Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-12
CUNN|NS 1Q. SPEAK
FORT DODGE rally
Celebration In Webster County
Friday to be Opening of
Campaign
CUTS HIS VACATION SHORT
Cun,mins Returns From Colorado Ear
Iier Than He Intended in Order to Be
Present at Fort Dodge RalIy-Num-
Der of Dates Arranged for the Cam
paisn.
Special to Times-Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, Sept. 12.-Governor
Cummins will return tomorrow to
Iowa from his vacation in Colorado
and will speak at the big republican
celebration in Fort Dodge-Senator
Delivers home-the day following his
return. Governor Cummins is thus
cutting his vacation shorter than he
had intended to do purposely in order
to be able to accept the invitation to
be at Fort Dodge for the big gather
ing. His address there will be the
first since his nomination and in way
will be the opening of the campaign,
tho the formal opening of the cam
paign' will not come till the first of
October 1t is remembered that the
governors opening speech in the party
campaign for the nomination as gov
ernor was made in Fort Dodge also.
Following this address at Fort Dodge
the governor will make number Of
speeches over the state between that
and the formal opening of the cam
paign and political meetings will be
held In other parts of the state by other
leaders of the party. 1t has been ar
ranged in the Sixth congressional dis
trict for Congressman John f. Lacey
and Auditor of State B. F. Carroll to
make four speeches, appearing on the
same platform before the formal open
ing of the campaign. The dates for
Of
They will speak at Monterey in Davis
county, September %, and at Floris in
the same county September 26. Dates
will probably be arranged at Keota and
Richland in Keokuk county for the
same week
1t is expected that following the con-
ferences in the other congressional
districts some political meetings to be
addressed by leading members of the
party will be arranged, to be held
this month. Auditor of State B.
F. Carroll has placed his time at the
disposal of the state central committee
largely and will make great many
speeches during the campaign.
Iowa was eighteenth in the shoot at
Sea Girt, New Jersey. Adjutant Cen
eral w. H. Thrift returned yesterday
from the east with the Iowa guard
team of sharp shooters. Tho the team
is ranked as eighteenth in list of Al
teams General Thrift is feeling quite
good over the result. Only the first six
companies received prizes. The reg
ular army infantry took first, the cav
airy second, Massachusetts, state guard
third, New York fourth, the U. S. navy
fifth and U. S. marines sixth. The IL
linois national guard team is seventh
in the list and first among those that
made a record of 3,O3S and the Iowa
team made record of 1854 or only LA
points less than that of Illinois. The
record by Massachusetts which made
the best guard record, was 3,1T or
only 313 better than the Iowa record
The records made show that the COM
petition was very close and tho Iowa
is eighteenth in the list it is but a
few points below the winning teams.
The Iowa team had number of dis
counaging circumstances. Lieut.. Bow
en-, a member of last years team and
a crack shot, was taken sick on the
way to Sea Girt. He stayed in the
shoot but his record was 100 points
less than his record of last year. Half
of this years team were new men and
two of the six new men got stage
fright and their records were conse
quently not as good as their ability
warrants.
General Thrift is great believer in
target practice and is determined that
next years team shall be selected ear
lier in the season so that after the
team is selected it can be kept to-
gether for a longer time for practice
shooting at the Fort Des Moines range.
The next years national shoot will be
at Toledo, Ohio, on the Ohio state
rifle range This will be very much
more convenient for the western teams
as they can reach the range with less
travel, the Ohio range being only a few
hours travel from Chicago.