| Show AMARK A HANNA SCRAP Republican Meeting Broke Up In a Row + lIR ROBERTSONS PROXIES COUNCILMAN CAST VOTES OF TWO ABSENTEES 4 Hostilities Were Terminated By An AdjournmentF C Loufbourow Elected Secretary and Arthur Pratt Given a Place On Executive CommitteeOpposed to Primaries t IJat niJ1Is meeting oC thc Repub jean city committee ended in a beautiful beau-tiful row and the conllict was growing fierce when hostilities were terminated by a hasty adjournment Councilman Roberbon is charged with the r lon sibility for the scrap and thc direct und particular cause was his attempt to vote the proxies of Jake Greenewald and Joe Cottle the two members from the Fifth precInct Up to this point the most oppressive llarmony had hung like a pull over the meeting but when A S Reiser in nocentl asked Robertson if Greene wald and Cottle were not to attend anymore any-more committee meetings the scene changed Robertson for an instant imagined himself in the council and bean throwing chunks of sarcasm right and leCt Greenewald and CoUle would attend when there was anything to do they were good Republicans and needed no advice from Mr Reiser But Is it customary for one man toot to-ot tWo proxies asked Reiser A1 this Rob rttons lip curled It Is all right he said to vote two or more proxies if you represent their sentiments sen-timents whats the difference Appleby thought it was not 111t to Pick up anybody and send him to the committee General Hostilities Oh I know whats the matter with you Applcb struck in Robertson you were not elected secretary and youre sweating blood Then there was a general luctlon Eichnor spoke and Appleb and Robertson Rob-ertson and Heiser and Pratt and Lipp man and others whoso voices could not be distinguished In the midst of the furore the chairman chair-man declared the meeting adjourned Before all this happened the committEe commit-tEe elected F C Loofbourow secretary and the chairman appointed an executive execu-tive committee of three on of whom is Arthur Pratt The committee also practically decided against the new primary election law The committee met in the Progress building There were present the chairman Dennis Eichnor W J Ieeks who held the proxy of P A Dicks and A F Lamson from the First ward A S Reiser and W P Ap pleb from the Second ward R n Taylor and T A Callster who held the proxy of Frank Emery from the Third ward Arthur Pratt and Joseph Lippman from the Fourth ward and Alex A Robertson who held proxies for both J Greenewald and Joseph Cot the from the Fifth ward Secretary Elected The matter of a secretary of the corn mittee to succeed Ralph Guthrie resigned re-signed was taken up and two candidates candi-dates were presented F C Loofbourow and A P Applebj The yote when taken stood six for Looibourow to four for his competitor and the former was declared elected Joe Lippmans Discoveries The primary law was discussed at some length Joe LiPIHuan who has just gJt back to the Hanna camp for whatever comes as he says discussed dis-cussed Republicanism with all the enthusiasm en-thusiasm of the recent convert RellUb licans says Joe are so free from guile that they need no safeguards around their Iwimaries There has been crooked work in past rears but everything is straight now When the committee ant par its debts why should it shoulder shoul-der a primary system that would cost from 500 to 10oo Besides every man who tries to vote at a Republican primary pri-mary Is straight of course he is Dont make it hard for him to get back but grease the toboggan slide The law is lame and ineffective he continued Who ouhl prosecute an Illegal voter Who would dare to ask a pretty girl her age Who would pay the bill Mi Lippman scented to voice the scntiments of the committee Although action was postponed until the next meeting It was the expressed sentiment that tinal action would be against the new primary plan Debts of Committee The old debt of SO for livery hire handed don by former Chairm1n Evans was discussed and it was voted that the former secretary be requested to turn over the property of the com rnittee and make a detailed statement of the committees debts also that the old executive committee he l1lled upon to make a statement and report Following Fol-lowing this was a general discussion of financial matters Executive Committee Chairman Eichnor then appointed A S neiser W P Appleb and Arthur Pratt an executive committee for the coming campaign Republican day at Saltalr under the auspices of the Republican Womans club Aug was discussed and it was agreed that all possible aid be extended to this project |
