Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-08-13
SECOND SESSION.

SECOND SESSION.
Recovering just before o'clock,
permanent. This organization en-
braced Mr.. Adams as chairman, Gard
ner P. Stickney of Milwaukee as secre-
tary and G. E. Whelan of Madison as
recording secretary.
While sWeltering IN suspense TOR the
report of the committee on resolutions,
speeches were called for from Mona
han, Esch, Whelan, Hoard and Senator
Quarles. The latter responded, saying
he was glad of the opportunity,
first since he was so signally honored
by the republican party,-to extend his
greetings. He regretted that his dis
tinguished colleague was to retire to
private life (cries of "No!" Never"
all over the house,, and he deplored
also the unfortunate circumstances,
wholly apart from politics, which con-
strained him to such action. Senator
Spooner, he declared, was the fore
most debater today in the leading leg
islative body of the world. This con-
MES of the great republican party of
Wisconsin rested in it's hands. The
occasion was one for tolerance, con-
Citation, patriotism. The popular
nominee of this convention must be
the governor Of all the people. Let no
stalwart Achilles sulk in his tent, let
an unbroken front be presented to the
common enemy. Senator Quarles
spoke of the Chicago platform as one
of "variegated heresies" and closed
with humorous analysis of the dag
noses by Bryan, Pettigrew, Rose and
others as to what allied Uncle Sam.
Esch Also Speaks.
Three cheers for Spooner were given
and then Congressman Esch of La
Crosse made felicitous speech. being
followed by Congressman Babcocck,
who deemed most remarkable the fact
OF the great convention being wholly
united in purpose. He never expected
to see the like again and looked for
bigger republican majorities even than
those of 1896. Calls followed for Con-
gressmen Cooper and Barney and At
torney General Hicks, the latter Of
whom made hit by blandly thanking
the audience for this expected honor"
Mr.. Hicks especially urged that young
men be not afraid of the untried, that
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though wrong than none at all.
The report of the committee on res
olutions was read by FL. w Chynoweth
Of Dane. Applause was peppered
through the reading, and at the conclu-
sion the resolutions were adopted
unanimously.
La Follettes Godfather.
Chairman Adams recognized Gen.
Geo. E. Bryant as the godfather OF
La Toilette, and he came forward amid
thunders of applause, putting his illus
trious protege in nomination with the
following words:
You ask from whence my candidate?
This my answer it shall be:
From log cabin under tree.
The tree was an oak of the primeval
forest. In it's broad-spreading branches the
boy first heard the whispering of the wind
climb it's sturdy trunk to its topmost
limb,-symbolic of the triumph that awaits
him on the dawning of the new century,
was the first aspiration of this child of
the frontiersman. Lad, youth, and man
have I known him, and he has never failed
in fealty to a friend. Student, teacher,
lawyer, statesman, his path from the open
ing in the forest to this convention hall
in the commercial metropolis of the state
has been trod with honest steps. Gold
could not buy him; fattery never sWerved
him; threats deferred him not. AS per-
sistent fighter for the right as was the
great cheftan Ulysses s. Grant, when the
battle is over and the foe surrendered, he
can say Let us have peace - with the
matoX
My candidate is an ideal candidate, the
logical candidate; hence, the peoples can
win with whom Mf can o
whom jeremiah NJ Rusk said: 'In writ
lthat made VIM, Mckinley president) he
States than any living American"
The great forests bordering on the Lake
Superior, from the caucuses and conventions
Robert !" The people in the valley of the
Wisconsin, down which the old French voy-
ayers padded their canoes centuries ago
are singing LA Toilette y Wise men from
the east, girded about with the unit rule.
came out Of Oconto, crying LA Toilette" y
Out at Waukesha where the sweet waters
Gods good gift sent to cheer the heart or
man,-forever flow, the voters, with great
emphasis have proclaimed for Robert NJ
La Toilette. The district that he repre-
sented in congress, said Bob" and the
jewellers on the prairies of the northwest
took up the refrain and shouted, Bob
Bob Bob y Soldiers of the great war from
1861 to 1865 refused to be stampeded by
the men Of a later generation, have marched