The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-07-22
OF THE CAMPAIGN.
Will HIVE an Agreeable
Task to Perform


According to one of the democratic
campaign managers the republicans
intend to give oratory a place of spe-
cial Importance in the congressional
canvass of 1902. Probably there is
truth in the assertion. The canvass
will be active and exciting. This much
can be relied on, says the st. Louis
eGlobe-Democrat. 1t will be waged in
$50 congressional districts. Every
community in the whole country will
have an interest in it, and will be able
to see and take part in some of it.
The republican newspapers, of course,
will have to do the heavy part of the
campaign work, as they have had to
do in all recent canvasses. They can
reach hundred persons to every one
who can be personally addressed by
the stump speakers. By printing the
speeches of the stump orators the
newspapers give the spellbinders an
immensely larger audience than they
otherwise could command. Moreover,
the facilities of the newspapers to do
this work of enlightenment are grow
ing every day, as their millions of
readers will see in the coming cam
paign.
Butthereis special incentive for the
republican campaign managers to put
a large and active corps of stump
speakers in the field this year. In the
recent session of congress much i'm
portant work was done. Other tasks
of great consequence will be performed
in the session which opens next De-
cember. Seldom has the republican
party been so we'll provided with able
and worthy leaders as it is at this mo-
ment. The work of president and
congress have given satisfaction to
the country. This is particularly true
OF the west, where the canvass is to be
more active, according to the pro-
gramme, than any congressional cam
paign of recent times. The national
irrigation bill, which has just passed
congress, was, of course, in the inter-
est of the west solely, so far as regards
it's direct effects The canal scheme,
which has been pushed to enactment,
has great interest for the west in the
cheapened rates which it will bring
for the transportation of all the vests
| commodities across the continent or
to Asia and Africa. Several new In
dian reservations We're thrown open
| to settlement during the recent ses-
sion.
The vests pleasure in contemplate
ing the political situation has been
shown by its leading republican news
papers and all the conventions which
have been held in the western states
this year. President Roosevelt's
course has been warmly indorsed in
all of them, and in several of them he
has been proposed for the nomination
in 1904, which is an altogether unexam-
pied thing for so many states TO do
two years in advance of the meeting
OF the national conventions. Congress-
work has been commended in all the
republican state gatherings which
have been held this year. In the cam
palgn in Oregon a few weeks ago, in
which that states two members of
the house of representatives were
elected, the republicans had major
ity never closely approached before,
even in the presidential canvass of
1900 Large majorities will be rolled
up for the congressman who will be
chosen a few weeks hence in Maine and
| Vermont. The conditions never looked
fairer for the republicans than they do
/, at present. Nobody wonders that the
republican campaign managers are
eNuberant, and that they intend to
| put large corps of orators in the field
The republican newspapers and stump
speakers will have decidedly agree
able task in this campaign in setting
forth the work of their party in the
recent session of congress, and in tell
ing the country the advances which it
has made in prosperity at home and in
| prestige abroad as result of wise and
I popular policies.