Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-10
LEAGUE REFUSES
TO SHOOT HYPREN
Swedish American Republicans Of the
State Turn Deaf Ear to 0akleaf's
Resolution.
ARE TO LET GOOD ENOUGH ALONE
Or. j. f. WesterIund of Cambridge Is
Elected President and Sherman
Given Endorsement.

Princeton, Ill, March 10-Rival G.
o. P leaders trooped to the convention
of the Swedish-American Republican
league here yesterday and put on a
"watchful waiting" front against each
other Senator Sherman was Endorsed
for president, according to the pro-
gram.
John NJ Harlan, who is running for
national delegate, using Roosevelt as
his platform, has been the Banquos
ghost OF the occasion. He stalked in
TO town at noon and for the rest of the
day was a disquieting apparition.
The league officials, DESTROYS Of CIV
ing full eclat to the Sherman boost,
feared Harlan might break into the
festivities and start whooping it up
for T. r.
They sought to discourage his
presence in Princeton. But Harlan
appeared and his friends, led by Col
onel Fred Smith of Peoria, began ne
gotiations to land him a banquet
ticket. This was a prolonged pro-
cess. Late in the afternoon Harlan
was offered a ticket if he would
promise not to break in with Roose-
welt speech.
Gets Banquet Ticket.
He replied that he would not make
any promises, other than to say he
had no intention of projecting him
self into any set program of address
es and mixing up the ceremonies. An
hour before the doors to the dining
hall were opened, a ticket was pro-
duced for the Chicagoan, but even
then the banqueters were still
troubled with apprehensions
Where the Sherman men have spent
q day wondering what Harlan might
or might not do-one wild rumor was
that he had captured the brass band
Senator R. ]. Barr brought from Jol-
let and would stage mass meeting
in the park-some twenty candidates
for state office, including six who
have hoisted lightning rods for gov
ernor, kept their eyes carefully peeled
on each other. They are all anxious
for a slice of the vote which the
league controls.
In the foreground some of the fac
tional leaders with a great show Of
politeness have been keeping cases
ON each other to see that no doormats
are changed for the April II pri-
tr,a ri hrd oil
ticians have been regarding the
league with the intentness of a cat
contemplating a bowl of cream.
For the rest of it, the league elected
officers and as one feature of it's bust
ness session refused to shoot the
hyphen out of Swedish-American. J.
B. Oakleaf Of Moline made an i'm
passioned appeal that the hyphen be
dropped.
Whereupon an elderly delegate
arose and remarked: "But-should
we not be proud of that hyphen?"
After this Oakleaf's resolution was
tabled. 1t got only one vote, that of
Its author.
Officers Elected.
Besides the Endorsement Of Senator
Sherman the league put its O. k. on
Julius Johnson for state auditor. It
elected the following officers:
President-Dr. ]. E. Westerlund Of
Cambridge.
Vice observation-disclosures Rehm,
Joliet.
Secretary-A. A. Norton, Chicago.
Treasurer-P. G. Shoberg, Pontiac.
There was rather an imposing dis
play of harmony, on the surface. Roy
0. West and Colonel Lowden kept
their heads closely together all the
way from Chicago to Princeton. SEN
Rtor Sherman and Charles S. Deneen
have fraternized throughout the day,
and the senator has made no more dis
lvowals Of candidates for delegates.
But the Deneen men have been
loudly murmuring against the disa-
vowal Of William NJ. McEwen in the
Seventh. Walter Rosenfeld, Sherman
Eown-state manager, explains:
"McEwen was disavowed because
be stated that although he would be for