The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1913-03-07
THE BULL MOOSE MEETING.


at the Commercial club rooms accord
ing to tbs call for mass convention
announced for that date. The same
joke was on them that was on the Re-
publicans the night before, only in a
less aggravated form. There was
difficulty in finding somebody with
a key, and when it was found there
were no lamps on the cords. The
Republicans spent two hours getting
lamps, getting the wires connected
and cleaning up the wreekage, for
somebody had been In the rooms and
smashed all the lamps with billiard
cues and wrecked things generally.
All that the Bull Moose leaders had
to do was to find key and get some
lamps together, and they were ready
for action.
The leading Democrats of the town
were present as were also the lead
ing Socialists, and while the Demo-
Gratis were called into conference
about everything, the Socialist boys
were passed up. For chairman they
chose the Reverent Luther Strom-
quist, although DR.. Patrie the very
best of presiding officers was pre-
sent. Theodore Schneider was
chosen secretary and appeared pre-
pared for the duty. The committee on
platform and order Of business con-
sisted of VIM. A. Lee, DR.. Patrie,I J..
P. Wilson, Geo. E. Campbell and F.
c.. Christ, who retired and deliber-
ated for half an hour and then re-
commended that an adjourned meet
ing be held at the Court House
Thursday evening for nominating, a
full city ticket, and naming the
campaign committees. The report
of the committee was adopted and
the business of the evening seemed
finished. A motion was made that
the chairman appoint two persons
from each ward as temporary
working committee to arrange for
the Thursday night meeting. AS the
chairman did not know who was who
or where they lived he asked the
several wards to name their men, and
after some conferences the first ward
named Ave, the second ward named
five, and each of the others named
two as per the motion.
The secretary said he was not in
favor of anybody being throttled and
he suggested that each ward be all"
lowed to name five, so the motion
was amended accordingly. While
these wards were hunting for men to
appoint Mr.. F. c. Christ, hoped
up and said there was motioon be-
fore the house on the adoption of
the report of the platform commit
tee. At this point about a dozen
fellows accused Mr.. Christ of having
just woke up from transe or of
having been asleep. Several gentle
men asked him to "pass 1t around, y
whatever it was that had had such
strange effect upon him. Ward
Four reported through Mr.. Marcus
Blenkle that it was impossible to
find men to fill the committee from
that ward as it was not we'll repre-
sented and asked for authority to
fill the vacancies in the open the
next day. This was done by a motion
made and adopted without objection
They had spent twenty or twenty
five minutes creating this committee
of twenty men to hold office for two
days to arrange for the Thursday
night meeting, and now it occurred
to them that as they we're about to
adjourn to meet at the Court room 1t
might be we'll to see IL they could
get the use of the place, so F. N.
Parkinson was delegated to go to
telephone and ring up the sheriff
about it which he did while the meet
ing waited. Mr.. Parkinson report
ed that the court room would be in
readiness for them, and the meeting
adjourned. About half of the ac-
tive members of the meeting had
been appointed on the committee
and Mr.. Parkinson had attended to
the duties of the committee in two
minutes at the telephone. This sug-
gests the probability of rousing
big meeting, since the committee OF
twenty has its arrangements all
made for it and will naturally turn
its energies to getting all the Bull
Moose and all the unterrified out to
the meeting.
An incident of the session was an
effort on the part of one of the
Democrat leaders to open up the
subject of adopting party name,
but this was promtly cut off by the
statement that the movement had