Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-16
COMES LATE TO HULL CAMPAIGN
BANQUET AND FALLS INTO
A TRAP.
MAKES COMPLIMENTARY SPEECH
AFTER BEING BELITTLEp
Consressnan's "Non-Politcai Banquet
Proves to Have Been Launching of
Campaign for denomination in Fut-
ure Eections-Dr. Cooks Lecture
Price Too High for Iowa.
special to Times-Republican.

Special TO Times Republican
Des Moines, Oct. 16-Congressiuan
J. A. T. Hull opened his campaign or
denomination at a banquet rendered
him Thursday night ostensibly by the
business men of Des Moines The BAN
quet was quite interesting and is one
of the features in the captains tenth
race for the republican nomination.
While there was some little pretensa
on the part of some to make it appear
that the banquet was entirely nom
fractional and unpolitcal the address
made by Captain Hull himself at The
BANQUET shows that he did not consider
il anything else than the opening of his
campaign for congress, and those per-
sons who had been persuaded to attend
on the idea that ii was unpoiitical were
simply roped in for Congress man Hull
made nothing bur campaign speech.
There We're some interesting little
Incidents to the affair that did not get
into the Des Moines news papers for
some reason or other. Harvey IngtIan
was late in his arrival at The banquet
board 10 which he was an invited
guest The Register and Leader Of tina.
morning had pointed out that the ban
Quet was to be unpolticai and no such
significance was TO be attached to it
and that while the district was looking
about for his successor the banquet
in testimonial of Hull having secui cd
~
proper.
Captain Hull had begun talking be-
fore Mr.. Ingham arrived. He congrat-
ulated jerry Sullivan, who was pre-
siding as toastmaster. and told Mr..
Sullivan he was glad it was not neees-
saTy for him to insert a card in the
newspapers in advance to excuse his
presence. Later ne looked about and
seeing ro newspaper men present male
a remark to th3>. eject presuming they
had excuses and sail something about
Iate Young having to be down IN
Washington on account of the sickness
of his sister There We're some other
little "iings" that were presumed 10
be directed at Harvey Ingham.
Later Mr.. 1ngham appeared and
knowing nothing of what Hull had said
was called upon for few remarks and
complimented Hull quite 'unpolitical-
ly.''
Considerable interest was manifested
here in the fact that Captain Hull at
this time outlined some Of the plans
for his eleventh campaign two years
from now, when he said that the mill
tary tournament could not be secured
/ for next year (Hull will not be in a
campaign merit year (but that the year
following that (Hull Will then h.
/ launching another campaign possibly
with an unpolit,cal banquet) if Des
Motnes wants the tournament it VIII
be possible to secure it.
Hulls speech was one of the strang-
est political speeches that has ever
4 been heard in Iowa. He justified vot-
ing with Cannon and Aldrich instead
| Of voting ones own views by saying,
/ IF every man in congress voted his
own views on every question that came
us, nothing would be accomplished in
the way of legislation" and he took a
crack at those who refused to obey the
party lash on the tariff as being mere
minority llickers. In the next sentence
ne justified Grover Cleveland for
breaking away from his party ties by
saying: This country owes to Grover
4 Cleveland the fact that it stands be-
fore the world on sound basis of cur
rency. His party split with him and it
has been awful hard on the party ever
since"
1t is an open secret here that an at
tempt was made to get Senator Cum
Minis to attend the banquet and be one
Cft =
saw that banquet of that kind could
not be held without political signifi-
canoe being attached to it and he found
that he had other engagements that
prevented his attendance.
Oscar w Jackson. of Denver, who
died few days ago at Grinnel, was
a veteran Shorthand reporter of Iowa
tho he had lived in Colorado many
years. He went to Denver about eigh-
teen years ago and engaged in law and
became prominent in politics, but was
attacked by rheumatism and was com
PEELED to retire. He was a resident oil
Dallas county while in Iowa and be-
came court reporter to Judge S. A
Calvert of the old Fifth judicial circuit
which is almost the same as the pres
ent Fifth district In 1885 when the
, Iowa house had impeached John l.
Brown, then auditor of state, as the
result of factional quarrel, the sen.
ate proceeded to try the cause, and il
became necessary to provide for {
shorthand report of the entire proceed
ings. A corps of five or six of the bes
court reporters of the state was EN-.
picyca, and ofc of these "aS jackson
and the reporters made a marvellous
record of completing the transcript o
the record as rapidly as the testimony