in Kansas City, by its attempt to revive
the dead issue of 16 to 1, has caused
great rejoicing among the republicans.
The latter universally regard it as the
best thing that has happened for re-
publican success, because it simplifies
matters, making it absolutely certain
that the democrats will be unable to
carry New York or any other state that
voted against Is to 1 in 1896. 1t only
makes it easier to show the people that
the democracy still stands for the dis
honest dollar, which the people reject
ed in 1896 and will not want to hear
about again this year.
Sells Transformation.
Lincoln, Neb., July 2.-Cato Sells,
chairman of the Iowa delegation to the
democratic national convention, ar
rived here this morning and spent
three hours in conference with Mr..
Bryan. When he arrived Mr.. Sells told
the correspondents that he was rad
ical conservative, having been district
attorney under President Cleveland,
and that he was credited with being
the author of the Iowa platform. which
does not mention 16 to 1.
After his talk with Mr.. Bryan Mr..
Sells was a changed man. He walked
about the hotel corridors in sort of
dazed condition, feeling that he had
been, as it were, turned inside out. He
then declared that Mr.. Bryan would
certainly be nominated and that the
platform should be in harmony with
his record and his wishes, which meant
an out-and-out declaration for 16 to 1.
Mr.. Sells had lost his clipper air en-
tirely. He had been taken in hand by
his chief, his convictions crammed
down his throat and he was forced to
subscribe to policy which is as dis
tasteful to him as to any republican,
if not more so, because to Mr. Sells it
means the farewell to any chance of
success which he might have hoped to
have with platform of live issues.
There was considerable joking at the
expense of the young Iowa leader on
account of the complete TRANSFORMED
ton that had occurred within him in
the space of three hours. But Mr.. Sells
has been trying for four years to be
REGULAR" and this is not the first time
he has been obliged to talk for some
thing he did not believe in.
What Dolliver Says.
Des Moines, Ia, July Z. - Congress-
man J. p. Dolliver recently addressed
the Grant club, of this city, in ratifica-
ton meeting in which he brought out
in his epigrammatic style some of the
most conspicuous features of the cam
paign. Among other things Mr.. Dolli-
yer said:
THE republican party depends not
only upon it's history, which the demo-
cratic party forces as an issue, but this
campaign is repetition of 1S96-it is a
fight for the integrity of American BUSH
ness. The republican party pleads the
case of the American farmer who is no
longer confronted by bankrupt mar
ket 1t pleads the case of labor in its
happy and contented homes. Some
workingmen are striking for more
wages and shorter hours, and I, hope
their pay in good money and they will
not want the period of universal leisure
that usually accompanies a democratic
administration They want to live on
the fat of the land. but 1 don't believe
they want to eat by the forks of the
road. They do not. desire to exchange
their time checks for democratic soup
tickets. The democratic party Is trying
to raise an issue against the army. Gen.
tlemen, l rejoice and thank God that I
belong to a party that never had any
kind Of a row with the army of the
United States. These young soldiers OF
~, hn0 n In Il and 1oyy.