Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-10-03
MORE INTEREST IN
IOWA CAMPAIGNS
General Awakening Noticeable
Within Republican Ranks
Thruout State
BIG MEETING NEXT WEEK
Cannon Arouses Party to Fact That
the Eyes of the Nation are on Iowa
Porter and Dennison Don't Talk
Enough "Tariff for Revenue''-Po-
IiticaI Gossip Of the State.
Special to Times-Republican.

| Special to es-Republican.
Des Moines. Oct. S.-The coming
week there will be a general awaken
| ing in the political campaign all over
| Iowa. 1t is believed that the meetings
addressed by Speaker Cannon have
served to arouse republicans to the fact
watching Iowa. Senator Beveridge
speaks in Des Mones tonight, and Vice
President Fairbanks speaks in Water.
loo on Saturday of next week. Gov
ernor Van SAINT, Governor Deneen.
Governor Davidson and others will
have dates very soon. Dolliver and
Lacey and Dawson have already been
doing much effective campaigning.
The Waterloo rally, it is expected, will
start things going in the Third dis
trict. and it will be followed by one
! in the Fifth district soon. Some big
Tenth and Eleventh districts, where
the call is for speakers.
The democrats thus far seem to have
relied entirely on the two young men
WHO are one their state ticket-Porter
and Dennison. The sole criticism OF
both has thus far been that, while they
are able to make fairly good speeches
along the line of standpat republican,
ism, they have been neglecting what
the old campaigners call genuine de-
mocracy.' They haven't talked as
much for revenue as there is in their
platform, and they haven't been able
! to arouse much enthusiasm among the
veteran democrats who have been
Taught to measure everything by the
Bryan standard.
| In the meantime it is known that the
independent movement, which a few
democrats who have been followers OF
Bryan started short time ago, has
been gaining in force rapidly The
| work is said to have been done quietly.
w. D. Olney, who seems to have been at
the head of the movement here, is no
novice in politics. He was a republi-
can in other years, and like about 30,-
ODO others he went off on, the coinage
question. But he has been more near
lv an Independent at all times, and he
| fairly represents the large class of in
dependents to which is due the i'm
mense majority given Roosevelt in
Iowa These Independents have reason
to believe that the present manages
| 20 \ %i<, o,r<1y To,
is devoted chiefly to turning the ma
chinery of the party over to those who
were responsible for the defeat Of
Bryan the two times that he sought
the presidency. They refuse to be
caught in the trap, and are urging
democrats who have convictions to
vote Independently.
The prohibitionists appear to be I'M
able to stir up much interest in their
cause.
Political affairs in Cass county have
reached an interesting point because Of
| the fact that a large per cent of the
| democrats in that county are favoring
| the candidacy of Governor Cun1mins
| and Representative C. A. Meredith
Since the county convention was he'd
| the democratic state central committee
has been endeavoring to induce the
| politicians there to fill out the ticket
and nominate a full county ticket and
| also candidate for representative. L.
| is impossible to nominate a candidate
! to the legislature, however, and as a
result the standpatters have brought
out Blakesley as an independent candi-
date.
When the democratic county cons
vention was held by vote of 81 to 81
it was decided not to put in a full tick
ct. When representative was reached
| it was decided to leave that vacant in
publican candidate. Then State Phar-
macy Commissioner j. 8. Goss moved
that the county central committee
could not fill the position. This GU.
off any after move ON the part Of the
| standpatters. 1t is claimed now that
those democrats who are favoring the
| election of Blakesley, the independent.
also favored the defeat of DeLano, the
democratic representative from the
county. The democrats who are fol-
| lowing the leadership of Chase, editor
of the Atlantic Democrat, favored De-
| Lanos election, and now favor tGe
| election of Cummins and Meredith
4 largely because they are not corpora
| ton men, The standpatters and the
| corporation democrats work together in
the county and the progressive republi-
cans and progressive democrats do the
same 1t is said that the move to get
an opponent in the field to Meredith,
the republican candidate for repre-
| sentative, was inspired by the Ed.
Hunter following in this city.
Dates for the addresses to be deliver
ed by Claude R. Porter have been Civ
I en- out at the democratic headquarters
| in this city as follows: October at
| Alton: October 4, Missouri Valley;
5, Charlton. in the afternoon Fairfield
| in the evening; s. Mt. Pleasant in the
afternoon; 8, West Union in afternoon.
! oelwein in the evening; 9. Waukon, IN