The St. Louis Republic., 1902-04-15
EAST SIDE NEWS.
REPUBLICAN LEADERS !
BURY THE HATCHET
f'actIonlsts Hold Two Important
conferences in Belleville-
Division of State Delegates.

Leaders. some Of them self-constituted, oil
'he ST Clair County Republican party yos|
together in the office of Charles u. Thoma.|
at Belleville last night, and after a pow-l
WOW lasting for several hours agreed to|
smoke the pipe OF peace. Whatth.a state-|
ment means is only apparent to men whol
nave watched and are familiar with RI publ
llcan politics Of St. Clair County Georrs|
~ Thomas. County Clerk, who has been|
predicting the defeat of the present NAL
chlne, and who it was supposed would
orinS strong delegation to bear agains<|
hodenberg who wants the nomination forI
congress again. will lay down entirely endl
Will now, instead of roasting the machinsj
men IN East st. Louis with his weekiyI
paper tnere, take up their cause. and. figu>!
raaiveiy, pat them on the back.
Two meetings were held yesterday-one IN
the morning and the other at night. The
morning meeting was preliminary to the
settlement OF the troubles and the ''healine1
of the sores at night The '.mediCine'' Wa
patronage. An agreement was madnI
whereby the Federal crowd consented to q
division of the delegates to the State Con-l
Vention. Half will be for Yates and The
other half will be anti-Yates men. II anyI
instructions are TO be placed upon the dele,
gates, they will be only for Senator Henry|
T. Besole of Belleville. who desires the
nomination for State Treasurer. There waa|
a big clamor for the scalp of Representa-
tive William E. Trautman of East st. LOUIS
and q hard hight is being made by MI.
friends to hold MIN in line for the renomina1.
ton, as the job of Speaker Of the House u
Just ROW dazzling his eyes.
The reason ascribed for the love feass
of last night lies greatly in the fear that
the men, with couple of exceptions. whe@
attended the meetings of yesterday woul1
probably lose their present fat jobs or som1
of their many relatives who are now In o1>
fce would lose out.
The machine men present at the meeting1
were William A. Rodenberg. who wants IL
go to Congress; Charles W. Thomas. wheI
wants to be appointed on the FederA1
bench; Henry c. Begole, who wants to be
State Treasurer; William Z. Trautmans
whose eyes are daZzled by the speakershfu
in the House of Representatives; Martin D.
Baker who has now and wants to keep hi
relatives in official positions; Henry f. Ba>
der. who is Postmaster and also has relA<
tives in office; J. A. Willoughby, who ha4
his eye OH the Internal Revenue CollectorS
ship for the Southern Illinois District: Jac1
Thomas of BeIleville. Postmaster there fol
four years and wants to keep the job.
On the other hand there were presently
B. Messick, ex-Commissioner of the Souths
ern illinois Penitentiary; John Beard. th4
three time defeated candidate for Sheriff.
and George X. Thomas. present County,
Clerk but who would not object to beinGI
Sheriff OF the county, all of whom thinAI
that they represent the antf-machine ele-
ment In st. Clair County. Charles BeckerS
the chairman of the County Central Cons
mittee. was the only politician present wh0z
is not in politics for all that there Is In Il.
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