The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-07
END OF ROOSEVELT
CLUB is IN SIGHT
Rough Riders Adopt Amend
ment Excluding All Office
holders and Candidates

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The Roosevelt club committed sui
eide last night. An amendment to the
constitution excludes from member
ship all off1cehoIders and candidates
for Office, and the clubs membership
was reduced by about third
The rough riders held meeting in
the ordinary of the Merchants hotel to
consider plans for the participation in
the campaign of the original Roosevelt
club. Hugh Halbert, the president of
the club, presided, and everything went
galloping along until Rough Riders Al
brecht and Wheeler started discus
sion or the proposition to adopt a con-
stltut1onal amendment by which mem
bers who are holding federal, state,
county or city Office, or are candidates
for the suffrage of the voters at the
polls, shall be retired from the roster
of the club.
Fully third of those present were
candidates, but they We're not in a po-
s1tion to combat the passage of the
resolution. The trainers of the resolu-
ton argued at length for it's adoption,
declaring their belief in the theory that
the administration of the club should
be entirely free from the control of
of1ceholders or candidates for office.
Talk is One Sided
/ They pointed out that unless such
amendment to the constitution was
adopted the rough riders were likely to
fall under the control of an officehold-
ing and officeseeking clique The de-
bate was entirely one sided. The men
who are either holding office or have
declared their desires to break into
the officeholding class did not feel the
proprlety OF replying to the advocates
or the resolution and kept silent. The
motion to adopt the amendment was
Inereupon carried with practical una
nimity.
Among the more prominent Repub-
means whom the resolution elects from
the club are: Oscar Hallam. candidate
Tor the nomination for district judge;
Howard Wheeler, candidate for the
nomination for county attorney; F. G.
Haskell candidate for the legislature
from the Sixth ward; F. A. Maron.
candidate for the nomination for court
commissioner; Capt M. J. Wiley. can
d1date for the nomination for county
commissioner; Lambert F. Fairchild
candidate for county commissioner; j.
H. Beck, candidate for the legislature
In the Seventh ward; Joel Gregory,
CdHulddte Tor the legislature in the
Second ward; Edward O. Wergedahl
candidate for the legislature in the
Third ward; A. w. Lyman, customs Of
flee employee; Oscar Christensen, clerk
in the probate court; N. C. Robinson,
clerk in the office of the clerk of the
I district court; Fred Gausewitz, clerk in
the probate court; Fred l. Chaplin,
candidate for the district court bench,
and a host of lesser lights.
Shuts Out the Live Ones
- One Of the MEMBERS of the club re-
marked at the close of the meeting
that the amendment had resulted in
sdisbarring the real live ones" from the
clubs membership, and that the drastic
action was the beginning of the end of
the Roosevelt club.
The club authorized a committee to
confer with the Minneapolis Roosevelt
club in cooperating in an invitation
to Senator c. w. Fairbanks, of Indiana
to come to Minnesota to open the cam
paign. The question of selecting a uni
form for the marching club was dis
cussed at length and it was decided to
cling to the Khaki uniform that has
distinguished the club in the past