Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1911-09-14
Spring Lake. N. j., Is Running
over with Them.
O'NEAL KICKS UP A FUSS
Hears Initiative, Referendum and Re.
call Praised Until He Can Stand
It No Longer, So He
Speaks Earnestly.

Spring Lake, n. j., Sept. 13.,-After
listening to western governors saying
pretty things about the initiative and
referendum and recall, Emmett O'Neal,
governor of Alabama and a positive
person, finally got tired.
Then he rose up, grabbed the recall
in his right hand, slapped it, pulled
its nose, kicked it in the shins and
slammed it down with a few remarks
to the effect that he had low opin'
ion of folks who held by such insidi-
Gus popular vagaries. Whereupon
Governor Woodrow Wilson of New
Jersey, who had been smiling placidly
all day and beaming on all the gov.
ernors in sight, hustled to his feet to
remark that the governor Of Alabama
might know what was going on in his
own state but that elsewhere in land
full of slippery officials such state
merts were piffle.
The set-to between the governor of
Alabama and the governor of New Jer-
sey perked up the first session con-
siderably. Drowsy governors who had
leaned their ears for six hours against
solemn speeches calling for more pow
er to the governors elbow and
speeches acclaiming the recall as a
divine institution, Strengthened their
backs and began to take an interest
in the proceedings. There were belli'
cose looks at O'Neal, and Wilson's
Jaw muscles were working, but
nothing happened after all So the
governors leaned back to watch Con-
gresham Richmond Pearson Hobson
of merry Smack" fame circulate
among the woman suffragists and
waiting till the dinner gong sounded,
Looking from the veranda of the
new Monmouth hotel, where the gov
ernors are living and talking. one
found the view Of the ocean some
what INSTRUCTED by governors Smok'
ing their after dinner cigars they
promenaded up and down. There were
SO many governors that plain lieu
tenant governor or even secretary OF
state would have been relief to the
eve. Arm in arm with Hoke Smith
of Georgia was Judson Harmon OF
Ohio, saying little to Smiths music.
They seem to have become close
friends in few hours. Lee Cruce of
Oklahoma, a ministerial looking III
dividual in his long frock coat. low
collar and black string tie, walked
with Frederick w. Plaisted Of Maine,
who had just got the news that the
prohibitionists had won out up home
after all.
Altogether there had arrived TWEEN
ty-three state executives out OF the
forty-eight that constitute the house
of governors. One saw, in addition
to Governors Harmon, Wilson, O'Neal,
Plaisted and Smith, Governors John
F. Shafroth, Albert w. Gilchrist,
James H. Hawley, Augustus f. Will,
son, Eugene n Foss, Edmund F Noel,
Herbert S Hadley, Edwin L. Norris,
Chester II Aldrich William w. Ktch,
in. John Burke, Lee Cruce, Aram ].
Pothier, Robert S Vessey, William
Hodges Mann, Marion E Hay, vii.
liam f. Glasscock, Francis E. NcGov,
ern and Joseph NJ Carey More are
expected Some of the forty-eieht
have sent word, though, that they will
have to miss this years meeting. One
had to attend a meeting of the Red
Mems Lodge, another has the ap.
pendicitis, and several have leeisla-
lures that need watching