The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-07-27
Hill REVEALS
HARRISON DEAL
AT SIKESTON
Declares in Speech Cape
Man Got What He Agreed
To Take
CLOSES CAMPAIGN IN
CONGRESSIONAL RACE
Speaks On National Issues
Stands For Protection and
Big Business.

Details of how Tom Hoskins of
1 Morehouse, one of William H. Harri-
sons managers in his candidacy to be-
come Republican national convention
delegate, accepted II votes for Harri-
son from Butler County, rather than
take a chance of losing all in fight
on the convention floor for more, last
night were told by David w. Hill, one
of the candidates for Congress.
Harrison was defeated at the Skies
ton March 6 congressional convention
when the delegates decided to put the
skids under E. w. Flentge, Ed Regen-
hardt and the Naeters who took charge
of Harrison's campaign.
The triumvirate now is attempting
to use spurs foot long in riding Hen
ry S. Wilson of Ava, into power and
fighting Hill in his race for the Con-
gressional nomination by declaring he
did nothing to aid Cape County's can
didate for the delegateship at Skies,
ton.
Hill told of Butler C9unty'S action
in his speech which closed his CAM
paign in this count. When the forces
lined up for the Sikeston convention
last March, Hill said, l.. NJ. Henson,
a power in Butler County politics and
Republican, favored Sam Eulin of
Dexter.
When Harrison got into the field,
fight loomed up in the Butler County
contingent. To give votes to Harr.-
son took them away from Eulin and
over Henson's protest.
The delegation caucussed, Hill said,
and compromised their county fight by
offering to give Harrison II votes. The
/ county was represented with % dele
gates, each of whom voted on two can
didates in the convention.
"Our county chairman, E. E. Whit
worth, called Tom Hoskins by long
distance telephone, before the Skies
ton convention, and told him the situa-
ton. He made the offer Of IL votes
and said that anything else meant
fight. He asked Hoskins if that was
all right" Hill said, "and Hoskins re-
piled that Harrison would take the II
votes"
"The record of the convention will
show that Cape County got from Pop
lar Bluff and Butler County, just what
she agreed to take" he said. "Yet
someone is trying to knife me in the
back"
Hill then told how he had gone to
the front for E. W. Flentge years ago
n fight to nominate him for State
, Railroad and Warehouse Commission
er. His fight put Flentge across and
now Flentge is fighting Hill.
"Tell them what you did for Regen
hardt," Jim Hogg called out to Hill.
The speaker continued and explained
subsequently to a reporter for The
Tribune that what Mr.. Hogg, Poplar
Bluff Republican leader, referred to
was his fight for Regenhardt in 1912
to make him q national convention
delegate when he was for Taft. Reg
enhardt now opposes him.
A large crowd attended the meeting
to hear Hill speak. He delivered an
address in which he took up national
issues and likewise spoke of Missouri
Legislation in which to took hand.
He declared he is unequivocally in
favor of protective tariff to care for
the home markets of home made
goods.
"We had to feed wheat to our hogs
when it fell to so cents before the
WAR" he said, "and Albert Won Hoff-
man of st. Louis, ran a soup kitchen
to feed unemployed men. The coun-
try was going into panic worse than
that of Cleveland's administration
when the war saved it."
He also scored the Democratic ad-
ministration in Missouri and likened
Governor Majors tangoing, trotting
and bunny-hugging to the fiddling of
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