Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-07-19
Us REPUBLICANS
GO TO MADISON
FOR A CONVENTION

with Apologies to Ring w. Lardner,
of the Chicago Tribune and Satur-
day Evening Post.)
Well, we all started out last We'd
nesday morning, that is me and Dick
and pretty soon Lee Eastman cum
along and Hal Pugh. Hal says he
wasn't going to go, but at the last
minute he decided it wouldn't be
convention unless he went, so Hal
cum along. When we got on the train
there was Ralph Place and Clarence
Calvert, he was coming to but was
detained and now he is sorry he didn't
cum as it was a good convention and
lots of nice felIers there.
We got to Madison alright about
noon and went to the park hotel for
lunch and the Watson boys and an
other Teller from Livingston by the
same name he was with us also at
lunch. Wen we got outside 10 and be-
hold you their was Sam Kitto from
Bloomington and / says hello Sam
and he says hello how are you. | sed
was alright and asked Sam to cum
along with us and he got into the taxi
and we all rode in state down to the
convention. Their was lots of Repub-
licans at the armory and purity soon
we all went inside and the first thing
they did was to ask all of Us to stop
smoking as it was against the rules.
Then Mr.. Bird of Wasaw took the
platform and made a fine speech on
Republicanism and what the party
stands for. Then he appointed a COM
mittee of about 10 men to draft a set
Of resolutions, but he didn't ask any
Of US but that was alright. While the
committee was out l SEE to Hal lets go
out and smoke and me and Hal went
down to the lake back of the armory
and smoked. And while we were
standing their we saw girl out in the
water nearly drownding and their was
so much shoutin goin on that nobody
seen her. And me and Hal was just
a goin to jump in and reskue her wen
a Teller on the bank hollered to a big
feller in the water and says you dam
fool wy don't you help her. And this
teller went over and ketched her jest
time. And they pulled her in boat
and she was a mighty sick girl but 1
guess she was glad she was alive.
Jack Watson said afterwards that
he was their and their wasn't any
real danger as he would of jumped in
If the worst came to the worst and
splashed the lake dry. Jack could do
it.
Then we went back into the conven-
ton and voted for Gov. Phillip and
pretty soon the gov. cum and made
speech and it was a good one. I for
got that before we herd Mr.. Jeffries
of GAINESVILLE and he made good talk
and he will make a good run for he
is a scrapper and not afraid of emmy
body and a good American in the bar
gain, and he will make a good sena-
tor to.
Then they ballotted for the other
state Ofises and it was as hot as
blazis and lot of nominating speech
es was made And one Teller nominat-
ed a man for secretary of state and he
sed that his candidate was very close
TO serving the people once before and
the only reason he didn't was becuz
ne didn't get enough votes. Well we
nominated finally all of the men who
was running including the torie, Mr..
Cousins for lieut.. gov, who is away
with his command to fight for his
country.
1t looks like some of the tories are
patriotic enough to stand by the old
flag, enyhOw.
The rest of the ticket was good and
we have some mighty good men. Then
we went back to the park hotel and
had supper about s o'clock and then
the republicans of the 3rd district Sc
lected a candidate to run for congress
and his name is Jim Monahan and
Jim is a good man and an editor of a
paper at Darlington so voted for him
becuz l know if he is an editor he is
alright. And Jim will stand for con-
gress at the primaries and if he is
nominated he will stand by the presi-
dent and his state.
Then me and Dick and the Watson
boys and Lee and Hal and Ed Rothe
and Mr. Miller of FennimOre and some
other fellers went over to call on the