Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-11-01
Chairman Republican Commit
tee Claims Every District
From 1000 to $4,000
WILL CARRY STATE BY 65,ooo
Ii Is Figured That Both Democratic and
Republican Vote Will Increase in
Four Contested Districts and Fall Off
Elsewhere - Republicans Are Sat
isfied.
es,ial TO Times Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, Nov. l. - Chairman
Spence, of the republican state COM
mittee, has virtually concluded the
campaign and will go home to vote on
election day, returning Tuesday even
ling that headquarters may be opened
and the vote Of the state be received. III
sneaking Of the political situation as ne
finds 1t in the state today Chairman
Spence said: I'm spite of the apa'hy
which has prevailed during the greater
mart Of the campaign, am greatly en-
couraged with the outlook. The people
of Iowa are prosperous, and they VIII
vote for a continuance of the repup-
|lican policies which have brought them
prosperity. think that we shall carry
every congressional district. The re-
rorts from tie close districts during the
h at few days have been most encourag-
Ing. and / am confident that Iowa VIII
continue to send solid republican DEL
aration TO congress. That the state
will be republican by large Hiijoii'S
goes without saying"
The republican state committee gave
cut the following as the hrst autnotlzeu
statement of estimates on election re-
turns. The statement presents some
what roster view than that Which mas
been prevalent, owing to the fact ina.
this week reports have been received
that were much more encouraging tnan
before. The statement fellows:
"The republican state committee Is
confident of carrying every congress
sional district by nlajorities ranging
from 1000 to 10000, and officially estl-
mates that the republican plurality IN
Iowa this fall will be about 65,000. rms
fs considered a very conservative esu-
mate and is the compiled estimate made
tsy : -rainrs4-r sef the county chairnlen.
The indications are that the vote will
be about the same as last fall In the
state as a whole In the contested dis
tricts it will be considerably greater,
and in others 1T may be less. An esti-
mate based directly on lie estimates of
the county chairmen would give con-
siderably larger plurality than $4,000;
lie anything like the full vote Is polled,
the plurality will be larger. The COM
mittee believes $4,000 to be a conseTva-
tive estimate. Last fall the republican
plurality was about $4,000, which was
phenomenal for an off year. The DEM
locratS made no campaign, however,
which accounts for the remarkably
|small democratic vote. This year the
democrats have made a campaign in
several of the districts. Their vote will
be increased slightly in all of them
probably, but the republican vote will
be correspondingly increased. In the
districts where no contests have taken
place, the vote of both parties will fall
off and probably that of the republicans
more than that of the democrats, on
account of the confidence that prevails,
and on account of the fact that the
democrats polled SO small vote last
Iyear.
"The estimates indicate that the to-
tai vote this fall will be about 3S0,000,
divided about as follows: Republican,
|217,500; democratic. 152,5o0 prohibi-
ton, socialist, etc., 10000. The estimated
total vote is about 10000 less than last
year; and the estimate on the repub-
|lican vote is slightly less, and that on
the democratic slightly greater than
last year. The scattering vote last
year was nearly 10000, but the
prohibitionists p6lled about $4,000. 1t
is rot believed their vote this fall will
be half as large as last fall. for they
have made no campaign. The repub-
|lican state committee feels justified in
claiming all of the districts of the state
by majorities ranging from 1000 to
1900. In only four of the districts
have the democrats made any real can
vass. These are the First, Second,
Third and Sixth. and the reports from
these districts are of the most encour-
aging nature. Everything indicates
that the republicans will win out in all
of the districts named. The republican
workers are confident of success, and
the county chairmen in the districts
named have carefully canvassed the
situation. They expect to carry the re-
publican counties by good majorities,
and keep the democratic majorities
down to very low figure in the demo-
cratic counties"
In the campaign which has just
closed the republican state committee
has had about 100 speakers at work for
about six weeks. This has constituted
the major portion of the work of the
committee, tho by no means all. The
speakers bureau has been under the
charge of A. f. Dawson. of jackson
county, private secretary to Senator
Allison. Mr.. Dawson has been able to
handle this small army of speakers
without missing a date. The assign
ments have all been made from head
quarters in Des' Moines. AT the out
set Mr.. Dawson placed himself in COM
munication with the persons available
for campaign speaking In the state. He
wrote to about 500 persons and got re-
sponses from about 800. These men
were asked to place themselves at. the
disposal of the committee for campaign
work and they did so. Mr.. Dawson
then set out to discover what demand
there might be for speakers ard got
into communication with each one OF
the ninety-nine chairlnen of the coun-
ties in the state. This work was sup