Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1908 — Delegates to the National Convention [ARTICLE]

Delegates to the National Convention

Will R. Wood, ot Lafayette, George Ade, the playwright, of near B••(**k ( Warren McCray, of Keutland, and Kitt Sills, of Monticello, are thns far announced probable candidates to the republican national convention. xThese debates will be tworiir number and will be selected at a district convention to be held in Rensselaei on Feb. 4tb. . This convention is important and the outcome is important in |he selection of a republican presidential candidate. While the delegates selected will be for Fairbanks as long as there is a chance for bis nomination, the delegates to the Rensselaer convention should ascertain for whom the man they ballot Will vote in the national convention should Fairbanks fail of nomination. It is said Will R. Wood and George Ade and Kist Sills are for Fairbanks and after that for a tranp fer of their support to Knox, Foraker or any one except ,TafU Warren McCray is said to be a Taft uiAo, should Fairbanks be disposed of. Taft is pledged to the furtherance of the Roosevelt policies, is a man of elean to“every emergency of statesmanship he has yet eueuuutered. He is undoubtedly the choice of the people and the people ere greater than the politi ciaos. Let every republican turn out to the convention Saturday. Jau. 11th, and name men.tQ th« Rensselaer convention who will see to it that Fairbanks-Taft delegates are sept to this convention, and then let them find ont that the delegate they vote for to the national convention ie for Taft alter Fair banks.! . * Probably the republican party was never in gmffer~danger“tHan now of being stolen by New York finance mongrels and by corporation meu everywhere who fear t - have rln ir business, exposed to law enforcement as they are having it done this administration and are w-raio to have by Taft. Hughes. Cortelyou or LaFolette. The people at these primaries can control in the national convention. Turn ont and vote. - <»