Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1912-07-18
FATEFUL DAY NEAR
Next Saturday, July Goth, to De-
termine Outcome of New Move
ment to Purge Politics of Cor
ruption.

TupClOn.
Mass conventions have been called
to assemble in every county seat
in Iowa, next Saturday at one
O'Clock. They are not to be con-
ventions Of delegates" but of the
rank and file of citizens, who be-
Heve in righteousness and politics,
and who are willing to unite with
others of like mind in the over
throw of the evil powers, which
now dominate the two old parties
so completely.
So the meeting at Audubon day
after tomorrow is for every voter
of whatever party, who wishes to
60 on record as a believer in the
clean and honest things in politics,
and as foe of the indecent and
corrupt things which have lately
made our cheeks burn with shame
and indignation. The call for this
convention is as follows:
ITO the people of Iowa-'regard-
less of past or present party affilia-
tions who believe that the time
has come for nation-widr move
ment on non-sectional lines, so that
the people may serve in sincerity
and truth by an organization un-
fe<tered by obligations to conflict
Ing interests:
Who believe in the right and
capacity of the people to rule them
selves and fairly to control all the
agencies of their government, and
who hold that only through social
and industrial justice thus secured
can honest property find permanent
protection:
Who believe that government by
the few tends to become and has
in fact become government by the
sordid influences that control the
few:
= call is hereby issued for coun-
ty mass conventions to be held at
the county seat i'm each county in
Iowa at one o'clock p. m. on the
10th day of July, 1912, to select
delegates to state convention to
be held in Des Moines. at one
O'Clock p. M, on the Gath day of
July 1912. for the purpose of elect
ing two delegates at large and one
delegate from each congressional
district, to attend national con-
vention to be held at Chicago, Hill
nois, August S, 1912. There shall
also be selected at said state
convention a state central committee
consisting of one member from
each congressional district, and two
candidates for presidential elector
at large, and one candidate for
presidential elector for each con-
gressdonal district Said national
convention has been called for the
purpose of nominating candidates
to be supported for the position of
president and vice-prseident of the
UNITED States, under resolution
of the mass meeting held in Chica-
go ON June %, 1912.
"The basis OF representation to
said state convention shall be as
follows: One delegate for each
county. and one additional delegate
for each 400 votes or fraction
thereof of not less than 200, cast
for Theodore Roosevelt at the ma
tional election held in November,
1904"
Under the above apportionment
Audubon County is entitled to five
delegates, who will attend the state
convention to be held in Des Moines
next Wednesday. July oath.
Saturday, then, is a momentous
day. The principal of govern
ment by the people" is being
shamefully maltreated in this year
Of grace, 1912, and Its defenders
must be found in the homes of the
Land or 1t must perish. There is
no alternative, for it's destroyers
have all but triumphed and count
victory near and certain.
Voters, who disapprove of the
corrupt influences which domi-
nate American politics, will have an
opportunity to translate words that
are meaningless into actions that
will bring results day after tomor-
row. 1t will be interesting to OBJ
serve what these people will do in
Audubon County
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Gerald" she said, facing him
with heightened color and putting