Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-08-27
POLITICAL CONFERENCE
Meeting of Republican State
Committee Will Open the
State Campaign
PoPuLlsTs IN SESSION TODAY
Ticket Will Go on Ballots Only by Pc
tition, If Named-Important Move
ment Started to Establish State San
itarium For the Cure of Consumption
Hopes for Victims of Disease.
pecial to Times Republican.

Special to Times-R Republican.
Des Moines. Aug. 27.-On Tuesday of
next week the formal conference OF the
Republican state committee with candi-
| dates and officials and republican poll
ticians of the state is to be held In this
lefty, and this will mark the beginning
of the state campaign. Chairman r.
H. Spence is already on hand for the
meeting. Headquarters have not yet
been opened, but the rooms are being
fitted up in the Observatory building
and will be ready for use when the
committee meets. Chairman Spence
will be personally in charge of the work
at headquarters, and at the conference
next week it will be determined how
large an Office force can be used and
how the work will be done. While the
last meeting OF the committee was har-
monious and in the best spirit, yet it is
| q fact that there arose in the meeting
q difference of opinion as to the me thod
of conducting the campaign. AT the
! time of the organization Of the COM
mittee on the day Of the republican
state convention two committees We're
named, a finance committee and an eX-
ecut!ve committee, and the entire COM
mittee gave into these two committees
| the authority to direct the campaign
and to supervise the financial enc in
conjunction with the chairman and sec
retary of the committee AT the las;
meeting OF the committee resolution
was offered by W. w. Epps directing
that the management be taken from
these committees and that there should
be meetings of the entire committee at
! frequent intervals to attend to the de-
tails of the committee work After a
discussion the matter was deferred to
| the meeting on Sept. !, after the con-
| ference with the candidates on the
| state ticket. The difference is not re-
garded as anything more thar q trivial
difference as TO the manner of conduct
I, ing campaign. Generally the detail
pfptas bas been ieft 10 committees and
| the whole state committee has not been
| burdened with the management of the
campaigns. The prominent republic
ans holding office in the state are to
join in the general conference next
week. This includes the members OF
congress. While this is a state cam
paign the platform touches on national
issues pretty largely and it was deemed
desirable to have the wise counsel OF
the congressional delegation, including
the two experienced senators, SO that
there may be good working co-opera-
tion Chairman Spence expresses hope
fulness as to the campaign and is ready
for a spirited fight from the start. His
experience in the past two campaigns
will make it easy for him to start off
readily.
The populists are to hold their state
convention in Des Moines today, pro-
vided there are a sufficient number of
them to call it a convention. Chairman
Norman has announced that Tom Wat
son, L. H. Weller, Joe Parker, j. A.
Edgerton and others will be here. If
ticket is named it will go on the ballots
only by petition.
The democrats will have offices inI
the Observatory building on the fourth
floor where number of rooms have
been engaged by Chairman Jackson.
The date of the opening of the repub-
lican campaign will be fixed very soon.
The Polk County Republican club, a
campaign organization, is making an
effort to have Governor Cummins open
the campaign in this city. For several
years the campaign openings have been
in distant parts of the state and some
times at places where the facilities for
good meetings have not been good. 1t
was expected that the governor would
speak at the Pleasantville three-days
barbecue and political meeting Septem-
ber 16 to is, but this has been called off. |
1t was the plan to have both candidates
for governor present and other pro-
ininent politicians.
C. r. Benedict, of Harlan, says that
the work on the Western Iowa Interur ,
ban railway is getting along very well.
The surveying is being done westward
through Dallas county. Mr.. Benedict
declares that the alleged project of the
Armours to build into Iowa and across
Iowa from Omaha has no connection
with the Western Iowa interurban pro-
iect. 1t is stated that the Armours
plan to run a trolley line across the
state through Des Moines on the way
to Chicago or some other place. Moth
ing is known of this project here and
it seems to be confined thus far to
promotion work in New York city.
There is actual work on the Western
Iowa line.
The state board of health has given
some sanction to a movement started
for the blishment Of state sani-
tarium or series of such places. for the
cure of consumption. Space is given
in the Bulletin for a letter from New
York doctor who has made a great
study of the question in which he de-
clares that pulmonary tuberculosis Is
a preventable and durable disease, and
1T is said, and might also say humili-
ating and disgraceful fact that thous-
ands of our fellow citizens must die
every year. not because their disease Is
incurable but because there are not
enough places to cure It," Hts con-
tention is that good results can be ac-
complished in nearly all climes by the
sanitary treatment, that from SO to 75l