Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 February 1908 — A Kick Without a Justification. [ARTICLE]

A Kick Without a Justification.

The Brook Reporter has a bad case of antl-Crumpacker virus and In its issue of last week went off almost as badly as did the Fowler Republican of the week before. The position of neither paper seems Very well taken, for they misrepresent the Congressman and the conditions that resulted In the defeat of Mr. Wood as a delegate. There is no denying the fact that he wanted to see an administration friend go to the convention. It was also natural that he should report his feelings to his friends. He would be cowardly if he did not. As the postmasters of the district are Indebted to him for their recommendations for office It Is natural enough that they should be told that he felt a keen Interest In seeing delegates favorable to the administration selected. But he did not single out Will Wood for defeat and the only thing that defeated Mr. Wood was that he considered that it was no one’s business for whom he would vote, while the delegates wanted to have their representatives in the national convention also their spokesmen. As they controlled the situptiop they were In a position to demand this pledge and they got It ’before they cast their votes. There are a great many mean things said about Kit Sills, and It may be that he don’t deserve them all, as least the filthy manner in which the foul penned Robertson spoke of him and whose carrion Stonehill has copied, is so shameful as to call for the most pronounced disapproval of readers. The editor of the Rensselaer Republican has seen Mr. Sills at many conventions during the past twelve years and never saw him publicly or privately intoxicated, and never heard of his room mate at a hotel having to crawl thru the transom to get into his room because he was “snowed under.* It is easy to take up a cry of disapproval, and unless the Fowler Republican, which has the record of being the only paper in the district that came out in direct support of the saloons, and the Brook Reporter, which seems to have got into bad company have some definite charges to make against Mr. Sills perhaps they had better cut out their vulgarisms. Mr. Ade and Mr. Bills will carry to the convention the choice of the people, and about the hardest jolt handed to Mr. Wcpd was the remark made by Mr. Ade tn his speech of acceptance when he said he trusted he had ‘‘gumption enough” to support the choice of the people he represented.

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