Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-10-16
TROPHIES FOR VOTES.
Des Moines Veteran Tippecanoe
Club Offers Prizes.
TO Be GIVEN FOR REPUBLICAN GAINS
Splendid Banner and Silk Flag Will
Be Awarded to Counties Making
Biggest Absolute and Proportionate
Increases.

The Des Moines Veteran Tippeca--
noe club has issued it's announcement
regarding the award of the banner
and flag to the counties making the
best republican gains this year. The
Tippecanoe banner has long been
sought after by the counties OF the
state, and has assisted greatly in poll
ing the republican vote. 1t is now held
by Dubuque county, and the flag by
Davis.
The republicans of Wapello county
are beginning to have designs on the
trophies for the present year. Pros
poets are excellent this fall for good
gain in this county and the whole OF
the sixth district by the republican
party and although this is an off year,
the contest for the Tippecanoe tro--
plies should be instrumental in poll
ing a good0vote next month. The an
nouncement of the Tippecanoe club
follows:
To the Republican Electors of the
State of Iowa.
The Des Moines Veteran Tippeca-
| noe club, in accordance with its GUS
! tom of thirteen years, again offers its
prize banner and fine silk flag to the
republican voters of those counties
| that will show at election to be held
ON November 4, 1902, the largest gains
as compared with the majorities given
at the election in the year 1900 for the
candidates at large for elector of
president and vice president favoring
| the election of William Mckinley and
Theodore Roosevelt.
| The fine banner that has been
awarded at the close of nearly dozen
campaigns has been replaced by one
much finer. 1t is now held by the
gallant republicans of the county OF
Dubuque.
The silk flag which was formerly
! given to the precinct in the county OF
Polk making the best proportionate
gain, is now held by the county of Da
Wis, that county having made the sec
ond best gain over the vote of the year
1900. The banner, as heretofore, viii
be given to the county making the best
proportionate gain over the election OF
1900.
In regard to the flag, a new offer is
made. 1t is to go to the county whose
absolute majority will be the greatest
as compared with the election of tina
, year, the reduction of the opposition
| majority to be considered of course al
; as equivalent to gain in republican
: majority. In regard to this flag, tn
J club is authorized by that veteran Q
!, sixty campaigns. Col Saml A. Moore
| to say that the county of Davis expect
= to yield it, but only to receive in it
: place the banner that indicates reput
/ lican championship among the countie
2 of Iowa. The veteran Tippecano
club, some of whose members hav
been through every campaign sine
:. 1910, had no favorite county; but, BIZ
lieving in the principles of the reput
lican party, that the principles {
: Roosevelt should be sustained, Offer
/ these prizes in order that hope of thei
d possession may serve as an added il
7, ducement for getting out the larges
e popular vote and consequent republ
h can success.
$ The following are the resolution
t. making the formal offer:
d Resolved, by the executive commi
IS tee of the Des Moines Veteran Tipp
canoe club that the right to hold IL
IS "Tippecanoe banner" for the ensuir
9 year will be awarded to the republical
n of the county which at the coming ge
e eral election shall make the best pI
n portionate showing in majority as col
y pared with the vote of the year 1870
q Resolved further, That the Tipp
u canoe flag shall be awarded to Il
q. county whose republicans shall nal
'e the best absolute gain in majority,
u in reducing the majority of the opp
e. sition, as compared with the vote
the year 1900. In case the flag
such showing would &c to the sa1
1T county as would the banner, the cou
~ ty making second best absolute ga
shall then be entitled to the flag.
ID 1t will be understood that the nj
Id jority mentioned above is one over
re opposition.
er Isaac Brandt, President,
n, Moses Greenleaf, Secretal
is
a Result the Same.
The Marsha1ltown Tiuac D op,, !