The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-03-15
Four Prisoners Paroled and Escorted
to the Opera House With
Roosevelt Badges Pinned
on Them.
CONVENTION T
Ia Toilette Tells What He Would
Have Done Had He Been
President Years
Ago.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.l
OZARK, Mo-, March 15.-Four pris.
oners from the Christian county jail
are today strong believers in the
holding of political conventions on
the slightest provocation. The coun-
ty republican convention being held
here to elect delegates to the state
and fourteenth district conventions,
four prisoners whose terms in jail did
not expire for several days, were pa
rolled, Roosevelt badges pinned on
them, and seated in the convention.
Before being escorted to the opera
house, where the convention was in
session, the prisoners were taken TO
hotel, dined and cleaned up. Taft
supporters held convention ON the
public square. Two sets of delegates
were elected
Dynamite In Oklahoma.
GUTHRIE, Okla. March 15.-Hav,
ing secured control of the state con.
vention here after a hot fight. and in.
structed ten delegates to the national
convention to vote for Roosevelt
Dynamite Ed" Perry, leading the
Roosevelt faction in the state. is pre-
pairing to press his advantage.
1t was declared today that the
Fourth district convention held II
January, when two Taft delegates
were elected. will not be recognized
by the Roosevelt Yorces mother con
vention will be called in that distric
and Roosevelt delegates elected.
This may result in contest sncl
as will have to be settled from the
third district. Two sets of delegates
were elected from that district yes
terday
What He Would Have Done.
United Press Leased Wire Service. /
MANDAN, s. d., March Isl an
not going to make a personal at
tack on any man, neither on Mr.
Roosevelt nor President Taft, bu
this is time to judge them by theil
records declared Senator I.aFollettt
in his address early today at James
town, n. D., in his campaign to secure
the endorsement of the republican
voters at the first state presidential
preference primary to be held in tbi.
country. Then the progressive lead
er fired away as follows:
''If | had been president wher
these great trusts were forming
when Mckinley and Roosevelt wer,
national executives, | should hay,
called the United States district at
torneys of the whole country to Wash
ington and | should have handed eacl
one a copy of the Sherman anti-trus
law, and would have said. e,
home and commit that TO memory ant
come back here at this same hour to
morrow Then when they came back
| would have said to them: Now vo,
know what this law means, 90 out anc
do your duty as prosecutors. IF yol
don't. will put you our and will pu
in men who will
"One slight touch of the firm han.
Of government when these goat com
binations were forming would hay,
restrained them. Now the problap
is more serious and more conp.:cat
ed, but we've got to meet t ard solv,
ii or hand it down to our children
We can solve 1t with the ballot, Del
haps they could not"
With two speeches at Jamestown tc
day and another here this afterno on
LaFollette threw his hat into III
North Dakota ring and followed i
with both feet The Poo;syc.. lea /
ers have redoubled their efforts an
the bitter campaign which has rage,
for a month has become intensified
1t is 10 be finished fight, with n
quarter asked or given and will b
settled only when the people hav
cast their ballots Tuesday.
LaFollette will make another speec
tonight at Bismark and will wind Ii
his campaign tomorrow at Fargo an
! Grand Forks. LaFollette declines t
make any statement regarding tn
message alleged to have been sen
to him by Roosevelt containing assul
ances that the former presiden
would not be candidate but woul
4 support LaFollette.
1 In all his speeches so far LaFollett
has held Roosevelt and Taft respons
| ible for failure to enforce an
strengthen the antitrust laws and a
tributed most Of the political strife G
today to this and to the failure G
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