Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-08-04
Both Parties Have State Head.
quarters Open In Des Moines,
But Dizziness Prevails
LITERARY BUREAUS AT WORK
National Committees Have Not Mat.
tors Fairly Started and Campaign
Plans Ars Not Matured-Cail For the
Iowa PopuIist Convention Will Be
Issued Soon.
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Des Moines. Aug. 4.-There Is dis
tressng dullness in political circles
thus far this year. Both political
committees have headquarters open,
but there is practically nothing doing.
There will be little done for some time.
Both committees have literary bureas
organized for the purpose of furnish
ing the rural politicians with political
arguments as prepared at Washington
or in New York, but there is absolute
ly no demand for anything of the sort.
The national committees have not yet
got into working order, and there mas
been no communication relating 10
national campaign plans. The con-
gressional committees are f1rSt TO get
action because 1t is thru them that the
right sort Of campaign literature IS
supplied to the voters as 1t Is printed
in the Conversational Record. 1t is an
ticipated that there will be ayailabie
all the literature OF this kind that the
committees can use. WhlIe there is
nothing doing at the headquarters OF
the Iowa committees, 1t is true that
there is much less to be done this year
in the way of perfecting preliminary
organization than is usual. The work
OF these committees for the past few
years has been directed almost entirely
in the direction of making organization
In preparation for the presidential
year and the parties are now better or
gapized thruout Iowa than for many
years.
Expectation is that in the matter Of
campaign work there will be nothing
done for six weeks or more, ana even
then that for a presidential year II
is going to9be. somewhat uniIiterestingI
The preliminary calls for canpa'sf7
ma tarial indicate that there 10 no great
desire on the part of the campaign
speakers to prepare themselves Tor q
campaign of talking. Even the tariff
issue attracts little attention. The
gold silver question Is but little dis
cussed and there is not a particle OF
new literature to be had on the sub
iect. Just now the demand Is Tor
speakers at reunions and county fairs
and picnic gatherings The lasnlon
has been changing somewhat in re-
cent years and this class Of gatherings
ia coming into favor for political
speeches. In other years they were re-
garded as poor places for talking poll
tics, but now their value is better rec
ognized. And this is true OF both par
ties
II is expected that the call for a
populist state convention will be issued
very soon and that a meeting VIII De
held in Des Moines to put up state
ticket. Neither the populist nor the
socialists have now a sufficient num-
her of voters to be entitled to recogni-
ton as official political parties. but
they can get on the official ballots by
petition. For several years the populist
state conventions have been very poor
ly attended. The one last year and the
one the year before had less than a
dozen delegates each. This year, II
the expectations of ]. B. Norman and
L. H. Weller are realized, the attend
ance will be larger. The populists be-
lieve that the troubles of the demo-
Gratis will bring back to their party
many who we're former greenbackers.
a weekly political organ in this cgity.
The last attempt to establish a popu-
list paper here was three years ago
when ALI Reed. formerly OF Jackson
county, moved his little paper here
from Sioux City, and run 1t In connec-
ton with job printing Office. 1t was
denied admission to the mails under a
somewhat strained ruling, and he gave
IL up. He then went on ranch in
western South Dakota and said he
would never again indulge in leading
political party. But he has turned
up in Sturgis, S. D., at the head OF a
movement to reorganize the populist
party and start newspaper organ.
The populists Of Iowa believe this
movement to reorganize will be popu-
lar.
A number OF Iowans are interested In
the prospective rebellion in the Isle OF
Pines. Several companies We're formed
to purchase land and make improve
ments in the piney island few years
ago and now there are said to be about
ffty former residents of this state who
are directly interested there. The AM
last winter joined in a protest against
having the Isle ceded to Cuba. Now 1t
is learned that they have secured arms
and ammunition and if the Cubans take
possession they will resist by force.
The island was one of those taken with
Cuba and Porto Rico and its status has
remained in question.
There is some doubt as to the legal
steps to be taken i'm the case of John
w. stone, the Sioux City man who kill
ed a shoe dealer in this city six years
ago and has been restored to reason
at Anamosa He was never tried on
the murder charge. A statute which
had remained dead letter was invok-
ed when he was indicted and the dis
trict court had him tried for INSANITY
and committed to remain until No