The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1908-10-22
THE CAMP A|GN IN
IOWA IS SPIRITED
APATHY HAS AT LAST GIVEN UP
TO ENTHUSIASM. &# 81
REGISTRATION Is NECESSARY
All Citizens of Towns With Over $500
Population Must Have Their
Names Recorded or They
Cannot Vote. .. ....

cities having a population of $500 in
habitants or over, boards of registra-
ton will sit tomorrow to registerI
voters who expect to take part in the
coming November general election.
A new registration is required in the
state this year. 1t makes no differ
ence if man has voted at every cleo
ton for the past fifty years, he will
be required to register his name. adj
dress and qualifications if he desires
to cast a ballot at the coming cleo
ton. The boards will sit for three,
days, Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
Alfred K. Nippert, of Cincinnati, o.,
a prominent German orator, will
come to Iowa for a few days during
the campaign and will speak at Peo-'
ria, Ia, Oct. &c, and at Ricketts, on
the afternoon of Oct. u, and Schles-
wig on the evening of the same day.
Major ]. F. Lacey will be busy dur
ing the last week of the campaign.
He will speak at DEBORAH Oct. H;
West Union, Oct. II; New Hampton,
Oct. %; Grundy Center, Oct. 20; Fl
Dodge, Oct. 80; Highland, in the af-
ternoon and Shelby in the evening, of
! Oct. 81.
Herbert R. Wright, of Marshalltown
is colored orator who is taking an
active interest in the republican
campaign in Iowa. Mr.. Wright has
been American consul to Utilia, Hon
duraS, and on his return recently
spent considerable time travelling
through the southern states. He Is
graduate of the law department of the
State University of Iowa, in the class
of 1900, working his way through col
lege and wrestling his education from
adverse circumstances. He has been
billed to speak in several Iowa cities.
during the last week of the campaign.
The colored voters of Des Moines
are making extensive preparations
for the reception of w. H. Vernon,
registrar of the United States treas
ury and one of the mos. prominent
colored men of the country, who will
speak here next Monday evening, Oct.
26. The meeting will be held at the
Y. M. c. A. auditorium and besides
the thousands of colored people of Des
Moines it is expected that large dele
cations will be in the city from All
over central Iowa to hear the orator.
Travelling statesmen coming into
Des Moines from all parts of the state
declare that it is now almost impos-
sible to do business with country
merchants, owing to the pending cleo
ton. 81 am going to lay off for two
weeks" said one man. 81 can hard
ly make enough to cover my travel
ing expenses"
The reason ascribed for this is that
the campaign has so far awakened
up that the merchants are too busy
talking politics and specializing on
the outcome of the election to place
large orders for future delivery.
The interest ID not an idle curiosity
as to the strength being developed by
the parties. Up tC the past week
business generally proceeded along
evenly, little interrupted by the &C
tivities of political leaders. But now
the merchant is showing considerable
concern over the prospects.
Someone must have put bug in
his ears" said the travelling man. Il
cant account for this sudden interest
in politics unless it is that the mer-
chant is beginning to realize that he
really has something at stake in this
election. He is not only talking, but
he is plugging, and plugging for Taft,
too.
"A few weeks ago, could go into a
country store, chat about the weather,
drift into politics, say had been hear
ing a good deal Bryan talk, and he
would go on waiting on customers,
without any particular comment, give
me an order, when he got ready, and
go on working. ..
Now If you say you have been hear
ing good deal of Bryan sentiment
he will drop everything, tell you you
haven't circulated much in this COM
munity, and then start arguing with
you, while the customers wait for
their goods. And when you come to-
tackle him for an order, in spite of
his optimism for republican success,
he will put you OFF until after election.
He don't care to take any chances
"The trouble with him is that hel
has been so busy during the past ten
years reaping the results of prosper
Gus business conditions that he has
overlooked the causes, and even
after the big party conventions, when
the campaign opened up he took It'll
for granted that things would come
out all right without his interven-
ion. He is now scared. He remem-
bers what resulted sixteen years ago,
when he was in much the same at
titude He realizes the unrest and
loss OF confidence which would follow ,
Bryan's election and Ia going to put
In his time during the next few
waako dnfou xshaf he can IN aIacfI