Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-09-17
WILL START
WIT Il BOOM
REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN TO BE
PRECEDED BY DISTRICT
CONFERENCES.
BE OF BROAD SCOPE
Polk County Committee Making Thor
ough Preparations For Opening of
Campaign by Gov. cummins-Hep-
burn Doing Excellent Work.

Des Moines, Sept. 16-With such
boom as is seldom witnessed the re-
publican campaign will shortly be
launched throughout the state. Re-
ports received at headquarters indicate
that the district conferences to be
held this week and next will be large
ly attended and will be centers Of en-
thusiasm that will be felt in every
county and precinct of the state. Great
interest prevails in all parts of the
state the congressman and members
of the state committee are doing every
thing possible to make the conference
successful 1t was the experience last
year that these meetings were among
the best features of the campaign and
large things are expected from these
consultations this year.
First in ottumwa.
This year the conferences will be
even broader in their scope. Besides
the congressman and the member of
the state committee in each district,
the republican candidates for the SEN
ate and house have been invited to be
present and together with the county
chairmen there will be quite large
gathering and no doubt considerable
enthusiasm will be aroused Less
than dozen counties remain to be or
ganized and therefore most of the
county chairmen will have an oppor-
tunity to attend these conferences.
Three will be held this week. The first
one will be the sixth district at OF
tumwa on Thursday. The eight dis
trict conference will be held at Cres-
ton on Friday and that of the ninth
district at Council Bluffs on Saturday
Hepburn Does Good Work.
| Congressman Hepburn has given the
campaign a good start in his district
! by delivering addresses at most of the
! county conventions. He expects to
| devote considerable time to the cam.
paign this fall and will doubtless speak
| in all of the counties in his district,
and perhaps in some other parts of the
state. Colonel Hepburn is an excel
lent campaign speaker and is always
| listened to with a great deal of inter
est.
| Opening of Campaign.
| The local committees are hard at
| work completing arrangem ents for the
opening of the campaign by Governor
| Cummins in Des Moines on the even
| ing of September &C. AS the time fol-
the meeting approaches there is every
indication that it will be one of the
most successful campaign openings
| ever held in Iowa. 1t is the first time
in many years that a state campaign
has been opened in Des Moines, and
Des Moines people usually do not have
an opportunity to hear a campaign
\ oil
| election. The county committee eX
poets to generally increase the republi
can vote in Polk county this fall ant
there will doubtless be several meet
ings. In addition to the big meetings
held in Des Moines, there will, o.
course, be the usual number held il
the surrounding towns.
Prominent Speakers Will Be Heard
Manager Dawson,of the speakers bu
reau, expects to be successful in Sc
curing considerable number of prom
inent speakers from other states this
fall He has written to large mum
her and confidently expects thht man,
of them will respond favorably. Las
fall it was very difficult to secur,
speakers for Iowa owing to the con-
gressional elections. This year only
few states hold elections, and it is ex
pected that it will be much easier TO
Iowa to get some good outside speak
; ers.
Van SAINT to Speak.
Governor Van SAINT of Minnesota will
, be one of the prominent men from out
side of Iowa who will participate in tn
campaign in this state this year. Ii
7 response to the invitation sent to hin
| by Manager Dawson OF the republican
headquarters few days ago, Mr.. Val
SAINT replied that he would be glad t.
; make speeches in Iowa this year.
GRAND JURY AT WORK.