Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-10-28
SP[NC['S STATEMENT
Republican State Chairman
Spence Estimates Cummins'
Plurality at 10000.
Gives Out a Statement Of the
Political Situation in
the State.
Voters Urged to Go to the Polls
and Maintain Party
Majority.

~
Phillips, plurality of $4,000. An in
crease of $50 votes to the county is re-
ported.
Chairman Spence, Of the republican
state committee, when asked what re-
manned to be done to insure the success
full outcome of the campaign, said that
1t all depended upon the local workers,
precinct committeeman and those
charged in every county with the duty
OF getting out the vote. Mr.. Spence has
issued the following statement:
THE state committee and all its aux
iliary forces have done all that can be
done, and now we must leave the COM
pletion of the work to the voters and to
the forty or fifty thousand local work
ers to whom the republicans of the stale
are looking to bring out full vote on
election day and secure result that VIII
be creditable to them and TO the state.
1--WE have encountered many obstacles
In the management of this campaign
chief of which was the apparent lack OF
opposition, which is the greatest sim
illus to republican efforts. But the lead
ing republicans in the state have real
lied that it was quite as important to
maintain the party's record In the state
in this off year as in any other year.
The fact that the legislature which we
elect this year Is to elect two unlteo
States senators and that the campaign
now being carried on is an educational
preparation for the congressional cleo
,ion next year makes this years cam
paign as Important as any in the history
of the party in Iowa. Comparatively
few states have elections this year, SO
that Iowa will be all the more consplcu-
oui, whatever she does. II there IS
falling off in the republican majority
or vote it will be taken by the enemies
or the party and Its policies as encour-
agement to such opposition. 1t Will be
said that Iowa is showing a change OF
sentiment and that the policies OF NC
Kinley and Roosevelt, OF Allison ana the
other great leaders Of the party IN the
state and nation are losing ground IN
iowa. We are satisfied that the repup-
1icans Of the state will not permit any
such record to be made. Iowa holds a
position at the very front OF the repub-
llcan ranks in the nation and she must
retain ii. This can only be done by poll
ing a full vote for Mr.. Cummins and
giving him the majority OF hundred
thousand or more which he will have If
the full republican vote is polled.
while the responsibility OF arranging
that eyeryyoter shall reach the polls on
election day is placed upon the local
committeeman loyal republicans should
not wait to be hunted up by the commit
teemen. They should notify him that
they will be on hand and that they will
not need any looking after. The COM
will have enough to do to
round up those whom 1t is necessary for
him to see or to convey to the polls.
THE speaking campaign has been far
more successful than many of our lead
ers thought 1t could be in this quiet
year. The attention and enthusiasm
shown in our meetings is evidence that
the people are not only still with us. but
that they are greatly interested in the
triumph Of republican principles and the
OF republican policies. We
have been fortunate in having in our
own state so many speakers of national
renown, whose utterances are received
as the voice of authority. The speak
ers bureau has been ably conducted by
A. F. Dawson, and 1t has done very eff
fective work. The people everywhere
have been eager to hear our best speak
ers and have given them always salts
factory meetings.
hn tot haffAr
organized than 1t is now. We have
more than $4,000 names Of men who
have agreed to be responsible for active
work in their precincts during the last
days of the campaign and on election
day. We are appealing to them to COM
plete the work which the members Of
the committee, the heads of different
bureaus, the speakers, the county chair
men and the local committeeman, all
working together, have completed as far
az they can complete. We now turn 1t
over to the local workers We have
done all that we can do and feel that
nothing has been left undone. The re-
henceforth is with the To-
cal workers entirely. The results on
election day depend altogether upon
what they do between now and the
time the polls close on the night Of
election. The state committee and its
bureaus and departments can only
make a general preparation. The real
work of the campaign is done in each
locality by the men who know 1t thor
oughly and are charged with the re-
,ponsibility of getting out the vote.
IF these men do their full duty, Mr..
yummins will have somewhere from
10000 to 100000 majority. The reports
we have received from county chairmen
giving their estimates of what the vote
will be in their several counties promise
IN Increase in the republican vote of
every county from 100 to 200. If the dem
,cratic vote remains the same, this
would give Mr.. Cummins an increase of
about $4,000 votes over Governor Shaw,
who polled 239,464, against 1S3,S01 for
Fred E. White, democrat, in 1899.
"H. r. SPENCE, Chairman"
The campaign is closing with more life
han 1t has exhibited at any previous
line and more than was expected by
he managers. Not only has the state
committee made a large number of APP
continents for speakers who are hay-
ng good meetings, but the local cam
,aigns in the counties are we'll under
way and hundreds of local school house
meetings will be held all over the state
lurinE the week. A modest estimate
places the number of republican meet
nRs during the coming week at about
100, tho the number may greatly exceed
hat. -