The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1908-08-20
DEMOCRATIC CONFERENCE.


Iowa expressed perfect satisfaction with
the political situation after having
viewed it from every point in an ex-
tended conference held in Des Moines
last Thursday at which vigorous cam
paign was mapped out, says the Register
and Leader.
Fred E. White, democratic candidate
for governor, said last evening that he
was confident that if the election were to
be held now the democrats would sweep
Iowa easily and he sees no reason for
believing that the situation will change
materially between this time and cleo
tion day.
Our leaders in the party expressed
| the most sanguine anticipations with
respect to the outcome in Iowa this
year. Reasonably we'll satisfied before,
their confidence has been redoubled
they say by the apparent controversy
imminent in the republican party over
the senatorial succession.
The conference yesterday was for the
purpose Of securing the views of the
candidates and leaders and to perfect
the organization for the democratic
campaign in Iowa this year. 1t contin-
ued all the day at the Slavery and was
followed by a state committee meeting
at which definite steps toward perfect
ing the organization were taken or
planned.
1t was decided, practically, to hold
the democratic state convention for the
purpose of nominating a candidate for
supreme Judge to fill the vacancy either
September II or September "a. The ex-
act date has been left to State Chairman
Clint l.. Price and Secretary Jack Dali
ton of the committee. but it was stated
last night that it would be one Of two
dates given. 1t was left indefinite be-
canse of the desire not to conflict with
any other important meeting.
Judge NJ. j. Wade, of Iowa City, the
national committeeman of the party.
was at the conference yesterday and
conveyed words of encouragement with
respect to the national view taken by
democrats and expressing the most
cheerful and roseate estimate of the
outcome in the country at large. His
declaration that the democrats of the
nation expect tho democrats of Iowa to
do their share lent encouragement to
the democrats present.
Many speakers of national fame will
be brought into the state for the cam
paign and to cooperate with Fred e.
White, Claude r. Porter, Jerry B. Sui
livan, Judge Wade, General Weaver and
the score or more of other prominent
Iowa democrats who will be active on
the stump from the start to the finish
of the campaign.
Governor Johnson of Minnesota, Gov
ernor Haskell of Oklahoma Senator Gore
of Oklahoma, who started the Bryan
demonstration in the Denver conven-
ton, will all come into Iowa, following
the Bryan meeting in Des Moines on
August q.
Vice Presidential candidate Kern will
also be brought into the state for sew
eral democratic speeches. Other men
of national reputation will be drafted
in the Iowa campaign.
i This is on the theory, of course, that
there is chance to carry Iowa for
Bryan and to elect United States
senator.
The organization is being perfected
to this end. 1t is stated that closer
organization has been made under the
management of Chairman Price and
Secretary Dalton than ever before in
the life of the democratic party in
Iowa. Every county has its chairman
and secretary in direct communication
with the state headquarters, and in
every county the precinct organization
has been perfected. 1t is not the in
tention of the democrats, they declare,
to go into this campaign hit or miss.
But the work will be done carefully, in
detail and according to the rules or
organization.
At the meeting of the state committee
yesterday an executive committee
composed of ]. j. Hughes, E. r. Moore
and ]. W. Reynolds were given charge
of the literary or press bureau of the
democratic campaign. The committee
has not yet selected the superintendent
of the work under it's direction,
Chairman Price, Secretary Dalton
and Treasurer N. f. Reed, of Ottumwa,
were given authority to organize the
speakers bureau of the headquarters
and they will soon select an efficient
manager to have charge of that work.
Chairman Price was given full author
ity over the state headquarters and
will secure such assistance as he may
need to conduct the campaign.
At the conference yesterday were
many of the leaders in the democratic
party.
Claude r. Porter, candidate for SEN
ator, and Fred 4. White, candidate for
governor, were two of these. They left
last evening for Council Bluffs with J. j..
Hughes, the Ninth district committee
mvn, M. H. Schurz, of Council Bluffs,
George B. Whittemore, of Sioux City,
and other western Iowa democrats who
we're at the conference. Mr.. White will
speak today at the Chautauqua at Oak
land in Pottawattamie county and Mr..
Porter will 60 to Glenwood where he
will speak at the Mills county Chautau-
qua. These speeches are to be on the
democratic days at the respectives as
semblies.
Mr.. White has many dates already
made for the campaign but after Sep
TENDER 1st he will be in the hands OF
the state committee. He speaks at Oak
land today, at Holbrook in Iowa county
, August 18th, at Rippey in Green county
on August 10th, at Maquoketa in Jack
son county August Goth; he will attend