Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1910-10-12
IN IOWA
State Central Committee Reviews
Conditions.
CAMPAIGN ON IN EARNEST
District Organizations Perfected,
Candidates are Busy, and Speak
ing Campaign Has Been
Opened.

With election only four weeks off
and the last district organization
perfected, all republican nominees.
from those running for congression-
al offices down to the last man on
the local ticket are preparing for a
whirlwind finish. Pent-up enthusi-
asm will be liberated in speech
making from now until election day.
Many candidates have been restless
for weeks and anxious to get on the
platform to expound their views for
the edification of the people at whose
hands they are asking suffrage, but
it was deemed advisable to confine
the speechmaking to the last few
weeks of the campaign. +
Until the present time, practically
all the attention of the republican
state committee has been devoted to
the molding of a perfect organiza-
ton. There is not a single one of
the eleven congressional districts in
the state which has not been visited
by Chairman C. F. FRANKIE and
meeting of all the legislative can
didates, the county chairmen and
the congressional committeeman held
therein.
Democratic leaders have been
conducting a widely different cam
paign. With the blare of brass
bands they have been parading from
one border of the state to the other.
ondeavoring to entice voters into the
democratic band wagon by pointing
the finger of ridicule at the long list
of successful republican administra-
tions.
Despite their efforts to shatter the
forces of the republican party by
harping on factional differences, the
democrats find that the factional
lines have been eradicated and sup
port solidified, while in their own
ranks there is a more serious diyi-
sion than the republicans faced even
before the primary.
This week William j. Bryan, the
man who has just bolted the demo-
cratic ticket in Nebraska, his home
state, because the man he favored
for governor was not nominated, is
to come into Iowa and endeavor to
lead the democrats to victory. The
mere act of inviting him to speak
here served as red flag to some of
the leading democrats in Iowa and
through the democratic press they
have criticised those who invited the
erstwhile leader of the democrats.
Whether they will now gather
around the Nebraskan and receive
him with open arms is not only
doubtful, but improbable.
On the other hand, the republicans
are organizing harmony clubs and
assuming get-together attitudes. AL
most every paper tells of meetings
being held for the purpose of pro-
noting harmony, and arranging for
the election of all republican NOM
inees, regardless of factional be-
liefs.
An extensive speaking campaign
has been arranged for Gov. b. F.
Carroll. He will talk in nearly
every section of the state. The gov
crnor will endeavor to show that the
affairs of the state have not only
been economically handled. but that
they have been handled more salts
factorily during the last two years
than ever before
The return of S. F. Prouty from
Excelsior Springs, Mo. makes it
possible for every one of the con-
gressional nominees to carry on an
active speaking campaign in his dis
trict from this time forth. Several
of the congressional nominees and
state candidates have been speaking
for some time. The democrats are
active. and besides the speeches
which Mr.. Bryan is to deliver, Gov.
Joseph Folk Of Missouri made a trip
into Iowa last week and spoke at
Knoxville in behalf of Mr.. Prouty's
opponent. Because this is an "off
year." there being no national tic
ket, it is realized an extra effort will
have to be made to get out the stay
at-home vote. The success of the
democrats In the east is believed by
the members of that party to insure
the polling of practically their en-
tire strength. Republican organiz-
alton will have much to do with get
ting out the republican vote.