Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-10-29

COUNTY CHAIRMAN or REPuR-
LIcANS PARTY AFTER THE
TlPPEcAhoE PRIZE
FRANKIE BOOSTS GAME
Head Of the State COMMITTEES Urges
WapeIlo County to Got IN the
y Race For the Coveted Prize
This Year.

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The Tippecanoe club banner or fas
will be In the possession Of County
Chairman Lew H.. Young, II his effort,
and the efforts of the other members
of the county central committee in
getting out the republican vote cleo
ton day count for anything. Mr.
Young 10 hot after the prize awarded
to the county getting the greatest re
publican vote cast, and to the cad ,nst
Wapello county will be successful all
efforts are being directed to get out
an immense vote. Chairman Carl r
FRANKIE OF the state, committee ex.
plains the proposition to Chairman
Young in the following letter:
"The Iowa Veteran Tippecanoe club
will present~a magnificent banner to
the county that makes, on November
s, 1910, the largest proportionate gain
in majority as compared with the
vote of 1908, and q fine silk flag to the
county making the best absolute gain
in majority, or in reducing the ma
jority of the opposition. as compared
with the year, 1908.
''The banner is now held by Emmett
county and the flag by Winnebago
county.
Every county in the state stands
an equal chance OF securingsthe ban
neF or the flag
"A democratic county can win as
we'll ais republican county, and the
getting out of the republican vote is
what will decide the question Let the
republicans in each and every county
exert themselves to win either the
banner or the flag"
The Past Winners.
The republicans Of the several
counties Of the state are invited to
compete for both. The banner has
been won in successive years as fol-
lows:
-Winnebago county, in, 1889.
9 Clay county, in 1890.
Dubuque county, in 1S9f-1901.
Scott county, IN 1892-94-96-9s.
Plymouth county, in 1893.
Howard county, in 1895.
Decatur county, in 1897.
Monona county, in 1899, 1900 and
1904.
Monroe county, in 1902-03.
Emmett county, in 1908. 3st
In 1889 the club devised the method
of awarding the prize banner to the
county whose republicans would in the
election Of that year make the best
showing as compared with the cleo,
ton OF the preceding year. The offer
was continued in that way until 1899,
when 1t was determined to compute
the gain in each year on the last
presidential vote.
The following is the address of the
club, which has been Endorsed by the
state central committee.
TO the republican electors Of the
state of Iowa:
The Iowa Veteran Tippecanoe club
in accordance with its custom each
year since 1899, again offers it's prize
banner and fine silk flag to the repub-
lican voters Of those counties that viii
show at the election to be held on the
9Th day of November. 1910. the largest
gains in majority on the vote for the
Republican candidate for governor as
compared with the majorities given at
the election in the year 1908, for the
electors at large for the election OF
president and vice president favoring
the election of William H. Taft and
James S. Sherman.
The Formal Offer.
The following are .the resolutions
making the formal offer:
Resolved by the executive commit.
tee of the Iowa Veteran Tippecanoe
CLUB that the right to hold the Tippe-
canoe banner for the ensuing year
will be awarded to the republicans OF
the county, which. at the coming gen
eral election, shall make the greatest
proportionate gain in majority as
compared with the vote OF the year
1905"
Resolved further, that the Tippe-
canoe flag shall be awarded to the
county whose republicans shall make
the best absolute gain in majority or
in reducing the majority of the OPP
position as compared with the year,
1908. In case the flag on such show
ing would go to the same county as
would the banner. the county making
second best absolute gain shall be en-
titled to the flag
1t will be understood that the
majority mentioned above is one
over all oppositions.
(Signed) w. N. Jordan.
T y Ynb~Y Cro s.