Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-09-03
ALL IN READINESS
FOR THE DEMOCRATIC STATE
CONVENTION IN MILWAUKEE.
COTZHAUSEN IN THE CHAIR
He Will Be Temporary Chairman and
May Be Retained Permanently
Full Delegations Expected From
Every Portion of the State-Con-
gressional Caucuses to Be Held.

Milwaukee, Sept. 1.-The demo-
cratic state central committee will
meet this evening at the state COM
mittee headquarters to complete the
preparations for the convention. Sew
eral members of the committee have
resigned, and others are known to he
opposed to the free coinage of silver
The state convention will choose a new
state central Committee, and there is
likely to be an effort made to have the
new committee take charge of the cam.
paign at once, instead of waiting until
Jan. l, as has been customary for a
few years past. The extreme silver
ties insist that the conduct of the
campaign in the state shall be in the
hands of men who are known to be in
sympathy with the Bryan campaign
and who will work for success with all
their energies. Under the present
state of facts it would not be strange
if the change demanded should be
ordered by the convention.
The democratic state convention will
be called to order tomorrow at II
o'clock by Chairman Peck of the state
central committee, and F. w. CoCz-
hansen will be installed as temporary
chairman. After an address of the
chairman and the appointment of the
usual committees, the convention will
adjourn until afternoon, and the first
step of the permanent organization of
that session will be the appointment Of
a committee on conference to meet
similar committees from the popul:st
and silver conventions to take action
on the question of fusion of the
three parties. Mr.. COtzhausen will
probably be retained as permanent
chairman of the convention.
There will probably be full delega-
lions from all the counties of the state,
have made no effort to control the con-
vention, it will probably be harmoni-
GUS on the silver question. Admission
to the convention will be by ticket,
which will be provided by Col. Thomas
P. Dever, the ergeant-at-arms, or his
secretary, James E. Neville, at the
central committee rooms, 202 Plankin-
ton house, where one or the other Of
these officials will be found after 4
o'clock today and until 10 O'Clock
tomorrow morning, at which hour the
doors of the convention hall will be
opened.
The caucuses of the various congress
sional district delegations will be held
at the Plankinton house in advance of
the hour for the meeting Of the con-
vention tomorrow morning, as follows
: for the selection of members of the
various committees and district ele3-
tors: First district, $50 o'clock, club
room; second, $50 o'clock, the arcade;
third, go O'Clock, parlor D; fifth, $50
o'clock, room 1856; sixth, $50 o'clock,
parlor G.; seventh, 10 o'clock, club
room; eighth, 10 o'clock, arcade; ninth
10 o'clock, room 1856; tenth, 10 o'clock
parlor D. The fourth district caucus
will be held at the PlankintOn club
room at o'clock this morning.
Col. Dever, sergeant-at-arm of the
convention, has appointed the follow
ing staff of assistants: J. H. Roemer,
John F. Donovan, August Meyer,
; Frank Dunn, J. M. Maloney, Maurice
McCabe, John P. Dean, Frank A. Sui
Ivan, George P. Ziegler, James E. Ne
vile, August Bikowski, Joseph Kodo-
wiske, Charles Phillips, Duncan G..
Bellows, Edwin Windfelder, William
Bonner, Charles Reinhardt Roy Peck,
Louis A. Dahlman, John Kennedy, J .
P. Murphy, John Dolan, T. j. Callen,
IgnatZ Czerwinski, Eugene Mahoney,
Edwin Waterman and Henry J. Hare,
Jr., all Of Milwaukee; n. J. Reilly Of
Oshkosh and William M. HOPPER Of
Kenosha.
EX-Mayor w. H. Rogers is being
generally mentioned as the probable
gubernat0rial nominee.