Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-08-16
SECOND SESSION.

the temporary organization was made
permanent. This organization en-
braced Mr.. Adams as chairman, Gard
ner P. Stickney of Milwaukee as secre-
tary and G. E. WheIan of Madison as
reading 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
QuarIes. The latter responded, saying
he was glad of the opportunity,-the
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
islatiye body Of the world. This con-
yentiOn was not factional-the desti-
MES of the great republican party of
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 a 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 BabcOck,
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 a hit by blandly thanking
| the audience for this expected honor"
Mr.. Hicks especially urged that young
men be not afraid of the untried, that
| it were better to have convictions
| though wrong than none at all.
| The report of the committee on res
olutions was read by H. W. Chynoweth
Of Dane. Applause was peppered
| through the reading, and at the conclu-
sion the resolutions were adopted
unanimously.
La Follette's Godfather.
Chairman Adams recognized Gen.
| Geo. Z. 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:
He came from the town of Primrose,
| From a log cabin under tree.
| The tree was an oak of the primeval
| forest In its 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 the dawning Of the new CENTURY
was the first aspiration of this child of
| the frontersman. 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 a fighter for the right as was the
great chieftain Ulysses 5. Grant, when the
| battle is over and the foe surrendered, he
| can say: Let us have peace, with the
same fervency as did the hero Of Apo
| matOy.
My candidate is an ideal candidate, the
! logical candidate: hence. the peoples can
didate.-a candidate with whom We can
! grandly win Il was this candidate Of
whom jeremiah NJ. Rusk said: In writ
! ing the agricultural schedule Of the bill
| that made VIM Mckinley president) he
| done more for the farmers Of the United
! States than any living American.
! The great forests bordering on the Lake
| Superior. from the caucuses and conventions
| there held have echoed the name OF
| 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 - Wise men from
| the east. gfrded about with the unit rule.
came out of Oconto. crying La Toilette :.
| Out at Waukesha where the sweet waters
| Gods good gift sent to cheer the heart Of
! man.-forever flow. the voters. with great
| emphasis have proclaimed for Robert VI.
| La Toilette. The district that he repre-
| sented in congress, said Bob and the
! dweIlers on the prairies Of the northwest
took up the refrain and shouted. Bob
Bob , Bob :" Soldiers of the great war from
| 1861 to 1865 refused to be stampeded by
| bushwhackers but. touching elbows with
! the men of a later generation. nave marched
hfther to join in his nomination.