St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-09
0ld-Timers Will Capture the
Wisconsin Republican
Convention.
And Jerry Rusk Will Be the
Favopite Candidate fer
President.
Crookston Democrats Come
Out for Cleveland and
Tariff Reform.
Clay County Democrats Are
Strong Against Ames
and Doran.
special to the Globe.

Special to the Globe.
MADISON, Wis, May S.-Beyond a
doubt Jerry Rusk will be nominated
for president by the Wisconsin Repub-
licans tomorrow. About half the dele
gates are in the city tonight, and
seductive language from the lips of
want-to-be delegates is being poured
into the ears of the rank and file in the
true old-faShiOncd style. From the out
look tonight the convention will be
any thing but young mems cOnven-
ton, despite the fact that the party
bosses would like to make it appear so,
and the same crowd that always attends
the party conventions is here in all its
glory, and the few young men appear
sadly out Of place. A number Of the
young men from the "Capitol crowd"
circulated among the delegates at the
Park hotel tonight, and to stranger
it might have appeared that there were
some young men delegates, but there
was notable difference in the looks of
the crowd when a negro minstrel band
started to play in front of the hotel, and
the kids" with a good share of the
gray heads from the rural districts, fol-
lowed the band Off to the theater. Ira
B. Bradford, of Eau Claire, will be tenn
porary chairman of the convention.
This was decided on by the central COM
mittee tonight, to give Mr.. Bradford
time to prepare his speech. Candidates
for delegates at large are as thick as
flies in summer time. Senator John 0.
SpOoner will, without doubt. head the
delegation and present Jerry's name to
l,n ~
Payne, of Milwaukee,i is considered to be
another. AS to the other two delegates,
there is where
SOME Fun WILL COME
in. Fl. 0. Fairchild, of Marinette, an
nounced early in the afternoon his will
ingneSS to sacrifice his pocketbOOk to
represent the state at Chicago. From
the Second district comes an Interesting
state of affairs. Ogden II. Fethers, of
Janesville, the silver-tongued orator,
and j. n. QuarleS, of Racine, who is
rival of Fethers on the silver-tongued
business, both got left in the district
convention, and, consequently, have been
laying wires to secure an ''at large"
plum. 1t is reported tonight that
Quarles has gracefully Withdrawn and
is urging the selection Of Fethers.
There are other candidates, but the
selection lies between the above five.
Enough gubernatOrial timber to
supply the entire Northwest is in the
city tonight. Hod Taylor, of Hudson,
the blue-eyed chairman of the central
committee; George G. Ginty, of Chip
pewa Falls. and E. c. McFetridge. of
Beaver Dam, are the most prominent.
Hoard, the Jersey candidate, is not
vet here, but his boom is getting along
very fine with the farmers, so much
so in fact that If is Worrying the other
candidates considerably. The conven-
ton will. without any doubt, be clamor-
ously enthusiastic for Rusk. After
RuSll the Wisconsin delegation will sup
port Gresham. Henry G. Paine will be
elected chairman of the new central
committee, which the convention is to
choose.