Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-07-16
DEMO. RALLY JULY q
Effort to Be Made to Have State
Committee Meet on
That Date
TOM JOHNSON MAY SPEAK
Bryan Volunteers Decide to Continue
Active Orsanization-WiI Work
With State Committee = cumnins
Selected as Vice President of Tuber-
cuIosis Congress.
TOM JOHNSON MAY SPEAK
Special to Times Republican.

Des Moines, July 16.-The meeting
mittee has been fixed for July 81 In
this city but an effort will ba made
meeting till the esd or else remain in
the city till the esd. which will be the
date of the big local Bryan Volunteers
celebration opening the campaign.
Arrangements are fast being per-
fected for the celebration on the 23d.
A telegram was sent to Tom Johnson
OF Cleveland, Ohio, yesterday, asking
| him to answer by wire whether or not
he would be able to speak here and 1t
is expected also to have other noted
speakers. Arrangements have been
made to burn red fire galore along the
main streets Of the city and to parade
thru these streets with all the demo-
Gratis Of Des Moines anu as many of
the democrats OF Iowa as can be In
Gnced to come to this city.
w. G. Copeland is to be the marshal
of the day and one OF the features he
p,emi is to be company Of boys
not yet old enough to Vote. who will
be in the parade. The big meeting Is
to be held in the base ball park down
town If satisfactory arrangements for
the park can be made.
AT the next meeting OF the state
central committee the Bryan Volun-
teers will make a complete report to
the state central committee of all the
money that has been received and all
that has been spent" said I. ]. Meals.
the secretary today. Some have adj
vocated that the Bryan Volunteers
should now disband and for a time we
thought some of doing so but on Sec
ond thought it has been determined
best not to. It is thought that the
volunteers will be able to very greatly
assist the state committee and can do
some things that the state committee
could not do. The volunteers will be
subordinate to the state committee.
There will be but one head to the
campaign and that will be the state
chairman. We have organized many OF
the counties of the state and can turn
over these organizations to the state
committee and we will be able to orr
ganze many more counties to turn ov-
err ito them"
Governor Cummins of Iowa, has
reed to serve as one of the vice
esidents of the international con-
ress on tuberculosis THAT Is to be held
n Washington, under the auspices of
the National Association for the Study
md Prevention of Tuberculosis. from
Sept 81 to Oct H. Arrangements for
Iowa's participation in the congress
and in the exhibition to be held in con-
nection with it are in the hands of a
committee of which Dr. L. A. Thorn
as, of Des Moines, is chairman; DR..
Henry Albert, Iowa City, secretary and
which includes among its members DR..
Walter E. Bierring. Iowa City; DIR.
Robert e. Coniff, Sioux City; Mr. A. 2.
Kepford, Des Moilles; DR.. j. w. Kline,
Fort Dodge; DIR. A. x. Moorke, Bur-
lngton; Judge G. S. Robinson. Des
Moines; Dr. L. II. Summers, Milton,
and DR.. E. Luther Stevens, Des
Moines.
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Iowa's annual contribution to the
white plague is over 1000 human lives
at financial loss of more than $4,-
900, 900. And tuberculosis is prevents
able disease. 1t is almost inconceiv-
able that state whose people are
among the most intelligent and pro-
gressive in the nation will permit such
an appalling sacrifice to be made year
after year. This fearful tribute de-
manded from Iowa by consumption Is
another illustration that ignorance and
inaction may bring a people to accept
an intolerable condition as a necessary
part of it's existence.
But tuberculosis Isl a preventable
disease and can be stamped out. A
vegetable germ Is the cause of our
trouble. We must make war on it, We
must destroy it, or 1t will destroy us.
We must depend upon popular educa-
ton in our combat against consump-
ton It is a disease OF the masses
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