Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1908 — NO REAL ENTHUSIASM. [ARTICLE]

NO REAL ENTHUSIASM.

A great many inaccurate expressions have appeared in the papers the last few days concerning the republican meeting held in Chicago this week. This meeting has been termed the Republican National Convention, but this phrase is misapplied, as this meeting was only held for the purpose of opening a cold storage package, which had been kept in a storage plant located fin the little town of Washington down on the Potomac river, and owned by one Theodore Roosevelt. This package is said to have had no date stamped on it, showing when it was placed in storage, but it is known to have been stored there for some months at least. The package was opened Thursday at about 5:59 p. m., at the Coliseum in Chicago, and it was found upon examination that the seals were intact and that it contained 702 votes for the storage-house proprietor’s assistant, William Howard Taft, a native of the United States of Ohio. The votes showed no signs of having been tampered with, and were in a good state of preservation, and apparently would have kept sweet for an indefinite time. The men who were sent to Chicago to register the will of the cold-storage man, yelled a great deal for their employer after the “will” had been registered, and put off opening another package from the same storage house until Friday at 11:30 a. m. This package also showed no signs of having been monkeyed with, and when opened contained the name of the running mate of W. H. Taft, James S. Sherman of New York, and the internal condition being apparently the same aB it was when it left the cold storage in Washington. This meeting will live long in history, because it did just what it met to do, and then quit.