The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-08-31
LAMM COHORTS
IN CAPE PLAN
CTTYWIDE Club
Will be Financed and Man.
aged Independent of
County Committee.
G, FL. MEYER, HAAS AND
WITTMOR ARE LEADERS
Charles 5lattner is Put on Tickle
for Public Admins
TRAITOR.

Following the meeting of the Re
publican County Central Committee at
jackson yesterday afternoon, it be-
came known here last night that a
Hughes-Lamm Republican Club, or
ganized, financed and managed entire
ly independent Of the county commit
tee, will be formed in the Cape within
the next week.
After becoming affiliated with the
independent Lamm League that is
forming throughout the state, the club
will devote its entire energies to a
campaign for Hughes for President
and former Judge Henry Lamm fol
governor.
A big Republican rally that will
eclipse anything ever held in the Cape
In the way of political gatherings will
be staged late in the campaign as the
closing shot of the campaign. This will
be supplemented by a canvass of this
city which may reach out into the
country, and which will aim to carry
the issues of the election before every
voter in the community.
The organization of the Hughes
Lamm Club is being conferred around
George H. Meyer, Republican leader
who has taken the pains to keep him
self we'll informed on the party feel
ing in this county as well as in the
state.
For three days petitions seeking to
enlist members in the formation of the
club have been circulated in the Cape.
and already several scores of names
have been obtained. The petitions will
be circulated for a few more days, and
at the close of this preliminary can
vass, a mass meeting will be called and
the permanent organization formed
H. H. Haas and Louis Wittmor men,
bers of the County Committee from
the Cape, are lieutenants of Meyer ir
the formation of the Hughes Lamm
Club and prominent among the Re-
publican candidates for county offices
who are working for the club stands
Henry BrinkOpf, candidate for sheriff.
BrinkOpf last night announced that
he will carry one of the petitions with
him n making his canvass of the city
and county and boost the general cam
paign work along.
When the permanent organization of
the club has been formed headquarters
for the club will be opened in the Cape,
and detailed plans for the campaign
will be formulated.
eve Republicans in the Cape never
can expect much from the County
Committee at Jackson. anyway, in the
way of financial or organized support, =
one of the men back of the club said
last night, $50 we are going to hit the
ball for Hughes and Lamm."
In the preamble of the petitions
that are being circulated, the candida
cies of both Hughes and Lamm are
taken up, but at no place in the docu-
ment is the name of Dickey, candidate
for senator, VIZ Snubbed Lamm at
the State C" .fmittee meeting a week
ago, mentioned.
When efforts we're made last night
to learn if the County Committee yes
terday afternoon took up the matter
of campaign plans, H. H. Haas, men,
Der, said: "That was not discussed in
the meeting at all. The Lamm league
did not come into the meeting"
Several days ago it became known
that the Lamm Supporters were waiting
upon the committee meeting to learn
its complexion and when the commit
tee avoided the subject, the Lamm
men decided to go ahead with their
club arrangements.
The committee yesterday was occu-
pied with the work Of filling in a few
places on the Republican ticket. Char
les Blattner, banker, retired farmer
and president of the German-Ameri-
can Alliance, was placed on the Re
publican ticket for public administra-
tor.
Candidates for constable in three
townships which did not select a man
m the primary, were named as fol-
ows: Hubble, Robert Eakins; Apples
Creek, Joseph Schott; Kinder, Joseph |
Meyer. ]. H. Thomas also was placed |
N the ticket for Justice of the Peace
n Kinder township.
Several other vacancies still exist in
he list of coEstables by reason of the
act that no names had been offered
rom the townships that did not make
selection in the primary. These town.
hips will be given two weeks longer
n which to offer names and the ticket
will be made complete at a called