Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1900-09-12

ice trust in the city of New York and
that greatest of all trusts, the silver
trust, for which their candidate for
president stands godfather, creates a
suspicion that they are Lypocritical
and insincere in their treatment of
that question.
THAT we heartily endorse the Re-
publican candidates upon the state
ticket and pledge our best efforts to
aid in rolling up an old-fashioned ma
jority in their behalf.
THAT having full confidence in the
ability and capacity of Hon. Herman
Is. Dahle for faithful public service,
we favor his denomination for repre-
sentative in congress, and instruct the
delegates elected by this convention
to support him at the convention to
be held on the 18th inst. at Water
! town.
''That we pledge our hearty sup
port to the candidates placed in nomi-
nation here this day, and that we will
use all honorable means to secure
their success at the polls on the 9th
| of November next"
| THE TICKET.
| After the appointment of two tellers
the convention proceeded to the nom
| mating of a county ticket. With the
exception of sheriff aud register of
| deeds. the nominations were made by
acclamatiOn. For sheriff James Brett,
of Fort Atkinson, WAS defeated by
Martin j. Gosa, of Palmyra. the vote
standing 90 to "a, while for register
of deeds Joseph M. Cannon, of Jetfer-
son, won over A. j. Weis, of this city.
by a vote of 81 to 80. Following is
the ticket as named
County clerk-Roy B. HELEN, Of
| Oakland.
Observation-Disclosures j. Foljahn,
Sullivan.
Sheriff Martin j. Gosa, Palmyra
Coroner-William F. Copeland,
Aztalan.
| Clerk of court-Foster E. Parsons,
Lake Mills.
District attorney William H.
| Woodland, Watertowu.
Register of deeds-Joseph M. Gan
| non, jefferson.
Surveyor-Henry Hyer, Waterloo.
County uperintendent-W G.
Bartlett, Pennington.
AS chairman and secretary, respect
lively, of the county committee,
George j. Kispert, of Jefferson, and
j. T. Prentiss, of this city, were re-
elected unanimously. The balance of
the county committee was filed by the
selection of one member from each
election precinct of the county.
After ratifying the choice of con-
gressional delegates as made by the
assembly districts, the convention ad-
journed sine die.
FIRST ASSEMBLY DISTRICT,
The Republican convention of the
First Assembly district was held in
the circuit court room of the court
house at II o'clock, Herman Vert
heimer and G. W. Norris, both of
Watertown, being elected chairman
and secretary. respectively. The
name of Gustav Buchheit, the we'll
known young attorney Of this city, was
presented to the convention by Joseph
n. Gorney as candidate for member
Of assembly and he was nominated by
acclamation. The following were
recommended as delegates to the
congressional convention:
j. E. Humphrey, Ixonia; H. j.
Grell, Pennington; Charles Burnham,
Hebron; Andrew Rood, Palmyra; j.
A. Friedel, Sullivan; Paul Volkmann,
| town of Watertown; Charles Lynch,
J. L Moak, H. Wertheimer, city of
WatertOwn.
After the selection of Herman Vert
heimer, j. A. Friedel and Andrew
| Rood as the district committee for the
ensuing two years, the convention
| adjourned.
SECOND ASSEMBLY DISTRICT.
| The Second Assembly district con-
vention met in the county court room
at ID o'clock, with F. P. Kispert, of
| Jefferson, as chairman, and F. M.
Griswold of Lake Mills, as secretary
L. B. Caswell, Jr., Of Fort Atkinson,
was the unanimous choice as the nom
inee for the assembly and the follow
ing were recommended as delegates to
the congressional convention:
G. w. Burchard, Fort Atkinson; F.
P. Kispert, Jefferson; 0. Coombe,
Lake Mills; A. j. Humphrey, Water
loo; F. A. Zimmerman, Milford !;
Jacob Wagner. Oakland; l.. G. Bur-
leson. Sumner; D. A. Damuth, Kosh-
konong; John Behnken. Lake Mills
! town.