Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 March 1913 — LEE. [ARTICLE]

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Mrs. E. Gilmore is on the sick list. Mrs. Josephine Anderson is on the sick list. Mr. Snyder, of Reynolds, was in Lee Monday. Mr. Davis moved Saturday to near Remington. Mrs. Ann Rishling called wi Mr®. Jose Anderson Monday. L. M. Jacks and family moved into their new home Wednesday. Misses Etha and Thelma Noland visited Miss Lona Jacks Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Armstrong moved to the Frank Fisher farm Monday. Willard Johnson went to Monon Sunday evening and on to Lafayette Monday. Alvin Clark was on the sick list the fore part of this week, but is better at this writing. Mrs. Charles Carlson returned to Lee Tuesday morning, after a visit of a week in Chicago. Mrs. Anchor and children, of Monon, visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Akers, over Sunday. Several from here attended the shower on Mr. and Mrs. Rollin Steward at Mr. Baedeker's, Saturday. Mrs. Carl Westphal and children went Sunday to their new home at Smithson, and Tuesday Mr. Westphal and brothers moved his goods. Order your Calling Cards at Ths Republican offlea ; ;

In the midst of a silence in which the fall of the proverbial pin would have sounded like the early morning milk wagon, Clive Standish began the most unusual speech that a Mountain State convention had ever heard. “My friends —’’ i From Shevlin’s rooters came a volley of hisses and cat-calls, but the disturbance and the disturbers were speedily squelched. “My friends,” repeated Standish, his powerful voice echoing from floor to roof, "Abraham Lincoln freed the black men forty odd years ago. It’s time that somebody freed the white brother. For years this State has groaned under the tribute of a relentless Machine, under the rule of a railroad that was all stomach and no conscience, all bowels and no heart, all greed and no generosity. Our party—and with shame I say it—has been turned into a vest-pocket asset of this vile corporation. For months past, and more especially today, you have seen what its power is, as opposed to the power of the more honest citizens of our party. It won to-day, it won yesterday, and it won the day before. It always has won. It rests with us here to-day, now and in this hour, to decide whether a new Proclamation of Emancipation is to be issued or whether the great Democratic party in the Mountain State shall continue to be the chattel, the credulous, simple, weak-kneed, backboneless, hopeless, helpless, victim of the greediest, most corrupt railroad that ever trailed its steel shackles across the face of the earth. Whether Or not the Boss-guided Machine shall beat us to earth and hold us there forever. We have tried reforming the party from the inside, and we have failed. Has the time come to reform it from the outside?” He paused, and the answer came. From the Conover hosts went up a shout of “No! No!” mingled with hiss and groan. But instantly, from a