The Big Sandy news., 1912-04-12
lawrence FOR TEDDY.
Roosevelt Followers TuIl Out Ii
Full Force.

The Lawrence county clans Of
, Roosevelt and Taft gathered in the
court house in Louisa on Saturday
afternoon last to try conclusions N
r a battle for delegates and instTu:-
tions. who should be sent and for
, whom they should vote. IL was a
beautiful day, and Large number
of our Republican friends had come
to assist in making the Chicago nom
inee. A large number of Democrats
were also present when Chairman
Burgess raped for order and called
his brethren of the Big Stick and
the Steam Roller to sit up and take
notice of what was about to follow.
G. l.. Miller was made Chairman and
Jay Roberts Secretary of the meet,
ing. A committee OF eleven was ap-
pointed to draft resolutions. The
committee retired to look over the
resolutions which were born several
hours possibly days before the
convention met Up to this time
everything proceeded with smooth
ness and sweetness that was almost
cherublc The heavenly calm coz
tinued until the committee returned
from the incubator, and Mr.. w. I.
Cain displayed, verbally. one OF the
products. OF the hatch. Stripped OF
Its feathers 1t revealed a resolu-
tion that Judge o'Rear, Of Mont
gomery and Mr.. Combes, OF Fayette
ought to be delegates from the State
at rye to the Republican National
Co tntion. and that the county's
instruction should be for Roosevelt.
Mr. Cain had pretty good speech
in his report He moved
The adoption of the report, and this
vas the thunderbolt which soured
al the cream in the chnrn. M.
Chairman, shouted Mr.. r. C. Nc
slure, as he sprang to his feet, MIR.
5hairman, your committee has a
report 10 read" and he ,
vas about to read it when some
nan with a Roosevelt badge said
about a point OF order
that Mr.. Mcclure had no right to !,
cad anything not even his title !,
lear, at this juncture, but it didn't !.
AXE long to convince Chairman Mil
n that the late minority leader OF
le House minority leader again.
gu see--had perfect right to read
Is report, and he read it. Say boys,
lat report was a june sweetner. 1t
ont say much about the price OF
'tatoes, bad roads or The probable N
OF its raining on Easter but what
said about Taft and the great
sss OF that rotund and hefty states
an was both orful and ornate,
led down. 1t declared for John
issell, OF Ashland, and Judge Hal !,
rt, of Lewis county, for district =,
legates and Dear Will"-this is ~
nat Teddy used to call the Prhsi- I,
nt--for another term. When Mr.. i,
,Clure had finished he was finish III
, Tor the vote was taken on the !,
i1ority report and the victory of
e Big Stick over the Roller was -,
decided and convincing that the
II forces gave it up. In announc- ola
, his defeat Mr.. Mcclure pro- ,'',
nnced fitting enlogy over the A.,
'mains, admitting present death bir
predicting glorious resurree- 10.
n on the ides Of next November. :.
Phe friends OF Mr.. Joe Swetnam r.,
ceiyed signs OF a verbal eruption ID :
'n' 90 tnes hinuiy gave bro
the call and Joe went at the {
ttes, hammer and tongs. 10,
~ meaning the Rooseveltians, on
mt offiee-holders. Joe said, but son
Y, like kim, were members Of /, :
o' saiiusseu party Whatever quil
may mean, This was the re-
n of Joe's speech Saturday. but
would be a safe bet to say that
light search would have revealed N
fact that II he wore any gallus- yeal
at all on that occasion he wore trict
Anyhow what he said was well last
ived in
ne following We're appointed dele thre
IS and alternates. we're