The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-04-25

. large crowd should be out to greet
the new Officers and hear the annual
reports Of the retiring gentlemen.
A committee has been selected who
will have charge Of the delegation to-
TT. Wayne. This committee, consist
Ing Of NJ ]. O'Brien. w. H QuigE. J. b.
Hegger. E = Lebo and r. c. Harring-
ton. will look after all the details and
endeavor to procure large crowd for
the coming convention. This COM
for sale and any one can purchase one
Of the committee members.
Through the kindness of Mr.. r. III.
Hill the committee was greatly assist
ed in getting around the city in search
of new members. by the use of his new
automobile.
After days and nights of consent, pa
tient and worrisome toll the real cause
of all the trouble in the T. p. A. has at
last been found. What q nightly lit
tie germ. what q tiny little microbe
has crept into our wonderful organism
and has all this time been sapping at
the vitality Of our immense body. What
little thing will sometimes do. What
direful results are sometimes caused by
the injection or removal of some tiny
particle OF some large active body.
But who would have dreamed of
such little thing as politics being the
one great cause of contention In the
T. p. A. Yes, politics. Politics and
the political bosses. Politics of the
cause that cause men to sheer and
frown upon those who practice such.
Politics Of the kind that stops at moth.
in gand stoops to every underhand tao
tic.
We are rejoiced to know that poll.
tics is the cause of all our Ills We
have all along thought SO. but have
through lack of courage. refrained
from announcing our diagnosis. But
| with the courage that comes only with
knowledge, secured by years of expert
ence, we are told by our big, genial
leader that politics is the cause of all
the evil.
Many times has the MAN of the
Hour" fulfilled sacred mission. but
! never before has he risen to the full
meaning of his dignified title than In
this one situation. All praise for his
courageous announcement that politics
is our greatest trouble.
1t is the very thing the press chair
| man. of which he speaks so feelingly
have been fighting for some time. II
is politics practiced by the BASES Of
Missouri and adhered to SO strictly by
other divisions that Indiana and other
we'll meaning states have fought
| against. Yes, 1t is politics that kept
an incompetent at the head of the
finances of the T. p. A. and has retain.
ed in office coterie of men that might
be glad to see the reserve fund stolen.
| The day is at hand, as our leader
would have us believe, that the polite
al boss must pass and day the Chatta.
nooga convention. For some time
the T. p. A. has known the one big
word together" and have planned the
complete and lasting overthrow OF the
| bosses and those who have retarded
the growth OF our national organixa.
ton.
It is not too much to expect, and we
firmly believe that after the Chatta-
nooga convention, after the bosses and
politics have been eliminated, the T,
p. A. will push forward, imbued with
the spirit of fraternalism and guided
by that brotherly love, by that feeling
OF righteousness, that will forever
erase the hatred, the luminosity and
the jealousy that has been held in the
hearts Of many.
Harry Wooters and G. s. Taylor each
landed new application yesterday,