Eufaula Republican (Newspaper) - March 15, 1912, Eufaula, Oklahoma The eufaula Republican VOLUME 6. MARCH 15, 1912. NUMBER 31. TAFT LOST BUT JIM HARRIS WAS VICTOR to Unseat Him as Chairman of State Committee for Teddy 14.-f'ejrKon-ully to the lind ready that the of their as regards for won a victory every other the state when an to from tlie was by the Republican state here a to and the ptate beinK defeated by a vote to 2<)". The convention composed as it was of an overwhelming majority of enthusiasts and a went on record that it wanted Jim Harris and would stand by Jim Harris and ven though he be for Taft and or that did not their loyalty to Roosevelt delegates stood shoulder to and speech for speech witli the Taft 8tart(l Willi Ever since the withdrawal of Kd Terry from the race for national I on had been a feeling of absolute that Harris and that the stafe would be organized along with J. as state A surprise was sprung In the when J. E. permanent secretary of the convention representative of the Roosevelt national committee in opened the fight for Hairis in speech in which he declared that the deal for the dethronement of Harris was made in Oklahoma City and that Oklahoma City was to He said certain members of the Oklahoma City delegation had allowed personal ambitions lor political preferment to the luture welfare of their and he ( a liberal amount of to the Oklahoma county Re claiming that they liad never turned their hands in support of tlie Roosevelt He said that while Harris had been Hams had pledged him to work for the who ever he may be aud pleaded with ail supporters of Roosevelt to lome to While he did openly charge that much in his Dyche said later that deal for the of Harris been in the of A. K. chairman of the Roosevelt statewide Harris was later snowed under for tlie national by Colonel Priestly of who received 414 votes to 131 for light over the organization of a state central was the most spectacular of the convention and was precipitated when the committee on permanent organization rules and of business submitted its H. of Oklahoma was the committee and a tight was precipitated as he the Frank Wright of moved lo out the fourth section of the dealing with the committee situation and another motion to lay his amendment on table was Then the fireworks started with speech of Ed Kd Perry held as a point of that a motion to table was not but Chairman Parmenter declared that BO long as ho presided over the convention one question at least would be debated tn long as anyone anything to of Oklahoma county followed with an explanation of Oklahoma position but he could scarcely be heard the Judge Robertson of a bitter political enemy of spoke in tlie latter's Then one of the features of the convention developed in the speech of Harry Rogers of who made a brilliant defense of the big chairman and declared that if he is the rural vote of the state will be alienated from the H. Y. chairman of the committee submitting the report the of Rut ho was interrupted by pointed personal allusions of Senator Stanford of and a political enemy of came in the of the big leader as did also of When the It WHS soon apparent that the to the convention had One county after as well as voted for Harris making the fight him a personal and hot political and the biggest ill tlie voted for ill breaking into the committee's the convention fell disposed to things into its own hands and went still provision the selection of a of to select delegates at large to the national liad been submitted but it was drowned in convention which went on record as favoring the selection of its In the tight on this issue it that the selection of delegates had been the basis for various deals including the elimination of Priestly was easily the victor in the fight for He was by William Morgan of Caddo Harris was nominated hy Ramsey of Carter His friends him to keep out of tlie but he declared that he wanted to put them all on Priestly was m to The state committee met at ten S. of W. of C. M. of John W. of Pontotoc county and H. F. of Haskell were appointed as members of the subcommittee on and they were but a short time making their which seated Taft delegations from and Tulsa FOR MAYOR A Greater Eufaula A Clean Administration A Better City Tl Hns nl which ELECTION 19 The delegation from Mcintosh county consisted of N. W. B. John W. R. C. C. H. Wilson and Hazeu Messrs. Green aud C. W. Henry of Raiford were in They held proxies of tlie other C. U. M. C. One of tile enjoyable .gs of the season was held by the r. M. C. at the residence of Mrs. Edson and P. Answer to Women as responding were Van Mrs. J. 1). B. Mrs. Sue Uhl Miss Stotenberg and Vliss very interesting papier was read by Mrs. Sue Brown on of Clara Barton and the red cross and brought out many noble traits of All instrumental solo rendered by Miss Maggie a vocal solo by Mrs. Mrs. Burdett also - J The Best is None Too Good For Our Customers The Choicest Meats and Freshest Groceries are the only kinds we We have the best equipped Market and Grocery Store in We have an up-to-date vegetable stand and are prepared to carry in stock all kinds of Vegetables and keep them We Oysters in Prompt delivery City H. T. MANAGER Market flf UHDER THE HOTEL FOLEY PHONE YOUR TO was some lime on of the failure ol the to to take the job of hiis lieen F. will be the Mr. who in has his bond approved and all the fixtures and for ihe have .As soon as of receives orders from to deliver the mull fo Mr. the will he opened for This order is hy Saturday of this Since the Mellette has been the has to The as hy carrier from this Since the people of the Mellette liave had no they have learned the convenience of ami they will never again an Wells Wreck ii Sticky Much of the salvage from the Katy freight wreck at is being to for storage in the Katy freight liouse .An estimate of the loss to the railroad company through the wreck is made at certainly was the most mussed up I ever said a local man who hy the on a carload automobiles was busted wide and the machines scattered in the middle of all over and around them was the remains of two carloads of whisky and two of it was a sticky Around that was a mess of shelled corn and with boxes of and the like scattered here and there by way of The Katy main line has been anti most of the wreckage cleared REPUBLICAN ROW IN THE THIRO DISTRICT rendered a vocal Kelley performed one of her favorite They were all very enjoyed by those The invited guests Miss Mrs. Mrs. Miss and it being near the anniversary of the house was fully decorated in green and all received a beautiful Was Some Deputy Sheriff A. S. and Constable of went to Cathay to help guard the merchandise ill the cars which wrecked there last Constable says the eighteen cars which went into the ditch of one car of whisky in one car of seed one car of one car of pianos and one car of of syrup ill one car of soap and the other cars were loaded uith neons Burtram Mcintosh of county of schools for has Prof. C. C Burtram of to his summer normal school for colored This normal will he held at in the new school beginning June H. Two Sets of Differently Selected the Rival Convention in Tulsa 14.--.A split occurred in the district con vein ion today nnd two sets of with t o sets of i were The congressional was not as it not he I the of either or men iis to II proxy from Taft members of the committee held an after and decided to hold convention in the World while the convention was called to meet in the opern The Roosevelt convention elected Bruce Tahlequah chair and Roy of A. Dennison of and A. A. Small of this city delegates to the national with S. H. of and W. A. of A. of Muskogee was chosen presi The convention organized by electing Verne 1.. of and Fred S. Walker of John of and Judge Joseph A. were named as lo Ihe national The alternates P. B. J. Hudson of Wagoner and Harry Levy of W. L. of Miami was the convention's choice for presidential Roosevelt men claim they had a majority of at least 150 on temporary roll conceding The opera bouse where the Roosevelt men met seats about 1,600, and the hall where the Taft men held their probably 250. Both delegations will make a hard tirst and second stories of tlu rock as a very Tully formerly occupied by the Eckelkamp Hardware paper on the life of St. Patrick will be brought out next .At the close a two course I was served in white aud I the colors of St. They all left voting the three ladies most congenial are being remodeled and cut up into a of rooms to be used as a The work is being done by J. H. 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PYLE GOME TO SEE WE SELL JOHN DEERE STALK CUTTERS AND PLOWS About tite The editorial columns of of Democracy extremely in its rehearsal of the wrongs perpetuated against the country in attendance at the county convention of March The facts of tlie case are A list of names to he voted upon for the purpose of and the list was unanimously but objected to and left open to the to choose by a rising vote the delegates to he elected to the state nnd to he voted upon one at a tlie voting was over six delegates were exactly the same men which had previously been voted upon and in a this vote there was no opportunity for manipulation if there had been such Any delegate was lit liberty to place in nomination anyone he to Most of the delegates who were chosen hy this method were unanimously country precincts were well represented in the convention and they were perfectly satisfied with tlie The article in the Journal was Init a stroke of duplicity to dissatisfy tlie Republicans and is characteristic of the known as R. C. A H. the Republican candidate for mayor of idly of is one of the and competent young men of He was borti in Michigan and graduated from some of the best schools of that moving from state to In that he was for live years special correspondent of the Pneumatic Tool Co. About six years ago lie took tlie of Horace and came west grow up with the He located in Eufaula and has resided here ever He is interested in the future growth and well being of Eufaula from the viewpoint of a property having purchased himself a home in this city three years ago and has bought other property He is progressive in thought and action and would make the city of Eufaula a splendid He believes in a greater a clean better and elected his wlH be one of
