Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-04-16
IOWA DEMOCRATS
TRAVEL IN STYLE
Charter Special Train to Take
State Delegation and Wis
itors to Denver
Rosk ISLAND ROUTE CHOSEN
Train Will Cross State From Daven-
port = illinois Press Bureau Sending
Out Unreliable Literature = Prouty
Does Good Work in Story County
State Political News.
pecial to Times Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Mones, April 16.-Democrats
of Iowa will make the trip to Denver
train to be known as the Bryan VOL
untcers' Special. 1t will be a special
train and will run on its own time all
the way from Iowa to Denver. The ar
rangements were made with the Rock
Island today.
The train will leave Davenport the
morning Of July 3 at about Z O'Clock
and will reach Des Moines at about IL
O'Clock 1t will pass thru Lincoln.
Neb that evening and will stop two
hours to give the democrats a chance
to pay their respects to VIM. j. Bryan.
mans. tourists cars, chair cars and
smoker
1t is expected that the special will
take a great crowd of Iowa democrats
m ne,nbers of the Iowa delegation to the
net oral convention will travel by this
special.
Members of the democratic state
central committee and prominent DEM
ocrats met in Des Moines today to ar
range for candidates for the positions
on the ticket for which there are no
candidates thus far in the field. 1T was
announced last week that the COM
mittee was to meet here last Mon
CAV. This was in error Up to noon
today it was confidently expected that
Hon Fred White would be induced to
enter the race. Mr. White at one time
refused to enter but it was announced
yesterday that he would attend the
meeting today and this has led many
democrats to believe that he can yet
be induced to enter the race as his at
tendance today signified that he has
taken a second thought on the sub
ject.
Mr.. White was a candidate for gov
ernor before and had the united sup
port Of his party He is recognized as
strong material and many Of his friends
over the state have hoped that he
could be induced to enter the race.
Story county republicans are asking
whether all of the literature sent out
by the Allison press bureau of Des
Moines is as inaccurate as some Of it
or whether they have been fooled in
Judge S. F. Prouty.
Last Saturday Judge Prouty was
billed to speak at Story City. The
Des Moines organ of the Allison cam
paign and from which office the ALI
son literature is sent out from Des
Moines on Monday following reported
that on Saturday evening Judge Prouty
held a conference with a lot of candi-
dates in Polk county in which he at
tempted to whip them into line to sup
port him for congress and Cummins
for senator. AT the very time when
the Des Moines paper had him attend
ing this conference the judge was
speaking in Story City. Several hum
dred people heard him speak in Story
City They will read the Des Moines
Allison organ from this on with a
grain of SALT
incidentally some of them have re-
membered back some years concerning
a certain alleged press dispatch from
San Francisco alleging to be an inter-
view with Conger which the editor Of
the Allison organ later admitted was I
written in his own newspaper office,
and which Conger branded as fake.
At Story City Judge Prouty succeed
cd in reaching some people who have |
been believing all they read in the |
them. During his address ono of his |
most rapt listeners was citizen with
gray hair who never missed a word.
After the address he spoke to Judge
Prollty.
IL am a standpatter." he told the /
judge. "but I want to say that you are
all right, and if / thought all the pro- !
gressives were like you I'd be a pro-
gressive."
"Let me tell YOU something." said
Judge Prouty. "'Tonight you have lis
tened to pure. unadulterated Cummins-
ism The trouble is heretofore you have
gotten Cumminsism from the polluted
sewers as dished up by the standpat
press. Tonight you got it pure from the
fountain, and you got the whole thing"
"If ] was convinced of that I'd vote
for Cummins at the primaries" de-
clared the gentleman.
Speakers for Governor Cummins thru
the reservation and the Governor him.
self find just this situation everywhere.
Voters are waking up TO the duplicity
of the standpat press of the state.
Senator Ahisons primary election
law nomination papers We're filed with
the secretary of state today by eX
Governor Jackson.