The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1912-10-10
1.-THE GREAT UNBossED,
(By Richard Harding Davis.)

1.-THE GREAT EMBOSSED"
(By Richard Harding Davis.)
The story of "Suspender jack and
OF now he saved the day at the Bull
Moose Convention at Syracuse no
longer is of news interest"
But the moral of the story to every
body who has a vote will continue to
be of interest up to the fifth of No
I veMhssaE. =.
n Long before the Syracuse conyen-
sstfon the progressive party had been
isspromising theA yoterssof New York
estate that the man Who joined that
sparty would be Embossed" would
sS.be free to vote as he wanted. would
tbe free to- choose, the men who we're
.asto represent him, MOULD be his own
smaster. To voters :g@ho for years had
been herded and driven .by Barnes
or Murphyssor by Barnes and Murphy
working ASIA team, that sounded like
a fine promise. But already they had
heard it many times. Before they ans
wered the call of the Bull Moose,
tney wanted to be sur the
s1ve party could deliver them from
bondage. They We're not content to
swap old bosses for new. They did
not want to hear themselves crying
TO Roosevelt, "You have rid us of.
Kings, thou be king.',.sT The conven-
lion at SVTontIGn an ~, .l.,. l-.l.
1T proved that to the people OF that
state In h union in which lived the
most people, the leaders of the pro-
gressiye party hold to their promise.
/ Free to Choose.
The leaders kept their hands off
that convention. Probably never in
! our political history has there been
one so entirely Embossed, so unruled
ny one man or by a team of men,
never II in which the delegates
We're left so free to make their own
chpln nor ones ia nWkick theyfschose'
ssWfthagreater wisdom. But who they
chose II d~thatethey chose wisely, is
not the point. The one point of great
estevalue is that they were FREE TO
CHOOSE.
s$As it unfolded, the drama oft the
convention was told by telegraph to
all the country. But, in a more leis-
urely fashion the story will be worth
retelling.
For five hectic hours the delegates
had listened to speakers seconding
the nomination of the two candidates
Tor governor. The delegates We're will
ling to listen. Each wanted time in
which to make up his mind. Before
him was an embarrassment of rich
es. Between the two candidates it was
a hard choice. The trouble with each
was that no one could find anything
against him. And so, each delegate,
IKE a small boy in front of a candy
shop window, figured his one vote
and hesitated, unable to decide.
Not to Bury Anybody.
10 speak in behalf OF Prendergast
or Hltchkiss, the friends of the rival
candidates sent delegate after dele
gate to the platform. They went there
MOTTO bury anybody. but to praise
MN. II a pretty suffragette spoke for
Hotchkisss. A prettaer4 suffragette
spoke FOR Prendergast; if a white
naarfd Js4tfragette declared she was
forsHotchksS, the &dherents. of Prem
dergast followed her with a suffra-
gette whose hair was ever silvered. If
a eolored man declared that all Of his
! people We're for the state chairman,
another colored man promptly an
nounced that the entities colored'vote
was for the controller. 1t was like a
game of poker. If the believers in
Hotchkiss played a boy orator the
y Friends nf - ratdnru,e, e,r, AJ,z:.. lz..
orator and raised him one Civil War
Veteran. and when the other side
played a republican who had found
religion, the opposition came back
at them with a reformed democrat.
And, so for. hours it had continued.
But no one, could take the trick, With
regret everyone saw that whichever
candidate was nominated, inevitably
there would be disappointment, hurt
feelings and a split party. Had one
of the candidates been weaker, the
choice would have been easy. But
both We're equally strong, equally
h1gh-class men.
AsTWebster says to Fields, aYou
shouldn't bet on such heightened
horses" ~ az ~ &. NJ /.
MA Deadlock Among Friends
As the man on whom had fallen
the mantle of Hughes" and as state
chairman. Hotchkiss hadgainedh hum.
dreds of delegates; as tfesbest comp
troller New York has known, as the
man who single handed had fought
OH Ihmpany. and az the known
choice of Roosevelt for the office,
P~rendergast numbered as many hun
dreds as did Rotchkiss and probably
a few more. Of these two men one
had to be nominated. A compromise
candidate was not available. Days be-
fore the convention, Oscar S. Straus,
one of the national leaders in the
progressive party, had been implored
to consent to run for governor. He
had declined. He had told the leading
men of the party, each in turn, that
he could not and would not. So, he
was eliminated. And Brainbridgel
Colby and Ex-Lientenant Governor
Davenport, each at one time a strong
favOrite for the nomination, had
NTH draw in fayDuftnf TJofoh lie, ~