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Show I I i Political Personal. 1 : In , m '. Delicately and artistically did the Smoot 9 I ,i ciowd Thursday pick from their plum basket the ,i I large, lound and fragrant specimen of citrus ) 1 fiuit that became lodged there about two weeks HI ago it To the tune of Smoot, Sutherland and Howell, nl I with Loose, Dr. C. M. Wilson and W. D. Llvings- mKg' I tn as bed fellows, they carried tho Insurgent Hj): I lemon carefully from the convention floor and SH I appointed Jake Greenewald its permanent keeper. ilH Tho convention Thursday in tho Theater was wK' If a farce as far as any unlooked for action wa 1H ir concerned. The insurgents tried their hardest to fHI If insurge and while D. O. Rideout got the floor IBB1 if) and delivered himself of an excess of patriotism PRf If and anti-church political views it cut very little wtti II ice with the ultimate action of the church crowd. VHj II They had decided before the convention con- vened that the gag rule was to be applied to the m I insurgent orators and Harry Joseph was cut out SmW 1 1 for the fall guy. Harry carried out orders to tho flBKj i effect of making a "gag" motion. It didn't set fPR ! well on the stomachs of some of the country dele- iHu i3 gates, however, and the gang pulled it back and H I I let the insurgents talk. When it was over they Hm s knocked out Rideout's lesolution for the fall con- fj II vention and sent the congressional delegation to D flit Chicago. 0 I The insurgents are sore over the showing they B j 1 made and sore over their defeat. There could "IH be but one outcome of their efforts, however, and, Ifil I i ey got it. 191 I I |