Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1879-01-31
CAPITAL D0INGS.
An Interesting Letter. How the
Senatorial Fight was Settled.
Legislative Matters.


Senatorial contest is over, making
many minds easy, but not few
displeused. 10 many, also, the
manner III which it ended was sur
prising. The sequence VI occur
rcnccs were about rs follows: On
Tuesday afternoon, DIST inst, the
Republican caucus met and took
one ballot-the 96th- which re-
suited as all the preceding ones had,
and there being no prospect of Il
nomination an adjournment was
taken until evening. At the even
ing session, Il motion to take the
9th ballot was defeated, and i mo-
tion to adjourn till . o'clock We'd
ncsdav morning carried II was
| thought that this would give the
various factions i chance to do
something towards breaking the
deadlock. After the adjournment
the Kcyes men held Il secret council
in room Is, and the Howe suppor-
tcrs met secretly in the Agricultural
Department. At these private
meetings it was found that the
keycs men favored Carpenter for
second choice, and that the Howe
men did the same. Long before
morning il was known that Car
per would he nominated.
At the meeting Of the caucus at
8 o'clock, Wednesday morning,
Senator Burrows made an elaborate
speech withdrawing the name of
Col. keyes, and moving that Can
penter be unanimously nominated.
Mr. Speaker Kelly seconded the
motion, 1T the same time with
drawing the name Of Senator Howe.
These getlcmcn, it will hc rcmcm-
bered arc the same who first hoistcd
| the names Of Kcycs and Howe ut the
opening of the caucus The motion
was carried and Carpenter was
unanimously y nominated.
At II o'clock ON the same day
the two houses met in Joint conven-
ton in the Assembly Chamber and
the result of the ballot for L. s.
Senator of the previous day, taken
in each house separately, was read,
and us no choice was made the
convention proceeded to the cleo
tion, and the result was that Hon.
Matt II Carpenter received S4
votes; Hon. 4. q. Ryan, IS; Hon.
Gabriel Bouck, Is.
Hon NJ. II Carpenter having re-
received Il majority of all the votes
cast, the chairman declared him
duly elected United States Senator
for six years from the 4th Of March
next.
\ committee Of five was appoint
ed to inform Mr.. Carpenter, and
request him To address the convcn-
tion. Shortly att2rward tile com
mittee appeared with he Hon.
Matt in charge, who made a speech,
the shortncss of which disappointed
many persons He thanked the
convention for the high honor it
had conferred upon him. He said
he was a Republican, and that as a
Republican it would be his pleasure
and his pride to do everything in
his power to promote the interests
Of the whole people. He alluded to
the condition 81 the country and
firmly believed that in a short
period we should sec the return Of
good times.
Loud calls were then made for
Mr.. Keyes, who responded as fol-
lows: There is no occasion here
for me to occupy your time in
making a speech. 1t is enough for
me to say that ! ratify what you
have done.
Hon. +. G. Ryan was then called
for, and in response, he expressed
his thanks to the convention for his
candidacy. He said that he fore
saw that his friends Mr. Keyes, Mr..
Carpenter and Mr.. Howe, had en-
tered into a conspiracy to defeat
him and that he could not ratify
the whole thing as Mr.. Keycs had
! done.