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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 Excerpt:... shelf, and get ready for next year. They have been holding you here all morning, but not one of them told you what they really are after. They want you to set this whole election aside, and then they will go home and ask for a new election. The rascals in that district were doing so much dirty work they were afraid to go before a squire, but now they have a little holler coming. President Mitchell, can you do anything for them? I can not do anything for them if they come to my place. Yes, I suppose I could make them eheck-weighnien, but that is as high as I could put them. Now they want to get you men here all torn up, but I advise you to vote them down and let this matter go back to the district it came from. That is where it belongs. If you do that I will come back here next year and show you that Pennsylvania is not in a hole--and she is not in a hole now, for that matter. The convention was adjourned to meet at 1:30 p. m. SIXTH DAY--AFTERNOON SESSION. The convention was called to order at 1:30 p. m., Monday, January 21, President Mitchell in the chair. President Mitchell--At the hour of adjournment the report of the Committee on Appeals and Grievances was under consideration. A committee is here from Clinton, Ind., with a matter they desire to bring to your attention, so they can take an answer back with them this afternoon. It is a matter that needs immediate consideration. The chair will state it so that you may decide whether you will take action now. A committee from our organization and the assistant prosecuting attorney of the county in which Clinton is located have been in the city trying to have an investigation made into the causes of the explosion at Clinton. They state that there are several families in destitute circumstances and in need of...