Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-10-28
IA TOILETTE WILL
Be HERE SATURDAY
Wisconsin Senator Secured for
This City for Possibly Only
Speech in Iowa
MANY CITIES WANTED HIM
Meeting Will Be Held Out Of Doors
If Weather is Favorable, Otherwise
in /, Theater-State Committee
Working for Evening Date Same Day
-LaFolette Fine Speaker.

| ulStlHCilpIl OIL DelHS lHe one pidSe III
Iowa where United States Senator
| Robert NJ. LaFollette. OF Wisconsin,
| will deliver a political address during
! the present campaign. 1t is possible
that the Wisconsin senator will speak
at one other point, altho as yet this is
not settled. He will be in this city,
however. on Saturday afternoon, Oct.
81. according to information furnished
by the state committee at 10 o'clock
/ Tuesday night to Secretary w. S De-
vine, of the county central commit
tee.
The LaFollette meeting will be the
one big political event OF the campaign
for central Iowa, and the probabilities
are that there will be a large crowd
/ in the city to hear the senator.
The national committee at Chicago
notified the iowa state committee
Tuesday afternoon that LaFollette
would be assigned to Iowa for one
meeting. 1t then became incumbent
1 upon the state committee to select the
I. city in which the senator would APP
! pear. Many cities wanted him, and an
/. effort was Immediately made in Des
| Moines to secure him for a meeting
/ there on Monday, but the state COM
mittee decided in favor Of MARSHALL
i town, and fixed Saturday afternoon as
| the time. If there is a second meeting
| in Iowa held 1t will be on the evening
of the same day.
Outdoor Meeting, Weather Permitting.
Weather permitting the LaFollette
meeting will be held out of doors, from
an improvised platform In front of the
court house. otherwise the Odeon thea
ter will be used for the meeting. Ar
rangements will be made for music.
The meeting will doubtless begin at
2 O'clock, altho the exact hour will be
! announced later. Senator LaFollette
comes to this city directly from Madi-
son.
LaFoIIette "a Great Speaker.
Senator LaFollette is one of the
most noted political speakers in this
or any other country. He is enc of
those politicians who does things and
who says things without strings to
them. AS a fighter he is the type of
man who never lays down. as a poli-
tician and Office holder The is always
ready to take an issue, personal or
political to the people.
He made his famous tour thru Iowa
When he made his famous tour thru
Iowa as a lecturer in chautauqua, the
enclosures were crowded with rapt list
eners who insisted that he "go on"
a m {ho int
of physical exhaustion in speeches that
occupied four and even six hours, and
held crowds of earnest men Spellbound.
He is a speaker of marvelo power
and magnetism, fearless to - final
degree. There is no paltering w. h Is
sues, no straddling, in LaFollettess ma
ture or in his history. He goes direct
to the marrow of his subject. and
voices his convictions in language most
Enthusiastically yirile and effective. 1t is
a great opportunity to hear political
address by the man whose reputation
stamps him as the most fearless, sin
cere and earnest of public men and
platform orators. No man iii the pub
lie life of this country is more feared
by the Interests opposed to the COM
mon good thu LaFollette, unless 1t
may be President Roosevelt. LaFol-
lette is essentially Of the Roosevelt
type of political leader. Like Roosevelt
his public utterances strike at public
evils, without serious consideration of
whom they may strike or the COM
motion they may cause. He is the DOM
inant figure Of middle west political
life, and typical of the middle west,
a man who has succeeded to high Of
flee without recourse to hole and COR
ner politics, openly aggressive, and de-
manding the popular rights of the
masses. Republicans, democrats, all
who can, without regard to classes or
political affiliations, will be richly re-
paid by hearing LaFollette here next
Saturday.