Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-09-21
THE MONROE NATTER.
OnheIal Report OF the Proceedings Had at the Con.
%yenfi0n Last Week.

W. -. Ncocote, ChdiiHidH OI congress
sional Committee. Hon. p. A. Orton OF
Lafayette was chosen temporary chair.
man and G. III. Baxter of Grant Secre.
tary. On motion the following commit.
tee were appointed by the chair.
Committee ON Credentials-C. Spcnse.
ly of Iowa, Geo. Parker of Grant and
w. S. Wescott of Green.
Committee OF Permanent Orginiza.
tion-W. b. Clark of Grant s. w. Reese OF
Iowa, VIM. Hooper of LAFAYETTE. Z.
Brown of Green and w. III. Chandler OF
Dane.
Committee on Resolutions-A.W Bel
of Grant, II. S. Frost of Iowa, ID. X. Ten
ney of Dane, Jas. Blackstone of LaFay-
cite.
On motion convention adjourned to
p. m. Convention met at that hour.
Called to order by the Chairman, and
again adjourned to IL a. M, in order
to give the committee on credentials
time to report.
Sept. 15.-Convention called to order
at honr appointed. On motion of w. S.
Wescott adjourned to 8 p. M, when
another adjournment was effected to 5
p. m. AT that hour the convention was
called to order and c. Spensely, chair
man of the committee on credentials
presented the following report. Your
committee on credentials beg leave to
report That they have examined the
credentials of the various delegates
claiming seats in the convention and
report the following as a list of such
delegates
Dane County. David Atwood, T. G.
Mandt, ID. X. Tenney, Geo. Weeks, N. S.
Main, j. w. Hudson, w. II. Chandler,
John Allis, VIM. ~Seamanson, L. r. Luse,
John B. Stickney, Eli Peterson.
Green County,. G. Zimmerman, E.
Bowen, G. N. Trousdale. Cyrus Troy, A.
C. Dodge, w. S. Wescott.
Grant County-W. b. Clark, A. W. Bell,
Seth. Mcdonald, C. HI. Baxter. Simon
Harker, w. II. Beebe. C. N. Morse, Geo.
Kinney, Geo. w. Parker, VIM. Z. Bell.
Iowa County J.B. johnson, Calvert
Spensely. S. w. Reese, A. S. Frost, A.
F. Pinkerton, S. L. Sheppard.
Lafayette County-P. A. Orion, Jos.
Blackstone, VIM. Hooper, Jas. Scott.
A majority report as to Benson Spensely
and VIM. Mates of Lafayette Co, was
offered.
A minority report was also presented
by w. S. Wescott in favor of T. Balm
bridge and I. Bright as delegates from
the Western Lafayette district. Ac-
c~ompanying this was the following
report bearing on the disputed delega-
tions in the western assembly district
of Lafayette equity.
The majority of your committee re-
port in reference to the second or west
ern district of Lafayette county, based
upon the evidence produced before your
committee that it has been the inyaria-
BILE practice in that county ever since
the formation of the Republican party,
in years in which congressional conven-
tions have been held, for the Republi-
can county committee to issue calls for
county conventions to elect senatorial
and assembly delegates to attend the
congressional convention, and naming
the number of delegates to which each
town will be entitled in the county con-
vention. And in pursuance of such calls
it has been the practice in each town to
elect one set of delegates who, when
assembled together constituted the
county convention, and when so assem-
bled the credentials of the several towns
have been passed upon by a committee
appointed by the convention at large.
That no delegates have ever been adj
mitted into an assembly convention to
elect congressional delegates whose Gre
dentials have not first been so passed
upon by the county convention.
Your committee further report that
on the 18th day of August, 1882, the
Republican county committee of La
Fayette county published q call for a
convention to be held at Darlington on
the 18th of September, 1882. That in
pursuance of such call the various towns
of the county elected delegates to attend
such convention which were regularly
called to order by the chairman of the
county committee at ~ m. Sept. 18th,
1882. That after affecting a temporary
organization the convention adjourned
until 2 p. m. of the same day at which
latter time it reassembled.
The committee on credentials reported
the list of delegates entitled to seats in
the convention. That after electing
senatorial delegates the convention
divided into assembly districts and from
the second or western district the dele
gates from the towns constituting such
western district whose credentials had
been passed upon by the convention,
elected Benson Spensely and William
Mates as such delegates.
Your committee further report that
on the same day a pretended assembly
convention assembled at Darlington and
pretended t elect Thomas cambridge
and Thomas Bright as delegates to this
convention.
The majority of your committee re-
port that such convention was not reg
ular and the persons SO attempted to be
elected are not entitled to seats in this
convention for the following reasons
LIST. 1t was never called by any
proper authority. 1t was composed
partly of persons claiming to be dele
gates from the towns of New Digcings
and Benton who had never been regu-
larry elected to the convention.
In the town Of New Diggings there
had been two sets OF delegates elected to
the said county convention. The set
who were in such pretended convention
did not present their credentials to the
county convention and such credentials
were never passed upon by the said
county convention as bad been the uni
versal practice preliminary to emitting
them L seats in the assembly conven-
ton.
In the town of Benton a caucus had
been regularly held on the 9th of Sep
TENDER, 1882, and delegates elected to
the county convention TO elect senate
rial and assembly delegates aforesaid.
Afterwards the town committee of the
said town of Benton assumed the right
to call another caucus to elect delegates
and such a caucus was unlawfully and
clandestinely held and pretended dele
gates elected who formed part of said
pretended assembly convention. That
without the delegates from either of
said towns of Benton or New Diggings
there vas not a quorum OF delegates of
any kind legal or illegal in said pre-