Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-05-11
Ira Bradford TO be Temporary Chair,
man of the Convention.
Sen. John c. SpoOner TO Head the Wis,
c0nSin Delegation.


/ business.
| Tae convention will be called to order
at noon in the assembly chamber. and Ira
| Bradford, of Eau Claire, will be elected
temporary chairman. He was decided
| upon last Light,in order to give him tim.
to prepare his spsech. The convention
will elect four delegates at large to repre-
! sent Wisconsin in the Chicago convention
| June 10; and besides this new state cen
| trail com mittee and chair nan will be
! chosen
| THE MAJOR PART OF THE DELEGATES
were IN the city last night, and wire pull
Ing and button-holIng was in full blast.
Hod Taylor. of Hudson, has been IN the
city ever since early Monday morning
getting things in readiness for the con
vention. The first notable installment
of delegates arrived early yesterday af-
| ternoon, headed by H. O. Fairchild, of
Marinette. The early evening trains
sgelled the numbers rapidly, bringing
IN the delegations from all parts of the
interior. The main part of the Milwau.
kee delegation did not arrive until 10
O'Clock, but their arrival, as is customary,
started the ball rolling in lively man
! ner.
The convention will not be conven.
| tion of "young men," but it is
A CURIOUS FACT
that all the party leaders wish it to ap-
pear so. All the old wheel norses are on
hand, as active US ever. Among the more
! prominent of the delegates who circu-
lated about the corridors of the Park last
night were Dana @. Lamb, of Fond du
Lac; A. j. Turner, of Portage; Andrew E.
Elmore, the sage of Mukwonago; II. W.
Van Schaick, of Milwaukee; r. l.. D. Pot.
ter, of Wautoma; j. X. D.ngston, of Nee
nah; FL. II. Littlejohn, of Whitewater.
h. A. Rublee, of the Milwaukee Sentinel,
sat on one of the heat radiators OF the Park
hotel a good share of the evening", en-
| deavoring to thaw out. Nearly all the
rest of the old timers were there, as
atfabIe as possible. number of young
men' from the capitol mixed in with
the delegates and to certain extent
lent au air of you thfuIness to the
crowd. When, however, a negro minstrel
band began to play in front of the ho-
tel, it changed the appearance somewhat,
| for the "kids" followed the band off down
the streat, together with good share
of the delegates.
THEY WANT TO BE DELEGATES.
| Want-to-ba delegates to the national
| convention were as numerous as ODD
maids at church sociable. It was con
ceded on all sides that Senator John C.
Spooner, and Henry C. Payne, OF Mlwau.
kee, would be two of the four delegates.
but there was no end to tie scramble for
! the remaining positions. Hon. Il. O
! Fairchild was on hand the frat thing in
the afternoon, and he early announced
his willingness to sacrifice his
| pocket book for the sake of representing
the state at Chicago. From the second
district came an interesting how dyedo
| Ogden Il. Fethers, of GAINESVILLE, the "siI =
| yer tongued orator." was rather worsted
at the Rock county convention to elect
delegates 10 the district convention, and
he wants now to go as delegate at large.
| j. V. Q1arles, of Racine, who is rival of
Fethers' on the silver tongued business
| was likewise left at his county conven-
ton, and 1t was generally supposed
/ he wanted to be "loose delegate" or
| rather, delegate at large. Quarles ar
rived on the scene last night, but instead
| of working his own wires, he gracefully
! set to work to boom Fethers. When it
comes 20, the convention, however
| Qusrles may use his smooth talk and mag
netic m:nner to such advantage, that he
| will carry the convention by storm, in
| spite of himself, as he has been known to
| do before on more than one occasion
Fethers, fhough, seems to be the
one that the Lightning is most
liable to strike. There is feeling
among some of the delegates that a rep
resentative of
THE GERMAN ELEMENT
should be among he delegates at large, if
one can be found in the state outside of
| Milwaukee. OF course, there is Dick.
| Guenther, of several districts, but Guen.
ther is hardly a strong enough Rusk
man TO get any such honor just at this
time. 1t is quite safe to say that the del
egation will consist of Spooner, Payne,
| Fairchild, and either Fethers or some
one else. Spooner will be chairman 0 f
the deleg alton, and will present Risks
name at Chicago.
The Madison crowd are working in the
interest of Hon. II. c. Adams, for q dele
gate at large, but it doesn't look as
ttoagh she lightning would strike Dane
county this time,
DISTRICT CONVENTIONS.
The conventions of the Fifth, Sixth
and Ninth districts will be held this fore
noon. These conventions will elect two
] e6Cu W LHe A6llOHal CUuFcuklUL. .
In the Fifth district, Il. G. Kress, of
Manitosoc, editor of the Lake Shore
Times, is the only candidate who has been
settled upon definitely.
III the Sixth district matters are abou.
as mPiicsted as they usually get 20 be
Senator Geo. Fitch, of Berlin, wants to go
badly, as representative of the @kid"
element. Then there is Jack Turner, of
| Portage, who is willing to go as the
| representative of the kid" and all
the res. of the eiemer.I. A. z. Thomas
OF Oshkosh, and j. r. Riley, of Hancock.
consider their chances just about az good
as angbocys, and perhaps little better
Fitch is backed By the Green Lake and
Wausha-a delegations, and if hard work
viii count for anything in little Han,