The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-11-20
Hiqh Tension Club Holds Annual
Meeting and Adopts Tammany
Methods to Elect Their Hero

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The political reporter of the High
Tension club has written the follow.
Ing account OF the big election the
club held Tuesday:
The annual election of officers of
the High Tension club for the year
1920 was held Tuesday evening at the
club rooms at Eighth and Main
streets. There were two recognized
tickets and one dark horse ticket
competing for the offices. liner Carl
son led one ticket and Glenn Carlson
the other. The dark horse candidate
for the presidency was not known I'M
til after the election returns were In.
H. T. Edgar, president of the Mis-
sissippi River Power company; David
DAILY, district manager of the middle
west properties Of Stone &c Webster;
p. /. Robinson, manager of the Fort
Madison Electric company, and other
out-of-town members were present to
cast their vote on this vital occasion
The evening was opened by a
grand parade of dark horse rooters,
almost one hundred strong, with a
complete orchestra of six pieces,
namely: one bass drum, two steam
boat whistles, one pair OF cymbals,
one bugle and one trombone. This
parade was headed by huge banner
marked Ozark Horse Rooters," After
their entry the meeting was opened
by the reading of the minutes and
music by the string orchestra.
No French Kiss.
Mr.. Scadding, the president for
l., ;,,t hic ~
mittee chairmen and thanked them
for their services He called them
to the platform in body and there
presented each one with a croix de
guerre. Mr.. DAILY suggested that he
complete the ceremony with the
French kiss, but Mr.. Venning refused
on the ground that he never used
hair brush on his face.
After this special election com.
mission was chosen to preside
through the balance of the evening.
Mr. r. G. Murphy was chairman OF
this committee and conducted it IN
his usual able manner.
The ballots, consisting Of multi
colored perforated cardboard with
comic supplement attached, were
then passed and the election was on.
An important item to the supplement
states that Mr.. P. l. Robinson, of
Fort Madison, says that there are
two kinds of men, truthful men ana
those who take the census in Fort
Madison. During the counting of the
ballots, moving pictures were shown,
with numerous lantern slides calling
attention to the shortcomings OF the
various candidates.
The meeting was almost broken up
by the receipt Of telegram ad-
dressed to Dr. Barr, signed Emma
Goldman, written from Sing Sing
Prison and urging him to support
the I. w. w. ticket. Up until this
time it was believed that DR.. Barr
was a bolshevik, which only goes to
show that We must not be deceived
by appearances. Hardly had the ex-
citement subsidized from this incident
when our handsome police officer,
Mr.. Lafeber, entered with instruc-
lions from the Chicago Headquarters
him that an ]. w. w. ana
bolshevik meeting was to be held III
Keokuk and that he was to arrest
all suspicious characters and hold
them without bail. Mr.. Lafeber was
with difficulty restrained from drag
cling Mr.. Scadding and DR.. Barr to the
lookup for the evening.
Cold Feet and Hot Air
The several representatives OF the
three parties were called ON for
speeches. Glenn Carlson was con-
spicuously absent at this point and
could not be found. liner Carlson,
whose feet were a trifle warmer, re-
sponded briefly Mr.. Jorstad. the
able representative of the dark horse
party, then, graciously read a speech,
presumably written by Glenn Carl
son to be read on this occasion. MI
Jorstad stated that he had found 1t
in the rear of the house upon enter
ing and felt that such high thoughts
should be preserved to posterity and
that 1t was only fair to his opponent
to read this choice speech to the audi
oroa ue then read the speech eX-