Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 224, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1910 — DEBT NOT YET PAID. [ARTICLE]

DEBT NOT YET PAID.

Taggart-Blocked- in. Effort to Square Political Pledge With Patronage. One of Thomas Taggart’s political debts remains yet to be paid. It was planned to square it by handing out the clerkship to the state election board. M. M. Bachelder, chosen by the Taggart men to be election commissioner for the Democrats, proposed Thomas Wright for clerk of the board. He failed to put the little deal across for Taggart. Governor Marshall suggested the name of Everett Maginnis, and succeeded in having his man appointed. Bachelder, of the Taggart machine, refused, flatly, to vote for Marshall’s man. Governor Marshall, just as flatly, refused to vote for Bachelder’s Choice, Jhqs it stood at the first Boston of the board of election commissioners. ' Charles O. Roemler, Republican commissioner, to avoid Democratic strife, and In order to get business started, withdrew his Republican aspirant for the clerkship and voted with Governor Marshall for Maginnis. This minor detail of politics Is given to show how well Taggart and Marshall get along together, and how they agree, even down to the smallest details of plum-pudding distribution among the faithful.