The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1901-10-17
WORK OF ORGANIZATION.
Nearly All Counties Have Now Re-
ported Complete List of
Reliable Workers.
EFFORT 70 GET ALL VOTERS TO POLLS.
4. publican Campaign Committee
Confident of a Great Victory If Re-
PubIicans VIII Vote-No Need OF
Making Converts.
Especial Corregpondenoe.J

PubIicans VIII yOte-No Need of
Making Converts.
Especial Correspondence
Des Moines, Ia, Oct. 14-The work
of perfecting what is known as the
school district organization through
out the state has been pushed with
such vigor by the republican state COM
mittee that only eight or ten counties
have failed to report a complete list
| of reliable workers who can be de-
pended upon to attend to all the de-
tails of party work, particularly the
making of effective arrangements for
bringing every republican voter to the
polls. At the outset of the campaign
Chairman Spence and Mr.. Phillips, the
chairman of the executive committee,
who has this work under his immediate
supervision, recognized that the chief
work of the campaign was to get re-
sponsible men in every voting precinct
who would agree to attend to these
details. The committee has done lit
tie or nothing toward making con
verts," as they are called at headquar-
| tiers.
eve have the votes, as everyone
knows" said Chairman Spence. "Au
we have to do is to get them to the
polls to achieve a'great victory, and we
have determined to do it. The county
chairmen are responding promptly and
effectively, and we have in our possess
| sion now unmistakable evidence that
we will overcome the disadvantages of
the off year. when so many men are
apt to think it doesn't make much diff
ference whether they vote or not, par
ticuiarly republicans. Democrats are
not affected this way. They always
vote. This year it is evident that the
/ local workers everywhere have made
up their minds that republicans shall
vote and show that Iowa's interest in
| republican politics never lags."
Although it is Enthusiastically true
| that this campaign is, comparatively
| speaking, very quiet one, yet there
| is an intense earnestness in it which
republicans take to be the best indica-
ton that they will poll their usual
heavy majorities, providing that the
men whose business it is to look after
the details do their full duty. This
duty will be fully impressed upon these
local workers by letters and personal
appeals which will be sent out from
, the state headquarters during the next
| two or three weeks.
To get so good an organization in
such a quiet year is generally regard
| ed as a very credita BILE piece of man
| agement. because it is much harder to
get men to do this work in a year when
there is apparently no real contest.
Every county will be in working order
4 by the end of the week. 1t has become
well known in the state that it is a
good political asset to be on this organ
ization list, which indicates who are
live, active, responsible republican
leaders in every township. The coun-
. ty chairman who does his duty and
makes an effective campaign, keeping
in close touch with the state commit
tee, is in line for some of the good
| things that are passed around in poll
| tics. One of the best recommendation
| any man can have in Iowa politics is
| that he has been a live county chair
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I been elected or appointed to good Of
fees on the strength of their success
/ full management of county campaigns.
The speaking campaign this week
! will be more active than ever. Mr..
| Cummins is still spending most of his
| time in southern Iowa, though he Will
! speak tomorrow in Denison, the home
of Gov. Shaw. The most urgent re-
! quests have come from that county and
from Monoua and Harrison counties,
! constituting senatorialdistrict which
is very close andwhere the republicans
| hope to win in a district which has
neSrly always been democratic.
Senator Deliver frequently works
double time now, speaking twice on
Tuesday and twice on Thursday, most
of the time in the Second, Sixth and
Eighth districts, opening the week to-
| morrow at Ninton. Gov. Shaw will re-
| turn from St. Louis for a meeting
Tuesday at New London, going from
there through the Sixth and Eighth
| districts into the Tenth and Eleventh
districts, speaking twice on Saturday,
at Spirit Lake and Livermore.
Senator Allison makes his first
formal speech Tuesday, the 18th, in
Tama, and this will be eagerly looked
forward to as the text for many an
other speech. His other dates this
week are New Sharon and Knoxville,
| the 10th and 18th.
Speaker Henderson speaks in Iowa
City Friday, the 18th, with Congress
man Rumpe. All the congressman are
now actively engaged in the campaign
in their own districts and elsewhere.
A great meeting has been arranged
| for Osceola next Saturday, October 10,