The Democrat-sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1906-1935, 1908-04-02

CONVENTION
At LOGAN
Jimmy Faulkner, Special
Correspondent to the En-
quirer, Tells About 1t.

trict Convention which met at Lo-
gan last Thursday and renominated
Albert Douglas, of Chlllicothe 1t
was gathering of Junk dealers;
an assembly of rags and old clio
men. Veteran horse dealers could
have learned things there useful in
their business, and butter and egg
peddlers might have absorbed
valuable information. 1t was in
brief rummage sale, an auction
ing off of the cellar and attic re-
fuse. In the end nobody was salts
fed. Douglas got his renomina-
tion, but only after Postmaster
John White, of Logan, had refused
the thing. Taft got the instr uc-
tions, but the delegates like him
MT. Foraker and Dick got their
names in the resolutions in fash
ion only to be called sloppy. Vorys
fell off the stage. Judge Coul-
traps delegation from Vlnton got
into the hall, but that is all it did
get. To produce this result every
man sold the fellow next to him.
Douglas wanted hearty, enthus-
iastic denomination and General
Charles Henry Grosvenor wanted
him turned down. Neither got
what they wanted. Foraker want
ed two delegates instructed for
him. Instead he got permission
to clutch a long and bony finger.
Otto Vollenweider having invest ed
his coin in "Lafe" Egglestan 9
control of the Vinton County Com
mittee, got hard seat in the gal
lery with his rump delegation. All
on the Foraker side wanted to
humilate Vorys in his own district
and they burned up their money.
Vorys wanted true blue Taft
convention and got away with his
life and only part of his clothes.
Bryson, the brilliant young lead
er in Athens County, got found
out. AboIt the only person in the
convention who could count up
ahead was Postmaster John White.
He got confirmed and his salary is
now real, genuine and unmistaka-
BILE. The story of it all is as long
as an opium smokers dream. IL
the gentle reader doesn't think
that the above facts give the sit
uation concisely, just ask any of
the persons involved and take down
their language, less the enveloping
profanity.
For all purposes concerned, six
men would have served just as
well. The Foraker layout com
prised the turning down of Doug
las, tender and true; the selection
of two of his friends for delegates
and rousing and ringing instruc-
tions for himself and his friend.
Charles William Frederick Dick.
Last Saturday White, who had
been named for Postmaster at Lo-
gan, and whose nomination had
been hung up by the Senators,
secretly went down to Washington
to see the Senators, with that
curled darling of politics, Charles
Bryson, author of the "Athens
Ready Letter Writer" in two vol
umes. Bryson had been nomi-
mated for Postmaster by Douglas,
too. He had likewise been hung
up and he had been taken out of
the smokehouse and confirmed
His object in going with White
was to show him how to work the
ligamarig. Last Tuesday White
was quietly confirmed and the
matter kept out of the Ohio news
papers by the alert and useful
Washington correspondents. Ap.
parentlJ they were "put next. /"
Not until Vorys and Douglas, both
red, white and blue. landed in Lo-
gan the night before the conven-
tion, did they learn of this coop.
All hands sat up all night like a
gang of desperate poker players
with no meat or meal at home.
They cut, shuliled and passed cards
under the table until the gray
dawn of the morning. White,
having the certain postoiiice,
wouldn't take the uncertain con-
gressl0nal nomination. Vorys
would not stand for the indorse-
ment of Foraker or the selection
of delegates without instructions.
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