Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1910 — A Model Platform. [ARTICLE]

A Model Platform.

One of the shortest political platforms ever written is that of Solomon P. Rodes. Solomon, according to ex-Vice-President Adlai E. Stevenson’s “Somethihg of Men I Have Known,” was wont to say that he would rather “go to the Missouri iegislater than to be the Czar of Rooshy.” A convention which purposed to nominate him for this office was once held at the schoolhouse. The committee to draw up the resolutions adjourned for consultation to a log back of Hie building. When the committee finally returned, these resolutions, two in number, were presented to the assembly and adopted unanimously and with great enthusiasm: (1) Resolv that in the declaration of independence and likewise in the constitution of the united states we recognize a able and well rttten document, and that we are tetotually oppose the repeal of airy one of the aforesaid instruments of ritlng. Resol v: (2) that In our fellow-townsman, Solomon P. Rodes, we view an onest man and hereby annomlnate him for the legislature