The Lamar register., 1912-06-26

tended saying something Lice.
waited for him to say it. but 1 am
afraid it is one more OF his Mis-
souri, Gentlemen agreements" A
roar of protest went up from the
convention. The gavel banged for
order,
"One of two things Is certain.
quoted Devine. lone is that one
of those fourteen men who sign
ed that statement listened to their
masters voice and did his bidding
or else they could not resist vot-
ing with US on these contests.
What did the contests show?'
Take the southern cases. The
action of the Roosevelt forces stir
ring up contests in the south was
the most damnable l ever heard of.
(Groans and Kisses camel. A gen.
tleman from the north went down
south days before the conventions
were held and showed up among
the delegates. What did they stir
up? Rump conventions" he shout
cd, ito prevent regular delegates
J from sitting here. hear some
one say this il not true. Out OF
the IO7 delegate contests from
the south 1Ol Of them were seat
ed by the unanimous voice of the
committee. If they were not le-
gally elected why did these Simon
Pure angels on the committee vote
to seat them here?
Our friend now seeking seat
third term was SO anxious In
this matter that he charged every
man who voted on one southern
case should be sent to the peniten-
tiary. He was q little premature.
because two Of the men who vot-
ed with US we're Roosevelt men.
The colonel changed his ways. 1t
was not the Ananias club. but the
other place and he included In that
number Colonel Cecil Lyon. Talk
about a steam roller. There IL not
one that compares with the one
| SOlOuci Lynn iuh0 hA OAeso.
"One hundred and seven cOun-
ties down in Texas are prairie dog
counties and have no Republicans
in them. but Lyon fixes up a del
egation any way and by his tactics
has stuffed $4,000 votes at a time"
"I don't know whether you
know what was said on these SER
ious and important questions. but
do know this. II gentlemen seat
ed on the other side of this aisle
does not cease his disorder)y con-
duct. delegate or not. the sergeant
at arms will remove him from the
hail." said Chairman Root. The
remarks were directed at Dele
gate w. II. Featherstone of Texas.
who was talking to those around
him and creating confusion. Fea-
therstone was talking loudly with
II. C. Scott and H. NJ. Moore. del
egates from his own state.
Levine again proceeded. He read
an affidavit charging 'manufactur-
ed"' credentials throughout the
state.
what did McGregor dor" cried
a delegate THAT is the way Ce-
ell Lyon did and was thereby en-
abied to control party politics in
Texas and run the ninety counties
and make himself national COM
mitteeman from that state.
""The national committee in
handling these cases did what hon.
orable gentlemen should do and
want to say those gentlemen who
cast their votes to seat these del
egates did what they thought was
right and according to their con-
science" 1t was several minutes
after Devine had ceased to talk
before order could be restored. He
had aroused both sides to the
highest pitch but had captured
| far more than half the crowd. WheI
order was restored the Roosevelt
and Hadley people started the dem
onstration for Roosevelt but 1t
| never changed a vote Devfne had