The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1920-05-13
REPUBLICAN STATE
CONVENTION


That They Would Not be Rep
resented on the Big-S.
The Republican State convention
held in Kansas City Wednesday and
Thursday of last week was one of
the widest in the history of the par
ty in this state. The credentials
committee had the hardest job of the
session when it spent hours and
hours listening to the contests from
the Kansas City wards, where the
so-called "anti-boss" faction claimed
that its delegations had been beaten
by the methods so we'll known by
the Republican politicians Of that
city. That tangle was finally un-
tangled by the committee reporting
in favor of the regulars" and they
were seated.
Then the women caused trouble
and had trouble among themselves.
Instead of sending The usual four
delegates at large 10 the national
convention at Chicago ii was planned
to sen1 eight, all men, with a half
vote each. That did not suit the
women delegates worth cent and
call was issued for a Caucus. The
caucus was another stormy affair. A
resolution was passed asking, or
rather demanding, that two women
be placed on the delegation. Then
a vote was taken as to what two wo-
men the caucus would recommend to
the convention as entitled to the
honor. Mrs. Albert L. Brugger1an
of St. Louis, National committee
woman from Missouri, WIS so sure
that she would De one Of tn e Sc
lected that she neglected to attend
the caucus and make fight for the
place, SO when the vote was taken it
was found that Miss Alma Sasse,
state chairman, and Mrs. w. A. Swan
of Joplin, were the winners, and
were recommended to the conven-
ton as delegates selected by the wo-
men. Mrs. Bruggeman did not relish
the rolling that she had received
and when the names were presented
to the convention she engineered
fight that broke the slate and Miss
Sasse, who Mrs. Bruggeman held re-
sponsible for her defeat, was beaten
by Mrs. Alice Meyer Curtice- Wing.
OF St. Louis. Mrs. Swan was named
as the other woman delegate. This
demolishir~ Of the slate caused the
name Of National Committeeman
Babler to be left out OF the Big-S
The following were the delegates
finally selected:
Senator Selden p. Spencer.
State Chairman w. L. Cole of
Union.
Walter S. Dickey, of-Kansas City.
Edward w. Foristel of St. Louis.
Congressman L. c. Dyer of St.
Louis.
Mrs. Alice Curtice Meyer Wing,
Mrs. Verona Swan, Joplin.
DR.. G. r. A. Grassland, St. Joseph
(negro) without opposition.
Among the alternates elected was
Mrs: Victoria Clay Haley, OF St.
Louis, also colored.
The special correspondent of the
St. Louis Globe-Democrat, Mis-
souri's leading Republican paper, has
the following to say of the conven-
ton:
THE steam roller, 1920 model, of
the Republican oligarchs in Missouri
Iray not be the smooth-riding, soft
cushioned, shock-absorbent vehicle
Of past makes, but she's still an eff.
.icient little car. Provincial gentle
men, with high ideals and low vote
9ettinr powers, who tried to get in
he way cf q ~ the state convention,
" hich came to an exhausting end
his afternoon got their Prince Al
oerts splashed and their tempers1
lied, but the failed appreciably to
Effect the momentum produced by
Chauffeur Schmoll and Mechanician
Tom Marks.
THE trifling defects observed in
he new model may be due to the
high price of oil this year, or mayhar
o the fact that some unskilled
women have been toying with the
steering wheel, but, after all, taking
I in the large. the defects are more
apparent than actual.
The test of a car is in its endur-
nee and in its abilitv to climb hills.
The latter qualification goes without
aging in Kansas City. As for the
'bility to stick it out where the go.
ng is tough, the Schmoll- Marks ma.
hine showed. that it was there or
hereabouts through many grLelling
lours' rough travel.
"As pointed out in a previous arti-
le on the convention, the Republ-
ans, unlike their Democrats
rethren, have a habit of washing
heir dirtv clothes in the kitchen,
roning them in the back hall and
Meeting the company in the parlor
nth smile and a clean shirt. The
anne custom prevailed at this gath
ring except that a few dark spots
bowed in the exhibited linen and a
ew crinkles that had obviously de-
led the smoothing iron.
AS matter of fact, the convc,i-
ION proper was a mere side show
Or the meeting of the Credentials;
Committee, held in a small room,
BAIT the stage. From a grinding
attic there. "A battle that went on for ,,
wenty-f four hours without a stop.
ON Marks, the Kansas City master
iachinist, emerged a winner with
lie scepter in his hand proclaiming
:newed kinship of the unterrified
no,,h1s~o.:.~. r A.