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ass,,ida-ithetingDISTRICT ORGANIZEDthen isrely, toCay-agoocalandthetellPrecinctOfficersCampaignnngB ■, as ned:ntsas-ekA meeting of the precinct committeemen which have been appointed thruout the Twenty-third senatorial district for the purpose of putting an independent candidate in the field for the legislature, was held at Library hall, Austin^ on Friday evening -and a thoro organization was perfected for the handling of the campaign, according to the instructions given to the first committee of five by the meeting in Oak park at whose instance it was created.IThe meeting at: Austin was called to order by William Spooner of Oak Park, chairman of the original committee. A. E. Compton of Austin was. I chosen- chairman and Bruce Barton. of Oak Park, secretary. A committee .1® on form of organization, headed by yin- C Bartlett, recommended that a } n campaign committee should- be formed •t..* consisting of a chairman*, vice-chair-man, secretary and treasurer, with an n^_ executive committee of five and that to this committee should be added j, | thfc names of the ‘original committee . . * of five, also that there be choseta a finance committee of five. This re-mgare • .t Jtf I Chairman, William Spooner Park.Vice chairman; Robert F. Linn ofAustin.Secretary, Bruce Barton of Oak Park.followingwere elected:theA.:lidhas Treasurer, Perly D. Castle of Aus-. tin. \^ _ Chairman of ' finance f committee, Sampson Rogers of Oak Park; the / rest of the committee _ to be appointed. Executive committee, J. A. Kapps, ^J of Oak Park, George O. Foreman of ' * the Fifteenth ward, Dr. J. A. Stootsand : A. E. Compton of Jhe Thirty-fifth ward, with one man to be ap-»a ' I Pointed from; the Sixteenth ward; D; L. Hall, W. C. Stephens and O. M. Donaldson of Oak Park.'The meeting was addressed by, Messrs. Spooner, Kapps and Shields,' the latter being superintendent of the *° Illinois Anti-Saloon ' league, all of }s {whom were enthusiastic, in their zealfor the .movement and confident .that{ :“,s | {he independent nominee would beMr. Soooner showed that!on-'ev.mL-%k:
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Oak Leaves
Oak Park, Illinois, US
Sat, Sep 26, 1908
Page 18
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Oak P.
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