Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-09-21

sueh district IN this convention.
Wherefore, the majority of your com
mittee 10Y the adoption of the follow
ing resolution. Resolved That Bon
son Spensely and William Mates ar,
regularly entitled to seats in the conven
ton from the second assembly district
of Lafayette county.
CALVERT %SPENsELY,
GEO. w. PARKER.
On motion the unanimous report OF
of the committee on credentials vas &C,
cepted.
A motion was then made to adjourn
to 7:30 a. M. Lost by n vote of 20 noes
and Is ayes. Chandler, of Dane, moved
an adjournment to s a. M. Lost, %
noes to 10 ayes.
Dane and Green county delegates here
withdrew for ten minutes to consult.
At the end of that time on their not re-
appearing in the convention Messrs.
Bell and ~Spensely were appointed to
notify them the convention was ready
to proceed. The retiring delegates
not resuming their seats in the conven-
ton the committee on permanent or
ganization reported in favor of making
the temporary organization permanent
with the addition of A. C. Zimmerman
a sAss't secretary. Carried. Convention
then adjourned to 1880 a. m.
Sept. 16.-The convention assembled
at hour appointed and the chair stated
a committee was present from the abb
sent delegates who wished to present an
informal communication. Leave was
granted, the communication was as fol-
lows. Resolved: That the delegates
from Dane, Green and Lafayette, as
senbled at the court house in the city
of Monroe. as q congressional conven-
ton for the third congressional district
of the state of Wisconsin, do hereby
affirm and declare that they hold the in
~terests of the Republican party of this
district paramount to the ambition or
political preferment of any individual.
ReSOtUed: That the members of this
convention are now and at all times
have been ready to cooperate in the
nomination of a candidate for member
of congress who commands the conf
dence and will receive the united sup
port of the republican electors of this
district. To secure this result we are
willing to forego all personal prefer
enccs.
A short recess was taken at the con-
clusion of the reading of the commune
cation and upon reassembling the follow
ing resolution was presented and I'M
animously adopted.
Resolved: That the convention in all
its deliberations, has had only in view
the best interests and welfare of the
Republican party, and for that end we
are ready and willing to make every
concession. 1t is however a fundamen-
tai principal of the party; the principal
that called it into being and has
held its prestige and honor unbroken
and u~ntarnished for a fourth of a CEN
fury. that, the will of the majority ex-
pressed through the lawful delegates of
that party in its conventions should OBJ
tain at every hazard and at all cost-that
this convention has expressed and does
express the honest choice of this district
That it would be a base abandonment
of honor, of principal and of trust, for
this convention to in any form recognize
the right or claim is a minority of its
delegates to dictate to the majority
what its choice of candidates should be.
A motion was then made by A. w.
Bell. of Grant, hat the convention pro-
coed to an informal ballot for congress
man, carried, the result being as fol-
lows:
Hazelton ......................... %
heyes Z
G. Spensely. of Iowa, moved the bal
lot be made formal and hat the Hon.
Geo. G. Hazelton be made the unani-
nous choice of the convention, carried.
A committee of three consisting of
Messrs. Clark, johnson, and Spensely,
was then appointed by the chair to in
form Mr.. Hazelton of the action of the
convention. Pending the absence of
the committee II recess was taken until
10 a. m. Upon r~casscmbling Mr.. Hazel
ton was presented to the convention by
w. b. Clark, and made a short address
which was received with applause.
The committee on resolutions then,
through its chairman, A. w. Bell, re-
ported the following:
ResolCed: That we the delegate repre-
sentatives of the Republican electors, of
the third congressional district of Wis
consin in convention assembled for our
selves and in behalf of our constituency
unite in the following resolutions:
That we reaflirm u attachment to
the principles enunciated in the plat
form of the National Republican con
y%ention at Chicago, June 2, 1880.
That we feel it due to the memory of
President Garfield to express our sense
of the great loss suffered by the Nation
in his death:
That we recall with pride the fact that
rising from the humblest conditions in
life, Lincoln and Garfield rose step by
step without any help but that of their
genius, abilities and virtues to the front
rank among Americans. and were chosen
by the Republican party to bear its ban
ner in the struggles to maintain the sup
remacy and glory of the National
union:
That the lapse of time cannot efface
from the grateful recollection of the
Republican party its memory of the
brave soldierSfrom whatever section or
party ranks they may have come, who
offered their lives in support of its policy
of restoring and maintaining the union
Of the states.
ReSolced; That in the Hon. Geo. G..
Hazelton we recognize q true and tried
Republican, a faithful and diligent rep
resentative of the peoples interest; we
are proud of his prominence in the coun-
ellis of the Nation and most heartily
present him again for the suffrage of the
people, fully confident that he who has
been so faithful in the past will not fail
in the future. Adopted.
A. w. Bell then presented the follow
ing:
We as Republicans recognizing the
right of petition and believing that the
questions of prohibition and kindred
subjects are purely social and moral
questions to be met and solved by the
people in their sovereign capacity and
| should not be allowed to enter into the
creeds and platforms OF political parties
therefore, Resolved; That we as Repub-
leans and citizens are in favor of the
submission to the people of the state of
amendments to the constitution upon
such subjects whenever a respectable
humble. of our citizens petition for it in
the usual way. Adopted.
C. Spensely moved that the chair APP
point a congressional committee of five,
one from each county. A. w. Bell
moved to substitute the following named
persons: Gen. Z. Bryant, of Dane,
Orrin Bacon of Green. c. f. Osborn
of Lafayette, S. w. Reese of Iowa, and
Nj. p. Rindlaub. of Grant. Substitute
adopted. The following resolution was
then presented and adopted.
Resolved; That the basis of represen-
tation in the next Republican