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Newspaper
Ames Intelligencer
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1900
Page
1
The ticket lists William McKinley for President and Theodore Roosevelt for Vice President, both from New York. The announcement identifies the candidates and their party.
A political note announces J. A. T. Hull of Polk as the congressman candidate for the Seventh District, outlining the ticket and political alignment.
The ticket lists County Auditor J Q Burgess County Clerk District Court Co M Soper County Recorder A J Page County Attorney G A Underwood and Board of Supervisors member John Twedt as candidates.
Congressman Hull will stay in Chicago to manage the Republican campaign under the congressional committee. He will stump his district for about two weeks before the election. The piece comments on census delays and political glucose about a July period, with memories of past inflation and Booms. The report also reviews a Scranton Journal wedding notice of Will Shortridge and Bettie Bloomfield with details on flowers, attire, and travel plans.
A political exhortation urges confidence in a McKinley presidency and Republican ascent. It warns against overconfidence while describing varied fates of a political advertiser’s seed in public discourse, noting success only where newspapers reach homes and readers engage.
The piece argues that the Kansas City platform reflects the real beliefs of its authors. It lists William Jennings Bryan Richard Croker Pitchfork Tillman John P Altgeld Wm Sulzer Thomas Gahan Wm J Stone J Hamilton Lewis Ice Trust Van Wyck Jas K Jones Ex Governor Hogg and asserts they embody the platform’s principles, challenging grand rhetoric as masking true intents.
The piece weighs in on the possible appointment to fill Senator Gear’s seat, endorsing Judge Hubbard of Cedar Rapids as the standout choice and urging Hubbard now with Blythe in 1902. It mocks rival candidates and lauds Hubbard for quiet perseverance over oratory.
John Henry Gear of Burlington dies suddenly in Washington on July 14. A reformer and leader known as Old Business, he served as mayor of Burlington, speaker of the Iowa House, governor, congressman, cabinet official, senator, and re elected for 1901. His body returned to Burlington for burial.
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