The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1901-10-15
CUMM|NS
A. B. CUMMINS
LEADER OF REPUBLICANISM
SPEAKS in DENISON.
Great Speech by aGreat Man to Great
Audience Nearly All Precincts
Represented.

Hon. A. B. Cummins spoke in Deni-
the best audiences ever assembled in
Denlson. There was little of the holi- |
day spirit, the audience was composed |
of representative men from nearly |
every precinct in the county. Among
the crowd were men from Willow,
Boyer, Charter Oak, Union, Paradise.
Washington Nishnabotny, West Side,
Vail, Jackso., Milford, Stockholm, E. |
Boyer, Hanover and Otter Creek, and
of course from penison and Denson
township, Nine-tenths of those pres
ent were voters and the number of
substantial German farmers was notice
ably large The crowd in town natur-
ally made the merchants busy and the
audience was made up largely of peo-
pie from the country. Republicans
were more than pleased with the wide
spread interest which the makeup of
the crowd showed to exist. In the
words of a prominent German who has
heretofore voted the democratic ticket,
sit is but few years now until Craw
ford will be permanently republican. "
That was the feeling of those present,
and there is determined spirit to be-
! gin the good work now and land Craw-
ford in the right column this year. 1t
is felt that all that is needed is for the
republicans to be united and work the
hardest they have ever done and vic
tory is theirs.
The next Governor was introduced
briefly 5.ssHon. ] F. Conner and was
greeted with a hearty round of APP
plause. His opening sentences served
to place his audience in close touch
7 with him for he devoted his first re-
marks to a eulogy OF Gov. L. NJ Shaw.
: He spoke most highly of Mr.. Shaw s
gubernatorial record the good he had
done, the national reputation he had
e attained and concluded by saying that
l. should he be able to retire from Office
1T with as good and as clean record as
o. Gov. Shaw has made, he should be
a. we'll content. The audience, composed
ID almost entirely of the personal
friends of the Governor, responded
~ heartily to these words of eulogy and
felt that his words set at rest forever
&c the sensational reports of the so called
. Independent' and democratic press
&c that the relations between Mr.. Shaw
- and Mr. Cummins were in the least
i, strained and that each did not have for
the other the highest personal and
political regard. If any soreness ex-
: listed in Crawford, the magnanimous
= and sincere words of the next Governor
took away the last vestige. Mr.. Cum.
, = Minis said that it was hard to talk poll
=, tics, standing as we do in the shadow
:. of "a great national calamity in the
death of President Mckinley. Mr.
- Cummins spoke brilliantly of the de
y parted President, he dwelt upon the
greatness of the country and what il
- had accomplished under republican
' ism. His speech was largely non
- :, political but he urged upon the people
y the necessity to vote. He said he
, wanted all who could to vote for hin
= and the republican ticket, but that ht
would rather man would vote the
ne democratic ticket than not to vote a
on al. He made stirring talk agains
g anarchy and introduced politics as
IS side issue in referring to the letter o
ne acceptance written by the democrati
candidate Mr. Phillips in which h
u repudiated the platform upon which h
lis is running. He said that Mr.. Phillip
es had evidently taken to heart that oil
he maxim found on every car door, Il
&C. is dangerous to stand on the platform.
lie There was nothing offensive to an
.ct democrat in Mr.. Cummin's speech an
N he made friends with all who hear
him.
The Aron band did good wor
u furnishing music for the occasion an
an all republicans felt that the meetin
IS had been great success.
"a In the evening the republicans {
Denson entertained Mr.. Cummins an
the out-of-town committeeman at tn il
formal banquet at the Wilson house s
= which brief talks were made by Hol
-. j. P. Conner aud P. E. G. Lally.
~ The republican candidates who a
.,+ tended the'meeting were: Hon. Hug
Langan forrepresentative, M. p Rya
for sheriff, Hon. G. w. Won Coelln fl
in superintendent, j. G. Smith for supe
yor visor, DR.. W. B Evans for coroner al
'ss Morris McHenry for surveyor.