Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-09-23
Something of His Wonderful
Ability For Quick Prepara-
tion of Public Speeches
THE BIG REPUBLICAN RALLY
The Meeting Next Saturday Evening
at Des Mones is Under the Auspices
of the Polk County Republican Club
and Will Be Conducted on Broad
Lines.
,cial to Times Republican.

Special to imes-Republlcan.
| Des Moines Sept. 23..ioN. A. B
| Cunnins has finished the preparation
of his opening address to the repupll-
cans of Iowa which he will deliver i1
the big rally of next Saturday even
| ing in this city when the campaign 1oi
| a second term for governor VIII De
opened. Gov. Cummins did not spend
very much time in the preparation
of his address. In fact. there are few
public men who are more ready IN the
the preparation of public addresses
derful capacity for holding at his in
slant command a vast fund OF infor-
nation ON public questions and he
understands the principles which actu
ate him and which apply to these aues-
tions so we'll that he has only to array
Ibis facts and present arguments that
are the same this year and last and the
| next Some of the most notable OF
| the addresses of Gov. Cummins have
been dictated by him to his stenograph-
| err while he was busy at his desk with
! the vast routine of his office, when ne
would have to step between sentences
and talk about pardons and paroles,
| when the thread of his argument was
repeatedly broken by importunate
seekers for positions. Others OF his
addresses were prepared on very short
not!ce--within an hour or two of the
time for their delivery. Gov. Cummins
prepared his address for the opening
of this campaign in two days. 1t is
learned that he found SO many good
things to say about the republican
party and republican statesmen and re-
publican policies and on behalf OF the
administration affairs by republicans
that he has divided his address into
two parts and on Saturday next he viii
speak only of national issues, leaving
sls. e :tnd local matters for another
time. AS was done two years ago he
has made arrangements with Chairman
Spence for a wide distribution OF his
address and it viii be placed in the
hands Of weekly newspap pers for gen
eral distribution thruout the state.
Gov. Cummins Is a great believer in the
efficiency of good sound republican ar
guments presented in attractive form
10 intelligent Iowa readers His ad
dress will be widely read. He will
stand firmly by the platform of the
party and never wayer one jot from
the position to which the republican,
of Iowa have committed themselves.
The character of the Cummins meet
ing of next Saturday evening may BE-
learned from the preparations made
The meeting is under the auspices of
the Polk County Republican Club, a
political club on broad lines and en-
bracing all good republicans. The vice
presidents selected to sit on the plat
form include names of many that are
we'll known in the state. Some of them
are: Sidney A. Foster, James G. Ber-
ryhill. George H. Carr. Isaac Brandt,
w. Y. Wilcox, j. A. T. Hull, Senator
|C. c. Dowell. Ex-Postmaster Lewis
Schooler, Harvey Ingham, John J..
Hamilton, Postmaster John Mckay.
Lawrence DeGraff. Gilbert B. Pray, A.
l.. Urick, John McVicker Thomas A
Cheshire, Allan Dawson, James C.
Davis, Ex-Auditor c. G. Mccarthy,
Col John r. Prime, Harry Polk. F. c.
Hubbell, s. n. M. Byers, George l..
Dobson. J. D. whisenand, Carroll
Wright, Josiah Given, r. P. Clarkson,
Felix Z. Haley, Emory English, Col
H. b. Hedge, C. f. Wennestrum Simon
Casady. Nose Jacobs. and many others
prominent in city and state. num-
hoy. Of vii frny ,,f
the city have been named such as:
P. kirkpatrick, Nevada; j. f. Jordan,
Valley Junction; Judge A. w. Wilkin-
son, Winterset: George w. Clarke,
Adel; Judge Edmund Nichols, Perry;
S. M. Leach, Adel; W. O. Payne, Ne
vada; Senator w. II. Berry, Indianola;
Senator F. L. Maytag, Newton, and 9TH
ers. In short, the opening of the cam
paign is going to mark the entN Of fac
tionalsln in the party SO far as this
city and section of the state is con-
cerned and SO far as it is possible for
Gov. Cumnins and his friends and ad-
mirers to have influence in this direc-
ton.
When Warden Hunter OF the Ana
mosa penitentiary was in the city last
week attending the conference of super
intendents he referred to an unfortu
nate incident which occurred at the
penitentiary. This was the escape of
one John Austin, and MIR. Hunter has
not obtained clue as to where Austin
went. The escape was one of those un-
expected things that cannot be ex-
planned. Austin was sent to the peni-
tentiary for burglary from Greene coun-
ty Under 20year sentence. and was
committed little more than four years
ago. His sentence, under good behavior
would have expired in 1910. He left
the prison nearly month ago. He was
employed about the admins
tration building where he had the free
dom of the yards and outside. He had
shown himself to be a most trustworthy
person. He was sent down town on
an errand, as he had been before, and
never returned He had been trans
ferr,ad from the Fort Madison peniten-
tiary, where he had made good record
among the prisoners. This is the first
escape from either Iowa penitentiary
for q long time and the state has been