Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-01-13
Wisconsin Presidential Electors
Go Through Formally ar
the Capitol.
And Cleveland and Stevenson
Receive Their Every
Vote.
Gustav Wollaeger chosen to
Carry the Result to
Washington.

AS Tar as WISCONSIN is concerned
Grover Cleveland and Adlai E. Steven
son are elected president and vice
president of the United States respect
lively. The fact that the men who
were to decide the momentuous questio
were to meet at noon Yesterday had been
We'll aired, so when Senator II. j. Mac
Bride, of Clark county, called to order
the twelve good democrats and true
who were to cast the vote of WiScon-
sin in the electoral college of the Unit
ed States, in the governors Office, that
spacious room was filled to completion
with capitol employees, officers OF the
administration and prominent demo-
Gratis who had strayed into the city to
see that the legislature started off sat
isfactorily or to take seats in that body
Chairman f. G. WALL had his smiling
continuance there and he proved an
efficient prompter of the presiding otfi-
Ger many times during the meeting
Senator MacBride first read Il state
ment from the governor quoting the
law on the authority of which the
electors assembled and giving the re-
suit of the official canvass of the vote
of the state by which they were elect
ed. The proceedings We're then inter
11lpted by the entrance of Capt. Werner
pressentin, executive clerk, with
double handful of tasty little button
hole bouquets, one of which he handed
to each of the electors.
After the roll was taken, showing all
members present, they were sworn in
in Il body by Justice Winslow, OF the
supreme court, each signing, after
wards, the oath. The organization then
chairman and Gustav Wollaeger, of
Milwaukee, secretary, each of whom
briefly thanked the electors for the
honor. l.. S. Bailey, of Oconto, was
appointed teller by the chair.
Ballots We're taken separately for
president and yice-president, which re-
suited of course, TN the unanimous
choice of Grover Cleveland and Adlai
Stevenson. In voting each elector
placed the name of his candidate on the
face of his ballot, and his own name
and state upon the reverse, that it may
be verified if necessary
The highest honor in the disposal of
the electors was then given to Mr..
Gustav Wollaeger German Lutheran
elector-at-large from Milwaukee, by
electing him unanimously as messen-
ger to carry the result of Wisconsins
vote to Washington.
Mr. Wolaeger made a brief speech,
in recognition of the honor, saying that
although but u comparatively young
democrat, he liked the sensation and
had considered it Il great honor to cast
vote for Grover Cleveland for presi-
dent, but now to be the bearer of the
result to the nations capital, was al
honor greater than he had ever dared
to hope for. 1t was an honor doubly
great because it is the first democratic
vote that has been cast in the state for
forty years.
The electors then adjourned until ,
80 in the afternoon, when the formallty
of reviewing and approving Of the vote
was gone through with.
AS memento Of the great event, each
elector retained the bright, new gold
pen with which he signed the oath,
wrote his ballot, etc, and the pens will
be more priced, as the governor dipped
each in ink and handed them to the