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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1908
Page
5
Jones County Republicans reaffirm support for Senators Dolliver and Allison, reject Cummins as a rival, and note strong party alignment in county conventions. The piece also salutes local editors, notes Rhodes and Oxford scholars, and mentions Roosevelt coinage controversy.
Delegates and alternates were chosen for the state convention at Monticello after endorsing William J. Bryan for president. The meeting, chaired by E R Moore, selected numerous names with debate over sending Miss Kate Maurice as a delegate. The assembly favored a Bryan ticket though some opposed women delegates.
W M Welch was chosen as a third Monticello delegate amid protests from A Stratilek who argued against overrepresentation. J I Arvduser was added as a fourth Monticello delegate on J B Welch’s motion. E B Moore declined to speak as requested. J L Joslin praised William J Bryan and praised Roosevelt as a true Democrat. The session lasted about three quarters of an hour with apparent unity and no anti Bryan sentiment visible.
Jones county Republicans met in Anamosa to pick ten delegates for the state convention and Fifth district gathering in Des Moines. The body backed Senator Allison and Taft for president, and named delegates with J. W. Coxsee K. A. Grimwood HI M Remley Wm Sutherland H H Freeman J W Glenn KE G Peet Jerry Woodyard Robert Scroggie J K Wale and alternates.
Special correspondence from Washington critiques the city’s upper ten as insincere and obsessed with etiquette. It describes call rituals, cold social snubs among cabinet wives, and a culture of fatigue, luxury, and political maneuvering shaping early stages of national power.
At Des Moines yesterday the Republican state convention selected at large delegates including Perkins Des Moines Young Ottumwa and Lane Davenport and endorsed William H Taft. It also backed Senator Allison for re election by 672 17 24 to 5077 24 with a minority report from Cummings. Temporary chair Byers and permanent chair Saunders presided. remarks came from Perkins Sirdal and Young. Alternate delegates include Heinsheimer Glenwood Lake Arlington Bealer Cedar Rapids Spahr Heary county.
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