Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-09-30
Will
SPEAK TONIGHT
"Uncle Joe" and Congressman
Watson Will Address an
Audience In Des Moines
ABOUT THE FAIRBANKS MEETING
Commencement Of Vice Presidential
Candidates Tour Thru Iowa Will
Mark Real Opening Of Campaign
Outside Of the Second District =
Campaign Gossip.

Campaign Gossip.
special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, Sept. 30-It is expected
that after today there will be some
s;gns of life in the state campaign.
uncle Joe Cannon, speaker Oh the
house and Congressman watson are
in the state, and this evening VIII ao-
drass am audience in Des Moines. Ihls
| is to be the formal opening OF the CAM
paign in this part of the state put ~
is not pretended by anybody that ehere
re Going to be any regular contlnua-
ton of meetings from TINS tlii1e oii.
There will be a lull until the falrpallhs
meetings. Tkere will be good croWo
for the Cannon meeting, thanks to an
orrania.tion which has recently been
characterjZed in print here as having
sw elled heads, the Polk County Repub-
lican Club. This club is most enter-
pr,sing and aggressive ana Is sei!ce1y
,on- "a ,t,onal but intensely partisan.
A marching club in UNIFORM wiz w
tho nus,ness and the country members
will ride horses. The nag VIII oe lne
emblem most conspicuous. A company
of 12a young ladies. dressed IN "h.e'
will 20 to the meeting armed VIII
silk flags, and they will occupy seats IN
the most donsp' cuous place. Senator
| C.. C. Eowell will preside. With sucn
arranpcr,ents it is certain that Speaker
Cannon will have fine crowd to near
| him.
However, it will not be until the
Fairbanks tour that the state Will
realize there is campaign OUTSIDE OF
| the Second district. The state COM
mittee is having a great deal OF gr1ef
trying to satisfy all the towns about
! the Fa:rbanks meetings. Every town
jnot cn,y warts meeting to be ad-
dressed by the candidate for vice pres
lident but by others p well. The supply
of auxiliary speakers is limited. Sen
ators Dolliver and Allison will do some
Of this, also Governor Cummins, M. D.
lO'ConneJl, and Congressman Smith,
Rirdsa,l and Cousins. An effort is be-
! ing made tc have Dolliver stop off at
Webster City and address crowd
after Fairbanks leaves. Allison and
Birdsall and O'Connell, will do this at
Waterloo Extra meetings may be ar
ranged atother places. But the re-
publican state committee has not this
men at hand so that this can be done
! In all cases. The Fairbanks meeting
| in Des Moines, will be in the evening
and can therefore be an extended one
for the candidate for vice president.
Because Of this fact 1t is expected that
there will be many who will come from
other places in the state just to hear
Fairbanks. On the trip east from Des
Moines the same effort Is being made
| to secure other speakers for meetings
at the time Of the Fairbanks visit. At
| ter the Fairbanks meeting the cam
paign will really be on-at least, so far
as it can be put on by the committee.
| Solicitor M. d. OConnell, of Fort
Dodge, who charmed good many Iowa
audiences last year, is engaged to do
speaking for the national committee in
wisconsin and New York; but before
doing SO will have some dates for good
meetings in Iowa. He is to reach home
today, and will come to Des Moines.
He speaks in Atlantic Oct. 5, with
Senator Dan Turner, Of Corning, an
afternoon rally; Glenwood, Oct. 6;
Boone, Oct. z; then meets the Fair
banks party at Fort Dodge and goes to
Waterloo, Oct II; Fayette county,
Oct. IL and 13; Buchanan county, Oct.
IA; Clinton county, Oct. Is.
There seems to be as yet some doubt
about whether or not the Brewster
Lacey joint debates will take place in
the Sixth district. The democrats COM
plain that the formal challenge issued
by their committee has not been ac-
cepted by the republican congressional
committee, and are claiming that the
committee does not desire the joint
meetings to be had. Personally Major
Lacey is very anxious to meet his op-
ponent and discuss before the voters
the issues of the day. But dates have
not been arranged. It has been point
ed out that the only time Col. Hep
burn was ever beaten for congress in
his district was when he accepted a
challenge for joint discussions and
went all over the district with his op-
ponent, who thus got larger crowds
than he would ever have been able to
secure for himself. In the Seventh dis
trft no move has as yet been made
looking to closing up the matter of
joint meetings between Capt. Hull and
his antagonist In view of the dullness
of the season it is felt by many that
the only way for Iowa TO get out full
vote this year would be to have joint
discussions. In this way possibly there
might be some campaign In districts
other than the Second.
The attention OF the T.R. correspon-
dent has been called to the fact that
the wording OF an article explanatory
OF the new Hayward law for strict
accounting OF fees and expenses, as
presented I'm this column. two days
ago. was susceptible TO construction
which might reflect on the railroad
commissioners of Iowa. This was not
intended. The articie was one entirely
In explanation Of the law. md the ref