Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-09-06
THE WORK PROGRESSES.
Large Amount of Campaign Literature
Sent Out and Last of Meetings OF
District Committeeman Held
Speaking Campaign to Open.

Saturday night the clerks mad The
document room cleared ready for an
other installment this week. Chair
man Weaver has arranged to send
out much larger amount of docu-
ments of different sorts this year
than ever before. There are also diff
ferent features introduced from the
style of the ordinary campaign docu-
ments. There are fewer of the large
pamphlets and long speeches and
many more short pungent and at
tractive leaflets, containing extracts
from speeches, summaries of import
ant documents, terse statements of
the great prosperity of the different
lines of industry and other enter.
prises, telling tables showing the pros
porous condition of our people, and,
in fact, many other brief and pointed
documents. which contain in con.
densed form for the reading of the
busy man, the strongest features OF
the campaign. The committee real
ICES that the people are too busy to
read long speeches, but that a short
paragraph or two, making clear,
concise statement of some pertinent
issue, will be read and the facts re-
membered
The large illustrated posters. which
were sent out week before last, have
been put up all over the state of Iowa,
and the bill boards and dead walls
are everywhere embellished with these
artistic arguments for the reelection
OF Mckinley. The coming week will
see another lot of these posters sent
to the larger cities to add to the num-
Der already sent to those points.
Chairman Weaver has much faith in
them and believes, if properly dis
tributed turnout the state, they will
be productive of much good.
The last of the meetings of the dis.
trict committeeman for consolidation
will be held Tuesday, September
at New Hampton, in the fourth dis.
tIct. These meeting have been prn.
ductive of much good. By this means
Chairman Weaver has been able +,
meet practically all of the county
chairman IN the state, together with
the congressional committeeman, and
carefully consider the situation in the
| different districts. The results If
these meetings have been encourae-
ing. Each one has been well attenG-
ed and the reports from the different
counties have indicated fan.
degree of interest already awakened,
In the campaign. One fact however
was especially emphasized at all Of
these meetings and that was. that
Whlle the people of the state are well
satisfied with the present prosperous
| conultlons, there is great danger that
they are too busy to take that interest
IN the campaign which it's Importance
warrants There is no doubt put that
the large bulk of the people of low
are republicans this year, but Char.
| man weaver endeavored at each Of
these meetings, to impress upon ,ho
members OF the different congresslo,,.
"a committees and the county chair.
men the fact that it is necessary m
get out the full vote in order thai
IOWA should keep up her proud rec.
ora as one OF the banner states of the
fatlon, and also that the republican
CONGRESSIONAL delegation over the
state pe maintained intact He smoke
a. each meeting very plainly in regard
70 tAe duty OF every county chairman
~ Mork Win that end in view OF get.
ling full republican vote of his
county. While the situation. in ths .
main, is very satisfactory and If is
plain that there are no disgruntied
Republicans this year, and If Is
also manifest that many of those who
followed Bryan into the free silver
ranks, will return to their party =.
this time, yet, as always, there is 3
doubt that the people who really
should be the most interested Will moi
take the trouble to vote. Chairman
Weaver and the members of the State
Central committee realize that this
is the great danger and, in fact. the
only danger in Iowa this year. The
state is all right, and if the full re-
publican vote is polled, there can be
but little question but that there is
a majority of 100000 votes for Nc
Kinley and Roosevelt, but the very
magnitude of this majority is. in .
way, detrimental to the work of the
committee in that it induces apathy
and apathetic conditions at this time
which might become pathetic after
election.
Chairman Huffman of the demo
cratic committee, claims that his re
ports from democratic county chair
men indicate that not over rs or S(
per cent of the republican vote vii
be polled this year, while they have
hopes of polling their entire demo
cratic strength, especially in the sec
ond and sixth congressional districts
and also gaining good percentage 81
the sound money democrats who de
serted Mr.. Bryan four years ago
Chairman Weaver is not disposed tc
admit that the republicans will lose
; any such number by reason of Inc
stay at home vote, but he says thai
that is the only danger possible t.
the complete and glorious success o.
the republican ticket in November.
The organization of the united lows
: democracy is fiourishing according t.
Chairman Huffmans statements. ant
last week must have been pay day fol-
them, for it is understood that full,
two hundred membership fees wer,
received per day thruout the week
AS the amount of each membership
J fee set aside for the democratic STATE
central committee fund is 81, one cal
readily see that last week was ret
; letter week for Chairman Huffman
|, and the democratic committee.
] The republican speaking campaigl