Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-01-22
Starting OUT WELL
Iowa Tippecanoe Club, Great
Iowa Republican Organize
ton, Plans Banquet
FEATURES OF THE ORGANIZATION

RlOnG0T
It's Annual Banauets and Midwinter
Love Fsasts Are Always Occasions
for Revival Of Party spirit-Monroe
County Gets Banner This Year.
Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, Jan. 22.-The annual
banquet of the Iowa Tippecanoe club
and midwinter love feast of Iowa re-
publicans will be held in Des Moines
lon the evening of February 8. The
banquet will be held in the Kirkwood
house and covers will be haid for not
less than 800. The Tippecanoe club.
the pioneer organization of its kind
lin the country. has as a basis the re-
publicans who commenced voting for
Gen. .gTippecanoe" Harrison and then
voted for Gen. Benjamin Harrison, and
while not many are left who actually
voted for "Old Tippecanoe" there are
many who at least shouted for him
lin the campaign or carried torches;
and the organization is well kept up.
The club has prize banner and a
prize flag which are given each year
to the county of Iowa making the best
show of its republican vote at the last
election. "A committee OF the club has
figured out that the banner this year
will go to Monroe county and the nag
to Jasper county. Representative re-
|puhlicans from these counties Will come
to the banquet to receive the banner
and flag The banner which has been
held by about dozen different coun-
|ties of the state at one time or an
Fother, will be returned to the club by
the aged Senator Crawford. OF DUBUQUE
county. who received it last year for
Dubuque republicans, and the response
will be by the president Of the club.
Isiac Brandt. The flag will then be
presented to Monroe county by Gov.
Cummins and the response will be by
Representative Nate E. Kendall, of
Alba, whose work for the party I'm the
Sixth district attracted wide attentions.
Monroe county came within votes or
having as large republican vote as
liz the presidential year. The flag will
bsa seturned from Davis county by Col.
Isl a, Moore, the eldest melpber of the
Iowa house, and there will be re-.
sponse by Gen. Josiah Given, ex-chief
Justice and veteran Of two wars. The
flag will then be presented to Jasper
county by Mayor James Brenton, OF
Des Moines, and Jasper county man
will respond. The event will be an
occasion for revival of party spirit and
"a starting point for the campaign of
1903 in Iowa.
That a systematic effort is going to
be made to secure some radical changes
in the insurance laws of the state OF
Iowa at the next session Of the legis-'
lature, and this effort will be in the
direction Of relieving the companies
OF some of the restrictions, is now re-
garded as certain. 1t is well known that
q strong organization exists In the state
among the fire insurance agents and
managers to look after their mutual
interests and to arrange for uniform
action on all that pertains to the busi-
ness. This organization now has agents
at work on another campaign OF ed
|ucation" among the people with refer
ence to insurance laws and insurance
company needs. The evidence of the
work being accomplished crops out oc-'
casionally Some time ago it was an
nounced by insurance men that large
number of companies had withdrawn
from the state on account OF the bad
Iowa laws and there was not suffi-
cient number of companies left to do
the business required by business men.
This proved to be without foundation
when investigated A few days ago the
insurance men gave 1t out that certain
companies had withdrawn from the
state and notified their agents that be-
cause of the new uniform insurance
policy prepared by the attorney gem
eral in accordance with the Iowa laws,
they would cease to do business. The
first named of these companies was
the Citizens, of Pittsburg. Inquiry at
the state auditors Office reveals the
fact that the Citizens has not been en-
titled to do any business in the state
and IL ANY such has been done 1t was
without right. Suit was commenced
at Burlington to collect insurance on
a loss in strict accordance with the
Iowa law for prorating losses only with
the solvent companies or on. the coll
lectable policies, and forthwith the in
surance lobbyists announced that a
large bunch Of eastern insurance COM
panies would refuse to ask for renewal
of their certificates, but the state insur-
ance department has no knowledge OF
any such move at this time. Officials
have become convinced that a sys-
tematic effort is being made to spread
misinformation among the people and
pave the way for some radical legis-
lation in the interest Of the companies
in Iowa.
An important agreement has been en-
tered into betweenrailroadm managersr re-
specting the speed of stock trains from
points in Iowa and west into Chicago.
For years the companies have been ar
ranging schedules of fast stock trains
into Chicago, each one trying to show
quicker time. and depending largely on
this for business. Now an agreement
has been entered into for lengthening
the time of stock trains and putting an
end to the speed war in connection
Herewith, Supt Slifer. formerly of the
Northwestern, but now with tne ROCK
Island, explained in this city that the
companies had found by experience
that there was no real profit IN the fast
trains for live stock from the west. The.
trouble is that in trying 70 MAKE goou
time the trains are run on sucn narfoW
margin of time that every rev days
train gets Into the Chicago market an