Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-10-22
OPENED CAMP AICN.
ELDoN REPUBLICANS HOLD 4
RoUslNG MEETING.
HEAR TWO ABLE DISCUSSIONS

HEAR TWO ABLE DISCUSSIONS
Non. James M. Brenton and Hon. A.W.
Sschanan Speakers of Evening"
Several Hundred People in Attend
ance-A Good Opening.
From Tuesdays Daily.
An audience of several hundred
representative voters from Eldon and
Washington township attended the OPP
enlng meeting of the republican cam
paign at Eldon last evening and listen
ed with interest and appreciation to
addresses delivered by Hon. A. w. Bu-
chanan, candidate for reelection to
the Iowa general assembly from Wap-
clio county and Hon. j. NJ Brenton,
mayor of Des Moines The meeting
was held at the Mahaffey opera house
and was enthusiastic and encouraging.
The splendid audience listened intent
ly to the addresses and frequently the
remarks of the speakers were inter-
An old-fashioned drum corps fur
nished the music for the occasion and
the old time melodies of the fife
brought back to the older ones in the
audience memories of the stirring
times of 61-65. The audience was late
in arriving but it finally came with a
rush and with it a large proportion of
women.
Audience Attentive.
1t was an attentive audience and it
listened to the speeches of the even
ing with an air of contentment, salts
faction and evident approval APP
plause was frequent when some telling
point was made or some reference Civ
en- to the candidates for county Offices
who were present upon the platform
Mayor Brenton won the crowd
from the start. He is force
full speaker He strikes straight out
from the shoulder and he does not
mince words. If story needs the
use of strong language to give it a
telling point and make it effective it
gets it. He held the closest possible
attention of his hearers and made his
talk full of conviction by his common
sense and practical view of things.
Hon. w H. Stauffer, Mayor of Ell
don, met the. speakers and the candi-
dates at the afternoon Rock Island
train and deserves great credit for the
successful manner in which they We're
entertained and in which the meeting
in the evening was carried out
Pointed Words From w. G. Crow.
w G. Crow former state representa-
tive from Wapello county was intro
duced as chairman, of the meeting by
Attorney e. X. Daughtery. During the
course of g few pointed remarks be-
fore introducing Hon A. w. Buchan-
2 an the first speaker of the evening.
Mr. Crow said: In 1886 this drum
corps could not have gotten out in
front and played half way through
Yankee DOODLE" till this hall would
have been filed with people anxious
ly inquiring what can we do? Then
you had nothing to do. Today you
have something to do and you are get
ting well paid for doing it.
In referring to the candidates who
were present sitting upon the plat
form, Sheriff j. II. Cremer, Repre-
sentative A. w Buchanan, Supervisor
John McElroy, he said: I'VE pick out
the best and most available men in
the county to be our candidates and
nominate them by reclamation. We
trust them because they have been
successful not only in their own bust
ness but in the handling of our bust
ness in the past. These are the kind
OF men that we want to represent u.s.
Representative Buchanan was then
introduced and gave a plain business
like and pointed statement of the rec
ord of some of the legislative acts
brought into existence during the
tWenty-e1ghth and twenty-ninth gener-
al assemblies in which he served Mr..
buchanan is matter of fact talker.
he views every proposition from the
practlcal side and finds out what
VIII be its use to the community. He
takes up his subject from the stand
point from which he would view a
subject that he had to do with his
own private affairs and like careful
and thorough business man, gives a
plain and practical statement that car
rles its own conviction.
Mr.. Buchanan Speaks.
Mr. Buchanan spoke in part as fol.
lows:
Wapello county is one of the larg-
est counties in the state that is rep-
resented in the state legislature by
one representative. With it's varied
interests, farming, manufacturing and
mining it is one of the richest and
most important counties | want to
thank the republican party for select
ing me by unanimous vote for candi-
date for representative to succeed my
self. also want to thank the voters
for the large majority which they
:, gave me in the last election and if /
am reelected will give all the ability
possess for the advancement of the
varied interests of the county
You will be interested in knowing
something of the work done by the
twenty-ninth general assembly, Great
problems confronted us at that time
Public buildings at Ames and at Iowa
City had been burned down, the board
of control needed more money for the
Cherokee hospital, the Louisiana pur-