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Newspaper
Atlantic Evening News
Location
Atlantic, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1908
Page
2
The Republican slate for presidential electors lists thirteen candidates, positioned under William H. Taft for president and James S. Sherman for vice president. The accompanying copy reflects the official ticket as it pertains to electors.
A list names thirteen electors across districts six to eleven and urges voters to select all thirteen. The piece warns many Republicans in the June primary did not vote the full ticket and stresses voting the entire slate next Tuesday to avoid losing the state.
The Anita Tribune urges voters to back the entire Republican slate, highlighting C. A. Meredith for representative and printing Mullins’s circular pledging support for the party’s senator pick. "Sherm" pledges full vigor for the ticket, and Grant township Republicans promise strong turnout.
Des Moines Register and Leader faces criticism for an editorial attacking Major John F. Lacey for not aligning with President Roosevelt. A refused reply surfaced, quoting Roosevelt’s praise and letters from 1900s praising Lacey’s public service and district welfare.
In a public statement the President says Lacey has the President’s support and will act with absolute certainty in serving the nation. He praises Lacey’s sense that public work is its own reward and urges opponents to drop charges that he is out of step with the President.
An Exchange critique denounces Bryan as a multifaceted figure who lacks practical achievement in law farming media governance philosophy finance labor and war arguing he leads the public toward error contrary to sober experienced reason.
The Anita Tribune urges Republicans in Cass county to support C. A. Meredith for Representative to help secure a Republican United States Senator from Iowa. It notes a Democratic Cass county member would back Claude Porter, while a Republican member would back John F. Lacey or A. B. Cummins, influencing the six year Senate outcome after the General election.
A notice urges voters to cast ballots for all thirteen electors and warns unregistered residents to register by Saturday October 31. The South & West Immigration Co announces a postponed excursion to the South Plains of Texas to November 17 due to Election Day on November 3. H G Dacken secretary Atlantic Iowa Office over Atlantic National Bank.
Miss Margaretha Schultz, recently from Germany, visited her sister near town and will travel from Davenport to New York City for several days before sailing home to Europe around November tenth. She will then return to her German residence.
A new piece written last summer entitled The Farmers Daugh ter will be presented at the opera house Friday evening October 30. Prices range 35 50 75 cents. This notice also mentions a performance on Saturday October List.
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